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sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

How popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Tennessee’s Law On School Threats Ensnared Students Who Posed No Risks. Two States Passed Similar Laws. | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/27/tennessees-law-on-school-threats-ensnared-students-who-posed-no-risks-two-states-passed-similar-laws/

Report from Deutsche Welle.
As the great Bernard Katz said, when I said to him in 1992 that he must welcome reunification, "Hmmm let's wait to see what crawls out from under stones"
"Nazi slogans trigger scandal at German school"
https://www.dw.c…

Nazi slogans trigger scandal at German school
A report of an antisemitic incident in a high school coincided with the arrest of teenage rightwing extremists last week. This has triggered a debate over whether Germany's youth is embracing Nazi ideology.

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Ferroelectricity in 6 Angstrom-Thick Two-dimensional Ga$_2$O$_3$
Tong Jiang (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of 3D Micro/Nano Fabrication and Characterization of Zhejiang Province, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China), Han Chen (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of…

Ferroelectricity in 6 Angstrom-Thick Two-dimensional Ga$_2$O$_3$
Atomic-scale ferroelectric thin films hold great promise for high-density, low-power applications but face stability and voltage scaling challenges at extreme thinness. Here, we demonstrate ferroelectricity in single-crystalline two-dimensional (2D) Ga$_2$O$_3$, an ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductor, at just 6 angstrom thickness, exhibiting exceptional retention and thermal stability. We show that epitaxial beta-Ga$_2$O$_3$ can be exfoliated down to a half-unit cell thickness via a self-limiting …

Remember - if your kids go to school, a school that provides free busing to everyone who lives more than a KM away, that's in a quiet neighborhood perfect for walking and cycling, and that's in one of the largest cities on the continent (a city that has a generally functional transit system), you have NO CHOICE but to drive them to school every day.

Oklahoma State football lands another coveted '26 defensive lineman https://www.sportingnews.com/us/high-school/news/oklahoma-state-football-lands-another-coveted-26-defensive-lineman/5ecc42…

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

RIP Tom Lehrer, brilliant satirical songwriter.
I was introduced to him by my high school chemistry teacher via the Elements song, but one that resonates with me now is "Wernher Von Braun." Like all his songs, he released it to the public domain a few years ago:
https://tomlehrersongs.com/wernher-…

I recorded a new episode (#483) of my "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" podcast, which is 20 years old this year in 2025! I titled it, "Creativity, Code, and Compassion: AI Lessons from Middle School and Beyond."
https://www.spee…

Shteyngart’s novel, we come to realise, plays out a decade from now, in a “post-democracy” USA
where red state officials monitor menstrual cycles,
self-driving cars shop their owners to the feds
and the news platforms are abuzz with Russian disinformation.
Desperate to redeem herself at school, Vera prepares to debate in support of the proposed “Five-Three Amendment”,
a piece of racist legislation that would grant added voting weight to those “exceptional Amer…

Supreme Court says Maryland parents can pull their kids from public school lessons using LGBTQ books (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-lgbtq-books-religion-maryland-schools-c0b0fb4b96531636fcb98b08aabc3cf9
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p147#a250627p147

The challenge of HEPA filters in the classrooms.
h/t @…
source: https://xcancel.com/kadamssl/status/1938267359233429683#m

Today I recalled an event from my youth.
One day, as I was walking home from school, a car driver stopped me. He asked if I'm from around here. Naturally, I found that quite inappropriate, since he has no business learning where do I live. But I answered. So he's asking me if I know where tire repair shop is. I answered that I don't. So he asked me again, "but are you from around here?" Well, that was too much, so he got a short explanation that just because I live here, that doesn't mean that I need to know every single company around here, and since I am not a driver (obviously — after all I was a school kid), I have never needed tire repair shop.
I suppose that worked quite well, since he drove away at this point. As he drove away, his car revealed a tire repair shop poster on the fence opposite.
The obvious lesson here is: if you need something, ask straight instead of going through silly helper questions.

Resources listed for the EU project "Assisting the process of integrating children with impaired vision in school system" https://visionassist.eu/en/resources/

Beech trunk, torsion and bonus extras for the school next door.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #RopeSwing

#Jellyfin for #Roku 3.0.4 will be published on Thursday, May 29, 2025 5:00 PM PT
🎉 New Features
- Create minimum server version check and notification
- Show live TV channel number and logo in OSD
- Add media overview button to OSD
- Display video ending time above see…

@… His wikipedia bio is quite impressive. I remember Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo from high school dances.

Entretanto, no campo de extermínio de Gaza...
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/news-videos-q35ga35iz/-/a-abS7GrewRQywP8EJl_rlcA:a:89340020-/0

At least 62 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes since Friday | Flipboard
According to the Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, eight people were burnt to death after Israeli shelling on a school in the Jabaliya refugee camp.

Recent grads and PhDs are being recruited by AI companies like Handshake to provide specialized training data in fields like music and law for $30-$160 per hour (Emma Haidar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-24/col…

College Grads Are Finding Jobs Training AI Models
Ever since he picked up a trombone in middle school, Jackson Spellman has wanted to pursue a career in music.“It's 100% going to be a part of my life for the rest of my life,” said the 22-year-old from Wellington, Florida, who graduated in June from Northwestern University with a double major in music and cognitive science.Along with his degree, Spellman finished school with a new gig to add to his resume: artificial intelligence trainer. In the weeks leading up to graduation, Spellman said…

I don’t like mornings, but a hot cup of coffee goes a long way towards easing in the day.
Now I’m killing time after dropping off my daughter for her summer school class. I’ve got an appointment later this morning and I’m already on that side of the county.
The collection of old guys in the corner that must meet here on the regular are wild. I’ve never heard so many sentences begin with “sheeee-itttt”. They are a joy to listen to while pretending I’m not eavesdropping. 😂

This is one of the most profound statements about writing/art that I've ever come across. When I was in music school it was hinted at in terms of songwriting but never approached as directly.
Don't remember where this came from, because it's been an open tab in my browser for ages 😅
https://w…

“MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The legal status for University of Memphis students has been reinstated as the federal government is reversing its decision on terminating international students' visas. Monday, school officials said all students' records had been restored.”
Keep fighting back; they keep backing down.

From The Conversation - Canada
What is modern monetary theory? An economist explains how it could help Canada
Few words spark more anxiety in public debate than “national debt” and “government deficit.” National debt is the total amount of money the government owes, accumulated over years of running deficits. Government deficit is when the government spends more money than it collects in taxes and other revenues.

What is modern monetary theory? An economist explains how it could help Canada
A heterodox school of economic thought known as modern monetary theory has significant implications for how Canadians understand public debt and deficit spending.

“#SFUSD sent a sternly worded letter to the #SFParksAlliance. The language was cool and technical, but the meaning was not. It mirrored the poem that won Flyguy the Pimp of the Year contest: ‘Better have my money! Through rain, sleet or snow! Better have my money! Not half! Not some! But alllllllll my…

S.F. Parks Alliance’s downfall came gradually, then suddenly. But always predictably.
Years ago, the Parks Alliance allegedly stiffed the school district a six-figure sum. Why have consequences been so long in coming? 

Ravens' Kyle Hamilton reveals engagement to longtime girlfriend on Instagram https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45598572/kyle-hamilton-baltimore-ravens-announces-engagement

All-First Coast: The Times-Union's 2025 team for high school boys track and field https://www.jacksonville.com/story/sports/high-school/track-field/2025/06/26/high-school-boys-track-fiel…

That is stupid (to be nice). #octranspo right now is less that dependable and depending on where you live it will take several hours to either get to the school or return to where you live. How about they revoke parking passes for ALL senior management and make them take the bus system.

Prestige in Numbers: How Test Scores and Choices Reveal School Rankings
Federico Echenique, Michael Olabisi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21063 https://

Prestige in Numbers: How Test Scores and Choices Reveal School Rankings
This paper introduces a novel revealed-preference approach to ranking colleges and professional schools based on applicants' choices and standardized test scores. Unlike traditional rankings that rely on data supplied by institutions or expert opinions, our methodology leverages the decentralized beliefs of potential students, as revealed through their application decisions. We develop a theoretical model where students with higher test scores apply to more selective institutions, allowing us t…

Oh dear... I just got a big email from our boys' high school about the upcoming school board elections - which are going to be 'Electronic Elections'. Ho boy. There's a link in the email with a link to 'learn more about electronic elections'. It send me to a site with an invalid SSL certificate. This is exactly what I would've expected from this sort of numpty approach.

My beautiful 6/yo son just came up to me and showed me this INCREDIBLE drawing of our hometown he created with the marker pack his dad bought him for school 🥹 What should I do as his mother to support his God-given gift?

Almost 40 years ago. Was cleaning up a messy desk, found an old photo album. Pretty glad I took and saved these photos. I was still floundering in gradual school, not yet engaged, and in the evening I would ride my bike uphill (Quimby Road, 9% average grade for about 2000 feet of elevation) so as to improve my mood and my knees. Earlier that day I had stepped out the back door of work (IBM SJRL in the old triangle building) and the whole sky was full of smoke.

