love what #philabundance does!

In Philly, Philabundance is known for doing awesome work to fight food insecurity. philabundance.org
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Amazing work and results!!!

Special thanks to the organizers, incl. @eringrant.me @stefsm.bsky.social and @saxelab.bsky.social !

Great lectures and a fun interdisciplinary group 🙂

I'm building a course from scratch this summer. Premise is that sampling / simulation are key for building intuition and statistical thinking. Students should learn permutation tests before they learn t-tests. Do folks agree?

And the company sells a pendant you can wear to bring the companion with you wherever you go... honestly feels dystopian.
Does anyone have a more positive take on this? I feel like this has to be regulated...

I have no chat history, no account, no data -- and this is the first message the bot sends!! Who does this help? Seems obviously like farming for engagement from users who want to commiserate and encouraging them to engage in negative thought patterns.

At Penn you can get a certificate for going to some extra training, but it seems pretty divorced from your effort/performance in the classroom.
Departments could give teaching awards to the most highly rated TAs?
Teaching *well* could be part of PhD degree-granting requirements?

The reality is that this is what most researchers want — teaching is a chore and distracts from research. But it feels like a disservice to everyone and super out of whack with a university’s educational values.