This proved quite useful in Jeopardy

If the IPEDS ACTS survey had to be released on my last work day of the year, at least I was on a call with colleagues from across the country when it happened. Commisseration and gallows humor are good for the soul.

Finishing "Death by Lightening" which was so good. Learned lots about the Garfields and Chester Arthur.

“But unlike so many other epidemics, we possess the cure.” Congress can and must act to end the epidemic of gun violence.

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

How are we supposed to teach? How can they learn from us? When we are all literally terrified

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.

The notion of autism as a spectrum is so anathema to the party currently not vaxxing their children because of junk science. There are plenty of wonderful non-verbal autistics who deserve respect and support and TO LIVE, but, like, a good portion of these dipshits ARE ON THE SPECTRUM THEMSELVES.

At this point I am going to block people who are like "stop talking about thing that is shitty, it's a distraction from the REAL ISSUES" They're all real issues. The only non-real issue is you trying to dictate what I get to talk about.

I really hope the people who are giving money to the leopards eating face party so that the leopards won’t eat their face pay attention to the fact that the closer you are to the leopards, the closer your face is to the leopards.

I need to start the holiday inventory spreadsheet but that would require actually gathering and looking at everything.

So gross

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Trump's claim that ICE is only going after violent and dangerous criminals is false. Instead they've terrorized communities and caused kids to stay home from school, all while less than 30% of those they've arrested have been convicted of a crime. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Went to a craft show in Greenbelt Maryland today. Such a great little city.

forever Oriole

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

lynching was not a public shaming. it was a white supremacist murder.

it's really a deliberate white supremacist choice that "lynching" is now a generic term for any public shaming. 1

thank you bsky.app/profile/berr...

This makes me so happy today.umd.edu/another-spin...

In the face of charges that these strikes amount to execution without trial, the White House is sending a confusing message about who exactly gave each order to use deadly force. n.pr/3XwjcZy

That's TIME on our very first Disability and Neurodivergence Special! Thank you to everyone who tuned in and donated and thank you to everyone who made this event possible 💙 Together we raised $7,782 for Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN) !!!!!!!!!!! #TogetherforGood

I am thrilled that @gamesdonequick.com is raising money for the Autistic Women's and Nonbinary Nework today. We've attended some of AWN's DC events and have been so impressed.

I am taking a risk here but, gonna put it out there: The national conversation about what constitutes a professional degree is both important and missing details/nuance. All of this started because the Department issued regulations on which graduate degrees could borrow at a higher limit. 1/n

"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside." I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless": www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Read reporting The White House hates. Subscribe to @the-independent.com's Inside Washington newsletter co-authored by @jbowden.bsky.social and I. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

I get a lot of university marketing emails and usually delete without reading. The University of Michigan just sent me an email titled "Slowing Down, Regaining Focus" that caught my attention and was exactly what I needed to hear. Go figure.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Whale Dolphin Manatee Pony (Chincoteague) Seal

The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.

Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...

I did not expect a Chron breaking news alert on the Friday of Thanksgiving break...

For many years of my life the Friday after Thanksgiving meant a Pitt-Penn State game on TV and a volleyball marathon for what was then Heifer Project at church. Feeling nostalgia for those days.

A surprisingly lovely bathroom stall seen at Cordelia Fishbar in DC this evening.

This is…brilliant.

Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI” when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI

I really love the @bigtenacademic.bsky.social commercial. #WeAreHere

Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA." This is what's happening in epidemiology.

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

If I count correctly, 26 data extracts will be needed for the IPEDS ACTS component. Due March 18. www.regulations.gov/search?filte...

Love this so much. 💜

There is something incredibly comforting in being with friends who have known you your whole adult life (39 years in this case). Spent the weekend with college friends and feel so loved and seen and accepted for who I am, foibles and all.

When I was finishing my PhD, this was one of my most specific dreads about the job hunt. Fortunately, I mostly had fly-outs and interviews at the actual Departments, rather than interviews at conferences.

Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?

I would wager that most women who were grad students in predominantly male departments could tell you stories. I sure can.