adam whalen, mph 🐳

I will be replying to every journal rejection now with “my science is different”

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

I guess Flat Fuck Friday came early…….

just do a sense8 actor swap where you reveal the new guy and when a side character says he looks different, he makes a quip about getting a haircut and we all move on

I think he's too put off by it personally to take the easy win. he doesn't drink at all, so he probably thinks drugs are for lowlifes, like his son

it was lightly snowing on my walk in this morning. it is november 11.

oh she would be excellent. would need an impromptu big band number for her to sing in act 2 though

full report here: datacollaborativeforjustice.org/wp-content/u...

Bail Reform Has Made NYC Safer, Yet Another Study Confirms You wouldn't know it from talking to most public officials, but the 2019 reforms drove recidivism down.

"...while 66 percent of people who were arrested and locked up before bail reform were ultimately rearrested on other charges, that rearrest rate dropped in the post-reform years to 57 percent for those who were arrested on the same charges but released."
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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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A real banner week for Chuck Schumer, given that only a few days ago he refused to back the Democratic nominee for mayor of his home city.

Not going to let the Senate Democrats ruin my Sunday night. That’s the job of overwhelming anxiety about the coming week ahead.

returning to let you know that I am citing this excellent paper in my dissertation proposal, so thank you!

please tell me there's a generator for this text somewhere

I’m curious for anyone who regularly attends religious services, is this being brought up? there’s clearly a large multi faith presence at the facility and others like it, but is this breaking through to less activist congregations?

What is mamdani’s plan to tackle the 7soulsdeep situation

to raise the salaries! I don't understand what you're trying to argue lol

yeah that's the point, a low salary prohibits non independently wealthy people from running. I'm not sure what this has to do with what you said above

trump did not run for president because he wanted the salary.

do you think kathy hochul is going to be calling mayor mamdani for support now that stefanik is running against her? I bet that last rally at forest hills is going to be bright in her mind

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

yeah I don't really see how you watch ICE kidnappings and extrajudicial assassinations in the sea and the termination of USAID and conclude that there isn't an extremely violent undercurrent through at least some of this admin

also I really don’t understand why weathering scandals = good politician. better politicians just don’t have them in the first place

The advances we've made in statistics, experimental study design, and causal inference over the past century are remarkably useful for understanding our world. But there is never been a push to make people use them like we are seeing with generative AI. Perhaps take a moment to consider why.

best ending of all time, let's be real

don't. walk your bike on the sidewalk if it's not safe to ride in the street. but it bears repeating, the biggest danger to pedestrians and cyclists alike are cars, and until we take away space from vehicles and give them to micromobility, people will get hurt and die every day.

desperately need a high budget 30-for-30 on NBA halftime shows