Every time I’ve been to Seattle, the weather has been gorgeous. #NARST2026

Loquats are coming into season in SF — I grabbed a bunch off a sidewalk tree in my neighborhood and made jam that tastes like sunshine :,)

The dinosaurs at your window: How birds survived the asteroid that killed all other dinosaurs www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis... How a few unique traits helped modern-style birds—the last living dinosaurs—survive the asteroid apocalypse that took out T. rex and other mighty beasts

That is a full-on lie. Vaping increases the likelihood youth will smoke in addition to vaping.

The cheap cuts of meat aren't really cheap anymore. The cheap veggies (kale, collards, cauliflower even fucking cabbage) aren't as cheap anymore. We're basically down to potatoes.

Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...

It’s not just you — Bluesky is (sorta) down

Bsky, why so tantalizing?

San Francisco health officials said an unvaccinated infant had the first case of measles reported in the city since 2019, amid a surge in California and nationwide.

This is a weird place

Yeah, people talk about how Mackenzie Scott is not a "good" billionaire because if she was, she wouldn't be a billionaire anymore. And like 99.9% of the time that is true. But we also built a system where you can't actually give your money away fast enough to avoid how fast it is growing right now!

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

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...

Headed to #NARST2026? Interested in climate change education, storyline units, relevance to students, curriculum localization, curriculum-based professional learning, teacher agency, and/or teachers' curriculum design work? Come chat with me at my poster next Monday (20 April)!

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

Similarly, "how to get a grant" panels should address the current funding landscape instead of repeating some variation of "innovate harder"

Since Viktor Orbán’s approach to governance in Hungary was cited by the Heritage Foundation as their blueprint for #Project2025 (kettering.org/the-global-d...) it seems like a good time to re-up this piece in Aug '24 piece in @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2024/08/proj...

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!" But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

The Glover Family.

Does Oxford University have a problem with Sticky Toffee Pudding?

ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel giants funded an illegal black ops outfit that spied on and attacked climate scientists for years, now one of their operatives has been apprehended and is being extradited back to New York. The fossil fuels industry, however, remains untouchable.

You can and should donate to PCRF if you want to help Gazans, instead of shady spam accounts on social media: www.pcrf.net

To be fair, they were nowhere near an agreement from the start, and that should have been clear within the first 15 minutes.

Best and final offer on Day 1?

"Here's your pizza! It *doesn't* have dirt in it." Not sure I trust this new pizza shop, even though it is conveniently located in my living room, and I really should support a business run by my 4yo.

Beautiful day in LA! #AERA2026

EVERYBODY'S HOME!!!! god something about the mission commander being last out of the ship really got me. I know it's such a tiny thing but we're just surrounded all the time by leaders who don't give a shit and just like, the symbolism of making sure your people get out first is a lot

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Science is good. We should fund it.

My husband, repeatedly: “How can they do this? How can it be so precise??” SCIENCE. Publicly funded science.

Is it any wonder? I have always been a huge fan of Dolly Parton. We're the same age, same height, share the same values, but she can sing better. And she has more Grammys. I've always wanted to meet her!

At #AERA2026? Interested in science education, professional learning communities, storylines, relevance to students, curriculum localization, and/or teachers' curriculum design work in social contexts? Come chat with me at my poster this Sunday!

This is driven by a huge drop in 13-17 year olds getting knocked up with no recourse so just take that into consideration

A donor who lives in San Francisco said they were prompted to give educators money because it seemed like there’s been a lot of negativity around teaching over the past decade.

The paper in the episode above gives a framing I found super valuable. From Dinsmore, Fryer, & Parkinson in 2022: doi.org/10.1080/0040...

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b... via @statnews.com

Iran Deal by Obama: •0 Americans killed •0 Iranians killed •0 bombs dropped •$0 spent on war Iran Ceasefire by Trump: •15 American soldiers killed, ~700 injured •1900 Iranian civilians killed, 26,000 injured •$45 BILLION in taxpayer money wasted •18 countries bombed or involved in war 3/3

I've posted on the tragedy of this elsewhere, but I keep on fixating on a ridiculously irrelevant part of this story (probably to avoid spiraling). The generational (& geographic?) divide on Polish jokes. Husband reports that they made it to Miami (80s) but I didn't hear them in western MA (90s).

On the substance of the day, and as I’ve made clear here and in the piece, today was truly a crisis akin to January 6. What happened today is not sustainable and Trump must be removed from office. When the clock was ticking, I explained how 25 could be used bc of its immediate effect.

"...a story with useful lessons to offer about the history of genetics education in the U.S. and the growing divide between how much universities say they value interdisciplinary research and how poorly their internal structures are set up to reward it." 🧪 #academicsky 1/

The @apnews.com continues to approach this story head-on, rather than with euphemisms and sanewashing. apnews.com/article/trum...

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

One of the top headlines of the day.

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

You are currently averaging over 10,000 calls per hour on 5 Calls (!!!) to demand your reps rein in Trump and his catastrophic threats. 🔥📞🔥

Hey Wisconsinites: polls are open till 8:00 PM CT, or one hour after That Deadline™️. If you want to commit one sane act before The End™️, VOTE! 🗳️