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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher!

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disability rights, neurodiversity, mathematical sensemaking for all, educational justice.Trying to making math classrooms engaging and empowering spaces for all kids mathematizing4all.com Author of Rethinking Disability and Mathematics #UDLMath

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Hormone-disrupting herbicide contaminating 25% of continental US rivers, report finds
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Hormone-disrupting herbicide contaminating 25% of continental US rivers, report finds
Atrazine, banned in 60 countries, polluting rivers at levels that can harm wildlife and may threaten human health
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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You like to see solidarity at last
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Intrusive Thot @apricity.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I’m concerned that the election is weeks out and there is no strong vision/plan for an immediate agenda to rein in the fascist authoritarianism. It needs to be articulated so that the election functions as a clear mandate for accountability. Who is getting impeached first?
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Using AI chatbots to address financial questions could risk large losses, with models from a range of providers giving wrong answers most of the time. The most popular AI models from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Grok and Gemini provided wrong answers to financial queries 57% of the time on average.
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AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’
Report finds some chatbots ignored upcoming tax changes and hallucinated rules
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I know I have academic brain rot when I start making the subject of emails things like, “(Re)Connecting for Coffee: Three Propositions for Caffeine Consumption in an Era of Uncertainty”
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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here we go! That's what I want to hear.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding, including renting out a private island. National security experts say it raises an urgent question: What motivated Kremlev to spend a fortune cultivating the connection?
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The way Annie Dillard reframed the idea of the role of “discipline” in writing really shaped my understanding of the job — work, she wrote, “does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline.” I cannot recommend The Writing Life highly enough. RIP to the best. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor
with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order
—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. Each day is the same, so you remember the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern.There's a common notion that self-discipline is a freakish peculiarity of writers—that writers differ from other people by possessing enormous and equal portions of talent and willpower. They grit their powerful teeth and go into their little rooms. I think that's a bad misunderstanding of what impels the writer. What impels the writer is a deep love for and respect for language, for literary forms, for books. It's a privilege to muck about in sentences all morning. It's a challenge to bring off a powerful effect, or to tell the truth about something. You don't do it from willpower; you do it from an abiding passion for the field.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New, from me, with thanks to @lbyock.bsky.social and @andyliddell.bsky.social on what we should take away from the AI moratoria in NYC, LA, and suburban TX schools.
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The Backlash Against Too Much Tech in Schools is Good for Democracy
And the parent-led movement behind it should inspire resisters
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/09/2026
Two-thirds of Utah voters support restoring the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to the previous boundaries they had before President Donald Trump reduced them to less than a quarter of their original size, recent polling shows.
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Utah’s voters would like their national monuments back, thank you
More than two-thirds favor full restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, polling shows.
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What if Emily Dickinson came back like Fruma Sarah to attack ChatGPT for appropriating the em-dash
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
These look so fun
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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the puppy is helping
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 02/09/2026
Today, thousands of Haitians are in chains because Donald Trump decided their lives are a crime. There is no excuse for treating our neighbors with such contempt. The Senate must take the long overdue step of passing our legislation to restore TPS for Haiti. My full statement:
Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Pressley and Clarke Condemn Deportation and Dehumanization of Haitian Nationals (1/2)

“Today, thousands of Haitians are in chains because Donald Trump decided their lives are a crime. They broke no laws, yet that did not stop the Trump Administration from forcing them into the grips of Haiti's violent gangs and instability.

“The Trump Administration has declared Haiti unsafe to travel to, and in recent days alone, gang massacres have left dozens dead, more have been kidnapped, and some of the Haitians this administration deported have already been killed.Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Pressley and Clarke Condemn Deportation and Dehumanization of Haitian Nationals (2/2)

"The American people are sickened by the suffering and blatant targeting this administration has inflicted upon thousands of Haitian nationals, who contribute to our communities and whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was unjustly taken away. Instead of listening to the American people, the Trump Administration has doubled down on its cruelty. There is no excuse for treating our neighbors with such contempt.
 
"The deportations of Haitian TPS holders may have only started weeks ago, but the vicious dehumanization of their communities began long before. Cruelty to Haitians is a policy choice.

“Congress has the power to stop it. We call upon the Senate to immediately take the long overdue step of passing our legislation to restore TPS for Haiti. The lives of Haitians and Americans alike are at stake.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Among other things, Elon Musk now makes clear his belief that women must be disenfranchised. And he's now the sole source funder of the Texas GOP. Shouldn't Texas GOP candidates who are running with his money be asked about this?
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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This connection has been implicit for a while, and is now explicit with this collaboration.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/08/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I would love to see at least one state in the Union take on the challenge of properly regulating A.I. use in our schools,” Jessica Grose writes.
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Opinion | The Scandinavian Solution to A.I. in Schools
Every minute of delay in regulating A.I. use in schools is another opportunity for Big Tech to fill the vacuum.
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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just trying to keep up with the shenanigans of the "cognitive architecture of the brain" folks, now appearing with the Alpha School!
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/08/2026
A message from the family of Dolly Parton
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.
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Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 25/08/2026
When a good and decent person leaves this world, I think the best thing we can do to honor them is to try to put even more goodness and decency into the world. It's not that we can replace them or their contribution. It's just that we need it all the more now that they're gone.
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Danielle Mooney @msmooneymath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Looking for ideas to use my classroom decor to invite my students to interact with math. Not something to distract them, but for the in between times. I have plenty of blocks and puzzles - think more like patterns and posters they can see from their desks. #iteachmath #mtbos #mathart #middleschool
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026
tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation
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What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My other piece of unsolicited writing advice is to always have two things going at the same time because you can use one to procrastinate on the other until they’re both done.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Directives reflected a predetermined, outcome‑driven approach to enforcement rather than a fact‑based investigative process ... staff were encouraged to invert the standard sequence of investigation, compliance review, and legal analysis and instead work backward from desired settlement terms."
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We are regularly now at 5-6, down from 10-14. I don’t think we will ever recover. This also creates all other kind of knock-on effects, like the economics of offering a range of courses.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The unwritten story is about seething resentment in elite institutions over labor competition in collapsing sectors from people who were only ever supposed to be subjects, not authors
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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
So you want to share slow reveal graphs with colleagues! 📊 I created some slide decks for people to use at faculty meetings at PLCs (openly licensed, CC-By 4.0). They don't recreate the full experience of professional learning I facilitate, but they're a nice invitation into the work. Link below!
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Free Resource: Slide Decks For Faculty Meetings & PLCs
by Jenna Laib So you want to share slow reveal graphs with colleagues! I am thrilled! While I'm the person that popularized the routine, I did not create it on my own, and I hope that it has a life beyond me and my collaborators. After I give a session -- whether it's at a conference or a private PD -- there are typically a few requests for slides.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/08/2026
This early childhood education program couldn’t afford to raise its teachers’ salaries. So they tried to do the next best thing: give them a free place to live.
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Can't pay preschool teachers more? Try giving them a free place to live.
A New Haven program couldn't raise salaries, so it began covering staff's biggest expense instead.
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New: There's been a notable and, in many cases, sustained rise in teachers leaving the classroom over the last four to five years, according to new data I collected. The uptick in any one year was modest but the cumulative loss of teachers has been substantial. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/07/30/t...
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
1/ From 2021 through 2022, I was skeptical of the emerging narrative that there was a teacher shortage/exodus crisis. I just didn’t see much data to support it. And I wrote as much. www.chalkbeat.org/2022/3/9/229... But then, to my surprise, the data started to change.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Too many only have a kindergarten level understanding of social movements. It's a problem.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The very people who accuse others of "staying silent" are SILENT THEMSELVES ON 1000 issues a day which is NORMAL because you are ONE PERSON & simply cannot have takes on every single thing.
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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Interesting read on the funding of open science
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
minnesota state rep jess hanson rides elon musk for filth for trying to defend his pervy app: "when the richest man in the world hangs out with the epstein class... we cannot act surprised when he's trying to protect the number one tool used to make child sexual abuse material"
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 26/07/2026
Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.
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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Interesting thread about IEPs and AI.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/07/2026
Shameful.
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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#ITeachMath Might this be the best image for an Image Number Talk that I have ever seen?
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 22/07/2026
Given the lost of my close colleague and friend to colorectal cancer in October, who was only 42, please please get screened for colorectal cancer early if you have any symptoms. Especially if you are queer, male, and Black or Brown. news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...
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Why is colorectal cancer rising in adults under 50?
Colorectal cancer is now the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths among people under age 50. Here’s what Stanford Medicine experts want you to know.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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