Jeff Cookston

Excluding Day After Tomorrow (2004) and 2012 (2009), what movie or documentary or book opened your eyes to a future threatened by climate change?

#climatechange #climatejustice #globalweirding #movies #documentary

Opinion | Remedies to the ‘Boy Crisis’

Bill Fabricius makes the wonderful point that the officers of family courts are prone to overlook how boys maintain relationships with their fathers during separation and divorce. 2/2

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

Opinion | Boy Crisis of 2025, Meet the ‘Boy Problem’ of the 1900s

Robert Putnam and @richardreeves.bsky.social collaborated on a thoughtful essay connecting today's crisis among boys and men to the 1900s.

In response, my colleague Bill Fabricius submitted a response with some findings from our Parents and Youth Study.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...

The score to this film rocks!

Lonesome Dove ruined me for most books. It’s perfect.

These are weird times. If you can assign an incomplete grade rather than fail a student, I hope you will consider it.

The advantage of an incomplete is that faculty can give students a chance to earn the grade they were on track to receive and students don't lose out on the tuition costs.

Plus, faculty rarely operate according to deadlines...things are ready when they are done.

The disadvantage of an incomplete for faculty is that we need to nudge students or change the timing of due dates in online learning platforms and are expected to grade papers that should have been submitted long ago.

The disadvantage of an incomplete (I) grade is that students sometimes forget about the I and aren't motivated to go back in time to a semester to do the required work and end up with the lower grade anyhow.

Last fall a student was on track to earn an A but she neglected to submit one paper when she got the flu and that put her on track to earn a C in the class. I assigned the student an incomplete and she finished the paper during the winter break.

The advantage of an incomplete grade (to the student) is that they have a prescribed period of time (usually a year) to complete the work. Otherwise, they will be assigned the grade they would have earned with no credit for the missing work.

Students can request (or faculty can assign) an incomplete grade when a portion of the required work has not been submitted and when there is a justified reason for the work being late.

From my perspective, all online classes in the midst of a global pandemic is reason enough.

It's the last week of the summer semester and students are sick, stressed out, and stretched thin.

I'm advising some to consider requesting an incomplete grade, but it's clear to me that most university and college students don't know what that means.

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We blind tasted 17 rotisserie chickens from Bay Area restaurants. Here’s how Costco ranked The Chronicle conducted a blind taste test of rotisserie chickens from restaurants, butchers and grocery stores — including Costco — to find the Bay Area’s best. Here’s our list of the top...

Really frustrated about the passage of that nasty wealth-fare bill for the rich

May need to eat all the rotisserie chicken in SF I can manage. Enjoy this gift article if you want to join me.
www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Rainbow lasers beaming down Market Street in San Francisco with the Ferry Building in the background in honor of Pride month

The Pride light show in SF is worth a visit

I’ve been saying something like this for a while.

Anybody got a gift link to this article?

What in the KFC is a paternity list?

YouTube video by Tek lintowe - Topic Ween wao

My son listened to this song so many times on my phone in 2023 that it ended up on my end of year list of most listened to song. Dark times.

UCSF researchers suggest this 4-minute Yosemite video boosts happiness An SF researcher says Yosemite was a "choice of convenience" for the happiness study.

Too busy to touch grass?

Maybe watch a four min video of our national parks.

I read that the crowd was “one deep”

Not me. The Build to Broaden mechanism that was best for my project has been cancelled.

Very cool. Does your data allow you to test the Chinese zodiac?

I give new parents A Kiss for Little Bear. It’s got drama, kissing, and a pissed off hen.

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Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out.

Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.

This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.

Take it here:

Build and Broaden: Enhancing Social, Behavioral and Economic Science Research and Capacity at Minority-Serving Institutions (B2)

It's disappointing to learn the NSF Build and Broaden program has been archived. While not surprising, this was a great mechanism for building science capacity.

I had planned to write a proposal that would have been due Jan 26th. So glad I opted to play video games and ride my bike instead.

A friend and I lip sang this song to the whole school. My air guitar performance shredded.

Kerr is a great coach. We are about to see the bench explode.

I don’t think these 7 piano sketches are my thing

This is the way

Fact: Tonight was the first time in the Curry era when the Warriors have won a playoff game seven when leading at halftime.