First, stop it. We are <constantly> looking in the mirror & if you haven’t done any of the trainings or gone to any of the talks/meeting about that, I can’t help you.
Second, we don’t have time. We’re constantly meeting about how to survive as 25% of our budget is illegally cut off by the fascists.
The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.
Again, if you want explain why trust in universities has declined in the last decade, & you don't benchmark that decline against contemporaneous declines in trust in <every other societal institution> in 🇺🇸, then you cannot identify variables internal to universities as the main or sole explanations.
No, his inhaling and mouth noises singing so close up to the mic. I had to turn it off about 5 songs in and switch to Father John Misty. :)
I’ve never experienced misophonia before but I’m listening to an Iron & Wine album with headphones and it’s starting to freak me out.
Very cool. Katherine Cotter has also asked about links between auditory imagery in daily life and objective task performance. You might find it useful: psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-...
"The University of California system, the California State system, the City University of New York — these are the institutions actually educating America’s workforce, actually moving first-generation students into the middle class, actually delivering on higher education’s democratic promise."
In NYT today, Frank Bruni tells the inspiring story of Woody Brown, a minimally-speaking autistic man who got an MFA at Columbia and then put out a best-selling novel.
"How much do we overlook in people," he asks, " ... by making overly hasty judgments?"
A very good question.
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Uncritical acceptance of facilitated communication is back, yet again. Watch an online video of Woody "communicating," & note it's impossible to be a 1-finger typist without looking at the keyboard (among other obvious problems).
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My deep condolences to @benjaminjriley.bsky.social, whose story is featured in the Times today.
“There’s nothing I can do to change the past, of course. But I can for damn sure keep working to raise the consciousness of others.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...
"Correlation doesn’t want you to know that because if you know that, you won’t click on fearmongering headlines like the Times piece 'Experts Warn Office Workers to Stop Gossiping Amid Surge in Water Cooler Deaths.'"
There's a reason I highlighted Texas A&M in my column series on the Red Scares. Yet, they remain a member of the AAU in good standing.
Sharing with the text of the resignation letter in the alt
In the same lane:
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
It’s World Homeopathy Awareness Week. The less aware of it you are, the more good it will do you.
She's really going all in on "everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
Sasha Issenberg @sissenberg.4h Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for? A8 EG Attack on Iran THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2026 NEWS ANALYSIS By STEVEN ERLANGER A North American Treaty Organization Without America?
Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing?
Shameful.
Hey @natureportfolio.nature.com
is this some sort of joke?? Please act ASAP. This is an abomination! 👇How the hell did this ever pass peer review, editorial processes???
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
All the cars on this narrow street apparently drive in one direction and park in the other.
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys.
Spoiler alert: they aren't
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Great idea. Have you ever discussed with them this Mahoney '77 article on confirmation bias in peer review?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Recently, in teaching about confirmation bias, I've 1st played a round w/them of Wason's number-rule game & then we watch this video together. Students overwhelmingly fall into a confirmatory mindset & report finding the game/video eye-opening. Consider trying it out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKA4...
Remember to be wary, as today is the only day of the year that incorrect or misleading information is posted on the internet.
So the Washington Post has a mostly glowing story this morning about a new "custom" AI chatbot being used in business schools called CAiSEY. Turns out, you can trial it yourself if you want! Won't you join me for a short thread as I relay my user experience this morning?
(Story linked)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOsN...
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions: