Luke Eglington
@lukeeglington.bsky.social
Learning science, adaptive instructional systems, cybernetics, psychometrics, deep learning.
Principal learning scientist at Amplify Education.
Principal learning scientist at Amplify Education.
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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
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This is the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard!! 😍
June 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard!! 😍
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Seeing headlines about 1.5–2 years of gains from a 6-wk AI pgm? That's not the intervention impact. It's back of envelope & assumes estimated daily gains from 1st 6 wk scale linearly
Actual effect: .23 SDs
Encouraging for internatl ed, but more careful thought & less razzle-dazzle, please.
Actual effect: .23 SDs
Encouraging for internatl ed, but more careful thought & less razzle-dazzle, please.
Big: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week afterschool program in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" ("equating to 1.5 to 2 years" of standard school)
May 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Seeing headlines about 1.5–2 years of gains from a 6-wk AI pgm? That's not the intervention impact. It's back of envelope & assumes estimated daily gains from 1st 6 wk scale linearly
Actual effect: .23 SDs
Encouraging for internatl ed, but more careful thought & less razzle-dazzle, please.
Actual effect: .23 SDs
Encouraging for internatl ed, but more careful thought & less razzle-dazzle, please.
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Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.
April 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.
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The book features scientists @lkfazio.bsky.social @drcindynebel.bsky.social @stevencpan.bsky.social @veronicayan.bsky.social. They're teachers, too!
It isn't science-y at all. AND it's short: 10 chapters, only 10 pages each #EduSky
Support your local bookstore: bookshop.org/a/112360/979...
It isn't science-y at all. AND it's short: 10 chapters, only 10 pages each #EduSky
Support your local bookstore: bookshop.org/a/112360/979...
April 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The book features scientists @lkfazio.bsky.social @drcindynebel.bsky.social @stevencpan.bsky.social @veronicayan.bsky.social. They're teachers, too!
It isn't science-y at all. AND it's short: 10 chapters, only 10 pages each #EduSky
Support your local bookstore: bookshop.org/a/112360/979...
It isn't science-y at all. AND it's short: 10 chapters, only 10 pages each #EduSky
Support your local bookstore: bookshop.org/a/112360/979...
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New book written by teachers for teachers (who happen to also be cognitive experts in learning)!
My chapter interleaving is probably one of my favorite things that I've written. I'm so excited about this book. The chapters are all digestible and concrete without sacrificing deeper understanding.
My chapter interleaving is probably one of my favorite things that I've written. I'm so excited about this book. The chapters are all digestible and concrete without sacrificing deeper understanding.
The book features scientists @lkfazio.bsky.social @drcindynebel.bsky.social @stevencpan.bsky.social @veronicayan.bsky.social. They're teachers, too!
It isn't science-y at all. AND it's short: 10 chapters, only 10 pages each #EduSky
Support your local bookstore: bookshop.org/a/112360/979...
It isn't science-y at all. AND it's short: 10 chapters, only 10 pages each #EduSky
Support your local bookstore: bookshop.org/a/112360/979...
April 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New book written by teachers for teachers (who happen to also be cognitive experts in learning)!
My chapter interleaving is probably one of my favorite things that I've written. I'm so excited about this book. The chapters are all digestible and concrete without sacrificing deeper understanding.
My chapter interleaving is probably one of my favorite things that I've written. I'm so excited about this book. The chapters are all digestible and concrete without sacrificing deeper understanding.
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No, the Democratic Party isn't losing because it's Too Woke:
April 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
No, the Democratic Party isn't losing because it's Too Woke:
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Look. Imagine you like brats and beer.
You brew beer.
Your neighbor likes beer but doesn't brew.
Your other neighbor raises pigs and makes brats, but doesn't drink.
So you sell beer to the first guy, and use the money to buy brats from the second guy.
Now you've got beer AND brats. Total win.
You brew beer.
Your neighbor likes beer but doesn't brew.
Your other neighbor raises pigs and makes brats, but doesn't drink.
So you sell beer to the first guy, and use the money to buy brats from the second guy.
Now you've got beer AND brats. Total win.
April 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Look. Imagine you like brats and beer.
You brew beer.
Your neighbor likes beer but doesn't brew.
Your other neighbor raises pigs and makes brats, but doesn't drink.
So you sell beer to the first guy, and use the money to buy brats from the second guy.
Now you've got beer AND brats. Total win.
You brew beer.
Your neighbor likes beer but doesn't brew.
Your other neighbor raises pigs and makes brats, but doesn't drink.
So you sell beer to the first guy, and use the money to buy brats from the second guy.
Now you've got beer AND brats. Total win.
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Hi everyone, The Onion is very briefly very on sale. It's 25% off, $75 for a year's worth of issues right to your door.
The paper is really good and the money will help us do a bunch of big, stupid shit we have planned in the near future. Subscribe!
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The paper is really good and the money will help us do a bunch of big, stupid shit we have planned in the near future. Subscribe!
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March 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Hi everyone, The Onion is very briefly very on sale. It's 25% off, $75 for a year's worth of issues right to your door.
The paper is really good and the money will help us do a bunch of big, stupid shit we have planned in the near future. Subscribe!
membership.theonion.com?campaign=701...
The paper is really good and the money will help us do a bunch of big, stupid shit we have planned in the near future. Subscribe!
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Photographer Kathryn Cooper captures the fluid movement of birds, particularly migrating starling murmurations at roost sites across the North of England UK #WomensA
March 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Photographer Kathryn Cooper captures the fluid movement of birds, particularly migrating starling murmurations at roost sites across the North of England UK #WomensA
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@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences - Nature Human Behaviour
How does sleep transform the way we remember our experiences? This study finds that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related...
