Opinion | What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks

This resonates with me & my experience in the classroom. I stopped allowing electronics in classes just 2yrs ago & found it is transformative. And even reticent students recognize the transformation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students. On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the c...

One of our most-read stories of 2025: This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.

(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)

23 games played in December : Dorfromantik x4, Heat: Pedal to the Metal x4, Dominion x3, Fire Tower; Manhattan Project: Energy Empire; The Voyages of Marco Polo; Paperback; Carcassonne; Sagrada; poker; Dixit; Typewriter; Just One; Sky Team; Bananagrams

forty years old, and eerily more on the nose today and it was when originally written

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

A short presentation to the local community. Come say hi!

This week, Harvard declared criticism of Zionism automatically antisemitic and it did.. this. I can’t even. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Would love to have a list of the different brands this has happened to

See my last few “skeets.” We (public health) MUST change the debunking scicomm attitude we take around this stuff. Something else is going on!!

The most difficult part for many is not whether to rest or engage, but to know WHAT kind of engagement will be most EFFECTIVE. The change in our politics has also upended longstanding patterns of effectiveness in activism.

Serious commitment to holiday cheer

The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.

More on business school fraud. The possibility Daniel @engber.bsky.social doesn't seem to consider is that the paradigm of "one dumb little behavioral change will make a huge difference" *is* the rot at the core of the field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I’m on the ASA CBSM Section’s @asa-cbsm.bsky.social Student Paper Award Committee this year. PhD students and 2024+ graduates can submit published or unpublished papers. We welcome exciting new works on collective action and social movements. Submissions are due by March 1, 2025.

cranberry walnut sourdough Sunday #bread

First loaf of winter. Finally rejuvenated my starter after months in the fridge. #bread

Reality check: Chat GPT got all 61 questions on the final exam for my Social Problems class right. I wrote the questions myself, some referring to unspecified things like, "according to author last name..." or "according to the lecture....", and some easy facts like population percentages or history