H. Chad Lane
@hchadlane.bsky.social
Professor of Educational Psychology & Computer Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
hchadlane.net | invite.illinois.edu | whimc.org
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
hchadlane.net | invite.illinois.edu | whimc.org
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AJ Wilkerson Comedy
With his nervous charm, endearing smile, & disarming disabilities, AJ has quickly become one of the most relevant young comedians in America, making appearances at Limestone Comedy Festival, Nashville...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
@jimmykimmel.com please consider booking AJ Wilkerson. youtube.com/@ajwilkerson...
What happens when the safest and most reliable system for testing and reviewing medical procedures, vaccines, drugs, etc. is dismantled. My fellow Americans are susceptible to profit driven unproven and risky interventions. abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...
Americans are injecting themselves with unproven peptides
More Americans are turning to peptides for muscle building, skin rejuvenation, and to try and live longer even though the substances aren’t FDA approved
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November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
What happens when the safest and most reliable system for testing and reviewing medical procedures, vaccines, drugs, etc. is dismantled. My fellow Americans are susceptible to profit driven unproven and risky interventions. abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...
Great interview by NDT here... (1) There is a rich discussion of science and impactful stories about scientific discovery, and (2) his views on AI (are level headed and reasonable, and situated historically. Also, he never says "actually", because "people don't like that." youtu.be/BYizgB2FcAQ?...
Why AI is Overrated - with Neil deGrasse Tyson
YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj
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September 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Great interview by NDT here... (1) There is a rich discussion of science and impactful stories about scientific discovery, and (2) his views on AI (are level headed and reasonable, and situated historically. Also, he never says "actually", because "people don't like that." youtu.be/BYizgB2FcAQ?...
Wow, we now up to over 6000 confirmed/known exoplanets! So cool. science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/e... Check out whimc.org to see a few of them in Minecraft!
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September 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Wow, we now up to over 6000 confirmed/known exoplanets! So cool. science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/e... Check out whimc.org to see a few of them in Minecraft!
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A video of my webinar on "Innovating Pedagogy with Generative AI in Education" is now on YouTube. Thank you Shironica Karunanayaka, Mark Gaved & Simon Ball for hosting with students and staff from the Open University of Sri Lanka and The Open University, UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rv7...
"Innovating Pedagogy with Generative AI in Education"
YouTube video by Open Education - OUSL
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May 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
A video of my webinar on "Innovating Pedagogy with Generative AI in Education" is now on YouTube. Thank you Shironica Karunanayaka, Mark Gaved & Simon Ball for hosting with students and staff from the Open University of Sri Lanka and The Open University, UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rv7...
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My journal paper argues for a systems approach to AI and education in a post-digital world. AI is not a single tool but a series of disruptions. Outlines an agenda to reduce systemic blockers, build resilience, design more robust policy. #aieducation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My journal paper argues for a systems approach to AI and education in a post-digital world. AI is not a single tool but a series of disruptions. Outlines an agenda to reduce systemic blockers, build resilience, design more robust policy. #aieducation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Not everything made it into this short news story, but if you are interested, the longer version is is essentially covered in this thread: bsky.app/profile/mark...
Don’t think of an LLM as a brain. Think of it as a circuit board with several trillion bits of wire, trillions of resistors, and so on.
(this will eventually be about "MechaHitler" Grok, bear with me...)
(this will eventually be about "MechaHitler" Grok, bear with me...)
July 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Not everything made it into this short news story, but if you are interested, the longer version is is essentially covered in this thread: bsky.app/profile/mark...
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The great poaching: America's brain drain begins www.axios.com/2025/06/07/u...
The great poaching: America's brain drain begins
China and Europe are recruiting heavily from U.S. labs.
www.axios.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The great poaching: America's brain drain begins www.axios.com/2025/06/07/u...
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"Fuck your concrete"
June 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"Fuck your concrete"
Of course the government has less fraud than corporate America. Compare the transparency of both: one has had decades of intense scrutiny, the other is a black box. Tons more waste/bloat in corporations!
