Tim McEldowney
@mceldowneytim.bsky.social
I am a mathematics education researcher who studies graduate education. Currently the PI of the NSF funded Knowledge-GAP project (Award # 2126018). Looking for a forever home (tenure track job).
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
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Our research team's new journal article in AERA Open reports findings from a study of 27 Latin* undergraduate Ss' experiences of servingness [i.e., racially-affirming support at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)], particularly focusing on gateway math instruction. doi.org/10.1177/2332... (1/5)
spongebob squarepants is holding his hands up in the air and says published
ALT: spongebob squarepants is holding his hands up in the air and says published
media.tenor.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Our research team's new journal article in AERA Open reports findings from a study of 27 Latin* undergraduate Ss' experiences of servingness [i.e., racially-affirming support at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)], particularly focusing on gateway math instruction. doi.org/10.1177/2332... (1/5)
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Not only is this coming for you, it is here and we are collectively behind in preparing.
September 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Not only is this coming for you, it is here and we are collectively behind in preparing.
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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Got so mad about a Mass Dems email sent out today that I wrote a line-by-line rebuttal.
jonathancohn.medium.com/the-proposed...
jonathancohn.medium.com/the-proposed...
The Proposed 2025 Mass Dems Platform Is a Milquetoast Mess…As Are the Defenses of It
Deeply disappointed to see Massachusetts Democratic Party Steve Kerrigan and 2025 Massachusetts Democratic Platform chair Martina Jackson…
jonathancohn.medium.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Got so mad about a Mass Dems email sent out today that I wrote a line-by-line rebuttal.
jonathancohn.medium.com/the-proposed...
jonathancohn.medium.com/the-proposed...
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Math Ed community, the abstract submission deadline for the JRME special issue is quickly approaching — Aug 31st.
[email protected]'s research journal, Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, has a call for a special issue on Strengths-Based Research at the Intersection of Mathematics and Disability
If your scholarship fits this framework, please consider submitting a piece.
pubs.nctm.org/fileasset/Ne...
If your scholarship fits this framework, please consider submitting a piece.
pubs.nctm.org/fileasset/Ne...
pubs.nctm.org
July 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Math Ed community, the abstract submission deadline for the JRME special issue is quickly approaching — Aug 31st.
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Straight from @Nature and @CooperBioEdLab:
The largest survey of LGBTQ+ biologists finds that 40% of trans and gender-nonconforming and 20% of LGBQ researchers face hostility, intimidation, or offensive behavior at work.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The largest survey of LGBTQ+ biologists finds that 40% of trans and gender-nonconforming and 20% of LGBQ researchers face hostility, intimidation, or offensive behavior at work.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trans researchers under attack: LGBTQ+ biologists face hostile work environment
Largest survey of LGBTQ+ biologists finds 40% of trans and gender-nonconforming, and 20% of lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer researchers, experience hostility, intimidation or offensive behaviour at w...
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Straight from @Nature and @CooperBioEdLab:
The largest survey of LGBTQ+ biologists finds that 40% of trans and gender-nonconforming and 20% of LGBQ researchers face hostility, intimidation, or offensive behavior at work.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The largest survey of LGBTQ+ biologists finds that 40% of trans and gender-nonconforming and 20% of LGBQ researchers face hostility, intimidation, or offensive behavior at work.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Elizabeth Warren on CBS canceling Stephen Colbert's show:
"CBS canceled Colbert’s show just three days after Colbert called out CBS owner Paramount for its $16 million settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.”
"CBS canceled Colbert’s show just three days after Colbert called out CBS owner Paramount for its $16 million settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.”
July 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Elizabeth Warren on CBS canceling Stephen Colbert's show:
"CBS canceled Colbert’s show just three days after Colbert called out CBS owner Paramount for its $16 million settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.”
"CBS canceled Colbert’s show just three days after Colbert called out CBS owner Paramount for its $16 million settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.”
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Everyone needs to understand that the defunding of public broadcasting this week is part of a broader effort to dismantle the free press and control the means of reality production itself.
www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...
www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...
The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now
The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...
www.thedissident.news
July 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Everyone needs to understand that the defunding of public broadcasting this week is part of a broader effort to dismantle the free press and control the means of reality production itself.
www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...
www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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3,005 US counties, 5 firearm indicators, 17 years of data... and it turns out local gun markets aren't exactly unique snowflakes. They seem to largely be built from 3 templates that explain most of the variation in the 85 dimensional data. 🚨New research with @davidblakejohnson.bsky.social. #EconSky
Low Dimensional Structure in U.S. Firearm Markets
We investigate whether local firearm markets exhibit shared structure using principal component analysis on five indicators across 3,005 U.S. counties from 2003
papers.ssrn.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
3,005 US counties, 5 firearm indicators, 17 years of data... and it turns out local gun markets aren't exactly unique snowflakes. They seem to largely be built from 3 templates that explain most of the variation in the 85 dimensional data. 🚨New research with @davidblakejohnson.bsky.social. #EconSky
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So they’re basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry?
NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
So they’re basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry?
NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
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“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
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With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
slate.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
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Difficult to overstate this. It seems that many in core science and math fields feel that they will be able to hunker down and wait, but the infrastructure for ALL science is being diminished. This will diminish US higher ed in ways that will not be apparent for another 12-18 months.
June 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Difficult to overstate this. It seems that many in core science and math fields feel that they will be able to hunker down and wait, but the infrastructure for ALL science is being diminished. This will diminish US higher ed in ways that will not be apparent for another 12-18 months.
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Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?”
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?”
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
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“No one like Mamdani has ever won an election where as many as a million people voted. This is akin to a socialist winning a medium-size state.”
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Zohran Mamdani Just Remade American Politics
There is no real precedent in U.S. history for his victory in New York mayoral race.
nymag.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“No one like Mamdani has ever won an election where as many as a million people voted. This is akin to a socialist winning a medium-size state.”
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
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every single member of Congress should be pushing for Trump’s impeachment. and every single Democrat who isn’t calling for impeachment should be primaried
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
every single member of Congress should be pushing for Trump’s impeachment. and every single Democrat who isn’t calling for impeachment should be primaried
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Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
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I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
June 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
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Damn.
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June 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Damn.
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As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.
June 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.
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