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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interesting. Further down the thread is the chart for public school, which has decreased! I think that part of the problem is that we are focused on the elite schools which have (I think) gone up more than this . . .

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In announcing her decision, U.S. District Judge April Perry quoted both Spider-Man and the 7th Circuit. 7th Circuit: "The greater the power that defies the law, the less tolerant the court can be of defiance." Spider-Man: "With great power comes great responsibility."

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the necklace!!! I watched it last night and totally missed that

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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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...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Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.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

"circling back"; the never-ending search for meaning within an email thread

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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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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sorry my cite was wrong- its Ann Dowker's book. Dowker, A. (2013). Individual differences in arithmetical abilities. Psychology Press. There is a chapter on this idea: "There is no such thing as arithmetical ability—only arithmetical abilities" From a cognitive science perspective.

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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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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There is a scholar who writes about how there is no such thing as any singular mathematical achievement level, because math is so complex, and different areas require different skills, and so any one measure is very oversimplified (Downton). That's a nice nerdy mathy response

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Another thing I have done if I am in a context in which it is used a lot, I preemptively call it out so that no one has to experience that "gotcha" moment. Like I mention something about how kids take up language (and identities) from what we say, like "low kids."

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Or the girl who told me she was "middle" in math because she was in the "middle" group, or the multiple kids who have used the words "struggler" which I can only assume they heard from teachers.

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I just ask friendly questions until it gets weird. Like, low how? One test score? Low in everything? That's so unusual. What can they do well? Or I might tell them about the kids in my studies who describe themselves as "low" or "slow" because they have heard it used about them (kids are smart).

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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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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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Gremliny Nussboo @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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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 · 31/08/2026

such a rigid metaphor, for a rigid conception of learning

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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

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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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Excellent question. I don’t know of a study. The whole area of coteaching is massively absent from research. I think it is a critical area to research! One of my doc students is doing work in this area. This would be a great study.

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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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