Andrew Avitabile

This worked btw

Creme brulee pics to come this weekend

Yeah, maybe mostly for the fun lol

I’m at the part of graduate school where you buy a blow torch to get a rusty bolt off your car to save a few $’s

And difficult

Hate that measurement is important

For those interested in an IES-funded PhD alumni network the LinkedIn group below is active:

www.linkedin.com/groups/8540416

Thanks to @drconstance.bsky.social and @lizalbro.bsky.social!

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I’m not scared to admit it… I read Lankford and Wyckoff (1997) like once a week

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So awesome. Thank you!

Apparently there is an IES alumni group on LinkedIn !
www.linkedin.com/groups/8540416

Thanks for sharing! Just asked to be admitted

Here’s the link if others want to join:
www.linkedin.com/groups/8540416

That would be awesome. I’m going to start asking around on this and I’ll get back to you

Oh that’s awesome! Maybe it can be revitalized…

I'll chat with some folks more well-connected than I about this tomorrow and see what they think is the best way to proceed

Yes, I think LinkedIn could be a good place to start this out. I’m involved in another alumni network that also has an email listserv for job opportunities, but admin need to stay on top of policing spam.

I’m not sure if this is open to PhD candidates, but I’d be glad to help if so. Either way—good luck!

That's so great! I remember being really struck when I learned that that training grant I received was part of this historical movement to improve ed research. It feels important to keep alive. I'll be at CALDER and AEFP this spring and will throw the idea around some more with big wigs!

Yes—and love these orgs. But a formal network could have wider reach (e.g., many IES-funded ed psych folks don’t do AEFP, nor alums in less research-oriented roles). It’d also explicitly tie the training grants to IES's reimagined goals, which could go a long way toward political will to fund them.

@cedr.bsky.social perhaps something answered at tomorrow’s #CALDER conference!

If not, I think an effort to do this would be super well-aligned with the Institute’s “reimagined” goals to create a formal network between IES, researchers, nonprofits, and state and municipal departments of ed

Is there an alumni group for IES-funded PhD’s?

IES supposedly funded over 1000 PhDs, of which I am apparently one of the last. With the training grants dying, it’d be great to have a formal alumni network where we could share jobs, grant opportunities, etc.

“Anonymous” citations in an article make it an even more fun game of Guess the Author

Can you upload images to API? I think that’s still a limitation (at least as of a few months ago)

Short sentences are ok!

I love that LLMs got clowned for writing too many em dashes, so now they just use a crazy amount of colons

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Lam Pham has a cool paper where he looks at teachers who transfer after school turnaround. They’re generally low performing—and tend to transfer to low performing school—but they seem to improve (modestly) after transferring

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

I feel like folks at the *very top* of the academy will feel no effect from tools like Claude Code since they already have an army of RAs

So they essentially take random comparison units and see if they differ from other comparison units?