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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton
@jscottclayton.bsky.social
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Professor of Economics & Education at Teachers College. Affiliations: NBER, CCRC, former Senior Economist at CEA (2022-23). This is a personal account.
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Update: me frantically, and belatedly, dumping out last night’s leftover stickers to pick out the AI fails.
Motivational stickers in flouncy fonts reading things like “CREAT your OWN FUTURE”, “Success SERIES small THINGS george” and my personal favorite, “MOST DAYS I HAVE idea WHAT I’M DOING”
November 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Our Halloween offerings this year.
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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More scenes from Midtown NYC today.
Beautiful mass of protesters in Times Square on October 18th, 2025. Man with rainbow American flag in center foreground. Lots of No Kings signs and tkts booth in background. More Times Square protesters. A sign reading “COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS” is in the right foreground, in front of a massive ad for Line Friends plushies. Heads of protesters, most with greying hair, one with bright yellow sign reading “I AM HERE BECAUSE I LOVE AMERICA” An adult person in full frog costume, with a small kid also in full frog costume, with NO KINGS IN AMERICA and FROGS FOR FREEDOM signs, are delighted to meet another adult person in a fully inflated frog costume, with a sign reading FROGS TOGETHER STRONG. They pose for a photo near Times Square.
October 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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A few scenes from Times Square protest march today.
Spouse and I with one of our signs reading “WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY” Person in full frog costume, standing on a trash can in front of the Times Square Bubba Gump’s restaurant, with a sign reading “DO I LOOK LIKE THE ENEMY WITHIN?” Lots of New Yorkers marching with colorful signs past 44th and 7th Ave, with CBS News and Raising Cane’s in the background. Signs read, WE’RE FAILING AN OPEN-BOOK HISTORY TEST, WE LOVE AMERICA, STAND UP AGAINST ICE, STOP State Terror - Solidarity With Our Immigrant Neighbors, and The Bodhisattva Stands Up - This is Walking Meditation New Yorker casually stands on midtown street corner holding a sign reading: YOU KNOW IT’S BAD IF NEW YORKERS ARE WALKING THIS SLOW.
October 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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A lot of stuff is crappy but it is an absolutely gorgeous day for summer street closures in NYC. Can’t wait to get outside!
August 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Skies of NYC putting on a show this evening.
Just clouds after a thunderstorm at dusk, nothing else. Lots of pretty hues and depth. Very glowy red sunset behind Grant’s Tomb in NYC
April 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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The NYC protest was both massive and intimate. Old and young. Sophisticated and crass. Angry and joyful. Signs were high art, quilted, scribbled, streaked with rain. Here are just a few.
Huge, dramatic, hand-painted sign depicting Elon Musk’s face in black, gray, and white, with green eyes, against a bright red background. The words “STOP THE STEAL” are painted in red over Musk’s face with “STOP the” on his forehead and “STEAL” across his closed mouth. Woman at a protest holds a large, bright red quilt with black quilted letters, which she handmade herself, reading “YOUR BALLS ARE NEXT” In front of the NY Public Library of 5th ave, an older man sits on his walker, holding a protest sign reading “FIGHT AND PROTECT *OUR* DEMOCRACY & RULE OF LAW - JOIN US” NYC protest scene with rain-drizzled sign reading “SAVE OUR CIVIL SERVICE - SAVE THE NATION” in the center
April 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I was about to go search for my fave education-related Onion headline, but their membership solicitation itself hit the mark! (I made a donation)
Screenshot of The Onion’s membership solicitation page, reading “Become A Member While Literacy Is Still Legal”
April 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Picked up this tiny print at Yozo Art Gallery in Kyoto last year (www.instagram.com/yozoartgallery). Wasn’t sure exactly what it meant, I just liked it. Today, I am angry and I get it. DO NOT SPACE OUT.
Photo shows a business-card sized art print with a solid red background and 13 white and navy blue, small angry cartoon shark faces, open-mouthed and teeth bared, with the word “shark” written at the top and “I am going to eat you if you are spacing out!” typed at the bottom.
March 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Lots of big things going wrong. But this sweet little moleskine notebook and pen (which actually writes beautifully!) made me smile at #AEFP2025 today. It’s already filling up with notes and ideas. Someone put thought into this and it shows. 😊
Small black moleskine notebook with “50 years / AEFP” embossed on the front in gold, with a rose-gold pen showing the same logo in black, clipped to the notebook on top.
March 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Fun indeed! She showed me how to draw it and I was so excited when I saw the chair
Pencil drawing of a chair cyclohexane, with a stick figure added to highlight how it looks like an actual chair
December 11, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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I was halfway home from the airport when this guerrilla poetry caught my eye on the M60 this evening. Fitting label for a city bus.
Photo from the inside of a city bus looking out, focused on the narrow windowsill, in which a label has been pasted reading “THIS MORTAL COIL” in all-caps. The label is red with raised white letters, like would be made from an old style label-maker one might have found at an elementary school in the 80s.
December 7, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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Full quote below. I am learning piano right now so this really spoke to me (though I’ve never played Fur Elise drunk at a party) and the album is gorgeous.
Photo of a paragraph from NYT which reads: I wanted to capture the imagination of people who might not see themselves as musicians any longer. Every person who gets drunk at a party plays a version of “Für Elise.” The notes might be all wrong. But it’s beautiful because it is a communal expression of music.
November 20, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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Good morning NYC
Dramatic orange sunrise, possibly wildfire-smoke-infused, over NYC residential buildings.
November 10, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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So as we get ready to watch some baseball, could a real knowledgeable human please confirm or deny this AI claim below, in case it comes up?!? Seems wrong but AI always has me doubting myself
Screenshot of a Google Al Overview reading “In Major League Baseball, if two players catch a foul ball at the same time, it's considered in play and base runners can try to advance.“
October 25, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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Beautiful large bird of prey chilling on Broadway this morning, on a tree branch barely above eye level. I assume this is some kind of hawk but anyone know what type?
Large bird of prey perched on urban tree branch with Barnard College buildings and a Pride flag in the background.
March 20, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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I forgot how much fun it is to have four people trying to live zoom from the same NYC apartment at the same time. (By “forgot” I mean, blocked out, and by “fun” I mean… the soul-sucking opposite of that.) Especially when we could be outside instead!
February 13, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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Three-alarm sunrise in NYC this morning, in case you missed it!
Back of kid’s head in foreground of a photo of a beautiful NYC sunrise over many brick apartment buildings.
February 9, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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I made a sabbatical barometer.
Sabbatical craft project with a rainbow dial going from “I can be more than I am” to “What I am is enough”
October 10, 2023 at 8:54 PM