Bring back palm pilots

This confirmed to me that I am, indeed, living on the wrong side of downtown. I am meant to be west end.

Tiktok capitalism... that is all.

Ah, yes, I forgot how functionally terrible most college/university websites are when you're looking for actual information

Oh that's cool!

Now there's a grim chart. May I never screw up so bad that it can be summarized as 'intended change' versus 'actual result' in large unfriendly red bars.

The federal government *dramatically overcompensated* for abuse by some colleges in international student visas, and now Canada's long-term prosperity and its university systems both get to suffer unnecessarily as a result.

To give you a sense of how big a deal this is: Summers’ PhD advisor made NBER what it is today

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

I am educating my brother about Hoopla and Libby. He wanted me to help him buy him an audiobook on Spotify and I said, "But, WAIT! Do you have a library card? Cause, that audiobook you want to listen to? The library has the whole series! For freeeeeee!!!"

It is completely reasonable to email your dean and/or Provost to ask what is being done at your university to stop this from happening to your students

I, personally, would like to see Doug Ford make a basket

Competency-based education comes to Wisconsin (hi future) - Marginal REVOLUTION From The Chronicle: Later this year Wisconsin’s extension system will start a competency-based learning program, called the Flexible Option, in which students with professional experience and training...

Wisconsin flex initiative?

Technically a shift to CBE, in the 35M range. Gauging by their website and reddits, didn’t seem to get much traction. Couldn’t find any enrolment figures though 🤷🏼‍♀️

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

There's one really good pinball bar there, too!

On top of the massive data pulls the NS Gov asked institutions for prior that... to my best knowledge... was also not used or read.

NS government hired a US company (Huron) to help do a review of university programs. Cost 400K.

It did not bother to check whether Huron's methodology was compatible with local data collection practices (it wasn't).

Now Huron is trying to get unis to pay them to improve their data collection.

😂

The World of Higher Education | Funding, Free Riding, and the Future of Canadian Science Join Alex Usher in the latest episode of the World of Higher Education Podcast as he talks with Rob Annan, President and CEO of Genome Canada. They explore the intertwined relationship of science a...

On the podcast today: my chat with Genome Canada CEO Rob Annan on Science and Science funding (both in Canada and globally). I really enjoyed this one, hope you will too.

Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.

Blue Jays Clement Sliding home with some pizazz.

A raccoon showing some pizazz.

Givin’g ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.

Audible damn gasp

Can't wait to read the research papers done on this in 5-10 years time

Clicked in to see what people were saying on UK HE reform stuff that came out today only to be met by photos of Donald trump tearing down pieces of the White House

....nope

Spent the day at a conference and I left with a burning question: how do men choose their dress socks for their outfits?

Well now this is a heck of a graph

Again, the escalator and teleprompter errors were the result of Trump's people screwing up, so this is a great example of how the right works

Somewhere between 3-5 pm EST, I gained an irrational(?) fear of economic collapse and my full day has been much worse ever since

Yeaaaaaaaah, I'd be willing to bet TWO full coffee that we aren't seeing science research funding directly.

Can't say I disagree with this suggestion