Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

A message from the family of Dolly Parton

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

When a good and decent person leaves this world, I think the best thing we can do to honor them is to try to put even more goodness and decency into the world. It's not that we can replace them or their contribution. It's just that we need it all the more now that they're gone.

Looking for ideas to use my classroom decor to invite my students to interact with math. Not something to distract them, but for the in between times. I have plenty of blocks and puzzles - think more like patterns and posters they can see from their desks. #iteachmath #mtbos #mathart #middleschool

tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation

What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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My other piece of unsolicited writing advice is to always have two things going at the same time because you can use one to procrastinate on the other until they’re both done.

"Directives reflected a predetermined, outcome‑driven approach to enforcement rather than a fact‑based investigative process ... staff were encouraged to invert the standard sequence of investigation, compliance review, and legal analysis and instead work backward from desired settlement terms."

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · last wk.

Might be the clearest evidence we have that the university settlements/agreements were quid pro quo to get investigations stopped (I'm a policy expert, not a lawyer, so don't trust me on that). Also that list of violations in the final screenshot is a doozy.

"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:

We are regularly now at 5-6, down from 10-14. I don’t think we will ever recover. This also creates all other kind of knock-on effects, like the economics of offering a range of courses.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2mo ago

My department's incoming cohort has 5 PhD students--down from ~15-20 in recent years.

So you want to share slow reveal graphs with colleagues! 📊 I created some slide decks for people to use at faculty meetings at PLCs (openly licensed, CC-By 4.0). They don't recreate the full experience of professional learning I facilitate, but they're a nice invitation into the work. Link below!

Free Resource: Slide Decks For Faculty Meetings & PLCs

by Jenna Laib So you want to share slow reveal graphs with colleagues! I am thrilled! While I'm the person that popularized the routine, I did not create it on my own, and I hope that it has a life beyond me and my collaborators. After I give a session -- whether it's at a conference or a private PD -- there are typically a few requests for slides.

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This early childhood education program couldn’t afford to raise its teachers’ salaries. So they tried to do the next best thing: give them a free place to live.

Can't pay preschool teachers more? Try giving them a free place to live.

A New Haven program couldn't raise salaries, so it began covering staff's biggest expense instead.

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New: There's been a notable and, in many cases, sustained rise in teachers leaving the classroom over the last four to five years, according to new data I collected. The uptick in any one year was modest but the cumulative loss of teachers has been substantial. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/07/30/t...

1/ From 2021 through 2022, I was skeptical of the emerging narrative that there was a teacher shortage/exodus crisis. I just didn’t see much data to support it. And I wrote as much. www.chalkbeat.org/2022/3/9/229... But then, to my surprise, the data started to change.

Too many only have a kindergarten level understanding of social movements. It's a problem.

The very people who accuse others of "staying silent" are SILENT THEMSELVES ON 1000 issues a day which is NORMAL because you are ONE PERSON & simply cannot have takes on every single thing.

Interesting read on the funding of open science

Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 4w ago

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

minnesota state rep jess hanson rides elon musk for filth for trying to defend his pervy app: "when the richest man in the world hangs out with the epstein class... we cannot act surprised when he's trying to protect the number one tool used to make child sexual abuse material"

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 4w ago

minnesota state senator directly taking on musk and his big pockets PRECISELY HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE DOING IT

Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last mo.

I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...

Interesting thread about IEPs and AI.

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · last mo.

Had this question posed to me the other day and I didn’t know the answer: are there ways for caregivers to include language in their child’s IEP or 504 that forbids the use of GenAI to write and/or revise the IEP or 504?

Shameful.

#ITeachMath Might this be the best image for an Image Number Talk that I have ever seen?

Bodega Cats@bodegacats.bsky.social · last mo.

Given the lost of my close colleague and friend to colorectal cancer in October, who was only 42, please please get screened for colorectal cancer early if you have any symptoms. Especially if you are queer, male, and Black or Brown. news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...

Why is colorectal cancer rising in adults under 50?

Colorectal cancer is now the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths among people under age 50. Here’s what Stanford Medicine experts want you to know.

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A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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Arthurian Connector xkcd.com/3274/

Oh my goodness, I just realized my book Rethinking Disability and Mathematics was voted by readers of EdWeek into the Ultimate PD Reading List! ♾️https://www.edweek.org/leadership/edweeks-ultimate-pd-reading-list-is-here/2026/07

I’ve become obsessed with the question of what kinds of reading matter to our society — why tests are more valuable than books, why books are better than fan fiction, etc. Grateful to @wired.com for letting me go long and @jonbecker.bsky.social for the smart thoughts. www.wired.com/story/missis...

A full on war on the poor and the sick while the public is told by people in both political parties and by punditry not to "demonize" billionaires. Incredible.

YIKES BIKES at this takedown of Caraway, Our Place and Great Jones (ie the pink aesthetic cookware Instagram knows my heart craves and I’m always tempted to buy: “The materials science on that coating is peer-reviewed and brutal”

@laperry2.bsky.social · last mo.

www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw...