In the 15th inning of tonight's ALDS, my beloved Humpy the salmon won his first ever victory in the Mariners' salmon race. A half an inning later, the Mariners finished it all off. Coincidence? www.mlb.com/mariners/fan...

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Good dialectical reasoning at it’s finest and applied to a significant public health concern

Jeff Greene@jeffgreene.bsky.social · last yr.

Helpful article. My take? More than one thing can be true: 1) Haidt may be correct 2) The research evidence isn't strong enough to know whether he is correct, yet 3) Phones are a distraction that should not be available during instruction (1/2)

Cursed Number xkcd.com/3137/

For the uninitiated: youtu.be/ri2YukcvXFM?...

Casually Explained: The Greatest Country on Earth

YouTube video by Casually Explained

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See, here’s the thing, when you include credible sources calling the theory of action underpinning a causal link into question, you ruin good’nuff journalism by using this shitty click-bait title. .. and in Seattle of all places! 🙄 As a related PSA: get screened, runners and non-runners!

The Seattle Times@seattletimes-rss.bsky.social · last yr.

Are marathons and extreme running linked to colon cancer?

2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll..... 13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.

Ichiro Comedy Special Somehow Already Up on Netflix: tinyurl.com/mry8xvj5

Geologic Periods xkcd.com/3120/

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

I think you are thinking of Paul Bruno's list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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New paper about a brief word-problem screener for use in the elementary grades. It's free to read this article! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... And then download the screener at: www.piratemathequationquest.com

"In the meantime for the sake of transparency to transit riders, King County Metro says it will be officially renaming Route 8 to Route ∞."

The Needling@theneedling.com · last yr.

Scientists Discover First Law of Motion Does Not Apply to Route 8 Buses: tinyurl.com/3txf89wp

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This is generally a must-listen podcast anyway, but this episode hit really hard. While none of my close friends and family who are teachers worked in the US during the pandemic, the statements that teachers' lives were the trade off to reopen schools still felt so true and validating.

If Books Could Kill@ifbookspod.bsky.social · last yr.

Episode 41: "In Covid's Wake" Part 2 Republican counties may have three times higher COVID death rates than Democratic counties, but have you considered that they have lower rates of liberal groupthink? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.” In the US alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

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An important thing to know about Donald Trump is that very few people actually like him! The structure of his support at this point is a relatively small number of psychotic groypers and a much larger swathe of the public who have been convinced by right-wing propaganda that Democrats are worse.

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last yr.

I don’t mean this in the conspiratorial way, I accept that it happened, but how in the blue fuck can a country that turns out millions for anti-Trump protests and barely thousands for his lame ass birthday parade be <8 months out from having re-elected him?

I want to help teachers work smarter, not harder. That’s why I rely on respected researchers like Dr. Brian Poncy & @rastokke.bsky.social to tell me what the research says AND which resources to use to support my instruction. I don’t have time for new fads in education & my students don’t either.🧵

Huge thanks to @rastokke.bsky.social for not just telling teachers like me what to do but for providing great tools to support us! Most teachers aren’t trained how to read, understand and interpret research papers. I only learned in my M.Ed. So here’s a helpful “cheat-sheet” for those who need it:

Increasingly believe that this should be required reading before anyone is allowed to do science. I spend an *inordinate* amount of time these days citing this piece and explaining that RCTs are not instrinsically and exclusively causal. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials

Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are increasingly popular in the social sciences, not only in medicine. We argue that the lay public, and sometimes…

sciencedirect.com

Updated literature review on special education teachers' occupational wellbeing and burnout is published online! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... @lizbettini.bsky.social @michellecumming.bsky.social Excited to see the nascent intervention work prior research has catalyzed!

Read the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · last yr.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

The program will invest €500 million ($568 million) between 2025 and 2027 to recruit specialists in various fields of knowledge to come and work in Europe.

Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US

EU will spend over $500 million to recruit researchers and scientists.

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The world needs more of this and less of most other things

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I understand why @aeraedresearch.bsky.social asked us not to share pics etc from presentations at the conference. So I’ll just say there are great people here doing important work benefitting all people. I’m proud to be among them and look forward to days ahead when we can properly celebrate them.