Science is good. We should fund it.

You don't say

[The Apollo 11 plaque] reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. - Carl Sagan

They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

AI Is Not Inevitable 17April2026AI Is Not InevitableA Talk with Britt Paris Rutgers Associate Professor and chair of the AAUP committee on AI4:00pmiSchool Building Room 4045614 E. Daniel St. RSVP Here Review Meeting Ag…

I’m excited about this upcoming talk sponsored by the Campus Faculty Association: "AI Is Not Inevitable" with Britt Paris

We’ll be making some talk-related posters @skeuomorphpress.org with CFA members & they’ll be available at the event!

cfaillinois.org/2026/03/31/a...

i-Ready is, and I don't say this lightly, one of the biggest scams in education in decades. It is absolute trash, kids hate it, and for the dumbest reason--numbers as a substitute for meaning--school leaders can't get enough.

David Lynch "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE!"

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

The dumbest timeline

Using Canvas agentic AI to do your work for you signals that your work is worth less than it was prior to that act. The idea that this will, long term, free faculty time is belied by every single thing we know about the history of labor automation. It either puts you out of work, or you work more.

We’re all doing our best here.

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It's hard to do satire of a field that is continually self-satiring, but this is a valiant attempt:

puregenius.education

holy shit

New pub alert! In a special issue of JEDM about Human-AI Partnership for Qualitative Analysis:
A Framework for considering exploration, interpretation, and confirmation during data analysis: Computationally assisted analysis of teacher-group interactions.
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

A taxi that more than occasionally takes you to the wrong place and uses lots of energy to do so.

My department is hiring! Specialized teaching faculty to support our EdD programs! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Let me know if you have questions. It's great here!

No better metaphor for what association with Trump gets you than the guys who won Team USA's first gold medal since 1980 being forever remembered as the sad losers who were served cold McDonald's and bottled water at a lunch Trump didn't even bother showing up to.

Late Northwestern professor maintained relationship with Epstein Content warning: This story contains mentions of sexual misconduct with minors. Late McCormick Prof. Roger Schank maintained close contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and was offered a...

Yeah he sucked. Here’s a good write up from the Daily Northwestern.

dailynorthwestern.com/2026/02/10/t...

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Very cool and interesting data viz

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’

Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were…

Olympics Dog was chasing the motorized camera they have to capture the competitors at the finish line, then decided to chase some competitors instead

There are so many levels of hot hot mess here.

In its ongoing war against higher ed—and law firms—the battles MAGA has won are those where the other side surrendered in advance. (The Columbia/UT Austin/Paul Weiss "strategy," vs the Harvard/UCLA/Perkins Coie/etc strategy.)

Resistance is not just braver but also smarter and more effective.

Late Northwestern professor maintained relationship with Epstein Content warning: This story contains mentions of sexual misconduct with minors. Late McCormick Prof. Roger Schank maintained close contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and was offered a...

I’m not exactly sure what the reckoning should look like, but the field of the learning sciences needs to confront its roots in the work and words of Roger Schank and his misogyny and racism.