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Nathan Holbert
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Learning Scientist. Maker and designer. Player of games and toys. Dad. Associate Professor @ Teachers College, Columbia University. Pop & Play host http://tc.edu/popandplay
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · Jun 13
The GOP’s destruction of granting agencies like NSF and NIH is decimating the scientific community. On this episode we tried to provide a clear and brief explanation of what has happened and why it matters for those that may not be familiar. Listen and share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
The Impacts of Cutting Federal Funding For Research (Pop Off)
Podcast Episode · Pop and Play · S5 Bonus · 22m
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21h
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d
This is a perilous moment for democracy in the United States, but I couldn’t be prouder of the Knight Institute’s work right now, and I don’t take for granted that we have the freedom and resources to do it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This free speech group at Columbia is taking on Trump when the university won’t – and winning
The Knight Institute is defending free speech at a school now synonymous with compromising on it
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 2d
This is great! And also illustrates nicely why “AI” is a garbage PR term. Neural nets and machine learning can do incredible and useful things using much less computing power than dumb chat bots melting the planet. Would be nice to disentangle these things in how we talk about them.
“Like putting on glasses for the first time”—how AI improves earthquake detection
AI is “comically good” at detecting small earthquakes—here’s why that matters.
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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 2d
MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d
White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 2d
This is great! And also illustrates nicely why “AI” is a garbage PR term. Neural nets and machine learning can do incredible and useful things using much less computing power than dumb chat bots melting the planet. Would be nice to disentangle these things in how we talk about them.
“Like putting on glasses for the first time”—how AI improves earthquake detection
AI is “comically good” at detecting small earthquakes—here’s why that matters.
arstechnica.com
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 2d
Bien
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 2d
Genuinely funny to think there were people holding their breath at the announcement waiting to hear the name Trump
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 2d
I Dont Understand The Question I Wont Respond To It GIF
ALT: I Dont Understand The Question I Wont Respond To It GIF
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · May 16
Leaving my team this for when I’m gone
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 2d
I once said that I should date Tiffani Amber Thiessen because I was a very mature and thoughtful 8th grader.
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 2d
It’s 👏 Always 👏 Projection
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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 2d
Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.
EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump’s NYC apartment
New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings. O…
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 2d
Science: Doing studies to make the proof
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 2d
In my class on designing ed tech today I think we used the word "love" like 20 times 😂❤️
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 2d
I've had a handful of interactions in the past two days that underscore how central love is to learning. The great Sherry Turkle has said, "We love the objects we think with. We think with the objects we love." Not attention, interest, or engagement. Love.
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Paranormal Warren G. Harding Activity @popeawesomexiii.bsky.social · 13d
Killer: Drink this cyanide.

Me: But Halloween is just a few weeks away!

Killer: *sigh* Drink this pumpkin spice cyanide
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Sonali Rajan @sonalirajan.bsky.social · 3d
So proud of our latest piece, now out in AJPH and co-authored with some of my favorite people:

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Firearm Violence Prevention in Peril: A Call to Defend Our Public Safety Infrastructure | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 11
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3d
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d
#WarRavagedPortland
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 4d
"Why would OpenAI and Microsoft spend $23 million to give 'free training' on how to use AI to teachers? Because they love teachers? No. Because they want to get their products into public schools in an attempt to cultivate the education market. ... To automate teachers, in other words."
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 5d
It takes no special technical expertise to know that
1) AI's main value proposition today is automating labor,
2) AI is going to supercharge economic inequality, and
3) If we do not get out in front of that policy-wise, we are fools.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-o...
Thinking of AI as a Social Problem
No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.
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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4d
this is such a fucking idiotic farce
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
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