That part of the car next to the driver’s seat carefully designed by the manufacturer to serve as a Bermuda Triangle for AirPods.
Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor
@chadtopaz.bsky.social
Data science + math for social justice. Violist, yogi, husband, dad to human & dogs. 🏳️🌈 Views do not represent my employers. Author of Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change. Order at: https://bit.ly/4nT7qUh
As we gear up for another season of people applying to and starting college, please allow me to angrily debunk some toxic conservative bs about the price of higher education. No, 64% of Georgetown students are NOT paying six figures. That stat is shitty data work. You're welcome. #AcademicSky
College sticker price is not a receipt — Chad M. Topaz
A claim that 64 percent of Georgetown students pay six figures rests on a mislabeled federal statistic. Believing it is what pushes students out.
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Here is what I found. I have sent the same info in an email with the subject line "shitty shitty shit shit." @pwr2dppl.bsky.social
Dr Abolish ICE@pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 14h agoClick to see why I'm upset. Can we track down the origin and other references to this "classic" problem? I wanna email the prof but I don't know if I have the mental health lol. I am livid. @chadtopaz.bsky.social if you are taking rage requests
You know what would be awesome is if everything took forever. 👀 #academia
So the sign actually says DELI but I like this view.
You defs wanna hit Booth 107 good people.
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · yesterdayWe're looking forward to attending MathFest in Boston tomorrow through August 7! Stop by booth 107 and browse through our latest selection of math books. Plus, enjoy 30% off (in the US & Canada) through August 31 with code EXH30. We hope to see you there! #MAAthFest @joinmaa.bsky.social
Making sure I don't wake up and accidentally drink a latte in the morning.
I'm working hard this morning to convince the State of Massachusetts that I should be exempt from the oral communciations course requirement due to my 215 delivered presentations including international plenary talks. Wish me luck.
🧵🚨: Remember the recent #genAI cheating scandal at Brown? Everyone talks about the average score drop from take-home midterm to proctored final: 95.7 → 48.8. That number alone can't settle anything. But the released data can, and almost nobody has looked at it. So we did! Read on. #AcademicSky
What exam scores can and cannot prove about unauthorized AI assistance: Evidence from a highly public classroom episode
In spring 2026, an economics professor at Brown University gave a take-home midterm and, after unusually high scores, made the final exam proctored. Among the 59 students who completed the course, ave...
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🧵🚨: Remember the recent #genAI cheating scandal at Brown? Everyone talks about the average score drop from take-home midterm to proctored final: 95.7 → 48.8. That number alone can't settle anything. But the released data can, and almost nobody has looked at it. So we did! Read on. #AcademicSky
What exam scores can and cannot prove about unauthorized AI assistance: Evidence from a highly public classroom episode
In spring 2026, an economics professor at Brown University gave a take-home midterm and, after unusually high scores, made the final exam proctored. Among the 59 students who completed the course, ave...
arxiv.org
HEY NERDS: tech question. On one hand, I hate Google products because of fascism and DEI rollbacks and data (un)privacy. So I am an Apple guy (where they get you on hardware). However... I hate having an iPhone. My iPhone 15 pro is too big. I'd love a 3 -5 in phone. But those are all Android. Help.
Oh, you'd like a thorough, scientific debunking of this terrible WSJ piece about alleged rises in allegedly destructive estrangement from parents? HOLD MY FREAKIN' BEER.
The Number the Journal Doesn't Substantiate: A Response to the Wall Street Journal on Therapy and Estrangement — Chad M. Topaz
The Journal says a survey of some 7,000 estranged parents found a third who believed their child's therapist had influenced the cutoff. The nearest public survey can't be reconciled with that number, ...
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Meggie Z@nutmeggles.bsky.social · last wk.Another classic case of “sucks to suck”.
Oh, you'd like a thorough, scientific debunking of this terrible WSJ piece about alleged rises in allegedly destructive estrangement from parents? HOLD MY FREAKIN' BEER.
The Number the Journal Doesn't Substantiate: A Response to the Wall Street Journal on Therapy and Estrangement — Chad M. Topaz
The Journal says a survey of some 7,000 estranged parents found a third who believed their child's therapist had influenced the cutoff. The nearest public survey can't be reconciled with that number, ...
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Meggie Z@nutmeggles.bsky.social · last wk.Another classic case of “sucks to suck”.
Update, he claims "it just fell open to that page." Good thing I have 30 years of trustworthy marriage with this man.
Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor@chadtopaz.bsky.social · last wk.My husband is already gone for the day and I just wandered into the kitchen to find THIS. I am actually fearful that this man is planning a pizookie.
My husband is already gone for the day and I just wandered into the kitchen to find THIS. I am actually fearful that this man is planning a pizookie.
i try to use this exclamation sparingly, but it is warranted. DAFUQ???????
Robyn Swirling@rswirling.bsky.social · last wk.Just went for a mammogram, the changing rooms are all named (weird enough already) for various notable women. Oprah, Sonia Sotomayor, Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo, and…
It's a good book! People should buy it! Unlocking Justice from Princeton University Press. Available at all reputable bookstores!
when the giant beast King Kong began to climb the Empire State Building, Mayor Mamdani had an idea
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · last wk.I'm sorry this is one of the funniest pictures I've ever seen
I'm grateful to have been in (asynchronous) communication with @kylesiler.bsky.social about his important paper, "The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles." A colleague and I had comments; Siler had great responses. Read his insightful work and the subsequent discourse.
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Hi I have a successful and somewhat decorated career in academia also I am shit at taking blood pressures EMT training is hard I am humbled pass the beer
🇬🇧💂📚Today, I’m celebrating UK release day for my book! Brits, enjoy! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Unlocking Justice
How we can challenge social injustice—with data and humanity
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Still cannot believe we are doing Weekend at Mitch's.
I have no idea how it came to be that my book is "What we are reading today" at Arab News but I am VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS!!!! www.arabnews.com/node/2652513...
What We Are Reading Today: ‘Unlocking Justice’ by Chad M. Topaz
The American legal system does not offer equal justice to all; we can see obvious racial disparities in sentencing, policing, and incarceration. In “Unlocking Justice,” Chad Topaz offers a concrete wa...
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I am very excited to have this out in PNAS as of right now. This one is a case of: I can believe a thing to be true (increased LLM usage) but I can also believe that a particular set of evidence does not demonstrate that truth. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
pnas.org
Next Chris Nolan movie in rap form, License to Iliad.
I don't use Meta products (no Facebook, no Insta, etc.) and I will not buy the Meta glasses. BUT... I dislike the absolutist discourse that anyone who has smart glasses is a pervert. I have prosopagnosia. An assistive device that told me who I was talking to at any moment would be life-changing.
I am really chuffed to appear today in "The Story Architect," which is the online newsletter/magazine of the esteemed writer (and doer of many other things) @elementsofwriting.bsky.social. I hope you'll consider checking out the piece, "The Mathematician as Storyteller." #MathSky #ITeachMath
The Mathematician as Storyteller: A Conversation with Chad Topaz
in his book about problems of social justice, Chad Topaz toggles between stories and statistics. In this Q&A, he explores his approach to both.
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Annual tradition where we send the kid to camp with a packet of cards we have written and instruct him to open one each day while he is away. I remain more proud than ever of my dad humor.
Warning: self-pity post, w/Feelings: I’ve tanked my career on purpose several times for justice reasons (equity work in my old dept, in math, in prof societies, etc.). Wouldn’t change it. Career’s fine, I’m privileged. But the greedy part of me wonders where I’d be otherwise. (Still, glad I did it.)