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profmattdecarlo

@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social
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Social work teacher & administrator, open educator, oaf, )'(, pirate. I also co-run opensocialwork.org. he/him My personal page. Does not represent my employer.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 10h
Hah, guess that whole community letter wasn't in the training data!
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 10h
My colleague Dan started putting OSF links in the final sentence of the abstract. Loved that idea to avoid this exact type of garbage.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 23h
$50k?! Jeez
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kia pv5? Maybe?
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This with a booty like a 90s camry wagon...It's all I need. (I have one currently and love it, just want some more trunk space)
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Low Stakes collaborative quizzes as opening activities. Collaborative annotation of assigned readings which is now possible in Adobe Acrobat. Making classroom and homework activities that extensively use the textbook. Creating a customized textbook using open licensing
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh, there it is!
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So... I'm quite new and simple in this area. How is Jim Crow *not* very very similar to competitive authoritarianism? Wouldn't that explain the easy US backslide? muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My son found out that my wife and I can see his search history on his school issued Chromebook. So now he's filling it with a bunch of nonsense searches. Proud Dad
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FYI: Classification of AI relies on Pangram. Edtech will not save us.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am creating a living syllabus for my uni colleagues on critical AI literacy. This is *exactly* what I needed to ground arguments about harm.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's so nice using software not made by an advertising company and data cartel
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gurl that's what the coffee and keyboard are for wtf
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Me: well it's my no teaching semester so I have a lot more unstructured time Collaborator: you have to be intentional about that. Me: that's one approach [dysregulation noises]
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is why no one pays for you, either. See also IHE
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"That is a big door." -Tron
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keep
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kagi is pretty good. But it costs
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am struggling to teach critical information literacy without sounding alarmist
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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah I hate e-motos as much as the next bicycle rider, but when I see people calling for wholesale e-bike bans instead of better enforcement of existing bans I know they are not my friend.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Damn we need an entire news source for the ways they are coming after social work
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So, yeah, I just like need to report that someplace psychometricians care about...if anyone can help with that. Y'all are doing great work, but no policymaker cares to implement it.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And like, reading the testing standards was a revelation for me. Psychometricians *really* care about fairness and went through great lengths to create better tools for us! I saw what was happening in my profession spelled out in the standards but remediation steps ignored by our state boards.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm talking about measuring the conditional standard error of measurement, test information function, decision consistency, and the other tools that the 2014 revision required to measure bias in tests. Heck, I know one vendor who doesn't even screen for DIF. CSEM by demographics? No one does it.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's the wild frigging west out there, and as Gulino demonstrated, the courts will take two decades to come to a conclusion about test user competence in exam selection. NCME testing standards must account for the fact that they are routinely violated by state boards without punishment.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey #psychometrics bluesky...How can researchers best influence the next NCME Testing Standards? There are responsibilities for state licensure boards as test users that they are entirely ignorant of and incentivized not to do. Psychometric validation relies on competent test users/board members
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You speak nothing but truth
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I swear, this process took like an hour. And if windows has literally stopped behaving for you, it's time to move to an OS that's not run by an ad/surveillance company.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I thought they banned @kenwhite.bsky.social? Weird to see him again
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Full LA Times reporting : archive.ph/TkMmW
archive.ph
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh shit yeah. There was a whole body of literature on public choice and slavocracy! WHY DID I NEVER LEARN THIS?!?!?!?!
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Okay, based adam smith making an appearance
“In a republican government it will scarcely ever happen that it should be abolished. The persons who make all the laws in that country are persons who have slaves themselves. These will never make any laws mitigating their usage, whatever laws are made with regard to slaves are intended to strengthen the authority of the masters and reduce the slaves to a more absolute subjection. The profit of the masters was increased when they got greater power over their slaves” (Smith 1762-63 [1981]:181).5
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THIS IS NOT A DRILL! New kpop uk garage mix just dropped. (really wish this channel had a better name than lotion, but it is what it is) www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Cz...
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cute and cool dancy kpop/ukg perfect for a grls girl night out
YouTube video by lotion
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That's the same guy?! I cite that paper all the time! What happened to that man's mind?
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The post-GFC Intern-ification of the early career workforce and the increase in housing and food insecurity for college kids being my primary arguments for this
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh that's a fucking weird double bind. Thank you. I would have never considered that.
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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Like an octopus, the Rationalist spews ink when threatened
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's this and a FEE article so...not great so far. So, it looks like my work will be bringing CRT discussions of slave power into conversation with constitutional political economy, the rationality of the slave power conspiracy, and it's impact on structure and incentives
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh I'm so glad that there's been at least some scholarship. Now let me just take a tall drink of water while I look at the author's name..
A screenshot paper Gordon tulloco and the economics of slavery in the journal public choice
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is what I was waiting for. Like, I'm glad there are new review standards but... The work *on Cochrane's own reviews* continues.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Faith-based initiatives director at the MacroSW talk today: Yes In God's Backyard...a faith-based housing reform initiative. YIGBY
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But...but...but....that's what elisabeth bik is best at...distinguishing fake from real. That's damn concerning.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm so sorry. That was my question, too! Given the response, I drew my own conclusions.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I should clarify that this was not a ukri grant. This was a private foundation grant in the US that focuses on higher education.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I received an AI generated rejection letter for a grant. I confronted the grant admin about it, and when I explained that I could point to the exact things the AI said were missing in our proposal they ghosted me. I'm guessing they are still drowning in proposals, and tbh good.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ah, I see that early intervention is the problem here... I really hate postmodern fascism.
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No but like really, it's nice bsky.app/profile/tres...
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shout out to the loquacious motherfucker who allowed 50-word titles in this conference proposal form. Absolute madness and I love it!
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