On plane back from ASHE. Spatial analysis panel this am went well, and three of us presenters were taking notes on e-ink tablets. One reMarkable, one Boox, one Kindle scribe.

Forget all the other posers: Only @thedailyshow.com's Troy Iwata understands the spirit of Bluesky in these troubling times.

Repertoire

Mayo is disgusting. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

Southwest baggage agent being kind to a family that stepped up to bag drop without getting bag tags first. She didn’t brusquely redirect them to a kiosk. The rest of us have to wait maybe an extra 2 minutes

Insight/clarity on my ride this morning. Wrote it down when I got home. Okay, can I stop thinking for the rest of today?

I'm honestly surprised Gwyneth Paltrow didn't get there first. (TMC is talking about cosmetic face masks.)

Oh gosh, another Gen Z'er wondering why standards exist-- <checks notes> Oh, no, it's not Gen Z, it's just the newly-installed head of CBS News.

A lovely hate-read. Tl;dr version: the good world HE rankings <which I trust and I have a newsletter focused on, please subscribe> show Chinese universities to be racing ahead of the U.S. FWIW, I'm delighted when scholars around the world are doing well. I can worry about American HE w/o rankings

I'm asking you, once again, to pay Harvard the attention properly due it given the proportion of all American undergraduates it teaches: 0.05%. If you have reports on grade inflation in the Cal State or Florida university systems, you've got something a wee bit larger.

My second (and final) leg home isn’t canceled but whooo… It’s “2 am in Denny’s and yes I’ll have another pot of coffee” vibes in the C concourse

Images from my time in Providence for the History of Ed Society meeting. I'm now disappointed in myself that I didn't take the cinnamon stick garnish back to my hotel room. That would've made my herbal teas much better.

I am chickening out the breakfast walk until it's 45 or warmer, so I renewed my @aaup.org membership. Click ... click ... click ... click ... Well, friends, it's fewer clicks than doing anything in either Concur or Blackboard, and far more valuable.

At a lovely panel this morning at US HES on Moyen and Thelin's "College Sports: A History" from Johns Hopkins U Press. Commenters: Eisenmann, Hevel, Spohr, Anderson.

Good article from Justin Reich, who coordinates the Teaching Systems Lab at MIT, and whose book on ed-tech ("Failure to Launch") should be required reading for higher ed leaders/IT folks/faculty developers. Justin is an insightful and original thinker in the edtech space; I'm a big fan of his work.

I love the current incarnation of the Onion, and <expletive>, I'm a little surprised they're actually an hour or two ahead of reality in the current regime.

I have thoughts about this, that are perhaps related to my current major project. Also questions.

[email protected] here’s your chance!

Important reporting: this provision of 2004 IDEA amendments also undergirds a separate Civil Rights Data Collection reporting element USDOE is eliminating

50th anniversary of Dan Lortie’s Schoolteacher…

LOL email from IRB on a student oral history project “The committee reviewed this submission and assigned a determination of Not Human Research.”

Is there any truth to the rumor that the Colbert Questionert was used for voir dire? “Best sandwich? “What’s one thing that you own that you should really throw out (there on DC streets)?”

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I've known bosses and others who judge so much based on styles of presentation, so much bunk. Yes, we can have a discussion about what's pragmatic learning in a social setting, and what's an unreasonable violation of people's needs. It doesn't start with "you always 'fit' what other people want."

Why Rufo was more successful at sowing hate than Bork saying almost nothing about Rufo.

Zohran Mamdani won because he wanted people ON the bus, not UNDER it.

There's something more interesting in the development of broader double-majoring: students are entering with credits from APs, dual-enrollment, but NOT graduating earlier.

If Waffles's pouch has a tiny copy of the Little Red Book, I'm going to die.

Defamation unlocks stochastic violence.

A book can have both slow and fast influence. Slow as in a contribution to a conversation that people pay attention to for years, and fast in terms of hitting the zeitgeist. I'm so happy for @itsafronomics.bsky.social that she gets both with #TheDoubleTax

Next week: Blue Jays fans file lawsuit against the Rogers Centre for letting Drake within a mile of the stadium.

Reminder: new time-series data on the number of students by state receiving special education services, starting in the mid-70s.

Such a shift from "I HAVE to practice" to "I GET to practice." When I restarted viola as an adult, Stephanie Judy's "Making Music for the Joy of It" was a wonderful adjunct reading. (Yes, shes a violist!)

Fresh time series data on special education service counts from my colleagues Alex Kurz and Ashley Kochim. From 1975 on, by state! And there's an open competition for analyses. Brief 🧵

Star Trek:TNG, "The Holodeck Nightmare"

Sasaki's control isn't

I opened up my wallet for the Arizona Food Bank Network because this is a good thing. And it's also a good thing that my governor is finding some resources to fill part of the SNAP gap. But it would be much better for Mike Johnson to go to work rather than be a smarmy failure.

Reject the Compact, Statement approved by @ucwarizona.bsky.social executive committee yesterday

Don't miss TMC responding in comments (!!). My favorite: "There is no such thing as political purity. There is a way to develop a system of accountability." www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

Is this type of positive publicity an illegal, unreported in-kind donation to Abughazaleh?

The world is going to be destroyed by people who want there to be fewer aunties in people’s lives. Don’t be a pedant who is an ally of these evil people.

Satisfied that my state AG is part of this lawsuit to feed people

Just for anyone who is curious:

Three things simultaneously can be true: 1. Volunteer orgs like food banks are great. 2. Mutual-aid is great. 3. It's essential that the food bank folks explain like this that we can't volunteer our way out of a need for government capacity.

The all-"This is DEFINITELY a comment rather than a question" conference.

I'm going to steal this one: "ai;dr." (Link in next post.)

Op-Ed by historian Ethan Ris (not on Bluesky) in Wapo ($) today: "the compact is a recipe for upending 80 years of stunning success for U.S. higher education."

For every college that requires the CSS Profile, both the president and the head of admissions should be required to complete it every year, without any professional help whatsoever.

This is such a weird take. I would think that the reason to shove out people with Nazi tattooes is because that's just plain wrong. No need to go into political punditry epicycles.

Sure, it's cool to propose that we treat social media companies like Big Tobacco, but have you heard of the climate-denial equivalent of The Tobacco Institute?