my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

This is my cat, Alfvie. In my last thread, I mentioned that he’s very cute – this is still true. But how are Alfvie’s stripes like the magnetic fields in a plasma?

A thread on Alfvén’s theorem [15 posts]:

#astronomy #astroedu #cats

Apparently making a bid for the record for the largest number of illegal and unconstitutional declarations to be fit inside just one short social media post

Undergraduate research opportunities are incredibly valuable, both for the students and for the progress of the work. And having undergraduate research experience is a massive help for grad school admission. REU cancellations harm students’ preparedness & career prospects, and slow research progress

Wake up babe, new preprint just dropped

Length dependence of waveform mismatch:
a caveat on waveform accuracy
Mitman, Stein, et al.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.14025

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Really happy to see more people doing this! I started a collection here; please let me know if you've made your own papper annotation or seen one I missed: cmlamman.github.io/paper_doodle...

i’ll say this: i did a video on tiktok about the fact that federal limits on abortion would supersede all state protections and a lot of people refuse to believe it

“The fate of the American republic will depend on how willing Americans are to take up the fight.”

Found this from @vox.com newsletter this am helpful for my mindset

Reskeet to save someone’s fucking life

I like the ones that are along the lines of, "Since I was 12 years old, it has been my dream to advance the field of Gaussian process regression..."