Pregnant women and new moms worry so much. I see you. You’re doing fine. Take a deep breath. Listen to your doctor and your grandma.

I have watched states delay releasing test scores for months as they work to message results and hope no one is paying attention.

Heartbreaking. Giving birth 10 times only to watch them all die? That mom would have accepted the remote chance of a side effect for the miracle of a vaccine.

In 2025.

Give them a follow if you’re interested in seeing how Ed and workforce data can actually serve and support learners and earners!

This was me all day today.

This is a super interesting read. We desperately need to help young men get offline.

My mother went to high school in a small midwestern town in the 1950s. She told me stories of terrifying polio outbreaks and the day they all excitedly lined up at the school for the vax when it became available.

Like, totally.

We all had more than a decade of fun and good internet before it got bad. We had years of fun social media before it grew toxic. AI doesn’t seem to have even one good day. Not sure how it gets past early negative reactions.

We’d love to know if people are using rescued data. We have download numbers but it would be helpful to know how people are using them! If you have use cases get in touch!

A pedestrian in DC was killed by a soldier driving an armored vehicle in the streets of DC after the last parade.

These Guardsman have left their homes and families to come to DC and have now been assigned to pick up trash and paint park benches.

I’m a 22 year DC resident in the 78%. I live very near 3 low income housing communities. I walk my dogs, walk to the gym, restaurants, and the store. One of the military vehicles crashed into a car here the other day. That didn’t make me feel safe.

DC is not even in the top most dangerous cities in America. I have lived in this city for 22 years and we are not perfect but it is safe. And a truly lovely place to raise your kids.

Oh, how my inner 80s teen girl is crying right now.

In the literature, there are two competing explanations for "echo chambers": 1️⃣ Algorithms curate what we see (“filter bubbles”) 2️⃣ People choose like-minded peers (“selective exposure”) Our new study suggests something surprising: both explanations might be wrong. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2508.10466

Prom pics on the Mall are a tradition!

It’s funny that I’ve been commuting to/from downtown DC for over 20 years and it’s only this week I’ve felt a bit unsafe. Wish me luck I guess.

Grim

Can we get this in DC instead of National Police?

Just sharing my perspective as a resident of this city (Capitol Hill) for 22 years. My kids were born, raised, and educated here. Little League on saturdays, Nats games on Sundays. Metro every day to work and school. We are blocks away from several Public housing communities. We feel safe.

Revisions are a critical and normal and EXPECTED part of any data collection and reporting process.

Been to all but 3 and 2 of those are in Ohio!

Privacy is for the rich.

We are guessing what’s happening instead of collecting data. Guessing.

I’ve spent 20 full years trying to get the public, practitioners, and policymakers at all levels to care about data and research infrastructure. Our small but mighty DQC team has made huge progress but this take is correct.

Because data literacy is low. Inflation (an indicator measuring the rate of price change over time) is down but prices don’t often decrease so everything is still more expensive than we remember it being. Now that inflation is lower we need to talk about policies to make living more affordable.

It’s becoming very clear that #data privacy is only for the rich.

100%

It looks like we did actually see this coming. We need to learn our own history better.

What happens when the federal government seeks to centralize sensitive state data on individuals? On July 16, AEI & CDT will bring together experts to unpack the civil liberties, privacy & security implications of federal data consolidation. Details 👇

I really wanted this.

And if you aren’t on Medicaid, this will be a tax of sorts on YOU as healthcare in your state becomes harder to find and access and thus more time consuming and costly.

Thread in the am but if you want the main takeaway: The 2024 Digest of Education Statistics (under the current administration) includes just 27 tables by the (Congressionally mandated) deadline—far fewer than the nearly 270, on average, published in prior years www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Ran into Magic Johnson TWICE at the Cheesecake Factory in West LA about 25 years ago.

The 1970s were fun though.

Please consider helping Jenn meet her fundraising goal. We need smart, evidenced-based, good people to RUN for something and she’s one of the best!

Anyone else reaching some sort of exhaustion point with technology?

As I predicted, we are now entering an era where we cannot necessarily trust data coming from the federal govt on things like inflation. Something to watch VERY closely for GDP, unemployment, everything. www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-...

If you care about #eddata, this is not good.

Always. Always go with the data.

We die when we stop listening to scientists and experts. An entire town of people thankfully listened.

Isn’t just having a prior COVID infection a precondition?? If we got rid of the ACA provision that protects us against pre-existing condition clauses, you can bet insurance companies would label it that way.

Viagra is so easy to get that my boyfriend’s friend just got a prescription in his name and sent some to him through the mail as a joke for a milestone birthday.

The word “again” has become terrifying.

VA now leading the nation with a law requiring the release of test scores within 45 days!

Is that what we did in 2020 and 2021 with mask bans and fights over Covid restrictions? The sacrifices didn’t feel shared.

Maybe it’s the lead in the water and not the thing dentists recommend.

The actual American dream is that no matter what you do for a living your kids can grow up to be anything. To achieve more and be more prosperous. That was a huge departure from Europe but I guess that’s over now.