"Collapse should not be equated with the apocalypse. If the role of education is to prepare the young for he future, and this is our future, where is the education system in all this?" Details Join us this summer for our book club, where we'll read and meet to discuss the ideas and implications of Pedagogies of Collapse and be joined by the author, Ginie Servant-Miklos, for an extended Q&A session on July 31. The book is available in paperback or as a free open access e-book. Anyone is welcome to attend! Dates: Welcome Session: June 26 @ 11am ET Ch. 1-3: July 10 @ 11am ET Ch. 4-6: July 24 @ 11am ET July 31 @ 11am ET w/ Ginie Servant-Miklos Learn more and register @ https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/book-club

Announcing our 2026 Summer Book Club!

We'll read and meet to discuss the ideas and implications of Pedagogies of Collapse and be joined by the author, Ginie Servant-Miklos, for a Q&A on July 31.

Learn more and register @ www.humanrestorationproject.org/book-club #edchat

Important announcement from our lab.

Since the character limit here is a bit tight, I’ve attached a screenshot with the full details from our LinkedIn post.

#ComplexSystems #AI #Emergence

Benjamin P Taylor Foundation for Global Influence | Benjamin P. Taylor I am pleased launch today the Benjamin P Taylor Foundation for Global Influence, working with partners across government, advisory, capital, and security sectors, including those operating in politically...

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🔍 The demand for System Dynamics and systems thinking has never been greater, and it's growing exponentially. Discover your next job on the Society's website. 💼

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Life finds a way quote from Jurassic Park movie

But have they posted this on the WAM board? For those of us from a certain vintage that was the source of all truth and wisdom.

Adding the quant modeling would give deeper insights, especially into how the dominance of feedback loops changes over time, which your qual models can’t illustrate. But I love how you use modeling as the basis for a dialog, exactly what want from EdTech, à la Wegerif.

🚀 FREE ONLINE EVENT! ▶️ International Pre-College Systems Thinking Symposium 2026 by the Pre-College Education Special Interest Group

📅 Saturday, March 21, 2026
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#SystemDynamics #systemsthinking

This sounds like it’s straight out of Sir Michael Barber’s “Deliverology,” which I had to suffer through when working in assessments. Didn’t do much to improve UK schools. John Seddon did a pretty thorough dismantling in “Systems Thinking in the Public Sector.”

Don’t forget mictic. It goes with your egg.

I've never heard a curriculum director talk about what it would mean to be faithful to students or to the profession, but I could buy dinner with the number of times I've heard fidelity to a curriculum.

INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial In honor of the 100th birthday of the late Stafford Beer, INDEP is collaborating with Metaphorum to present a series of speakers for online events about Beer’s work, cybernetics…

In honor of the late Stafford Beer's 100th birthday, we are collaborating with Metaphorum to present a series of speakers for online events about Beer’s work and its lasting relevance for questions regarding postcapitalism and democratic economic planning. www.indep.network/indepxmetaph...

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

A few days ago we lost an important hidden figure in the history of 20th century Cold War technology—Gladys West’s work and insights were essential in the creation of GPS:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Promotional poster for UVA Data Science 2026 'Data is Art' competition, featuring a hand reaching towards a cluster of orange and gray dots symbolizing data, with details on submissions and the theme 'Truth'. Submissions are due March 1, 2026, a URL is featured that reads: datascience.virginia.edu/data-art

We invite you to apply to our Data is ART competition. Open to all disciplines and mediums.

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I’m reading Seddon now. Many examples, including the call center, mirror what system dynamics calls the rework cycle. The cost of rework is often 2 or 3x the cost of doing something right the first time bc of work that must be undone, and rework is rarely recognized in the accounting.

Aim at Perfection and Miss: Why 1980s Management Philosophy Explains 2020s Manufacturing Dominance W. Edwards Deming the most important manufacturing guru

@allanpatterson.bsky.social tells the story here of Deming's management philosophy, how it revolutionised manufacturing, and how it can revolutionise public services given half a chance.

(Fyi @johnseddon.bsky.social )

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Organizing books by colour is pervert shit.

Has Research on “What Works” in Education Been Looking at the Wrong Interventions? Revisiting “Why ‘What Works’ Won't Work” Gert Biesta First published: 02 December 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.70063 view metrics SectionsPDFTools Share Abstract In this invited article, I revisit my 2007 essay “Why ‘What Works’ Won't Work: Evidence-Based Practice and the Democratic Deficit in Educational Research.” I provide a summary of the key arguments in the essay, explain why I used the phrase “democratic deficit,” examine what I have observed regarding the discussion about “evidence” in education since the publication of the essay, and show, through an exploration of the educational placebo effect, why the comparison between education and medicine remains problematic. I suggest that this may have important implications for the design of educational research. It also raises the interesting question to what extent existing evidence about educational effectiveness has been looking at the right interventions. Against this background, I reiterate my call for a broader spectrum of research approaches than only those that focus on the question of “what works.” This is as much a call for researchers as it is a call for policymakers and educational practice.

Gert Biesta just published a brief reflection on his important 2007 article, "Why 'What Works' Won't Work" in Education:

"...whereas policy argues that practice should take research findings seriously, the same doesn't seem to hold for policy."

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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ELIZA - Wikipedia

Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but you could check out ELIZA, one of the earliest chatbots to use natural language processing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Tomorrow hasn’t been invented yet, so how can they know what the workforce needs to look like? Tomorrow they’ll complain education isn’t preparing students for careers, because they insisted education prepare students for today’s workforce.

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) YouTube video by The Highwaymen - Topic

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The meaning of science education isn't just:
✕ Knowing the content, nor
✕ Knowing how scientists work

The major goal is:
✓ Learning to think about content like a scientist

Through the content, students should understand the nature of models and learn how to infer explanations from them.
#EduSky

Boundary Logic If you could design math and computing from scratch, what would it look like?

Boundary Logic is a unary, post-symbolic logic, inspired by Charles Sanders Peirce and George Spencer Brown. The new post in the Containment series gives an overview.

www.linkandth.ink/p/boundary-l...

#LoF #logic #math #computing

And why exactly do Cultural Studies and Algebra II need to be mutually exclusive?

Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications The Art of Learning from Rejection

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.

CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.

But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

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If you completely remove a problem's context and can still solve it, can it really be mathematical modeling?

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My time with my current employer has come to an end. I am grateful for what I have learned about myself personally & professionally during the last 3 years.

If you know any schools/districts looking for professional development, feel free to drop my name and encourage them to visit strongermath.com

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
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