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abigail dym

@abigailrd.bsky.social

educator + political scientist of education. assistant professor @bowdoin. mama to ona and arlo. local politics + sourdough bread enthusiast. www.abigaildym.com.

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NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students. n.pr/3TS9SAR

The Education Dept. hasn't been dismantled. It's become more inefficient, staff say

Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students.

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abigail dym@abigailrd.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is so important, especially for folks working with youth data and trying to navigate journal requirements to submit the data. It just isn’t safe a lot of the time, and we all need to be so cautious to protect our participants.

Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · 4w ago

1/ What is the prevalence of personally identifiable information (PII) in author-collected data publicly shared in the social sciences? We audited 327 replication packages from 11 leading journals in economics, political science, and psychology Answer: surprisingly high 🧵

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4w ago

"ultimate danger remains that, when institutions comply with authoritarian wishes, the govt will just ask for greater and greater concessions. After all, if you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk." The anatomy of a coup d’université www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

That Same Ol’ Authoritarian Playbook

Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture.

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abigail dym@abigailrd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fabulous TT position in Education & AI at Bowdoin College! Looking for folks with backgrounds in learning science, mathematics, and AI. Happy to answer questions. Come to Maine! careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/18087

Assistant or Associate Professor of Education

Bowdoin College’s Department of Education invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment in Education beginning July 1, 2027. Applicants at the Assistant and Associate level are...

careers.bowdoin.edu

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 4mo ago

When we invest in systems that give people choices (eg, market capitalism) but not systems that teach people critical thinking (eg, education), we end up with too many of the former and not enough of the latter.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

“Wharton School researchers have dubbed this phenomenon ‘cognitive surrender,’ in which users shift from treating AI as a tool to treating it as an authority, accepting its answers rather than actively evaluating them.”

Emily Pitts Donahoe@empittsdonahoe.bsky.social · 9mo ago

If you are working on course design this week, and you teach a lot of students, let me recommend this guest post on my blog from three fantastic instructors who are pursuing innovative grading methods in their large lectures. It's a lot of work, but alternative grading can be done in big classes!

Jayme Dyer, PhD 🏳️‍🌈@youtoobio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I co-authored a post with @katiemattaini.bsky.social and Eden Tanner on @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social blog about Alternative Grading in Large Classes: emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/alternativ...

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Virginia Senate leaders express “unequivocal opposition” to Compact

The letter calls upon the University to immediately cease consideration of the Compact, and if not, the state will work to negatively impact the University’s funding.

cavalierdaily.com

Reuters@reuters.com · 12mo ago

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

Astra Taylor@astra.bsky.social · last yr.

“One way to fight a profit-driven system that treats people as disposable is to instead treat people as redeemable. Solidarity means not writing anyone off completely, not throwing anyone away. It holds out hope that systems & individuals can change." Officially out in paperback as of yesterday.

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Joshua Weishart@joshuaweishart.bsky.social · last yr.

Blue states should make democracy the prevailing theme of the upcoming school year. Not just civics/social studies classes, but democracy-reinforcing lessons & experiences integrated throughout the curriculum. Boldly educate through the crisis, don't leave children in despair, teach a better way.

abigail dym@abigailrd.bsky.social · last yr.

“The withholding of federal funds and the threat of withholding funds, without relevant and proper investigation into alleged violations or protections of due process, is a dangerous strategy used to discipline institutions of higher education for perceived political noncompliance."

APSA@apsa.bsky.social · last yr.

Statement on the Academic Freedom and Independence of U.S. Institutions of Higher Education The American Political Science Association (APSA) is deeply concerned by recent attacks on the independence of colleges and universities in the United States. Over the past few weeks, there have been…

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Most members of the public have little reason to be aware of 18F, or will understand what its loss signifies. So this post tries to capture that, by including the voices of those who worked there. First, from @waldo.net

Once, I was part of a team of four people at 18F that saved the Department of Defense $500 million with a single, three-day project. 18F projects saved many millions of dollars as a matter of course, while delivering better results for Americans. Another time I was part of a two-person team (our billing worked out to about half an FTE, as I recall) that partnered with a court for 18 months to help them build, from scratch, an open source case management system to drive the operations of the entire court. The whole thing cost them just a few million bucks, vastly less than they’d been spending on their old system, and today their cost of operating it is a rounding error compared to their old infrastructure costs. All the work 18F did for all their agency partners was open source. Public money should produce public software, for public inspection. In short, 18F works just how Musk and team pretend that they want government to work. But when his team found it, they destroyed it. 18F’s work is evidence that government works well, which undermines their message that it doesn’t. 18F’s parent agency, the U.S. General Services Administration, turns a profit as an agency. So it has to be destroyed too.
Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social · 2y ago

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT