Super excited to share Robert Plumley has successfully defended his dissertation (which was bananas-good)! Great to work with @mattbernacki.bsky.social in helping Robert do this work. Many thanks to Matt, Peter Halpin, Emily Rosenzweig, and @joshuamrosenberg.bsky.social for serving on his committee.

“They are not proposing thoughtful, surgical measures to improve the activities of the department. They are acting with a meat cleaver, or maybe more accurately, just swinging an ax wildly around,” he said. Efficiency = good. Ignorant destruction = bad. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

2️⃣ NEW PAPERS❗ Teaching first generation college students the 🧪📖🧑‍💻 Science of Learning to Learn improves their achievement 📝 and retention 🏫 (pic, rdcu.be/ecJ6x) SoL2L predicts ✅ motivation systems with + 🤓🪞self-efficacy, ⚖️ value vs. cost perceptions (open!; www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....)

In many contexts I've found CoPilot to be a lesser chatAI, but I have to give credit where credit is due. The CoPilot integration in Visual Studio Code is amazing. Suggestions appear directly in your existing project files and include edits to any dependent files when needed. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