Editing the season finale of the podcast, and incredibly frustrated to find one of our audio settings was wrong throughout recording. At 10 years of podcasting... it is infuriating to make rookie mistakes like this.

So excited about this evaluation! WestEd conducted four regression discontinuity design studies in three districts, looking at reading & math, tutoring & edtech, elementary & middle. There's also tons of implementation insights from the qualitative side. www.k12dive.com/news/early-e...

Early evidence finds outcomes-based contracting boosts student performance

Stronger district-vendor relationships are one benefit of contracts that tie results to compensation for products and services, a WestEd analysis finds.

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Answer: no. Someone tell the entire AEC industry.

Cara Jackson@carajackson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Really though is it ever necessary to use "utilize" outside of Scrabble?

New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd

When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...

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It's fascinating how fractally incorrect this is? 1. The countries are labeled wrong 2. Wait those aren't actually *any* real countries, just random blobs? 3. The colors and lines also do not correspond with each other??

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Listening to a country song and railing against their story that they lived "happily ever after". I put pencil to paper. If the math checks out they'd be... Exactly my age. That was a gut punch.

NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · last wk.

Strange that everyone I graduated high school with is middle aged, unlike me

I started my new job this week. Anyone who followed me on Twitter knows how funny this welcome candy is:

Anyone doing lifetime earnings math needs to consider the likely difference in total lifetime for either of these incentive structures... (The "anyone" in that sentence is me.)

The Deceitful Grin of Civility@andrewfleer.com · last wk.

Would you rather, for the rest of your life: 1) Get $50 for every hot dog you eat (meat and bun) 2) Get $2 for every pushup you do

I adopted "cheers" as my standard salutation years ago because it is so versatile and useful! But then I started a collaboration with an English company and have always wondered if they think I'm doing it to mimic them. I think about it every single time I say it around them.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago

If I spend more than three days in the UK, I involuntarily start saying "cheers"

No Body No Crime. My wife and children did a close reading of this song on a road trip, and it was some real high quality language arts learning. Incredible.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name a song where someone dies/is murdered.

I am loving this week of vacation. Building mixed material dice towers with the dotters: 3D printing Table and miter saw Laser engraving Wood glue We are getting SO MANY shop skills this week! And they are so good at it. I may never go back to work.

New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >

Children are truly a miracle. How can my offspring simultaneously be: 1) The best of us all, and 2) Just the worst

I produce an education research podcast that releases new episodes on the 12th of every month. - How does shifting between engagement levels mimic the costs of multitasking? - Why has past interleaving in new language learning failed (but this worked)? #EduSky twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

113 Control States & Interleaved Grammar - Podcast Episodes - Two Pint PLC

How does changing engagement patterns mimic the costs of multitasking? What makes successful interleaved practice in language learning?

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Meg was here for both the Spanish and the Cran Tank love. You had it before? We've gotta get you one when you're next in town.

Aaron Mathieu@aaronmathieu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Took almost 40 minutes to from the word schema. I was 100% waiting for it in the first segment, but I had to voy a un disusion about Spanish interleaving to get there. In all seriousness , enjoyable listen. Glad the Christmas beer was an high enough ABV to survive your neglect.

It seems student grade distributions are spinning up another cycle in the Discourse. PSA: "Grade inflation" is a term that embeds a competitive paradigm for grades. You can reject the premise that grades are for sorting students. Reject. That. Premise. #AcademicSky

“Your horror has been stolen from you” is a 10/10 sentence.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 3w ago

You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.

Lol Reminds me of one time when the CEO pulled up a spreadsheet and asked me if I could 'use AI to analyze these data'. I said no... I can just analyze these data. Like with arithmetic.

Annette Gordon-Reed@agordonreed.bsky.social · 3w ago

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

I have to say... I do not find that economics professor take home midterm AI blah blah story compelling. He made a short notice pivot to a new testing format with minimal education training (if any) and it didn't go well. Is that the story?

Chili, cheese, onions, jalapenos.

The Imminence Of A Revelation Which Does Not Occur@nataliereed84.bsky.social · 4w ago

quote post with thy preferred hot dog toppings so that thou may be judged by thy peers

The metric system is better in every possible way and we (the US) should use it for every single thing starting today.

ponder@ponder.ooo · 4w ago

what position do you hold with the highest conviction:stakes ratio? like you have a very strong opinion about it but also recognize that among all the issues in the world that one doesn't really matter *that* much. for me it's prob tau vs pi

@paul-bruno.com on your recent publisher question. Here's strike one for Emerald. "[The tortured phrases and invalid references] were not present in their original submission and arose from the use of language-editing software as recommended by the book’s editors" pubpeer.com/publications...

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don’t Have To — Anna O. Law

As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship , a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) ...

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Perhaps an unpopular opinion... but I think the "surprising conclusion" of an average global trust score of 3.6 out of 5 (65% of the available scale) is actually quite consistent with the other studies of public trust cited in the story. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story

Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie.

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This is interesting. I'm curious about where there are mismatches between students and public. I am dismayed a bit about the Measurement mismatch in particular.

Bill Chopik@chops310.bsky.social · last mo.

I went through 4 personality handbooks and asked 2600 people how important it is to study each topic listed (from 1 to 5). All were rated above the midpoint (yay!), but mental health/psychopathology, genetics/heritability/neurology, emotion regulation/happiness, and change/identity stood out.

"the eleven aspects of teaching are structured in four stages with a diverse transition.... [Student teachers] confronted a great challenge in managing time and in providing feedback and conducting formative assessment during their teaching." doi.org/10.1080/0261...

Investigating the difficulty level of aspects of teaching during field placement: from coursework to practice

The purpose of this study was to explore whether particular aspects of quality of teaching belong to a single scale and identify those aspects which are more difficult to master for student teacher...

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Is The Poseidon Adventure a "submarine movie"? #MorningThoughts

I don't know much about the moderation Discourse... But I will say this: I see lots of posts saying essentially [account] is too big/important to suspend or ban. That's a bad argument. I love the idea of rules applying to everyone.