Former engineer shares his experience working for DOGE www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
Former engineer shares his experience working for DOGE www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
www.npr.org
June 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Of course the government has less fraud than corporate America. Compare the transparency of both: one has had decades of intense scrutiny, the other is a black box. Tons more waste/bloat in corporations!
Former engineer shares his experience working for DOGE www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
Former engineer shares his experience working for DOGE www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
With its sycophancy, I would not be surprised to see ChatGPT provide a nasal based curriculum as well (theonion.com/parents-of-n...). I have found that frontier models still generally support the myth of learning styles, but that deep research typically finds the massive evidence against them.
OpenAI bills its 4.5 model as being particular useful for education tasks.
Reminder: Learning styles is not a thing, and some of these tasks...whoo-boy could they go sideways fast.
Reminder: Learning styles is not a thing, and some of these tasks...whoo-boy could they go sideways fast.
May 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
With its sycophancy, I would not be surprised to see ChatGPT provide a nasal based curriculum as well (theonion.com/parents-of-n...). I have found that frontier models still generally support the myth of learning styles, but that deep research typically finds the massive evidence against them.
I heard about nonstop AI generated music recently (Mubert, Lyria Realtime, Aimi...) and it brought me back to this classic (one might argue, superior technology). theonion.com/i-have-an-ip...
I Have An iPod–'In My Mind'
I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of tech-savvy people smugly showing off that new hunk of entertainment hardware, the iPod personal stereo. Well, I might not have the scratch to get one, but frankly, I don’...
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May 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I heard about nonstop AI generated music recently (Mubert, Lyria Realtime, Aimi...) and it brought me back to this classic (one might argue, superior technology). theonion.com/i-have-an-ip...
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"At a time when forces are trying to distract and disrupt the scientific enterprise, doing the important work of finding and sharing the truth is now a great act of resistance," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4m8s3f0
May 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"At a time when forces are trying to distract and disrupt the scientific enterprise, doing the important work of finding and sharing the truth is now a great act of resistance," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4m8s3f0
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“A decline in research funding will result in fewer inventions, which means fewer innovations will get to market...I imagine that in 10 years, there will be fewer drugs approved than there are today because of these constraints" www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...
Can Scientific Research Survive Without Federal Funding?
Universities are offering temporary relief to researchers whose projects have been disrupted by federal funding cuts. But it won't help in the long term, and experts say industry and philanthropy are…
www.insidehighered.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“A decline in research funding will result in fewer inventions, which means fewer innovations will get to market...I imagine that in 10 years, there will be fewer drugs approved than there are today because of these constraints" www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...
Unanticipated bonus for the shingles vaccine: "Staying up-to-date on your shingles vaccine can lower your risk of cardiovascular events—including stroke and heart disease—by a whopping 23%, according to a new study out of South Korea."
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If You're Over 50, This Common Vaccine Can Lower Your Risk of Stroke and Heart Disease by 23%
Protect your heart and mind - get your shingles vaccine now! New research shows a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular events and reduced dementia risk. Are you willing to take the step towards a healthie...
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May 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Unanticipated bonus for the shingles vaccine: "Staying up-to-date on your shingles vaccine can lower your risk of cardiovascular events—including stroke and heart disease—by a whopping 23%, according to a new study out of South Korea."
bestlifeonline.com/shingles-vac...
bestlifeonline.com/shingles-vac...
I will always understand debate, criticisms, and compromise over our nations priorities. But I refuse to accept attacks on science and education to this degree as playing within the conventions and rules that have made the United States what it is (hopefully not was) today. www.savensf.com
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May 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I will always understand debate, criticisms, and compromise over our nations priorities. But I refuse to accept attacks on science and education to this degree as playing within the conventions and rules that have made the United States what it is (hopefully not was) today. www.savensf.com
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The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.
Scientists reel as turmoil roils National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget
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May 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.
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The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department
The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
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May 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
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Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.
He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom
Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.
www.npr.org
May 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.
