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naviyuk @naviyuk.bsky.social · 1d

second Indigenous climate change refugees in western Alaska (www.jstor.org/stable/44148...). bit.ly/help4wak

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 1d

if federal and state governments can find the time and funding to build alligator alcatraz in 8 days—they can do the same to build adequate emergency shelter for our country’s first indigenous climate change refugees in western alaska

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Helping Ms17 understand her teacher’s notes* as she’s studying for an Econ exam, I decided to explain it w/calculus. Suddenly she’s chortling, “This makes so much sense! I don’t have to memorize anything!”

*Yes, the middle plot in his notes is wrong.

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Bazerman, The Day I Learned My @harvard.edu Business School Colleague Was Fabricating Data
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
"Are [universities] rewarding scholars for research quantity rather than quality & for following ethical scientific practices?"
Or perhaps newsworthiness rather than quality?

Opinion | The Day I Learned My Harvard Colleague Was Fabricating Data

Francesca Gino was a former advisee and friend. Trusting her made me complicit in her fraud.

www.chronicle.com

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Jim C @jimconant.bsky.social · 2d

I'll be marching in the No Kings protest this Saturday, which Speaker Johnson refused to call by name, instead characterizing it as "anti-America." Speaker Johnson, respectfully, I am marching because I love America and am aghast at what you guys are doing to it.

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RichThompsonAK @richthompsonak.bsky.social · 2d

Random note: What FEMA doing? #Alaska

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

@jakobmcwhinney.bsky.social, San Diego Unified Doesn’t Know How Many Students Each School Can Fit voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/14/s...
"San Diego Unified officials don’t know how many students fit into each of their schools, [and] also ... aren’t capable of producing these figures districtwide."

San Diego Unified Doesn't Know How Many Students Each School Can Fit

As districts across the county grapple with enrollment decline that will likely get worse in coming decades, San Diego Unified officials say they don’t actually know what the capacity is for each of t...

voiceofsandiego.org

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

@franciediep.bsky.social, What Nerd Camp Can Tell Us About the SAT www.chronicle.com/article/what...
"@ctyjohnshopkins.bsky.social’s leaders believe an open-access camp wouldn’t serve advanced learners as well...'The ambiance is amazing, and everything is learning, and everything is discovery'"

What Nerd Camp Can Tell Us About the SAT

No selective college relies on standardized tests alone to admit students, but the Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth does. That makes it an interesting test case.

www.chronicle.com

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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 4d

We've just hit *LAUNCH* on a @kickstarter.com to fund our debut album #HollowChapters. We've finished 7 of the mixes (explainer & extracts in video via link), but as independent artists need a final push to get over the line 🎶

PLEASE share and support if you can

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

The Marsh Family: debut album campaign

Support an independent musical family group in releasing their debut album of ten original folk-pop songs, "Hollow Chapters" in 2026.

www.kickstarter.com

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 5d

Ms17 asked me if I wanted to run tomorrow since her XC coach told her to do 5 miles. I didn’t know why she was asking instead of taking her shower. “It’s a complicated calculation whether the marginal benefit of washing my hair outweighs the marginal cost.”
… She’s taking Econ at school.

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 5d

In my email this morning. Well done, @mit.edu.

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 6d

@princeton.edu will return to requiring standardized testing for undergrad admission beginning w/2027-28 admits admission.princeton.edu/apply/standa...
“review concluded standardized testing is among tools that can be helpful in indicating potential for academic success”
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Standardized Testing | Princeton Admission

admission.princeton.edu

David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 6d

Conclusion of Karl Menger-inspired analysis of USG #Shutdown2025 in my Intro to Math Modeling class @ucsdphysci.bsky.social, with pathways to reopening. Of course, if any actor’s preference statements are insincere …

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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 6d

No. No no no no no.

Cop takes a LOADED RIFLE into an MRI room.

Yeah, you know what happened to the gun. I'm glad no one was killed, but I do mourn the scanner. They had to quench, and it's reported as "damaged"

www.sfgate.com/cannabis/art...

LAPD raid goes from bad to farce after gun allegedly sucked onto MRI machine

Police apparently didn't remember basic safety around an MRI machine.

www.sfgate.com

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 7d

And it’s embarrassing that it’s mostly funded by a physicist at SLAC.

David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 7d

Most of what you say here is right, Arnold @schwarzenegger.bsky.social but your conclusion is wrong. You know this is a transparent, temporary, redistricting to try to control the Trump administration by overturning the REP majority in the House. Vote YES on #Prop50.

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 8d

Funny use of "at" to describe a professor emeritus. Martinis left @ucsb.bsky.social in 2014 to work at Google, and then left Google for Silicon Quantum Computing in Australia in 2020. Now he's at QoLab.

David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 8d

Allen, Trump’s Imperfect Compact Is a Perfect Opportunity. www.chronicle.com/article/trum...
"an opening to forge a national coalition of higher-education institutions to secure a good, mission-aligned agreement with the federal government"

Trump’s Imperfect Compact Is a Perfect Opportunity

Colleges shouldn’t sign. But they also shouldn’t dismiss the need for a new framework.

www.chronicle.com

David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 8d

Hartocollis: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...
“When you have been trying to get into a school like this—any school, not just @harvard.edu—students generally do a lot of extracurriculars their entire life. It only makes sense that they’ll continue doing that.”
So change admission policies!

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

www.nytimes.com

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 9d

@jonathanbchait.bsky.social, DEMs Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
“This…commercial, w/its potent tagline—“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you”—moved viewers by an estimated 2.7 points, a shift > Trump’s margin of victory in most swing states.”

Democrats Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong

The party’s progressives seem to think the problem is not with their platform but with voters.

www.theatlantic.com

David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 9d

Finished setting up a Karl Menger formulation of #Shutdown2025 in my Intro to Mathematical Modeling lecture @ucsdphysci.bsky.social today. Easy to see why parties are incompatible. Next … how impasse may be resolved.

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 9d

Before my lecture today @ucsandiego.bsky.social I noticed one of the students reading a book. Surprised and pleased, I asked him what he was reading … _Moby Dick_, and not for a class, just for fun! The kids are alright.

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 10d

John Searle obituary: philosopher of the mind who was sceptical of AI www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
“If you are a serious intellectual, you should not be comfortable on the left-right spectrum. The right is so stupid it’s not even worth discussing. But the left is evil.”

John Searle obituary: philosopher of the mind who was sceptical of AI

American philosopher whose theories of language, consciousness and AI made him one of the best-known thinkers of the late 20th century, dies aged 93

www.thetimes.com

David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 11d

@roland-li.bsky.social, Cultures converge in S.F.’s Chinatown as hundreds celebrate Bruce Lee’s legacy www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/b...
Disappointed to miss this!

https://sfchronicle.com/sf/article/bru…

David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 11d

Useful guidance from Joshua Tree National Park: