I’m teaching a qualitative methods class, and my next class session is on writing and feedback. I would love to hear what kinds of feedback researchers (of all disciplines) find most useful and from where (eg friends, peer reviewers, folks outside your area) if you’d be willing to share!

You can always count on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social to carefully excise the stupid from elite political discourse and neatly put it on display.

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

If we continue to insist on using page and word counts for journal issue inclusion, then references should be an online supplement. People should be encouraged to have a robust and thorough reference section, and when people have to choose references, it’s not the big names in the field who get cut.

If you have population-level data, then how can values for smaller units (eg schools, counties) be “less precise”? Isn’t precision about how close we are to the “truth”? And if you have the truth in hand, why would you statistically penalize smaller units? Asking for myself.

We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM.

If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request.

Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...

My paper with Amanda Lu is finally out! In “Equal Inputs, Unequal Outputs,” we problematize the tendency to design policies without attention to pre-existing resource inequalities. We also develop a policy-focused typology of organizational capacity. t.co/Y5AB0ksx1K

@kmatheny.bsky.social

Nobody wants to not work anymore.

it’s so fucked up you have to keep doing chores until you die. i have mopped this apartment like half a dozen times since i moved in a few months ago, isn’t that enough. i did a great job and i’d like to coast on that.

This is also true in other wealthy countries. What is different is that US life expectancy, even for those with higher education, is shorter than in peer countries. We're all being hurt by massive inequality, a dysfunctional health care system, and a miserly welfare state.

Folks on the ed/soc/policy job market! Here are the job boards I checked for positions. These have ac and non-ac jobs, so useful for a broad range of interests! —>

HigherEdJobs: Clear, easy to navigate, frequently updated, some unique postings (linked here: www.higheredjobs.com/search/advan...)

Sounds like folks are worried about losing data access during a possible government shutdown, so I quickly whipped up this Education Data Portal with all the major datasets on schools, districts, and colleges: educationdata.urban.org/documentation/

I (re-)post advice for grad students and early career academics, research and anecdotes related to being first gen/low-income, and pics of books and cats. Spending the year in Charm City studying determinants of social mobility before moving to DC! 🏙️