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very interesting work
🚨 New lab paper!🚨
A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social
We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social
We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour
Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...
www.nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Very interesting work
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american voices column is a treat in the paper too bc you get the full cast responding rather than just 3
February 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
american voices column is a treat in the paper too bc you get the full cast responding rather than just 3
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Very proud of this latest paper, which shows that reading two unrelated words in a meaningful sentence will push these words closer in semantic space—an effect observed 5min, 20min, and 12 hrs after initial exposure.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension: Naturalistic comprehension pushes unrelated words closer in semantic space for at least 12 h
Recent experience with a word significantly influences its subsequent interpretation. For instance, encountering bank in a river-related context biase…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Very proud of this latest paper, which shows that reading two unrelated words in a meaningful sentence will push these words closer in semantic space—an effect observed 5min, 20min, and 12 hrs after initial exposure.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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You do philosophy to learn truths and gain knowledge, I do philosophy so I can chat with all my little nerdy friends about our hyperfixations, We Are Not The Same
February 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
You do philosophy to learn truths and gain knowledge, I do philosophy so I can chat with all my little nerdy friends about our hyperfixations, We Are Not The Same
👀
New paper alert! Have you ever looked at single-trial fMRI activation maps? If so, you know that they are super variable. Here we show that the variability is not just noise. In fact, the same task can consistently elicit different activation patterns. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Multiple brain activation patterns for the same perceptual decision-making task - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show the brain uses multiple activation patterns to perform the same task. Even the default mode network, which is often inactive during focus, plays a role.
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
👀
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Born early enough to get a tenure-track job before the collapse of US university funding
Born too late to get tenure before the collapse of US university funding
Born just in time to have panic attacks
Born too late to get tenure before the collapse of US university funding
Born just in time to have panic attacks
February 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Born early enough to get a tenure-track job before the collapse of US university funding
Born too late to get tenure before the collapse of US university funding
Born just in time to have panic attacks
Born too late to get tenure before the collapse of US university funding
Born just in time to have panic attacks
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The University of Surrey has opted out of a subscription deal with Elsevier, telling me that the arrangement is not financially sustainable.
This comes after I reported last month that the University of Sheffield had cancelled its big deal with the publisher.
This comes after I reported last month that the University of Sheffield had cancelled its big deal with the publisher.
January 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The University of Surrey has opted out of a subscription deal with Elsevier, telling me that the arrangement is not financially sustainable.
This comes after I reported last month that the University of Sheffield had cancelled its big deal with the publisher.
This comes after I reported last month that the University of Sheffield had cancelled its big deal with the publisher.
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January 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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When a philosopher challenges my work: "Well, if you knew a bit more about the *rips off sunglasses* empirical literature, you might think differently *YEAHHHH*"
When a psychologist challenges my work: "Now see here, I am a philosopher, these things are know *sunglasses again* a priori *YEA--*"
When a psychologist challenges my work: "Now see here, I am a philosopher, these things are know *sunglasses again* a priori *YEA--*"
January 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When a philosopher challenges my work: "Well, if you knew a bit more about the *rips off sunglasses* empirical literature, you might think differently *YEAHHHH*"
When a psychologist challenges my work: "Now see here, I am a philosopher, these things are know *sunglasses again* a priori *YEA--*"
When a psychologist challenges my work: "Now see here, I am a philosopher, these things are know *sunglasses again* a priori *YEA--*"
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TOP 5 EDTECH FAILS!
1 The LA schools chatbot,which it turned out couldn't do what its vendors claimed and possibly spilled student data everywhere after millions of public funding www.the74million.org/article/chat...
1 The LA schools chatbot,which it turned out couldn't do what its vendors claimed and possibly spilled student data everywhere after millions of public funding www.the74million.org/article/chat...
L.A. Schools Probe Charges its Hyped, Now-Defunct AI Chatbot Misused Student Data
LAUSD investigators interviewed a former head software engineer who exposed privacy flaws at ed tech company AllHere.
www.the74million.org
January 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
TOP 5 EDTECH FAILS!
1 The LA schools chatbot,which it turned out couldn't do what its vendors claimed and possibly spilled student data everywhere after millions of public funding www.the74million.org/article/chat...
1 The LA schools chatbot,which it turned out couldn't do what its vendors claimed and possibly spilled student data everywhere after millions of public funding www.the74million.org/article/chat...
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What do you get when a mathematician becomes a lumberjack?
log(n)
log(n)
December 19, 2024 at 11:46 AM
What do you get when a mathematician becomes a lumberjack?
log(n)
log(n)
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Curious about the drama in South Korea? This sheet pan gimbap with banchan will have you declaring martial law in your kitchen!
December 3, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Curious about the drama in South Korea? This sheet pan gimbap with banchan will have you declaring martial law in your kitchen!
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Nature Neuroscience
A retinotopic code structures the interaction between perception and memory systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A retinotopic code structures the interaction between perception and memory systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A retinotopic code structures the interaction between perception and memory systems - Nature Neuroscience
The authors show that functionally paired visual and memory brain areas share a common neural code, which structures their communication. This code is visual in nature and uses a push–pull dynamic to ...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Nature Neuroscience
A retinotopic code structures the interaction between perception and memory systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A retinotopic code structures the interaction between perception and memory systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pass it on: Bluesky is fast becoming a powerhouse.
Bluesky Is Turning Into a Strong X Alternative
Bluesky has a hint of the old Twitter magic, but the feeling of freedom it offers might be even better.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Pass it on: Bluesky is fast becoming a powerhouse.