i've been banging this drum at the medium-level volume appropriate to a non-tenured junior researcher for a while now. "polarization" became the fashionable research space purely because it easily mapped onto existing spatial measures of politics.

I went viral yesterday for an only mildly funny, recycled joke that I thought would get 2 pity-likes

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

My coffee shop was out of ice so they gave me 16 ounces of undiluted cold brew and now my skin can feel sounds

Some construction workers watched me take a selfie on my way to work

Process of peer review: 1) this could be good! 2) this is not good! 3) I’m angry about how not good this is 4) translating my anger into neutral and generative “I wonder…” statements

We should honestly all be wearing Cole Young’s name on our jerseys. #mariners

Thinking this morning about our “avoiding the political” detour. Partisan actors can make anything—truth itself—“political” at a moment’s notice. Freedom demands that such moves not constrain intellectual inquiry. “Neutrality” is not achievable. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My university administrators censored a student who put “environmental justice” and “communities disproportionately affected by climate change” on an Earth Day flyer. I really have no words to express my anger and disappointment anymore

What writing do you turn to or learn from on issues of “representativeness” and especially “generalizability” in qualitative research? #AcademicSky

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Pretty interesting (horrific) how they are carving out things that make you less than fully human

Remember how Beyoncé put out Renaissance, an artistic masterpiece, and then lost album of the year to Barry Kyles?

I don't ever want to hear some anti trans person say they're being silenced and canceled ever again while this is going on. www.advocate.com/news/texas-t...

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Interesting article on the trend of absolutely massive coffee beverages in Korea www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Men’s spring/summer color palette this year is giving “no homo” and I’m so bored

What is this now? Trump fires the entire National Science Foundation NSF board? This is worse than ever. #science #NSF #highered #scienceeducation

Naylor is faster than you’d maybe think Like Wario in Mario Kart #mariners

I’ve beaten 4 Balatro decks in the last 48 hours

Seattle Independent Bookstore Day is on April 25, kicking off 10 days dedicated to filling your shelves with books from local booksellers, like Estelita’s Library and the 33 participating stores in the Seattle area alone.

Hot tip for folks trying to eat outside in the UW quad now that it’s getting nice outside. The seagulls are brazen.

Randy Arozarena gave me personally a base hit ☺️ #mariners

Texas Tech banning student theses and dissertations on LGBTQ+ topics is the sort of unimaginable, obviously rotten, blatantly bigoted censorship that would have previously been unimaginable. They are trying to make it impossible *to know* about us!

One down, three to go.

Something I love about baseball season is that baseball is just constantly going on, filling time, distracting us. You can just turn it on and be like, wow, Logan Gilbert just caught that line drive through the buttons in his jersey, and it’s at least one wild thing that’s not a world on fire.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

I don’t know how I did this but somehow I have 4 journal peer reviews due over the next 4 weeks.

On that “blame the faculty for trumpism” opinion piece: Important context the author leaves out is that no one responded to the substance of his question because he had hijacked the q&a to talk about his pet issue and we were there to learn about the work of early career scholars. I was there.

No, really. THIS FAAAACE.

Canzone doing his little Italian pinch toward the dugout is so funny to me #mariners Nice hit buddy

The seattle mariners doing nice ball of base tonight #goms

Not great news: Ada’s Technical Books closing on 15th Ave E, Fuel Coffee shops being sold www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/04/afte...

Must be 4/20 because the Seattle light rail is HIGH again

Grunge City 🤝 M's City

I require this level of Mariner every game #GoMs

SEL wouldn’t be so important if everything we encountered in life wasn’t so damn annoying. Adult life is like an obstacle course of annoying stimuli, and you have to somehow not fly off the handle because that’s not how people are supposed to behave.

I am forever saying that if refusal isn't a live option in any decision making process about "AI", then no ethical practice is possible. You've got to be able to stop if the thing is unacceptable.

I keep trying to turn off Microsoft “For Entertainment Purposes Only” Copilot but it just turns itself back on again

If the Ms blow this one, I swear #Mariners

I wish I had been at this game instead of last night’s! #Mariners

Have had other people in other fields to my face tell me that education research is garbage. If you’re in academia and you feel this way, you don’t know what you’re missing. We got some serious badasses over here

Seattle Mayor Wilson is exploring a data center moratorium, among other approaches. 🎉

There’s something fascinating about the enduring ease with which academics in other fields shit on education researchers. (I’d say “some” academics in other fields, but they’re not doing nuance so I’m not either)

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HEY SEATTLE did you know that 4 mega corps are currently courting Seattle City Light with data center proposals? Sabey, Prologis, Equinix and another unnamed real estate developer are in talks with our local power company to decide if they can build new centers here.

Hot off the press with JLR, we follow three 🔥 🔥 🔥 girls at anime and comic conventions. Yes this is the youth-collected Comic Con video data we’ve all been waiting for 😬🔥😎 So glad this joyful piece is out in the world and we’re happy to share it with you all! doi.org/10.1177/1086...