Is this bad
23.02.2026 15:06
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May your coffee be strong and your schedule be kind 🧘
This makes sense if you think of the university as nothing but a finishing school with a football team.
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Just have to shout into the void about the university purchasing system defaulting to Amazon - even when an item is more expensive - rather than buying from a smaller seller not “in their system”
All I know is that jerk is not getting my Researcher of the Year award
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
my head is about to explode
This seems to be real and if so, the news needs to be amplified! 📫
To get a same-day postmark, we now have to go inside and request it!
answers so wrong they can only have come from ChatGPT
#grading
The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
Absolutely staggering to consider the deadweight loss that AI has caused educators in terms of burdening them by making cheating easier, and how little our society's elites care
Glad you’re back 💪
So all this "what are you going to do with a degree in X?" handwringing is sort of nonsense. Unless you know you want to go down a pretty specific technical career path, your undergraduate major just does not matter that much. Which I wish we conveyed to students better.
Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
Now the problem is that generative AI programs have made take homework extremely difficult to assess. That is a real problem and I don’t have an obvious answer, but complaining about accommodations is not the solution.
I don't exactly know how to explain to people who read a newspaper lede and ask ChatGPT about it that this will leave them considerably less informed than they started
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I’m gonna need you guys to exercise some critical thinking skills.
Paul Krugman only reads blogs and that is why he, unlike everyone else who has been in punditry for decades, has never lost his mind
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
This should be open access, but you can read it via the #NYPL and probably other libraries (at least for now)
Health care in the USA: money has become the mission - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
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