The Free Book Bus is always a timeline cleanser.

We can’t solve any of our big problems, including climate change, without doing this.

Relentless, despicable cruelty for the sake of it. Every day. With the help of Democrats every time.

This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.

Shocking nobody, cutting eradication programs, and importing cattle from areas known to be infested helped bring back a parasite that had been eradicated in the US since the 1960's in less than 2 years.

Happy Pride, Y’all. The DC Circuit has just enjoined Pete Hegseth from enforcing his anti-trans policy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Another major advance vs cancer! @ascocancer.bsky.social #ASCO26 Personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccine 5 year follow-up vs metastatic melanoma reduced recurrence and death by 49% (on top of Keytruda) ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

Teachers. It's the teachers.

Americans Want to Read. Give Them Books. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...

This is great to see

New review of non-maternal care shows no effects. So much for all the heat and ink spilled on this topic, or will it never go away? www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

"It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating,’’ said the Queen presently. ‘‘What would you like best to eat?’’ “SOUR PATCH KIDS Soft & Chewy Gummy Candy™️, please, your Majesty,” said Edmund. The Queen let another drop fall from her bottle on to the snow, & instantly appeared Amazon Prime

"What's inside it?" asked the Mole, wriggling with curiosity. "There's KFC inside it," replied the Rat briefly: "PizzaHutSonicWackyPacksChickenMcNuggetsChipotleCarnitasPopeyesHappyMealBonelessWingsTacoBellSpicyNuggsUncrustables—" "O stop, stop!" cried the Mole in ecstasies. "This is too much!"

sometimes headlines can give the wrong impression but this is exactly what it says on the tin. this is despicable. it took a phenomenal, expensive, coordinated effort to get from north carolina losing 400 million dollars & a gubernatorial race over a bathroom ban to this in 10 years.

Here's how the Trump administration is chipping away at transgender health care access for adults With more than 30 interviews with trans adults, treatment providers, conservative activists and trans rights activists over the last two months. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Yay! Congratulations @lauramitchell.bsky.social and @mcbl.bike! www.startribune.com/cargo-bike-l...

Thank you @evanurquhart.bsky.social for interviewing me The GoFundMe Comms team reached out on Friday asking for permission to share my story with journalists...and noone reached out Shows why trans led journalism is so important for getting our stories told 🏳️‍⚧️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...

Important question from my friend: ACAB doesn’t include cozy mysteries, yes or no??

Everybody desperately wants a deus ex machina to solve the problem of Trump. People with good healthcare can live with any of the conditions he may have for a very very long time!! That's what the checkups are for.

I'm hard at work on a story about the crisis in Seattle and the trans folks strained to the bone trying to help struggling new residents. If you care about trans news, subscribe now! If you're a legacy subscriber and don't mind letting Assigned have a few extra dollars, resubscribe early!

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

because I know y’all can’t click and read

From the full story linked in comments: "The beavers have also allowed the city to scrap expensive plans to dig a reservoir and levee. 'We said the beavers can do it for a fraction of the cost, certainly more sustainably,' McCormack says."

The sheer evil of the current attacks on transgender individuals is almost unmatched even in a time of a lot of evil.

AI may not be destroying early career hiring--the culprit seems to be work-from-home policies. Once you adjust for WFH, there are no effects of AI on early career hiring WFH makes supervision, monitoring & on-the-job learning harder, which hit junior-workers harder papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

If you live in VA07 I need you to write to Eugene Vindman and tell him about me. Tell him about the transgender military veteran who used to live in his district and just wanted to raise his goddamned sheep in peace and now lives 3000 miles away because of transphobic bullshit.

An excerpt from the newly written Thursday newsletter: "If there’s one thing I wish that mainstream reporters on gender-affirming care could get through their heads, it’s that that trans patients are patients, not advocates."

We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!

My daughter is obsessed with three books and the interesting thing is they’re all by Margaret Wise Brown, but we didn’t force it at all. Those are just the books she responded to most, and now wants to hear over and over again: Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and Big Red Barn

https://charlottesvilleschools.org/preschool/ We are beginning a complicated, expensive, but hopefully rewarding and successful effort to provide high quality Pre-K here in one place in sunny Charlottesville this Fall. Please wish us luck. #charlottesvillecityschools #education #cville

also... e-bikes ARE exercise, the original statement is just straight-up untrue. many many studies have found substantial physiological benefits to riding pedal e-bikes, regardless of the level of assistance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

regardless of how much you hate the military industrial complex, i highly recommend the TEN PART, un narrated documentary series about an air force carrier developed by PBS. it was riveting and illuminating. it’s called, simply: Carrier.

This is insane

I will literally never accept another review request if this becomes the standard.

So many things to share today! Here is my brilliant colleague Jamie DeCoster's accumulated knowledge on data validation (dry topic? I would argue, critically important topic!) doi.org/10.7275/pare...

New article in JADP, led by my colleague Jessica Whittaker, looking at connections between math and executive functions and whether associations differ across English-monolingual and dual language learners. authors.elsevier.com/c/1n5amh~JIw...

Very cool article from an APA colleague, Rachel Besharat Mann, who studies how to promote civil discourse among youth: Cultivating Holistic Civil Discourse Amongst Youth | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...

People like Jeremy Peters and Jonathan Haidt can't really move on from these kinds of tempests in a teapot. Ask me how I know

When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

this is why, when we win, we gotta win all the way.

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

In case anyone is feeling lost, here is a handy guide.

school administrators implementing canvas for every use case