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.
Police used a drone and saw Melissa Hortman wounded inside the home at 4:09am. It wasn't until 4:40am that police went inside to get her.
I have confirmation the SAVE Act died because Senate Republicans knew it would disenfranchise their own voters at much higher rates than Democrats. I wasn’t going crazy.
She is awful and should be fired but man that is three women out of the Cabinet and not a single guy
wow. yes!
My blood pressure just shot up 50 points when I imagined myself doing this lol.
The 1996 welfare retrenchment actually changed policy (for better or for worse).The 2025 welfare retrenchment-which will hurt more people than the 1996 reform-is administrative in nature. It's all about making it impossible for eligible people to actually navigate the system to receive benefits
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Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
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"Silicon samples" are becoming more and more common in research and polling.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
The updated version of this preprint is now online!
THREAD🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2509.13397
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.
She missed these trials by a few months.
One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.
I feel such a hole inside.
In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.
“Men who kill their female partners/wives should, at the absolute fucking minimum, lose their right to be called partners, husbands, or family men.”
“These men made the choices to change their relationship status from being life partners to being life-takers. And our coverage should reflect that.”
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Things down here are, to my knowledge, the most extreme example of higher education censorship currently in force. They’ve banned almost all content on sexual orientation and gender in teaching, and, in a startling low, grad student research. It’s unconscionable, offensive, and wrong.
This drives me bananas. REGULATE IT. Like every other dangerous new tech (hello atomic energy!!). It's not actually rocket science.
A bunch of college dropouts are running companies that claim to do what scientists have made very clear is not scientifically possible to do. It’s early 20th century eugenics pseudoscience all over again. We just need to regulate AI—which is exactly what we’ve done with every other risky new tech
There is no education discipline. It’s a field. And it’s interdisciplinary
"Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice … mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
The field of education research (like in policy schools) is inherently interdisciplinary. Ed schools have economists. A lot of this work comes from economists outside of Econ departments. So sure, there’s other ed quant work that may be bad, but it seems strange to say somehow this isn’t relavent
The empirical evidence from economics actually makes the opposite point. www.nber.org/system/files...
Figure 6: Method mentions across NBER programs. Each line segment connects a program’s 2000–2015 share (left) to its 2016–2024 share (right), colored by field. Steeper upward slopes indicate faster growth. See Table 2 for field definitions.
Counterpoint: quantitative researchers in education called out Boaler back in the days of Twitter, and are doing reasonably well as field based on a new NBER paper by @paulgp.com www.nber.org/system/files...
What was astonishing (as a non-expert) was to see behind the veil and basically find a few guys vibe reading a major decision (over email no less) that fundamentally reshaped energy and climate policy in ways that impacted every American. I’m conservative regarding institutions, but bring it down.
Another example demonstrating that the federal science and research ecosystem is being seriously damaged regardless of what’s ultimately appropriated
Preach
Perfect analogy of Trump opening the Strait of Hormuz. 🤣
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
To be clear, you cannot use the word gender at all. It's only sex. They have, quite literally, removed the word altogether.
I can no longer use the word gender in any federally funded research. As Butler cogently argues, the goal “is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate gender as a concept” altogether.
When the expanded CTC expired in 2022, each $1,000 in lost benefits reduced consumer sentiment by 1.7 points—with effects lasting nearly two years—long after the checks stopped, from @jacobbastian.bsky.social and Melody Harvey www.nber.org/papers/w35059
