All of the chatter about the censoriousness of the left pales in comparison to how people on the right actually treat people.

ME: Lord, I just pray that you send a hedge of protection. GOD: Say less.

Glad to see @tomdee.bsky.social and Elizabeth Huffaker's work on accelerating opportunity in Algebra I out of the working papers and into @aeraedresearch.bsky.social! doi.org/10.3102/0002...

You can’t have it both ways: report scores “adjusted for demographics” (which includes poverty), rank MS #1, and claim skeptics said “nothing can be done until poverty is addressed” The regression adjustment already addressed it. (Also, tell me who said “nothing can be done.” Nobody, ever.)

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

GOP: Parents should control what our kids learn. Schools can't indoctrinate our kids. Texas GOP: Actually, the state decides and here are the only books your kids can be assigned in schools.

See y'all there!

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

I wish @aeraedresearch.bsky.social would have considered what it means to ask folks–especially graduate students and early career faculty–to cross the U.S. border during this administration before choosing their 2027 annual meeting location.

"This research points to the limits of replacing snow days with virtual instruction." www.chalkbeat.org/2026/01/29/s...

That's THREE Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota who have been attacked -- assaulted, shot, killed -- by Trump supporters in the last 7 months (and 60+ more were targeted for violence). That is the actual domestic terrorism.

"Nothing matters until Miller is gone" is the wrong way to frame things. The right way to frame a people-led victory like this is "Everything matters until Miller is gone."

Our friends at The Haven just sent a message asking for donations to support over 80 community members who are homeless that The Haven and other partners have placed in hotels during this winter weather. They need to raise $27k. Please consider donating today. www.thehaven.org/give-online

Long way to go yet but I think it's worth pointing out that the entire rightwing media ecosystem went all in on the idea that Americans, or at least enough of us, would accept the idea that the government should be able to murder people in the street and they failed utterly

Does everyone's toddler recite Moo, Baa, La La La to avoid falling asleep or what?

I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.

People are rightly angry at the murders of Good and Pretti, and the fact they're on video in broad daylight surely contributes, but there's no avoiding how little mention of Keith Porter there is. And ICE has shot or otherwise killed non-citizens, who are no less deserving of attention.

He's lost me. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...

TACO, baby!!!

It's wild to me that the word asbestos is only mentioned once in this article. www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...

The major thing I want the press to start doing is this: when you talk about what Americans think, when you talk about what Americans do, when you talk about how Americans feel, regard the majority of Americans as your first stop. The majority of Americans disapprove of Trump very strongly.

Cool cool cool

Dr. West was a student of Dr. Louise Stokes Hunter, UVA’s first Black woman graduate, and I got to know Dr. West in my time researching Dr. Hunter. If you ever use GPS, thank this amazing woman!

I second John’s recommendation

“People don’t know and appreciate how important [mountain music culture] is economically to the state, how important it is culturally,” my dad said. cardinalnews.org/2026/01/17/c...

Happy Inauguration Day to everyone who celebrates! richmond.com/news/local/e...

I cannot wait to see an entire island of people be supremely weird about a rich lady selling bookmarks.

I've been asking this question since 2016: how are parents supposed to raise kids to take basic norms of moral behavior seriously when we keep elevating leaders who actively, loudly, explicitly crusade *against* those norms? www.the74million.org/article/opin...

We live in a failed state.

What a terrible lack of judgement. “I was headed off to play some tennis, and my phone rang, and it was Rachel Sheridan saying, ‘You’re our choice for president, but by the way, can you come on Thursday?’ I’m like, I thought this was going to be much later,” he said. uvamagazine.org/articles/bov...

Now that DHS has acknowledged that the ICE shooting in Minneapolis has killed a woman but are saying it was a legitimate act of self defense, let's recall that DHS repeatedly lied about the circumstances when a woman was shot by a federal agent in Chicago: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Homesickness content. virginiamercury.com/briefs/spanb...

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Roadtripping for the holidays, and the lack of toilet infrastructure for toddlers in this country is just wild.

Reviving this thread here: Higher Education Administrators: We are fully committed to the principles of DEI and believe our institution stands for social progress in society. Higher Education Faculty: Great! We'd like to form a union. Higher Education Administrators: No, not like that.

“To families of transgender youth in Virginia: you are not alone. You deserve respect, privacy, and the freedom to make informed health care decisions with providers you trust. Our Commonwealth stands with you.” bit.ly/GACJointLetter

What a way to tank one's academic career! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Though the negative effects are significant and persistent, the overall impact on MI's post-pandemic attendance is modest, mainly because few students were in districts with remote-only instruction for more than 3 months.

I'm a serious person who cares about serious things, but also why did they photoshop Kate Middleton's arm out of their Christmas card photo?

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

That Vanity Fair photo of that lady’s lips is like if Isaac Chotiner were a photographer.

Bless his heart. virginiabusiness.com/youngkin-uni...

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

A tough read for everybody who loves kids: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

I think this article follows on from questions about how schools are functioning in the current accountability environment. In a lot of schools, it seems like it's still 2005, and it's state test scores over just about everything else. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

The Bugeater has a substack, where we post the very best of our analysis of shared governance, academic, freedom and tenure in Nebraska. Here's an especially good one open.substack.com/pub/thebugea...

Know someone working to bridge research and practice to expand access to rigorous and meaningful learning opportunities? Please nominate them for the 2026 Jeannie Oakes Research into Practice Award @accessdetracktrack.bsky.social @aeraedresearch.bsky.social See 👇 and reach out with any questions!!

An AI admissions counselor reading an AI-generated essay so admitted students can then use AI to write their papers, which will be graded by an AI faculty member. This does not make much sense to me.