U.S. Department of Education Finds Five Northern Virginia School Districts in Violation of Title IX (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-finds-five-northern-virginia-school-districts-violation-of-title-ix
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p99#a250725p99

VOTE: Which Northeast Florida high school boys basketball champion is best since 2000? https://www.jacksonville.com/story/sports/high-school/basketball/2025/07/24/jacksonville-high-schoo…

I found a Bluesky page that is posting old-school 3D renders.
https://bsky.app/profile/oldschool3d.bsky.social
I'll be spending the afternoon looking for the name of a particular old-school 3D artist whose artwork I remember from back in the day. It was mostl…

"School solar is such an obvious win for everyone"
#Renewables
#Solar
#ClimateEmergency
Volts: Ann Arbor's experiment with a new kind of utility
Starting fro…

"How can we learn and use AI at the same time?:: Participatory Design of GenAI with High School Students
Isabella Pu, Prerna Ravi, Linh Dieu Dinh, Chelsea Joe, Caitlin Ogoe, Zixuan Li, Cynthia Breazeal, Anastasia K. Ostrowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15525

Eminently true for this new (almost one year!) e-bike owner!
In its first year, I’m on track to put ~2200 miles on the e-bike — and <1000 miles on the car. (In previous years, car mileage was ~3000-5000 mi/year.)
And per the study, I can say with confidence that I’m doing a whole lot of things on the e-bike that I would certainly have done on the car in the past: commuting, school transportation, groceries and errands — all theoretically bikable before, but mostly car-based in practice. Until now.
https://chaos.social/@lalonsander/114915153549041117

I've made a summer quiz for EU energy policy nerds 🤓
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_acers-country-sheets-summer-quiz-acti…

Now that the school year is coming to an end in many European countries, many children are receiving their school reports. | Jaap Burger
Now that the school year is coming to an end in many European countries, many children are receiving their school reports. What are they doing well and where can they improve? Have they learned from the curriculum and have they acted on previous recommendations? How are they doing compared to their peers? EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) does something similar for countries, their retail energy markets and the level of consumer participation. It's time for their annual …

As ever, white guy = "troubled mentally ill loner." And not, as this fuck was, an open Nazi.
THIS CHILD WAS MURDERED BY A WHITE SUPREMACIST.
If he'd been brown, the police have kicked in the doors of anyone he vaguely knew.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyrg6

Daniel Anjorin: Man guilty of murdering schoolboy in Hainault
Daniel Anjorin was attacked with a sword while he was on his way to school in north-east London.

Did you have one of these for school when you were growing up?

NFDI4DS is hosting its second Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs for Scholarly Data (AIKG-SD 2025) 🥳
This year's theme: “Research Towards Sustainable Societies”
🗣 Keynotes & Interactive Tutorials
☕ Networking
🏆 Poster Session & Best Poster Award
September 23/24, 2025
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Application deadline: June 27, 2025!

AIKG-SD 2025
AIKG-SD 2025: Research Towards Sustainable Societies ! Now accepting submissions ! NFDI4DataScience and the AIX Lab at Leuphana University Lüneburg is hosting its second summer school on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs for Scholarly Data. Join us for two days of interesting discussions

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

The Telegraph withdraws a story about a rich banker hit by the cost of UK school fee rises after being deceived by a source and publishes a home page apology (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/faked-telegraph-a…

Telegraph withdraws banker school fees story after being deceived by source
Fake Telegraph article about rich banker struggling to afford school fees was result of deception by a source.

Last week I watched a new apprentice take 15 minutes to type a simple email – using the eagle-search system, eyes glued to the keyboard.
Over 12 years of #school education behind them, able to analyze Shakespeare and solve math problems, but typing as if they're seeing a computer for the first time!
HOW is it possible that in 2025 we are still producing graduates who can…

I used the acronym "LLMs" after the word "AI" in a school parents' meeting today and only one other parent ( my husband) knew what it was.
Is it just a bit of jargon? Completely unknown? Or am I out of touch?
jargon but also a word people use
not jargon but a bit obscure
No idea what you're talking about
I'm a techbro who wants to know what people think

From Generation to Adaptation: Comparing AI-Assisted Strategies in High School Programming Education
Tong Hu, Songzan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15955

From Generation to Adaptation: Comparing AI-Assisted Strategies in High School Programming Education
This exploratory case study investigated two contrasting pedagogical approaches for LCA-assisted programming with five novice high school students preparing for a WeChat Mini Program competition. In Phase 1, students used LCAs to generate code from abstract specifications (From-Scratch approach), achieving only 20% MVP completion. In Phase 2, students adapted existing Minimal Functional Units (MFUs), small, functional code examples, using LCAs, achieving 100% MVP completion. Analysis revealed t…

Join us now for the Yale Divinity School Diploma Ceremony live broadcast! https://vimeo.com/yaledivinityschool

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I don’t remember but we obviously took our Christmas card photos at the end of the summer! No sunscreen in the early 70s. Maybe around when school pictures were taken? Kind of digging my flower vest.

