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Like I used stuff like this last semester: www.educationnext.org/wp-content/u... and www.educationnext.org/wp-content/u.... One was on a HW so they had practice, and one was on the final. So asking questions about data, validity, methods, interpretation, etc.

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I've started doing again because accusing people of AI cheating sucks and is a huge waste of time in my experience). if they don't take advantage of the opportunity that's on them. But also allows me to ask "harder" questions because it feels more fair to me.

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Just another note - in my undergrad stats I often now assign a paper to read way ahead of the final, and then ask them questions about it. So they have time to meet with me to assess their understand (or with each other) but very few of them do. Makes me feel less bad about in-person exams (which...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2026

It's work and I can't say I've done it but I do think the two-step of (1) write stuff down but then (2) talk to me about it - really helps you assess their understanding. The one thing I take for granted that we professors are actually pretty good at is asking good questions within a conversation.

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i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 14/01/2026

This video shows ICE holding children hostage to bait parents out of their homes. Just unspeakable levels of cruelty and inhumanity.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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Censorship Arrives on Campus

In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...

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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

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Not quite "minor" but when I was on Wheel of Fortune Vanna came backstage and said to the contestants (they film multiple a day) "I'm really rooting for you all to win a bunch of money" and I said sarcastically "Thanks! I hope you get paid well for what you do to" and she shot me a withering look.

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I recently read Death of the Author and that was a weird one for me - I liked the ending and felt satisfied having read it but didn't totally enjoy the process of getting there. I liked both Remote Control and (very slightly less so) Who Fears Death. Didn't like Binti but might need to try again.

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Curious if you like it. Since kids and Covid (when I had stopped reading basically) I’ve now got back into sf/fantasy novellas, usually using Hugo/nebula lists of finalists as a starting point.

"Lyrical, mesmerizing, and otherworldly. . . stunning p…

I tend to like moody SF novellas so don’t think of this as a hard action book: www.goodreads.com/book/show/54...

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Siren Queen

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Old timey Chinese movie actress who needs to avoid being killed by demon executives

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

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"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Happy to have @aefpweb.bsky.social @aefplivehandbook.bsky.social share key details from my chapter on grant aid from the AEFP Live Handbook. As these are intended to be "live" free free to share additions or disagreements as you see fit!

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What I believe it did was take a very messy decimal and round it to the nearest whole number (in Sheets) without telling me! So some students got different values because the data looked the same to them but was different underneath

Deleted my post about Excel vs Sheets. As expected, it was some weird decimal rounding thing that was unobserved.

I didn't even know my students were using Sheets!

Sidenote: I only caught this after multiple students made the exact same "mistake" on the final exam.