Cynthia D'Angelo
@cmdangelo.bsky.social
prof of ed psych, curriculum & instruction
research in: learning sciences, learning technologies, science ed, learning analytics, #Rstats
type 1 diabetic #T1D #insulin4all
friend to dogs everywhere
blog and other stuff (papers): https://cynthiadangelo.com
research in: learning sciences, learning technologies, science ed, learning analytics, #Rstats
type 1 diabetic #T1D #insulin4all
friend to dogs everywhere
blog and other stuff (papers): https://cynthiadangelo.com
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Happy World Diabetes Day! I'm happy to announce that I've received a new National Science Foundation grant to study the complex learning challenges of Type 1 Diabetes. 🎉
More info here: blogs.illinois.edu/view/1526/20...
#WorldDiabetesDay #Type1Diabetes
More info here: blogs.illinois.edu/view/1526/20...
#WorldDiabetesDay #Type1Diabetes
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
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First Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published 40 years ago yesterday. 🐯 👦🏼
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
First Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published 40 years ago yesterday. 🐯 👦🏼
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Kavanaugh Stops directly affecting public school attendance! Wow. Yes, that's right the Supreme Court of the United States and the Trump Administration are actively waging war on children just trying to get an education. I think this needs to be a headline story every night
Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say
Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.
www.wbtv.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Kavanaugh Stops directly affecting public school attendance! Wow. Yes, that's right the Supreme Court of the United States and the Trump Administration are actively waging war on children just trying to get an education. I think this needs to be a headline story every night
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Learning requires friction. Good learning environments reduce unproductive friction. They also provide support so learners can work through productive friction. Using AI to remove all friction removes the learner from what is to be learned. Doing difficult things is entirely the point!
I spent a lot of time this semester explaining why it produces bad work but at the end of the day, they're being asked to do a thing they find difficult, and this makes it easy for them, without any meaningful consequence. And the university encourages them to use it.
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Learning requires friction. Good learning environments reduce unproductive friction. They also provide support so learners can work through productive friction. Using AI to remove all friction removes the learner from what is to be learned. Doing difficult things is entirely the point!
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“People with T1D need to make many decisions to manage the chronic illness that involve various factors that interact with each other within a complex system,” says D’Angelo. “I’m excited about this project and its potential to improve the educational landscape for people with T1D”
D'Angelo to Study STEM Challenges for Type 1 Diabetics
blogs.illinois.edu
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“People with T1D need to make many decisions to manage the chronic illness that involve various factors that interact with each other within a complex system,” says D’Angelo. “I’m excited about this project and its potential to improve the educational landscape for people with T1D”
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Easing the learning curve for those with Type 1 Diabetes
For World Diabetes Day, we’re highlighting new research by Associate Professor Cynthia D’Angelo, the PI of an NSF-funded study that aims to help people navigate the complex information needed to manage their disease.
For World Diabetes Day, we’re highlighting new research by Associate Professor Cynthia D’Angelo, the PI of an NSF-funded study that aims to help people navigate the complex information needed to manage their disease.
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Easing the learning curve for those with Type 1 Diabetes
For World Diabetes Day, we’re highlighting new research by Associate Professor Cynthia D’Angelo, the PI of an NSF-funded study that aims to help people navigate the complex information needed to manage their disease.
For World Diabetes Day, we’re highlighting new research by Associate Professor Cynthia D’Angelo, the PI of an NSF-funded study that aims to help people navigate the complex information needed to manage their disease.
Happy World Diabetes Day! I'm happy to announce that I've received a new National Science Foundation grant to study the complex learning challenges of Type 1 Diabetes. 🎉
More info here: blogs.illinois.edu/view/1526/20...
#WorldDiabetesDay #Type1Diabetes
More info here: blogs.illinois.edu/view/1526/20...
#WorldDiabetesDay #Type1Diabetes
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Happy World Diabetes Day! I'm happy to announce that I've received a new National Science Foundation grant to study the complex learning challenges of Type 1 Diabetes. 🎉
More info here: blogs.illinois.edu/view/1526/20...
#WorldDiabetesDay #Type1Diabetes
More info here: blogs.illinois.edu/view/1526/20...
#WorldDiabetesDay #Type1Diabetes
This Geese album is just so good.
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This Geese album is just so good.
😍 in Champaign, IL
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 AM
😍 in Champaign, IL
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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America: where “experts” with financial conflicts of interest will push tech with unproven benefits for able-bodied people while said tech is still prohibitively expensive and out of reach for many of the patients with the condition the tech was actually created for in the first place.
Some experts claim that reducing fluctuations throughout the day can help protect against heart disease, even for people who don't have diabetes.
How tracking blood sugar with continuous glucose monitoring may be helpful
Some experts claim that reducing fluctuations throughout the day can help protect against heart disease, even for people who don't have diabetes.
nbcnews.to
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
America: where “experts” with financial conflicts of interest will push tech with unproven benefits for able-bodied people while said tech is still prohibitively expensive and out of reach for many of the patients with the condition the tech was actually created for in the first place.
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Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,
NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,
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if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong
June 8, 2023 at 1:42 PM
if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong
During class today on qualitative research methods I said “being alive is complicated.” And one student immediately said outloud “retweet”.
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
During class today on qualitative research methods I said “being alive is complicated.” And one student immediately said outloud “retweet”.
😭
I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
😭
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Just wanted to make sure you caught the winner of the annual dog costume contest in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn!
The winning entry at today’s 27th annual Great PUPkin dog costume contest in Fort Greene Park.
📷 📸 🐶 🫐 🧑🍳 🎃 #photography
📷 📸 🐶 🫐 🧑🍳 🎃 #photography
November 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Just wanted to make sure you caught the winner of the annual dog costume contest in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn!
“Every technology comes with an implied political agenda.” - @karlschroeder.bsky.social
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“Every technology comes with an implied political agenda.” - @karlschroeder.bsky.social
Come on, Dodgers, please score. I want to go to bed.
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Come on, Dodgers, please score. I want to go to bed.
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"i took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, found it difficult, and badly understood what i was being asked to do" is not a great sign
Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
October 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"i took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, found it difficult, and badly understood what i was being asked to do" is not a great sign
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There is so much to unpack here, I don't know where to begin.
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Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
There is so much to unpack here, I don't know where to begin.
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It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
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But honestly, I think a whole lot of moderate-ish pundits are very much Charles Wallaces, who have always thought of themselves as the smartest kid in the room and thus immune to authoritarian propaganda. But the working-class kid of abusive parents or the bullied girl can often spot danger better.
October 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
But honestly, I think a whole lot of moderate-ish pundits are very much Charles Wallaces, who have always thought of themselves as the smartest kid in the room and thus immune to authoritarian propaganda. But the working-class kid of abusive parents or the bullied girl can often spot danger better.