Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since.
That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
Tomorrowβs front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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NEW: NeurIPS,one of the worldβs top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
I canβt believe that UNL would need to cut four dept and merge other programs just to save 27M! Their operating budget is a billion dollars. They could have just asked every dept/office/program to cut 2.7%!
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Today, UNL AAUP held a jazz funeral procession through the UNL campus to mourn the βdeathsβ of multiple program degrees & 120 faculty positions if UNLβs Board of Regents votes to cut $27.5 million from the budget on Friday.
Help fight back. Send a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/one-...
What survey instrument are folks using to measure perceived learning in college students? This is waaaay outside my field, so any help is appreciated!
17.11.2025 15:36 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I love it. It reminds me of when my 5 year old asked for a Mariah Carey birthday cake, and she sure got one!
20.10.2025 19:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I found some discrepancies in the results produced by code that I recently wrote and code that I wrote 10-15 years ago. So it's a me vs me situation, and I'm not sure who to trust! π
09.10.2025 16:22 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0When was the last time they updated their base R? Could they be trying to run RStudio with a very old version of R?
30.09.2025 14:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
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I am excited to share that Iβm looking to recruit a PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab in Fall 2026. We are located in the HDFS department at the beautiful University of Delaware.οΏΌ
Feel free to share! βΊοΈ
I was on a zoom call where an LLM trained on ChatGPT4 accepted an arithmetic error. It was a sum of 4 numbers. Correct answer was 60, and it accepted an answer of 61. π
Keep using your calculators, folks!
The real big deal here is an assoc hire. Very few of those this year.
26.08.2025 18:39 β π 56 π 12 π¬ 0 π 1This is brilliant.
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Officer David Rose was murdered in the line of duty, protecting our community from domestic terrorism.
He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two young children. Letβs stand with his family after this terrible loss:
Link:
give.cdcfoundation.org/give/715122#...
Check out this article about the various programs that are available to early career #STEMEd researchers, where each author describes their experience with the program. Note that the NSF training/methods institutes are always changing. journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/jm...
23.07.2025 13:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you! This is a good idea!
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Help appreciated! I'm looking for an education journal that publishes illustrations of statistical methods. It could be teaching corner for education researchers. It could be a case study.
Methods are not new, but we discuss algorithmic bias in education. Any ideas?
You know the joy of a canceled meeting? It is far overshadowed by a scheduled day-long meeting that was advertised as ending at 2pm to still be going on at 3pm with no end in sight. π«
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I got one of those too!
19.05.2025 02:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0In one week, I'll be teaching a workshop on social network analysis? Join me!
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π§ͺ PRACTICAL tip for NSF PIs with terminated grants:
You're entitled to recover more closeout costs than a DOGE-fueled NSF may lead you to believe.
β‘οΈ Do this NOW: Send fed reg 2 CFR 200.472 on allowable "termination costs" to your sponsored research office:
www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...
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"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Weβre hiring postdocs to join my lab at UNC. If youβre interested in adolescence, brain, and social development, DM me. Our work incorporates fMRI, social media, and longitudinal methods. We study risks and opportunities in adolescence. If youβre at #SRCD2025 and want to meet, please reach out!
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Two-day online short course: Introduction to Social Network Analysis taught by Tracy Sweet. $395 and $195 student discount!
Anyone interested in learning social network analysis in R? I'll be teaching a workshop soon. May 15/16th.
umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/intr...
My advisor "Gopen and Swan"-ed me, and I have passed along that article to help students with writing. cseweb.ucsd.edu/~swanson/pap...
23.04.2025 23:55 β π 24 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βagencyβsβ
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Just had a grant canceled. It longer aligns with agency priorities. Know what it aligns with? The agencies priorities when we wrote and were awarded the grant!
I didnβt know I needed a time machine to do science.
π We need your help π
The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.
We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:
NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...
NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
w/ @noamross.net
Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit.
ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
