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Sean Laverty

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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 4h
It was not, in fact, brilliant.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 5h
“Borrowed From” is some excellent diction.
Was Anthropic’s Biology Breakthrough Borrowed From Another Scientist’s Work?
By RJ Mackenzie

AI giant Anthropic announced that Claude discovered a CRISPR-like system. Now, a scientist says the model may have found it by reading his Claude chats.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“People didn’t understand our good idea, nevermind.”
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ouch.
Linda Nilson, the founding director emeritus of Clemson University’s Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, said that switching to a pass/fail model “demotivates students.”

“My guess is that what a lot of students will do is they’ll take a lot of assignments, put it into ChatGPT, and go drink,” Nilson said.

As for reducing student stress, “learning has got to be a little bit stressful,” Nilson said.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/u-michigans-plan-to-pass-fail-freshmen-draws-ire-and-cheers
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But maybe people with these opinions will stop going to concerts only to talk loudly through the quiet parts.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today’s tension is being released through classic Pearl Jam songs.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wrote some brilliant new guided notes last semester, but no longer have my own filled in paper copies. Now current me is trying to understand past me.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Since gas is $5, should we be switching to Zoom school? I know that’s not ‘free’ either, but still.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t like using $x^{2}$ in quarto and just got yelled at for asking about it. Oops.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tell me the rules before I make my password please.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Transfer portal getting weird.
U. of North Georgia Leader Named Sole Finalist for U. of North Florida Presidency
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August 25, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
By Andy Thomason
Michael P. Shannon, president of the University of North Georgia, has been named the sole finalist to lead the University of North Florida by its presidential search committee, the Jacksonville Daily Record reports. The North Florida trustees and the statewide Board of Governors must approve the appointment.

University of Michigan Taps Vanderbilt Provost As Next Leader
David Jesse
August 18, 2026, 9:08 a.m.
By David Jesse
The University of Michigan has selected Vanderbilt University Provost C. Cybele Raver to be its next president, according to multiple reports. Raver would be the second woman to hold the post at one of the top public institutions in the country.

Raver would replace Domenico Grasso, who had his interim president tag lifted earlier this year after Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud, who had been selected to be the full-time president, was diagnosed with brain cancer and had to withdraw. Grasso was named interim when Santa J. Ono resigned as Michigan’s president in a failed attempt to lead the University of Florida.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stop pretending we should.
The Great Read

THE REVIEW | ARCHIVE

Stop Pretending You Know How to Teach AI

By Justin Reich

With a picture of a book called “Learning A.I. For the Student of Tomorrow” that features a picture of Jane Jetson writing on paper while a CRT-style computer monitor with flailing robot arms stares judgmentally.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can’t wait to throw my phone into the ocean.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dear academic journal decision-makers, I don’t want your reading assistant. I just want a pdf with the supplemental information on a single click.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OER is HIP.
OER is a High-Impact
Practice (HIP)
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wow.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The next classroom revolution is being human.
nature.com
In praise of human teachers: universities must resist outsourcing everything to AI
An AI revolution is sweeping through education. But teachers who can convey the excitement of thinking and learning are irreplaceable.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I came across this quote today, “you've got some cold hard data, then it's time to analyze it. You feed your data through whatever statistical analytic tools you choose up front. You do that on a computer and the results get spat out on the other side.”
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think we should teach human skills, academic skills, and normal people things.
chronicle.com
AI’s Impact on Career Readiness: Teaching ‘Human Skills’
UPCOMING: Thursday, October 8, at 2 p.m. ET | As AI takes on more routine tasks, employers are placing greater value on the human skills technology can’t replicate — from communication and teamwork to...
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It feels like life is just a scam aimed at getting you to put all of your events on a public calendar so whoever that wants can find you and that doesn’t sound fun.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This article always makes me sad.
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Apparently, Calculus Was Invented In 1994
A paper written in 1994 purports to develop a 'mathematical model for the determination of total areas under curves.'
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want a taco.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are more human and more humane ways to do this.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
stupor intelligence
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Does anybody have favorite short (max ≈20 minutes) videos about presentation tips. I’m starting from this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwpi...
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How to avoid death By PowerPoint | David JP Phillips | TEDxStockholmSalon
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Feature other things.
A robot hand making a human hand use a mouse.

Illustration by The Chronicle; Getty

In each issue we feature a campus AI use case. Do you know of an interesting example on your campus? Send it my way to jeff dot young at chronicle dot com, and we might use it in a future issue.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This Monday feels like it should still be part of the weekend.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... This was a really great episode.
podcasts.apple.com
To Leave the Land Better Than We Found It, Bryce & Brita Lundberg–Lundberg Family Farms
Podcast Episode · Cultivating Place · September 17 · 55m
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nope, one of them is gone.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI abstAIner.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I feel like every unused parking space should get some kind of solar panel on it.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not super impressed by the commentary today. While calculus was featured, something about ‘Math for Foreigners’?
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think the forecast should emphasize the departure from average as the main information which would force people to know something about the historical weather and acknowledge that it’s 15°F or more above average all of the time.
Edmond, OK weather showing a feels like of 85°F, and among other things  +14°F over our long term average.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Because people keep getting in their way.
koco.com
Why black bear sightings are increasing across the U.S. this year
Why black bear sightings are increasing across the U.S. this year
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
HAPPY LAWNMOWER DAY! I hope you’re excited for LEAF-BLOWER DAY!
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The fun part of modern work is that sometimes you want to do something but have to pause to charge your dead Duo 2FA device.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Discovery Channel of my childhood promised me a bright, clean, utopia by my present age. The Discovery Channel of present is aliens and computer-generated sharks. Not even real sharks anymore.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
After about 15 years of teaching calculus, I’ve learned that the hardest part for most students is organic chemistry.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cancel it after season one.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Listening to a podcast where the host is bored and the guest is oblivious and I’m trying to learn from it as a teaching analogy, but I don’t know who’s who.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not enough of our parents’ generation watched the MacGyver episode ‘The Wasteland’ with us when we were kids. www.imdb.com/title/tt0638...
imdb.com
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Welcome to Edmond, Oklahoma.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I had to ‘empty the chad bin’ yesterday. www.catb.org/jargon/html/...
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I guess with all of the gambling here, this is just* bankrupting another casino after all. *but much, much worse and way more sad
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*Removes Sankey diagrams from curriculum. Sorry Napoleon.*
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In America, we bulldoze acres and acres at a time for fast food, retail, and vanity. Glad to see some place doing it right.
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
*every
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anybody else getting annoying, targeted, unsolicited emails from Neighborhood Alerts?
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Sean Laverty @seanteachesmath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Worst billion dollars ever. apnews.com/article/bill...
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