Congratulations to Professors Stevenson and Davidson!

Join us Thursday and Friday for the (free! online!) fourth annual What Works conference! This year’s keynote speaker will be Bryan Alexander . Check out the agenda and register at kenyon.edu/offices-and-se…

The Black Opry does amazing work and deserves your support.

Quite looking forward to #MYFest24 ! myfest.equityunbound.org

Join us this morning for the What Works conference! Free and online, sessions at 9, 10, and 1:30 PM Eastern! Check out the agenda and register at kenyon.edu/offices-and-se…

I’m so glad blogging is back. As districts across the country seek to constrict teacher voices and as researchers are seeking to publish articles in open journals, it’s good that we’re trying to find more ways to dialogue beyond the gates. Truly public intellectuals.

You see, we recognized a LONG time ago (Massachusetts in the 1640s) that it was the COMMUNITY'S responsibility to bear the cost of educating its children. Why? Because even if you don't have kids in schools, you 100% benefit from having educated youth (5/16)

For those on the fence about voting, I'll share something my grandma told me before she passed. Always remember that you aren't just bringing yourself to The Ballot Box when you vote. You bring with you everyone who died so that you have the right to vote, everyone who sacrificed

The new Twitter block function.

The next time you’re hesitant to call or email your elected official because your issue doesn’t seem important enough… Just remember how many times they texted you begging for $5

@irinibus I redirect the expression all the time. It’s a branding issue. What we’re calling AI currently is really machine learning. So I call it that: machine learning. And if it’s an LLM (large language model), then there’s already a term for that as well. The converse is also true; what

"College students going hungry is a tragedy, and unfortunately it’s something a lot of students face. There’s been...times where I’ve seen students talk about the fact that they’re eating struggle meals—like instant ramen for about a week." #HHWEEK ow.ly/GPls50U9pea

One more thing. The dig about being unemployable is both unnecessary and false.

Incidentally, I believe Libbrecht used tenure to make this change. He went from a field which is important but well-supplied with talent (atomic physics, IIRC), to something where it was massively undersupplied. I think of this as an example of the benefit tenure confers to

In statistics, we say "All models are wrong but some are useful." Maybe the reason AIs being buggy doesn't really bother me is I query possibly wrong models about reality all the time. AI isn't anything special or different in that regard.

More than 10,000 Ohio households – and 170,000 nationally – are at risk of returning to homelessness as a result of last-minute HUD policy changes to the largest source of federal funding for local homeless assistance programs, per Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio