This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

During the peak of COVID, a number of parents learned or re-learned that teaching is difficult. But this has had no lasting impact. Hasn't translated to calls to increase teacher pay, for example.

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

“We’re making the wealthy even wealthier… THIS IS IRRESPONSIBLE OF US.” Senator Oliver savages @GovBillLee’s $300,000,000 per year private school voucher scam as Jack Johnson & William Lamberth expand an unproven program that explodes the state budget + drains💰from public schools.

Ritual is how a culture writes its definition of a person into the body. Anthropology departments knew this. Shutting them down wasn't budget math - it was a civilization deciding it no longer wanted to understand itself.

AI is pushing a crisis of meaning. What makes graduation meaningful? Sitting in a robe and a silly hat and waiting your turn to get a piece of paper? Or participating in a ritual that signals your membership into a new kind of person? Too bad so many unis shut down anthropology departments.

Now that Sal Khan failed to use AI to revolutionize math worksheets, he is gonna "revolutionize" post-secondary ed 🙄 Read @ddmeyer.bsky.social's post-mortem of the rise & fall of Khanmigo (RIP 2023-2026) to see what I mean. We need guardrails on this stuff danmeyer.substack.com/p/rip-khanmi...

my 8am course next fall didn't have enough students in it and they asked me to write an exciting blurb to entice students to register. I promised snacks. And now it is full. 😂

holy crap, "girlhood is a grooming process" stopped my heart! as a mother of two daughters, the conversations we had about what was deemed as "fashion" were critical ... thank goodness my kids didn't like to be sexualized but they also saw how this sensibility kept them from being "cool kids"

Sharing some screenshots texted from a friend who worked with Martha Lampland, a sociologist who studies socialist/postsocialist Hungary. Lampland is in Hungary observing the transition of power and has insights that might be of use to the US. (1/2)

If any other intervention produced outcomes of this size - GPA improvements of .24SD & reductions in course failure of .14SD - districts would be desperate to implement it. Instead, because ethnic studies has been labeled as "woke," efforts to scale have slowed.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

I got to see infinity #AERA2026

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GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

Hundreds of people outside the Supreme Court for a rally in support of birthright citizenship, as Trump sits inside for oral arguments over his exec order trying to strip citizenship from some citizens. The crowd is currently chanting: "Defend the 14th Amendment! It is ours!"

⬇️ the bar has been so low for the most basic pushback ⬇️

"list of jews" is definitely a trigger phrase for me tbh

My kid is flying through LaGuardia today. Just got a text update that ICE is checking boarding passes and IDs with their bulletproof vests on (even though TSA seems to do just fine in their little polo shirts). I can't stand this.

Food policing poor families isn't a win for nutrition--it's a loss for dignity and joy. As Brea Perry and I find in our research (see reply), low-income parents buy food treats for their kids because they want their kids to feel happy and normal--and they can't afford to do so in bigger ways.

Here's a gift link to a very cool story. Whenever Dr. Goldin would like like to help me with salary negotiations, I'm all ears! Gift link www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

We all know this is fascism.

I spent most of my first ~23 years as "not a math person," then I discovered statistics and it was like seeing the world in color for the first time. Now I do advanced statistics/math for a living.

I thought i was terrible at math until I had to take statistics. I had an amazing professor who totally eliminated my math anxiety. It all got easier after that.

1000%, thank you. I assumed I was “bad at math” until, during my MA, I had a brilliant instructor teach stats as a technique for signal detection and storytelling. Not only was I hooked, a decade and a PhD later I’m my lab’s resident quant and mentor junior staff in AI/ML and sound inference.

No one has perfect / absolute pitch.

Further, as I tell my students, no one is inherently "bad at math." There are, however, people who did not have good math teachers.

There are not "math people" and "not math people." School math represents a sliver of mathematics as a discipline, and there is a lot more in there that the so called "not math people" could really dig and be good at.

I’m at the Harvard Kennedy School today to share my own special brand of AI skepticism, and I’m glad I made the trip. I’ve heard more AGI-pilled, ahistorical, technosolutionist bullshit in the past three hours than I have all year. (This is a tribute to the select company I normally keep.)

Kids' declining ability to concentrate is an underexplored mechanism explaining test score declines. Free dissertation: use NAEP item-level data to test this hypothesis; I would expect greater declines on later vs. earlier items. @andrewdeanho.bsky.social - any thoughts here?

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

thought experiment: ------- since sports are a closed system with predictable rules and keep detailed statistics on players, maybe we can replace college coaches with AI. coaches make a lot of money, so this could be a great cost saving measure for universities. -------

thought experiment: ------- since sports are a closed system with predictable rules and keep detailed statistics on players, maybe we can replace college coaches with AI. coaches make a lot of money, so this could be a great cost saving measure for universities. -------

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

the longstanding undervaluing of teachers' professional knowledge reaches its inevitable conclusion in our current era

Notes from the aftermath of the cataclysmic collapse in my research life due to the DOGE bros: ◾ Our department is in receivership due to "financial distress" -- an invented form of receivership by our uni leadership This requires a ton of extra (unpaid) work to save ourselves

This story is completely nuts, as a preliminary search for "dissertation defense" on their site reveals

This says “trap” in letters three stories high with flashing lights and a siren, and still some profs will walk right into it.

It’s really…something that when we organize to help the university defend itself against this massive- scale destruction, we’re treated from within like we’re the enemy.

this has been going on for decades...

This is part of the reason I am obsessed with the tiny anterooms in Swedish elementary schools. What if teachers had a space to enable kids to cool off/self-regulate while still having access to learning opportunities? Game changer.

Have you ever applied to an NSF grant? Then do this.

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

Educators, please watch: 10 things educators should know about AI from my friend/colleague We are heading for trouble #EduSky youtu.be/e0hIkGKggmo?...

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