New episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social, featuring research by @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, @emilykpenner.bsky.social, and Andrew Penner.

A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Fascinating work by Deven Carlson, @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, James Carter, @rachelmarisa.bsky.social, Vitali Radsky, and Andrew McEachin on both the potential of school choice for the purpose of desegregation and the disappointing reality that most school choice systems tend to exacerbate segregation

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Not feeding into the Bluesky debate but I would love to see more academics sharing papers on here. Revive the ‘ol “here’s a thread about this paper” thing. I think it’s good for the information ecosystem.

Shout out to Chase Strangio who did his level best and should have fucking won. What a beast of an attorney and an amazing advocate.

This is heartbreaking. #Skrmetti

Breaking: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's effort to shutter much of the Education Department. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

hoping nobody at the coffee shop notices the tears streaming down my cheeks as I text this link to my distance-running 9th grader.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

art blakey for all your friday needs

youtu.be/fsJ3JjpZyoA?...

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.

They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

I love the "responsibility (and joy)" move there.

"...that certain groups have had a different experience of American life and who feels that it is part of our intellectual responsibility (and joy) to engage with that history, so as to improve our democracy (that whole 'more perfect union' thing)."

Saunders is so good on the weaponization of "DEI."

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name.

Pope Peanut M&Ms XIII

To many, atmospheric rivers are a West Coast phenomenon. But they’re also responsible for devastating storms that can hit the Central and Eastern U.S.

There's one in the forecast this week.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...

Finally. My fellow Fulbright Scholar Rumeysa Ozturk has been freed.

My country jailed her for over a month as—let’s be perfectly frank—a political prisoner. Why? Because she wrote a mild oped that criticised Israel in her student newspaper.

I've thought of her every day.

I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it

open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

I've been thinking about this a lot, and I think what makes writing attractive is when you get something unexpected. The connection you didn't anticipate, the logical thread getting built in new ways, the marvelous inductive/deductive Jenga towers that a terrific undergrad will create. 1/6