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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 6h

From! The! Rooftops!

Ginny Vitiello @gvitiello.bsky.social · 7h

#SREE2025 had a really thought-provoking keynote Thursday evening by UVA Law professor @meganstevenson.bsky.social, on why so many RCTs fail to find effects (or fail to replicate when they do show initial effects).

This is basically what she said at SREE:
www.law.virginia.edu/news/202403/...

Professor’s Research Shows Many Criminal Justice Reforms Don’t Work

Most interventions and reforms in criminal justice have little enduring impact, argues University of Virginia School of Law professor Megan T. Stevenson in a new article that reviews 50 years of data.

www.law.virginia.edu

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Ginny Vitiello @gvitiello.bsky.social · 7h

...ie, let's make early childhood (and K-12!) high quality and nurturing and safe because that's the right thing to do.

Ginny Vitiello @gvitiello.bsky.social · 7h

The implications for the field of ed psych are kind of devastating! We can't change the things we want to change, not by tinkering, at least. But I love this for education and early childhood and social policy more broadly....

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Ginny Vitiello @gvitiello.bsky.social · 7h

She's the second prominent social scientist I've seen recently saying, outright, let's just give people what they need because it's the right thing to do.

(The first was Rebekah Levine Coley, her framework for understanding poverty in children's lives is here: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...)

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Ginny Vitiello @gvitiello.bsky.social · 7h

One of her basic points is that the interventions typically tested in RCTs writ large are not likely to have lasting, positive effects on people's lives because they represent mechanistic tinkering around the edges - meanwhile, "most people are already doing the best they can."

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Ginny Vitiello @gvitiello.bsky.social · 7h

#SREE2025 had a really thought-provoking keynote Thursday evening by UVA Law professor @meganstevenson.bsky.social, on why so many RCTs fail to find effects (or fail to replicate when they do show initial effects).

This is basically what she said at SREE:
www.law.virginia.edu/news/202403/...

Professor’s Research Shows Many Criminal Justice Reforms Don’t Work

Most interventions and reforms in criminal justice have little enduring impact, argues University of Virginia School of Law professor Megan T. Stevenson in a new article that reviews 50 years of data.

www.law.virginia.edu

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 8h

Congratulations, you're department chair.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 14h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 8h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 4d

If you're at SREE, come check out Connecting Evidence to Impact: How Outcomes Based Contracting Bridges Research, Practice, and Equity in Education with some @thecenterforobc.bsky.social folks, Sean Tanner @wested.org & Amanda Lu, former @nssaccelerator.bsky.social postdoc now at Georgetown!

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LSeefeldt @lseefeldt.bsky.social · 4d

You have got to be kidding. #Florida #Edusky

Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 4d

Bill filed in #Florida Legislature would make every single college & university name one street after Charlie Kirk. And the bill even specifies WHICH street at each one. (But the governor doesn't want streets used for political messages, which is why no rainbows!) www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Bill would make Florida colleges, universities name streets after Charlie Kirk

A new bill would make all of Florida's public state universities and colleges rename one roadway on their campuses after Charlie Kirk.

www.tallahassee.com

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 7d

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 7d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Ginny Vitiello @gvitiello.bsky.social · 8d

My sister in law says we don't hear about Italy as one of the colonist nations because Italy wasn't a very good colonizer

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queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 9d

my grandfather worked on a boat from belgium for his fare to the US as a small unaccompanied child and was met at arrival by a cousin. he worked until his father was able to join him in NYC a few years later, and then they were able to send for his mother - who was an irish national.

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 9d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

The New College President: liberal arts colleges need a niche, otherwise close it.

It had a niche as a place that appealed to quirky kids! That is why Republicans hated it. So they destroyed that niche, poured a bunch of money in, and now it is a failing & soulless version of every other college.

Critics also argue that changes driven by the college's administration and the State University System-such as reinstating grades instead of relying on the narrative evaluations NCF has historically used and limiting course offerings, among other initiatives—are stripping away what makes New College special. They argue that as it loses traditions, it's also losing differentiation.
Rodrigo Diaz, a 1991 New College graduate, said that the Sarasota campus had long attracted quirky students who felt stifled by more rigid academic environments. Now the administration and state are imposing "uniformity," he said, which he argued will be "the death of New College."
And some critics worry that death is exactly what lies ahead for NCF. The anonymous faculty member said they feel "an impending sense of doom" at New College and fear that it could close within the next two years. Allen said he has heard a similar timeline from lawmakers.

In his remarks, the president emphasized that a liberal arts college should "produce something different." And "if it doesn't produce something different, then we should be closed down. But if we are closed down, I say this very respectfully, Chair—then this Board of Governors should be shut down, too," Corcoran said, noting that many of its members have liberal arts degrees.
To Allen, that remark was an unforced error that revealed private conversations about closure are likely happening behind closed doors.
"I think Richard made the mistake of not realizing those conversations haven't been public. He made them public,
but the Board of Governors is very clearly talking to him about that," he said.
But Allen has floated an alternative to closure:
privatization.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy!
Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster.
Competence matters.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11d

You'll be shocked to learn New College of Florida is on the brink of implosion just a couple of years after DeSantis engineered an extreme right-wing takeover

Fun fact: NCF's new overlords spend $134K per student (!!...the average at other FL publics is $10K) www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida

Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

www.insidehighered.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11d

Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach.

If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 11d

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Society for Research in Child Development @srcdorg.bsky.social · 13d

Meet #SRCD member (and SRCD Latinx Caucus member) Natalia Palacios, Associate Professor at the Applied Developmental Science Program at the University of Virginia!

Read more of this insightful Q&A at https://www.srcd.org/news/member-spotlight-natalia-palacios.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13d

really need to emphasize the small cities part. i have mentioned this before, but you'll see people on facebook talk about charlottesville like its ridley scott's mogadishu

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 14d

the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 13d

Issue 61, Volume 10 is out at Developmental Psychology!

psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

Topics Include

-Social & Peer Behavior
-Language Processes
-Memory Processes
-Participant Selection

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 15d

If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it!

That’s just me though.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16d

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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I’m just Pam @pamelaworth.bsky.social · 16d

Dig deep enough into any well funded crapass movement against human rights and you’ll hit oil.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16d

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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