That ratio, in turn, is a downstream effect of decades-long defunding of higher education such that institutions cannot afford enough qualified instructors for the student populations that increased for decades as administrations attempted to replace lost funding w tuition dollars

The result is a set of mutually reinforcing trends where fewer, lower-paid instructors buckle under (until recently) a constantly expanding student population. The students themselves caught in another accelerating debt crisis to complete their educations amidst rising costs

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors! Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk ([email protected]) by Oct 31!

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The teacher pay penalty continues to grow. Public school teachers are paid only 73 cents for every dollar paid to similar college graduates New data from Sylvia Allegretto @epi.org and @ceprdc.bsky.social

Also worth recalling bsky.app/profile/patd...

Holy shit

The first time an Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause, public outrage forced a reversal in less than 24 hours. I wish to God Albertans would show the same moral fury now, when school children are outed & bullied by the government that is supposed to protect them. #ableg #abpoli

After last year’s US election, people liked to point out that almost every OECD country saw the party in power during the post-covid inflation lose office in the next election. With one big exception: Mexico. There may be a reason for that. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

They murdered about 10% of the population of Gaza.

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

Some thoughts about the Great Khan heading into Chicagoland's big Reverse Fort Sumter weekend.

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

I can think of very few people more deserving than Peter to have a professorship named after them. Queen’s is also a great uni and Kingston is a wonderful city.

You have got to be kidding me, part 2

You have got to be kidding me

When will people on the left wake up and realize they fell for a right wing moral panic about social media and cell phones that’s currently being used to strip us all of civil liberties? Jonathan Haidt, one of the primary architects of this moral panic, just brought his misinfo blog to Bari Weiss

Graham Greene has died. A Canadian acting icon, he earned an Oscar nomination for his role as Kicking Bird in Dances With Wolves. He also won a Grammy, Gemini and Canadian Screen Award, along with the Governor General's Performing Arts Award. He also earned a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

The Tournament of Carts, folks.

Liberals: tbh I don't love Newsom but there's no other possible... Progressives: Pritzker seems alright Libs: ...we just can't let perfect be the enemy of the good, so we have to accept Newsom until... Progs: what about Pritzker Libs...just have to be loyal to Gavin and fall prey to purity tests

Crap like this gets excused away as savvy necessary-evil political strategy but most Americans, including most independents, oppose banning trans healthcare for minors. Why vote for someone so weak that podcasters can walk them into positions that are both unprincipled and unpopular?

I didn’t think Dean Cain could be more pathetic than when he opens his mouth. It turns out I was wrong.

Amazing www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f2c11f...

If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊 Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social

Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK

Yes. Once you start seeing this (Institution X probably wanted do this conservative thing anyway but now can blame it on Trump), it's everywhere. It's not capitulation, it's agreement. "We can stop doing this thing we started doing from 2014-2020 because of woke/progressive/anti-racist pressure."

Remarkable how there are still economists like Mr. Brown here who do not understand our markets are imperfect and, yes, companies in uncompetitive sectors will use turmoil not just to pass on costs but to increase margins. It happened extensively in COVID! Shortages caused many profits to go up!

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:

Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.

For everyone in Canada, I will be on Daybreak Alberta this Sunday morning talking about our new book on bird brains and behaviour. It will be available on the CBC listen app on demand too. @mitpress.bsky.social #birds #brains #neuroskyence 🪶🧠🇨🇦🧪

"Many chefs I know get upset at me … But this is the truth: If you can’t cook everything you make in a microwave thats a skill issue. You need to learn now because when everything is cooked in a microwave you’ll be out of a job." www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t... (h/t @olivia.science )

I'm putting together some datasets relevant to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (for teaching purposes) and wondered if anyone has suggestions for interesting datasets on these themes. You can see what I'm aiming at in the first chapter. psyteachr.github.io/sdg-data/

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

In Memoriam: Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) anthropology.unm.edu/news-events/...

when the reviewer points out an oversight in my paper

Niemöller was a Nazi. He fought in the Freikorps. He was a willing participant in the Third Reich because he had sought and received assurances from Hitler himself that the Nazis would not go after Protestants. Then he ended up in a Camp. He was wrong. That’s why he wrote the poem.

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B'tselem, today: "[T]he unequivocal conclusion [is] that Israel is taking coordinated, deliberate action to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip. In other words: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. www.btselem.org/publications...

Here's the sitting president of the United States endorsing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

This is a very good book, and you can read it for free!

The video is shocking - but felony charges have been filed: against the protestors who are being beaten up. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

while I'm scolding ppl, this article is currently 20x more popular than our scoop from an hour ago about ICE's new facial recognition app, which is perhaps the most powerful/concern face rec database/tool widely deployed. happy to use current events to start a convo www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

This news coming out at the exact moment when a deluge of ravenous liberals are telling us to sacrifice trans children (which really means all trans people, ofc) proves not only how evil their intentions are, but the very crux of why we will never back down from defending them.