Oded Gurantz

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How AI Impacts Skill Formation AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...

ok found one I was looking for: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

Random question: can anyone point me to recent high quality articles that show AI use can be detrimental to learning (on any dimension). I'm finding that googling is hard to find them, though I've seen them around.

ICE bypasses El Paso medical examiner for autopsy on migrant ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility for the autopsy of a Nicaraguan man and won’t release a ruling to the public.

2 weeks ago, the El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the death of a Cuban ICE detainee a homicide.

This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling.

www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...

But that DD part is only a small part no? (I only looked for 5 minutes). I think these figures are just logit comparisons across years

Deadline approaching! Apply for a postdoc role studying the politics of education policy at Stanford GSE:
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Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.

How far we have not come in 250 years.

hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Like I used stuff like this last semester: www.educationnext.org/wp-content/u... and www.educationnext.org/wp-content/u.... One was on a HW so they had practice, and one was on the final. So asking questions about data, validity, methods, interpretation, etc.

I've started doing again because accusing people of AI cheating sucks and is a huge waste of time in my experience). if they don't take advantage of the opportunity that's on them. But also allows me to ask "harder" questions because it feels more fair to me.

Just another note - in my undergrad stats I often now assign a paper to read way ahead of the final, and then ask them questions about it. So they have time to meet with me to assess their understand (or with each other) but very few of them do. Makes me feel less bad about in-person exams (which...

It's work and I can't say I've done it but I do think the two-step of (1) write stuff down but then (2) talk to me about it - really helps you assess their understanding. The one thing I take for granted that we professors are actually pretty good at is asking good questions within a conversation.

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

This video shows ICE holding children hostage to bait parents out of their homes.

Just unspeakable levels of cruelty and inhumanity.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Censorship Arrives on Campus In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

Not quite "minor" but when I was on Wheel of Fortune Vanna came backstage and said to the contestants (they film multiple a day) "I'm really rooting for you all to win a bunch of money" and I said sarcastically "Thanks! I hope you get paid well for what you do to" and she shot me a withering look.

I recently read Death of the Author and that was a weird one for me - I liked the ending and felt satisfied having read it but didn't totally enjoy the process of getting there. I liked both Remote Control and (very slightly less so) Who Fears Death. Didn't like Binti but might need to try again.

Curious if you like it. Since kids and Covid (when I had stopped reading basically) I’ve now got back into sf/fantasy novellas, usually using Hugo/nebula lists of finalists as a starting point.

Siren Queen "Lyrical, mesmerizing, and otherworldly. . . stunning p…

I tend to like moody SF novellas so don’t think of this as a hard action book: www.goodreads.com/book/show/54...

Old timey Chinese movie actress who needs to avoid being killed by demon executives

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget."

Public Universities FTW!

I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

Happy to have @aefpweb.bsky.social @aefplivehandbook.bsky.social share key details from my chapter on grant aid from the AEFP Live Handbook. As these are intended to be "live" free free to share additions or disagreements as you see fit!

What I believe it did was take a very messy decimal and round it to the nearest whole number (in Sheets) without telling me! So some students got different values because the data looked the same to them but was different underneath

Deleted my post about Excel vs Sheets. As expected, it was some weird decimal rounding thing that was unobserved.

I didn't even know my students were using Sheets!

Sidenote: I only caught this after multiple students made the exact same "mistake" on the final exam.