more on school selections... when I got offered my job in the DMV the question of where my kid (2 yo at the time) would go to school came up almost immediately. Not just pre-school but the whole K-12. Before we even moved there.
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Professor Dad. ATLien. Scientist. Critical Cognitive Science www.criticalcognition.org
Tell the world how you feel about AI. Original watercolors, hand-painted and unique. They don't scale. They don't make "economic sense." Whatever artologica.etsy.com
Wisconsin finally got beat. shout out to old school photoshopping.
Oni Blackstock, MD MHS@oniblackstock.bsky.social · 2w agoStanford used "AI" to remove a Latino student from a photo and replace him with an "AI-generated" Black woman. The two other students in the photo were made thinner. There are so many aspects of what happened that are egregious. sfstandard.com/2026/09/22/s...
Don’t forget, this is how the Kennedy center dismantling started. The folks at your institution doing equity work might be the first targeted, but the institutions themselves are always the target. Hope folks have learned this now.
Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 2y ago"Taking Down Everything Black": Fired Kennedy Center VP Marc Bamuthi Joseph on Trump's Takeover
Good morning everyone 🌞. Today is the 21st of September.
Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
UVA alum Carrington Epperson: “I recommend anyone to take an African American studies course because you will never understand how much you weren’t taught about it before.”
Deborah McDowell@dem8z.bsky.social · 3w agoHope this post will not seem self-serving, but wanted to share one student’s perspective on the importance of courses on race, ethnicity and gender studies. as.virginia.edu/news/we-aske...
The Language of Mathematics by Raúl Rojas is a wide-ranging & beautifully illustrated collection of short, colorful histories of the most commonly used symbols in #mathematics. Now in #paperback! Check out a free preview: buff.ly/gHscx7J #Math #History
In the modern world of GPS, does the appearance of physical maps matter? Yes, because they play a crucial role in shaping how we (including policy makers) think about the world. I explain why in my latest for @wpr.bsky.social www.worldpoliticsreview.com/maps-geopoli...
Can a New Map Change the World?
African nations are pushing to abandon the antiquated Mercator projection, drawing attention to the historical and geostrategic significance of maps.
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The National Institutes of Health, the premier funder of biomedical research in the world, insisted most research should include female subjects. Circa 2016.
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · last mo.I feel like we’re really overdue for a thread of things that have changed for women in your lifetime. I’m interested in good and bad things. Any little life moment that would feel unbelievable if it happened in 2026.
This is exactly the original use case and whole raison d'être for computational models of minds and brains, and if that is what it all circles back to, I will be extremely happy.
Erik Istre@eistre91.bsky.social · last mo.Fundamentally I think LLMs will remain these weird jagged things and their existence will force us to reckon with the fact that we really don't know what "human intelligence" is or means at all. We'll have to disentangle a lot of concepts we currently don't even realize we're conflating.
One thing I wanted to say at the time but couldn’t find the strength: regular people have no idea how academics publish books. We rarely have editorial or fact-checking support or services. Academic stars — overwhelming white men — get those resources but we almost never do.
is this black lanterns show just about a long interview for a job he probably won't get?
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Maybe, sometimes, it's also possible to read the work of people who actually have been studying the countless reasons why stuff can fail to replicate or to understand that replication is not the only method we have to learn or to verify? Idk. Just saying. But sure go ahead and ask AI why won't you.
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last mo.The lab is a mysterious place--where some people have "magic hands," and some experiments just won't work. Here's my story about the unspoken knowledge of science, and the struggle to share it. Gift link: nyti.ms/3UccF7Z
looking at the word counts on this book draft
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Dolly Parton “didn’t see herself as a saint,” our columnist, Tressie McMillan Cottom, writes. “She identified as something we needed even more: a writer.”
Opinion | Loving Dolly Parton Was Easy. Understanding Her Was Hard.
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Omaha police used the gloves, known as Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters (G.L.O.V.E.s), twice during the 2025-2026 school year.
School District Asks Police To Stop Using Electric Shock Gloves On Students | iHeart
Omaha Public Schools banned electric shock gloves from school resource officers this week, days after the superintendent learned they had been used twice on students during the 2025-2026 school year. ...
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Incredible; a machine that does a person's job but slower and it requires 1-2 other people to walk near it and make sure it doesn't mess up. Truly a marvel of innovation.
Swung by Delaware State University earlier this year to cover their baseball program. Maybe I'm a little late to the party, but it's my first time seeing a robot paint the field. What say you, baseball purists?
Another reminder that, amidst the myriad challenges facing academia, researchers also have to re-imagine the political economy of publishing. The biggest academic publishers (Wiley, Springer, Elsevier, etc) are also among the most restrictive and rapacious.
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2mo ago"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."