On it!

Maybe some silly digital ones about spatial concepts in the meantime.

22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting

@jasoncdaniels.bsky.social This was well done. Plus he’s based in Coimbra. (I was trying to find it again to reference it anyway & saw your post.)

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An Ill-chosen Word Is the Fool’s Messenger.

“But power corrupts, and soon I grew miserly and chose fewer and fewer words, trying to keep as many as possible for myself. I had new signs posted which said:”

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

This was never about the worst of the worst.

We have continually demanded answers about how many of our children were taken into federal detention. Trump’s DHS has continually refused to give us information.

sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

If it helps, you don’t sound like you’re complaining. You sound like you’re explaining a situation that would also be impacting anyone else in the same position. And it does impact people in a very real way where hearing is concerned.

Such a waste. I think this a lot these days, about a lot of things, if it’s any consolation.

Have talked myself into doing hand-drawn animations on paper rather than digital for the next little video.

Kicking it old school. Should take months. 😂

Blue sky with ragged edge cumulus clouds

Eponymously appropriate social meeja platform posting.

It’s wild to me that your research relates to hearing & yet that’s not seen as something anyone should think about outside of academia. Or, I guess, bar work.

Our priorities are really strange.

How to use The Alphabet Project YouTube video by Language Learning Matters

Related: this is a resource I made for basic literacy. Trying to let people know it exists. It does utilize tech (YouTube), but it’s fundamentally handwriting & based on dyslexia intervention.

No ads, no charge for materials. Just me working out some pet peeves I have.

youtube.com/shorts/NXfLI...

Issey Miyake transforms "wafer-thin" layers of waste paper into marbled furniture Fashion house Issey Miyake has crafted furniture out of compressed rolls of pleated paper salvaged from garment production.

The circular economy is a more interesting way to approach problems than what we regularly do, which is effectively slash & burn.

‘What else can we use this for?’ is human creativity at its best.

www.dezeen.com/2026/04/16/i...

In 2009, Sweden Replaced Textbooks with Screens: 15 Years Later, It’s Spending $120M to Bring Them Back Sweden embraced screens in classrooms and pushed books aside. Years later, the country is making a costly reversal that says everything about what went wrong.

Sweden, too.

15 years after Sweden began replacing textbooks with computers, they allocated over €100M to bring printed books back into schools for core subjects.

Teachers, parents, and education officials cited concerns about reading comprehension, reduced attention span, weaker writing ability.

National Library Workers Day sign

Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚

Let me tell you traditional art has this solved, put your tablet on an easel

No worries! You’re doing important work. Thank you for doing it.

Research Evidence Against Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education YouTube video by Education Law Center

This was on YouTube & was watching this morning. Seems relevant.

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Can I understand you?

Can you understand me?

Are we communicating in a space where there is mutual goodwill?

Everything else is negotiable.

The goal should always be mutual intelligibility, not adherence to some ‘perfect’ standard that’s ossified, backwards-looking averages that were calculated based on data that were gathered by people with a metaphorical ax to grind.

Although sometimes I’d swear they had a literal one.

LLMs are basically the newfangled version of prescriptive grammar, & telling people they did the prompt wrong is just telling people “you can’t say it that way” dressed up in a robot costume. 🤖

This is a call for measuring teaching effectiveness that ignores the most meaningful criteria we could use: What percentage of your faculty makes a professional wage and has a teaching load consistent with disciplinary norms? I taught college for 20 years and never achieved either.

If your data seems to contradict your business model, it might be wrong... the business model that is.

"Schools today do a lot of what they call pilots—but they don’t have clear measurable results that will tell school leaders if it’s working. Moreover, they often don’t have plans for how to sunset things that aren’t working...Build that muscle before just letting people implement AI."

Opt in > opt out

A new TikTok AI toggle is causing panic among creators TikTok creators say a new AI remix setting is enabled on videos by default, forcing users to manually review and change permissions.

Similarly, folks just found on TikTok for example that their clips are automatically available for AI remixes and you have to go through every video one at a time to turn that off. There’s no universal setting to prevent it. And no consent was ever asked for or given.

piunikaweb.com/2026/04/16/t...

Today is a day for a very long walk.

Have already completed three things on the to-do list by 8:30 AM, so time for a little fresh air.

Coincidentally learned that D & I (Dissemination & Implementation) is a thing this morning.

Blogpost on an academic article today, because practitioners sometimes actually read academic articles.

(Most of the time we don’t, though, because we’re too busy, if you wanted to identify one spot where there is a very large gap between researchers & educators.)

Charcoal sketch of a horse grazing. Minimal details.

#sketchbook #charcoal

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