Sports events are much more strict to disqualify cheaters than scientific journals are to retract papers with image manipulation. bbc.com/news/uk-scotla…

We find that violent relationships have large and devasting consequences on women's economic independence. We hope this research further motivates policymakers to address the key role economic suppression plays in these relationships. To that end, please share widely! [2/3]

Anytime you read an article that isn't behind a paywall, you can thank the "cynical" open access movement for fighting for the principle that everyone - not just people at wealthy academic institutions - should have access the results of scientific research.

Looks about right.

Sunday read. This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit. I think the winners are: 1/ Enter your phone number

A well-evidenced article by Tom Loveless. Much of the public pushback against the California Math Framework has focused on high school, but Tom shows that there are major issues with elementary school recommendations as well, much of which cites flawed research from youcubed.

so stupid i had to

🧵There have been suggestions from some politicians that the UK’s universities should reduce the number of international students they take as part of a strategy to reduce immigration. This viewpoint is very misguided & would significantly damage the UK’s universities & economy.

ARGH. And again, the numbers are painting a clear and damning picture ... until politicians blunder in with clown shoes to kick up dust. (When ill people spend much more time in emergency depts, there will be many more deaths there, whether or not delays caused the deaths.)

A definite upgrade from "what's purple and commutes"

Screams in second derivative.

Steve McCormick I weirdly enrolled in 2 PhD programs (1 math, 1 physics), with math deferred 1 year. Did 1 year each before settling on math. Me: I'm a physics PhD student. Random person: OMG that's so cool! I saw this show on physics thing X, and... Me: I'm a math PhD student. RP: I hate math.

A recent work from Iddo Drori claimed GPT4 can score 100% on MIT's EECS curriculum with the right prompting. My friends and I were excited to read the analysis behind such a feat, but after digging deeper, what we found left us surprised and disappointed. dub.sh/gptsucksatmit 🧵

The Glastonbury crowd filling in for Lewis Capaldi when he needed help was such a beautiful moment. Anyone saying “it was heartbreaking” or “he shouldn’t have gone on” is seriously missing the point. Disability is not a bad thing to be hidden. It exists alongside success and joy.

Francis Su - mostly posting at 🦋 Norm Matloff 你有冇諗清楚呀? Dave Kung (龚仲孝)🇺🇦☮️ NCTM Kevin Dykema And I have serious ethical concerns with the false marketing that's going on, beta testing such curricula which deviate from the CACCSSM on kids of color (Tuskeegee?) while marketing it as prep'ng them for STEM, then rewriting UC admissions policy to promote your own course. 4/

The California State system is, I believe, the largest university system in the USA (by enrollment). Its systemwide academic senate has published a formal resolution stating the UC is approving courses as math that don't meet state standards. Specifically, data science courses 1/