Prof Dynarski

dynarski.bsky.social

15 October 2026 17:41

SO excited when this program launched 🥳 Year 1 results were super encouraging. HAIL-like in magnitude 😍 And then... UT Austin leadership cancelled the program, ordering the fantastic UT research team to disband 😦 Despite formidable barriers, the team ensured the science got published 👏🏼💪🏽

richmurphy-econ.bsky.social

15 October 2026 17:26

New research alert: Proactively guaranteeing tuition and housing tripled enrollment for low-income students eligible for automatic admission to UT Austin from high-poverty schools #rct doi.org/10.3102/0162... @mattgiani.bsky.social @drflorespolicy.bsky.social @joribarash.bsky.social

jamelle

jamellebouie.net

15 October 2026 12:40

strategic political capture of the court has, for 40 years, been a one-way ratchet. among other things, this has inculcated a sense among conservatives that they can act with virtual impunity. showing them that their opponents will play hardball is a necessary first step toward a better status quo.

Laura K. Nelson

lauraknelson.bsky.social

15 October 2026 00:44

Treading lightly because I'm happy to see data annotation discussions happening anywhere. But I'm also incredibly frustrated that the AI/ML world seems to be happy ignoring literal *decades* of work on this topic. From a recently published paper in AAAI/ACM that has tipped me over into despair fr

Ben Collins

bencollins.bsky.social

15 October 2026 00:43

The immutable, unnamed American law of The Dumbest Thing That Can Happen Will Happen dictates that the Democrats will win the House handily, as projected, and take the Senate 51-49, making John Fetterman the most powerful flesh husk in America for the next 24 months.