Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher!

very good explanation of why not to feed images into an image generator, especially when memorializing children after a devastating tragedy.

better not to use image generators at all.

A graphic in pink, blue, and green that illustrates how recent many Black History events are to the current day -- ranging from 1619 to 2024.

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own.

I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.

1 square = 1 year.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”

You can’t trust chatbots.

This is why *all* researchers need reflexivity--not just qualitative ones.

Our training and our backgrounds and our preexisting beliefs shape the research questions we ask, the methods decisions we make (eg, variables, models, or missing data strategies), and the way we interpret findings.

Hey Duane, someone asked me if people outside California could sign up? I assume yes?

This victory was fought for the faculty associations, not the university. And that fight now benefits all of us who are part of the University of California! (the greatest public education system in the world in my opinion!). Never concede to illegal demands.

Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.

Brilliant minds don’t all think alike — and that’s the point. 💡✨
💡Brilliant by Design: Honoring Neurodivergent Thinking as Transformative Learning
📅 February 19
⏰ 4:00–5:00 PM
🎤 Janet Lee-Ortiz & Rachel Lambert
@mathematize4all.bsky.social
👉 Register:
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Flyer. California Mathematics Council Presents Inspiring math Minds free webinar. Janet Lee-Ortiz and Rachel lambert, February 19th, 2026. Brilliant by design: Honoring neurodivergent thinking as transformative learning register at link tinyurl.com/CMC-Webinars

Free webinar next week with amazing LAUSD math teacher Janet Lee-Ortiz: Brilliant by Design: Honoring Neurodivergent Thinking as Transformative Learning
📅 February 19
⏰ 4:00–5:00 PM
🎤 Janet Lee-Ortiz & Rachel Lambert
👉 Register:
tinyurl.com/CMC-Webinars
#ITeachMath #EduSky

Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...

NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

Email your lawmakers! Now is the time to invest in UC.

Californians! Email state lawmakers to support creating bonds to stabilize UC funding.

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

In case you missed the moment.

Art is powerful

A photograph of Barack & Michelle Obama.

A photograph of Barack & Michelle Obama.

A photograph of Barack & Michelle Obama.

A photograph of Barack & Michelle Obama.

The brilliance, elegance, and beauty of Barack & Michelle Obama.

Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We hit 'em. And we want to hit 'em right, sir, and we want to hit them from the top! East, west, north, south. Sir, they won't know what the hell! And we'll knock them out. We did it politically correct. Five years."

I agree with this, but, and this is important, I really also wish we had listened to the law students who spoke out about his sexual harassment, and about his wife (Amy Chua) enabling and threatening those who also spoke out about it.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Quinnipiac poll | 1/29-2/2 RV

President Trump approval
Disapprove 56% (+2)
Approve 37% (-3)

poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

I have lots of (former) math teacher friends who have been writing curricula. If you're interested in an awesome gig in this space, check out BEAM's current offerings (link: www.beammath.org/work-at-beam)
It's a GREAT organization (check it out if BEAM is new to you!)

#MTBoS #iteachmath

Pleast RT

S5E14: Thinking Out Loud… What comes first in coaching, techniques or lesson design? Podcast Episode · Progressively Incorrect · 01/30/2026 · 34m

Was listening to this science of learning podcast ep today and one thing that really jumped out to me was an unintentional dichotomy between youth and adult learning that I really think is worth sitting with… because while kids are not “little adults” they do deserve the same dignity.

(🧵1/4)

Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.

ICE is afraid of children protesting “Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

and all the while, universities are struggling like we have never done. In a completely Trump-created crisis.

Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.

Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?

A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.

R: Pulling out literal guns?

A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.

Nine More Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files Through coffees, phone calls and private flights, at least nine more academics are linked to Jeffrey Epstein in the latest disclosure of documents from the Justice Department.

This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

I am very proud to have this gentleman as my congressman. He is always on the case! Go @reptedlieu.bsky.social @tedlieu.bsky.social

People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest: