An officer reported other cops for using racist, sexist and homophobic slurs at work, filed an Internal Affairs complaint & submitted recordings of the other cops being bigoted as evidence b/c otherwise nothing would be done about it. He’s now charged with 16 felonies & could get 13 years in prison.

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d ago

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping

Quasi-experimental DD syllabus question: Anyone have a paper they like to use to teach new staggered DD stuff that is empirical but does a good job of walking through (/showing) all the individual estimates and how they are aggregated?

Been reviewing for foundations and "methods" are often a laundry list of terms with no linkage between activity and goal. So they "use sensitivity analysis, covariate adjustment, interrater reliability checks,..." in a slapdash run-on sentence, but it's never about a conrete theoretical concern.

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3w ago

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

A paper published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications had quickly become one of the most cited studies supporting the use of ChatGPT in education. It was retracted today via @nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... #edtech #GenAI #ailiteracy #aiready #aifluency #edpolicy #edresearch

1/ Important new investigative report from my colleague @jbeowulf.bsky.social about "Maestro," advertised as "the AI University" on TikTok, that turns out to be a chatbot bolted onto a failing for-profit business school in order to illegally harvest Pell grants. www.newamerica.org/insights/the...

The AI College: How One For-Profit School Substituted Instructors With a Chatbot

An inside look at AI-powered Maestro University exposes a pattern of policy failures, potential legal violations, and widespread frustration among students—acting as a warning sign for higher educatio...

newamerica.org

The Economic Cost of DHS Attacks on Immigrants @epi.org webinar with @chloeneast.bsky.social, me, and Erica Williams us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I very mildly helped (along with many others) this Brookings piece on Promise programs: www.brookings.edu/articles/get...

Getting state 'free college' right: Design choices that matter | Brookings

Katharine Meyer and Isabel McMullen assess state "free college" designs, showing how simple, generous aid boosts completion.

brookings.edu

As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though

Our research center CADRE is hiring a Research Associate. Posting here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... Please don't hesitate to ask if you have questions, and share widely!

Our research center CADRE is hiring a Research Associate. Posting here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... Please don't hesitate to ask if you have questions, and share widely!

Random data question. In CO I have data with an ACT high school code. I want to link this to NCES to say something about the high school they attend. ACT won't give us a crosswalk. Anyone have access to something like this? Thoughts?

My response to the "Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences" report. It didn't have to be this way: betsyjwolf.substack.com/p/reimaginin...

"Reimagining" the Institute of Education Sciences

It didn't have to be this way

betsyjwolf.substack.com

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Random question: can anyone point me to recent high quality articles that show AI use can be detrimental to learning (on any dimension). I'm finding that googling is hard to find them, though I've seen them around.

2 weeks ago, the El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the death of a Cuban ICE detainee a homicide. This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...

ICE bypasses El Paso medical examiner for autopsy on migrant

ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility for the autopsy of a Nicaraguan man and won’t release a ruling to the public.

texastribune.org

Deadline approaching! Apply for a postdoc role studying the politics of education policy at Stanford GSE: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo via Reuters)

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

This video shows ICE holding children hostage to bait parents out of their homes. Just unspeakable levels of cruelty and inhumanity.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Arrives on Campus

In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...

insidehighered.com

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

Not quite "minor" but when I was on Wheel of Fortune Vanna came backstage and said to the contestants (they film multiple a day) "I'm really rooting for you all to win a bunch of money" and I said sarcastically "Thanks! I hope you get paid well for what you do to" and she shot me a withering look.

Blunderbolt@bolt451.bsky.social · last yr.

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!

I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 8mo ago

"Yglesias claims to think “rights are good,” but would have us ignore how neutral rules can be used to deny people their rights. Earlier this month, the Trump Department of Justice issued a memo that follows from Yglesias’s reasoning" www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

Happy to have @aefpweb.bsky.social @aefplivehandbook.bsky.social share key details from my chapter on grant aid from the AEFP Live Handbook. As these are intended to be "live" free free to share additions or disagreements as you see fit!

AEFP Live Handbook@aefplivehandbook.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Grant aid can shape incentives for college enrollment and completion. Read more about different types of grants and their effects on college enrollment and student success in Oded Gurantz’s (@odedgurantz.bsky.social) chapter: livehandbook.org/higher-educa...

Deleted my post about Excel vs Sheets. As expected, it was some weird decimal rounding thing that was unobserved.