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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · 9d

this is quite literally how my philosophy major mom became a software developer

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's reaching that point in the morning where I am accidentally typing "reddit" into the Stata command line...

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Jul 30

6 month update for anyone who cares: both desks are now covered in junk, and I am currently using neither

Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Jan 13

I now have two desks--one for handwriting/reading and one for my computer monitor.

This will obviously fix all my problems

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Jul 23

Any possibility of a tee shirt?

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Jul 23

. @paul-bruno.com

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Jul 23

I think you are thinking of Paul Bruno's list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

useful_data_resources

docs.google.com

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Jul 22

This goes so hard

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Jul 21

The other day I drew a subway-style map for The Hobbit, and it was very well received. Some of you asked if I could do one for LoTR, so I have!

Forgive the eel watermark; I'm working on making these something you can buy, if you like.

Subway style map to go with The Lord of the Rings, showing the different pathways of various parties throughout the book. The title reads: "Lord of the Rings Transit Map: One Does Not Simply Walk Ino Mordor When One Can Ride." The map takes up the middle part of the page, and there are two keys. The one on the left is titles "Standard Service Lines, and has color keys matched to the subway lines on the map. Lines are named:
"Shire-Bree Commuter Line
Old Forrest Crescent
Wildland Scenic Line
Fellowship Line
Gollum / Sméagol Line
Uruk Hai Express
Three Hunters Line
Fangorn Slow Service
Rohan to Gondor Business Line
Black Ships Ferry Service
Oliphant Direct Line
Army of the West Line
Gandalf Express

A smaller key on the right side of the map is labeled: "Limited Service Lines" and has color keys matched to the following names lines:
"Eagle Express
Paths of the Dead Line
Nazgûl Search & Resuce
Valinor Ltd."

A note at the bottom reads:
"* Mount Doom station only accepts Rings of Power in payment. Plan accordingly."

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Jul 20

tbh I would have thought an evil doll would be on brand for you

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Jul 13

Team Rocket strikes again

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Jul 7

I'm used to running into the sub vs. dub debate on the internet, but it is especially cool to see it pop up in academic bluesky rather than an anime subreddit

Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Jul 7

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?

➡️ New Working Paper:

Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek

www.nber.org/papers/w33984

A 🧵 1/12

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Jun 19

As someone who'd love to test this--I feel like "More of what?" is the sticky part underlying this question. It seems to me like these two tasks lend themselves to different outcomes, and those outcomes may be more or less preferred depending on what one sees as the aims of education

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Jun 18

She is fabulous

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 16

Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics.

Academic mothers are much more likely to...

◾temporarily leave the labor force

◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions.

scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...

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Tiffany Wu @tiffanyxwu.bsky.social · May 28

🤔 What kind of Pre-K experience sets students up for long-term success?

Our new working paper offers important new evidence to help answer this question!

🔗 edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai25-1194.pdf

And 🧵👇

A screenshot of the abstract of the working paper

Figure 1: School Enrollment Pathways for Lottery Winners and Control Group Students through 8th Grade. This figure represents school enrollment pathways across different school types (BPS, BPS Exam School, non-BPS district school, charter school, and other) for both lottery winners and the control group. The thickness of the lines represents the percentage of lottery winners/control group students that are enrolled in each type of school. Blue lines show the pathways taken by lottery winners, and BPS-specific school categories are highlighted in the light blue boxes. BPS = Boston Public Schools.

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · Jun 5

Don't forget motivatedolly

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · May 21

Just finished watching #Andor. Great series. I think my favorite part was when Luthen and Cassian solved those really hard math problems together

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 12

Wow!

Each $1 spent on Universal Pre-Kindergarten generates between $3-$20 dollars in aggregate earnings.

That's enough to offset the costs of Universal Pre-Kindergarten through higher tax revenues.

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Katie Hyland @hylandka.bsky.social · May 10

I thought we've already watched this episode?

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chloe gibbs @chloergibbs.bsky.social · Apr 18

🧵 But since Head Start's inception, there have been disagreements about whether or not the program "works." So let's review what we know from rigorous research on Head Start's effectiveness, and let's start with what it means for the program to work. 🧵 1/n