@criener
College professor, cognitive psychologist, textbook author. Also interested in science writing, social justice, politics and anti-racism. Proud member of AAUP & AFT Local 6741. Personal account. Views are my own and do not represent RMC, AAAS or SCHEV
Judge now reciting the background. Renfer claimed the fabricated citations in this case were inadvertent and the result of accidentally filing an early draft. Upon review of Mr. Renfer's other filings, the court independently discovered other fabrications.
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Hello and welcome on the Terry Sanford Federal Building in beautiful downtown Raleigh, NC where I will be live-posting a show cause hearing starting at 4:00 ET
KEY: When it comes to restoring trust in higher education, "I always want to know whose trust," said @bakerdphd.bsky.social, an associate prof of education and public policy at U Delaware. "Whose trust do you think is broken, and whose trust are you trying to fix?" www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
One of my favorite papers is Cohen's "The Earth Is Round (p < .05)"—for style as much as methodological points. I can't vouch that he's correct on all counts, but it's an enjoyable read and successful at making me think (also he may well be right on all counts) (1/5)
psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-...
A screenshot from today's New York Times. At the image's top is an advertisements for Instagram teen accounts. At the image's bottom is the headline, "iPads in Kindergarten, YouTube on Breaks: The School Screen-Time Battle".
I'm here for the growing caregiver resistance to educational technology. And while I disagree with how some caregivers construct their arguments about when, why, and how to use tech in school, I hope we can agree that Meta are a bunch of ghouls and teen accounts aren't the answer. #PairedTexts
On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.
Gov. Spanberger thinks our chicken isn’t cooked- then what is the Senate supposed to pluck out of our budget? Raises for teachers, health insurance assistance, transit support, a tax rebate, or childcare slots? The Governor + House are worried about tax breaks to big corporations
I can't compete with this.
What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since
And not just any someone, in all likelihood, but I bet having his time controlled by a cadre of 18-21 y.o women (rather than reverse) is no doubt what Burke would particularly detest. When, oh dear, "some people will just have to sacrifice for community!" comes knocking, same people pay the price
Do you find it difficult to understand why LLMs — like ChatGPT and the like — are a form of ‘automated plagiarism’?
Take 3 min and listen to this excellent explanation by @gwenvarley.bsky.social
youtu.be/1ON-FJHq9aM?... (h/t @olivia.science) 1/🧵
Man alive, I just talked with a CSU faculty member, where 4-4 is standard load and 20% mandated for service. A course is supposed to count for 8 hours of work per week. And there are still research expectations. Like...how?
Trump can just openly say “I am doing this to bring in a one party state for 50 years” and commentators will hem and haw about the intricacies of carrying off a talking filibuster
Some professors at the University of St. Thomas are doing a research project on the effects of the ICE occupation on Twin Cities parents. They're looking for parents who are US citizens, who live in the Twin Cities metro area, and who have kids ages 5-10.
stthomas.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Practicing writing is practicing thinking
Do the Thing The Malcolm Gladwell version of the 10,000-Hour Rule is a myth, but the underlying idea is obviously true. You get better at things by doing them, so do the things you want to get better at. If you want to be a better reader, read. If you want to be a better writer, write. If you want to be a better public speaker, speak in public. A few corollaries are less obvious. The first is the sports aphorism to practice like you play. If you spend your time doing something that is somewhat but not really like the skill you want to develop, you will end up with that and not with what you wanted. If you write small, incremental papers because anything more ambitious feels like too much of a risk, you will only get good at writing small, incremental papers. If you take shortcuts and read in a hurry, you will get good at taking shortcuts and reading in a hurry. You have to do the thing itself. The second is to embrace failure. Don’t expect to be good when you start doing something new. Do it anyway. Think of yourself as a beginning musician playing notes to see how they sound together, or a beginning artist mixing paints to see what colors result. Create things purely for yourself. Fail fast and fail often. Love your mistakes, and learn from them. Make a mess, clean it up! The only way out is through.
I can write good abstracts not because I have a natural talent for it but because I have spent twenty years consciously practicing it.
The only way to get good at something is to keep working through the part where you're not good at it … yet.
cf. james.grimmelmann.net/files/advice...
A friend who was at a government agency that got DOGEd said that in the process she went into meetings with these guys where they had Grok open on their computer and little else.
IDK if people are talking about Kai Cenat's public reading journey, but he's using his power for good.
A lot of people can't read. At least not at what we consider adequate levels. And it is not their fault. Society as a whole severely pulled away from literacy advocacy.
That's why I'm so against ChatGPT. I'm against letting a machine do your homework for you. I think you should cling to Doing Your Homework Yourself like it's the last opportunity you have to liberate yourself from mental enslavement. Because it basically is.
Anyway shout out to Kai Cenat.
I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"
That's our guy from the liquor store here in Ashland. He thinks he wants some Bukowski, but he should really curl up with some EB White.
“Ranger Rick,” now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time
Some more SEASECS thoughts - higher ed is facing three existential crises: 1. a real and concerted attack on universities, 2. AI, and 3. a post-2020 student population which is radically different than any we taught before
Nate Cavanaugh admitting in a deposition that DOGE's urgency was all a tactic for pressuring employees:
"The general pacing of DOGE was to try and make decisions and act quickly to avoid Government employees dragging their feet on cancellations"
from www.historians.org/wp-content/u...
Listen to my cousin. Deadloch is on Amazon prime in the US. I would also add, in terms of giving you context, it’s kinda Parks and Recreation meets Broadchurch, with just a ton of messy queers. NB: season two is coming soon and they added to a Hemsworth & crocs 🙌🏻🇦🇺🔥🐊
I finally read the full Slate article. I conclude this is more evidence that a person who doesn't read romance should not write a Serious Article About Romance, even if that person interviews very smart people like @jenreadsromance.bsky.social, because the condescension drips on through.
This whole thing reminds me of what my literary nonfiction program chair told me long (LONG) ago: If you want to write about something you see as a subculture, you have to take the subculture seriously, or YOU end up looking bad.
