Who could have seen this coming?

I missed this when it came out! They test the effect of generative AI on HS math performance, comparing GPT-4 to a no generative AI control and a GPT Tutor with guardrails. Both treatments increase practice problem completion but decrease performance on later exams. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What an auspicious first email to receive from my new institution. The president assures us that this agreement with Trump does not compromise any of Brown's core values. Apparently, protecting transgender students (and following Rhode Island's laws protecting gender identity) are not such values.

Devastated to be stuck in DC and miss the first higher education conference sponsored by Malort

Looks like intensive advising may b e more cost-effective than financial aid. Turns out guiding students through complex college choices might be more effective than giving them money and setting 18 year olds loose on the world to make consequential decisions: www.nber.org/papers/w3392...

Last weekend, @smorell93.bsky.social and I kicked off pride by having a wedding (finally, two years after our legal marriage). Grateful for queer love and the community that sustains it at a time when so much feels like it is on fire.

Trans academics everywhere in absolute shambles:

Using standardized data, We track trends in liberal arts course-taking and majors over time, building on work from
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences's
Humanities Indicators Project. We find that liberal arts coursework is the clear majority, although professional majors are more common.

We use four waves of standardized transcripts to train models that classify courses. This turns out to be a good task for machine learning. Even at the six digit level - we're we are classifying courses into one of 1,622 categories - we correctly label 72 percent of courses.

Ambivalently participating in Trans Day of Visibility in a year where we were often painfully visible but seldom seen or heard. #transdayofvisibity

Obviously, if I was going to plagiarize something in my dissertation, I would choose the hardest part - the acknowledgements thanking my advisor.

This is a good reason to fire a university president and a scandal worthy of the NYT.

Got gay married to @smorell93.bsky.social today as a fuck you to our new speaker of the house. We'll be saying gay as long as we live.

Tofu has informed me we've switched from rstats to rcats.