@deborahapthorp.bsky.social
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I wrote another essay, just out at my newsletter site.
Protect Our Neighbors: The Journey of a Sign
When word went out that border patrol agents had been sent to the Coast Guard island off Alameda near Oakland on the eve of October 23, Bay Area residents sprang into action. Before dawn the next morn...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I wrote another essay, just out at my newsletter site.
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Birds of a feather
Photo by Stephen Liptrot
Photo by Stephen Liptrot
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Birds of a feather
Photo by Stephen Liptrot
Photo by Stephen Liptrot
@quantitude.bsky.social I just listened to the episode about non-parametric tests, and now I wanna hear about the NyQuil Limit
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
@quantitude.bsky.social I just listened to the episode about non-parametric tests, and now I wanna hear about the NyQuil Limit
Release the MoCA scores!
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Release the MoCA scores!
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"the process of becoming a scientist is getting called out"
ain't that the painful truth.
Great podcast by @grimalkina.bsky.social @analog-ashley.bsky.social who dissect the infamous MIT preprint on "Your brain on ChatGPT" www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
ain't that the painful truth.
Great podcast by @grimalkina.bsky.social @analog-ashley.bsky.social who dissect the infamous MIT preprint on "Your brain on ChatGPT" www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
You deserve better brain research - Change, Technically
SHOW NOTES:For an example of a consideration of learning with information searching, a paper by Saskia Giebl and co-authors explored students learning basic programming concepts aided with a search en...
www.changetechnically.fyi
June 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"the process of becoming a scientist is getting called out"
ain't that the painful truth.
Great podcast by @grimalkina.bsky.social @analog-ashley.bsky.social who dissect the infamous MIT preprint on "Your brain on ChatGPT" www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
ain't that the painful truth.
Great podcast by @grimalkina.bsky.social @analog-ashley.bsky.social who dissect the infamous MIT preprint on "Your brain on ChatGPT" www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
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Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.
June 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.
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Trump appointees at the State Department are illegally blocking nearly 200 Fulbright scholarships, awards meant to send American professors and researchers abroad for educational exchange.
June 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Trump appointees at the State Department are illegally blocking nearly 200 Fulbright scholarships, awards meant to send American professors and researchers abroad for educational exchange.
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My science planning app also does some reviewing so students can see common problems in published papers. The logic is somewhat unique - a really long checklist of how science falls short. scientific-paper-planner-test.vercel.app
Scientific Paper Planner
Scientific Paper Planner Application
scientific-paper-planner-test.vercel.app
May 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My science planning app also does some reviewing so students can see common problems in published papers. The logic is somewhat unique - a really long checklist of how science falls short. scientific-paper-planner-test.vercel.app
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“… it also will separate you from your students”
I decided to finally ask students how they felt about all things AI in education last week, not really knowing what they were going to say.
They had a lot to say—and the message was ridiculously clear.
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-my-st...
I decided to finally ask students how they felt about all things AI in education last week, not really knowing what they were going to say.
They had a lot to say—and the message was ridiculously clear.
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-my-st...
What My Students Had To Say About AI
Students shared how they felt about AI usage—for students and adults alike
thebrokencopier.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“… it also will separate you from your students”
I decided to finally ask students how they felt about all things AI in education last week, not really knowing what they were going to say.
They had a lot to say—and the message was ridiculously clear.
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-my-st...
I decided to finally ask students how they felt about all things AI in education last week, not really knowing what they were going to say.
They had a lot to say—and the message was ridiculously clear.
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-my-st...
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No tariffs on Russia. Huh?
April 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
No tariffs on Russia. Huh?
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I can’t compete with this
April 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I can’t compete with this
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"The US government ordered the 'collapse' of a residential building because their Houthi target...walked into it to visit his girlfriend.... How is it legal, under international humanitarian law, for the US to destroy an entire building filled with civilians to kill one man?"
Forget the Signal Chat, What About the Yemen War Crimes Revealed in It?
Much of our media is missing the biggest story of all: US officials are not just breaking US and international law but confessing to it in writing.
zeteo.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"The US government ordered the 'collapse' of a residential building because their Houthi target...walked into it to visit his girlfriend.... How is it legal, under international humanitarian law, for the US to destroy an entire building filled with civilians to kill one man?"
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How is the signal breach bigger than the war crimes discussed in the signal breach?
March 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
How is the signal breach bigger than the war crimes discussed in the signal breach?
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The Trump administration announced plans to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department stated it would begin steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the refuge to oil and gas exploration.
March 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Trump administration announced plans to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department stated it would begin steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the refuge to oil and gas exploration.
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Circulate this widely! We need to know which NIH grants have been terminated. It goes beyond the list that HHS has released. Send to every scientist you know. @scott-delaney.bsky.social @noamross.net
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.
Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
forms.gle
March 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Circulate this widely! We need to know which NIH grants have been terminated. It goes beyond the list that HHS has released. Send to every scientist you know. @scott-delaney.bsky.social @noamross.net
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NEW: Judge Boasberg issues a show-cause order (precedes contempt sanctions) on why he shouldn't find that the gov't defied his orders.
"In an ex parte pleading delivered shortly after today’s deadline, the Government again evaded its obligations." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"In an ex parte pleading delivered shortly after today’s deadline, the Government again evaded its obligations." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![repeated the same general information about the flights: "On March 15, 2025, two flights carrying aliens being removed under the AEA departed U.S. airspace before the Court's minute
order of 7:25 PM EDT, and before the Court's oral statements during the hearing." Decl. of Robert L. Cerna, I 5. He then stated, "I understand that Cabinet Secretaries are currently actively considering whether to invoke the state secrets privilege over the other facts requested
by the Court's order. Doing so is a serious matter that requires careful consideration of national
security and foreign relations, and it cannot properly be undertaken in just 24 hours." Id., 16 (emphasis added).
This is woefully insufficient. To begin, the Government cannot proffer a regional ICE
official to attest to Cabinet-level discussions of the state-secrets privilege; indeed, his declaration
on that point, not surprisingly, is based solely on his unsubstantiated "understand[ing]."
Although its skepticism concerning the suitability of such privilege expressed in yesterday's
Order remains, the Court at a minimum requires an official with direct involvement to swear that deliberations of the privilege's invocation are ongoing at the level Cerna attests. It further
expects such deliberations to be concluded by March 25, 2025, which only exceedingly good
cause may excuse.
In addition, to avoid further delay, the Court will require Defendants to show cause on
the facts that they have already disclosed as to why the failure to return the class members
aboard the two earliest planes did not violate the Court's Temporary Restraining Orders. Further supplementation may be required once particulars are ultimately disclosed.
The Court, accordingly, ORDERS that:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreib2js2ks6eguael4wzyyccepyqhjcz35e5xavjbxzx3ob2k27ts2i@jpeg)
March 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
NEW: Judge Boasberg issues a show-cause order (precedes contempt sanctions) on why he shouldn't find that the gov't defied his orders.
"In an ex parte pleading delivered shortly after today’s deadline, the Government again evaded its obligations." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"In an ex parte pleading delivered shortly after today’s deadline, the Government again evaded its obligations." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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For all science/scicom curious - this is worth a listen. @alisongopnik.bsky.social is one of the greats-of-the-greats at simultaneously making impactful discoveries about the mind and clearly unpacking (with excitement) what they are and why they matter for everyone. Inspiring!
This was a really great conversation covering everything from kids to experiment versus theory in physics to graduate student supervision!
Mindscape 308 | Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
March 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
For all science/scicom curious - this is worth a listen. @alisongopnik.bsky.social is one of the greats-of-the-greats at simultaneously making impactful discoveries about the mind and clearly unpacking (with excitement) what they are and why they matter for everyone. Inspiring!
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
March 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
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UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
March 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that DOGE is subject to government transparency laws, allowing the public to access government records—a legal defeat for the White House, which had designated DOGE as an office exempt from open records laws.
March 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that DOGE is subject to government transparency laws, allowing the public to access government records—a legal defeat for the White House, which had designated DOGE as an office exempt from open records laws.
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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I can't sleep because I'm mad.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
"FACT: Under the Biden Administration, the National Institutes of Health doled out millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants for institutions across the country to perform transgender experiments on mice."
Bollocks.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
"FACT: Under the Biden Administration, the National Institutes of Health doled out millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants for institutions across the country to perform transgender experiments on mice."
Bollocks.
March 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I can't sleep because I'm mad.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
"FACT: Under the Biden Administration, the National Institutes of Health doled out millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants for institutions across the country to perform transgender experiments on mice."
Bollocks.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
"FACT: Under the Biden Administration, the National Institutes of Health doled out millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants for institutions across the country to perform transgender experiments on mice."
Bollocks.
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Holy shit, this "If a metal band made coding tutorials" video from @gamemaker.io could not be more up my alley! 🤣🤘
youtu.be/y-xA4cmmlho?...
#gamedev #gamemaker
youtu.be/y-xA4cmmlho?...
#gamedev #gamemaker
If a Metal Band Made Coding Tutorials
YouTube video by GameMaker
youtu.be
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Holy shit, this "If a metal band made coding tutorials" video from @gamemaker.io could not be more up my alley! 🤣🤘
youtu.be/y-xA4cmmlho?...
#gamedev #gamemaker
youtu.be/y-xA4cmmlho?...
#gamedev #gamemaker