A 3D model simulation of hydrogen chloride photochemistry on Mars: Comparison with satellite data
Benjamin Benne (The University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, UK, Centre for Exoplanet Science, University of Edinburgh, UK), Paul I. Palmer (The University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, UK, Centre for Exoplanet Science, University of Edinburgh, UK), Benjamin M. Taysum (DLR, Germany), Kevin S. Olsen (Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK, School of Physical Sciences,…

A 3D model simulation of hydrogen chloride photochemistry on Mars: Comparison with satellite data
HCl was detected in the Martian atmosphere by the NOMAD and ACS spectrometers aboard the ExoMars TGO. Photochemical models show that using gas-phase chemistry alone is insufficient to reproduce these data. Recent work has developed a heterogeneous chemical network within a 1D photochemistry model, guided by the seasonal variability in HCl. The aim of this work is to show that incorporating heterogeneous chlorine chemistry into a global 3D model of Martian photochemistry with conventional gas-ph…

Harvard Divinity School broke precedent
by refusing to publish a video of its commencement speech
after a speaker went off-script to call attention to the perilous conditions in Gaza.
“There are no safe zones left in Gaza after 600 days and 77 years of genocide,” said Zehra Imam,
who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School this spring and participated in the embattled Religion and Public Life program.
Imam, who is Muslim, was speaking with two other students f…

A Harvard Commencement Speaker Mentioned Gaza. The School Refused to Publish Her Speech.
Divinity School insiders said Harvard’s practices are at odds with the public perception that the university is fighting Trump.

The 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Trailer Welcomes You Back to School
https://gizmodo.com/sdcc-2025-star-trek-starfleet-academy-trailer-2000635052

National prep wrestling awards handed out to coaches https://www.sportingnews.com/us/high-school/wrestling/news/national-prep-wrestling-awarded-handed-out-coaches/16ad65c6ee4d5f4db666e890…

From Press Progress
Ottawa Police Deny Inviting Convoy Figure to Help Them With Anti-LGBTQ Protest at Elementary School
Police face calls for investigation after ‘convoy church’ pastor tells city councillors he was ‘invited’ to help manage aggressive protests
by Luke LeBrun, Editor
May 16, 2025

Ottawa Police Deny Inviting Convoy Figure to Help Them With Anti-LGBTQ+ Protest at Elementary School
Police face calls for investigation after ‘convoy church’ pastor tells city councillors he was ‘invited’ to help manage aggressive protests

The Effects of Air Pollution on Teenagers' Cognitive Performance: Evidence from School Leaving Examination in Poland
Agata Galkiewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19801

The Effects of Air Pollution on Teenagers' Cognitive Performance: Evidence from School Leaving Examination in Poland
Random disturbances such as air pollution may affect cognitive performance, which, particularly in high-stakes settings, may have severe consequences for an individual's productivity and well-being. This paper examines the short-term effects of air pollution on school leaving exam results in Poland. I exploit random variation in air pollution between the days on which exams are held across three consecutive school years. I aim to capture this random variation by including school and time fixed …

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Gallup: ~60% of 2,232 teachers at US K-12 public schools say they used AI tools in the past school year; regular users estimate weekly time savings of 5.9 hours (Jocelyn Gecker/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatgpt-teacher-c…

Please share this link about the EIGHT (STEM / coding / design / engineering summer camps Shelly Fryer and I are teaching in June and July 2025 through "Summer at Providence Day School!"
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/summer-2025

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - Summer 2025
Students: Come have FUN this summer and develop your STEM / coding / design skills with Dr. Fryer and Mrs. Fryer at "Summer Day School at Providence Day School!" All week-long classes are open to BOTH current PDS students and students attending other schools! Direct links to register for each camp

Trump administration releases billions it withheld from schools (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/25/school-funds-released-trump-omb/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p68#a250725p68

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

The NFL's one and only HBCU draft pick won't soon forget where he comes from https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45787483/baltimore-ravens-draft-pick-carson-vinson-hbcu-background

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
-Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

From the article: "Gregory E. Sterling, dean of Yale Divinity School, recently said that Christians do not have to agree on all aspects of what the teachings of Jesus Christ mean, but we can apply the test given in the Fourth Gospel..."
https://www.churchleadership.c…

Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel? - Lewis Center for Church Leadership
Many Christians today feel tension between faith and politics, often confusing partisan allegiance with discipleship. Lovett Weems warns that Christianity’s credibility suffers when political power replaces Christlike love. True patriotism, rooted in Jesus’ teachings, values compassion, diversity, humility, and love. Why, indeed, are so many Christians so cruel? This is the question David French said Lovett Weems writes Christians risk losing credibility when politics eclipse Christlike lov…

"[I]n practice, his campaign for “real food” looks less like a reinvestment in farming and more like a rebrand of fast food. While the Trump administration continues to pull funding from school produce programs and tribal food systems, Kennedy has gone on national television to praise tallow-fried french fries as a step toward national wellness."
RFK Jr. cares more about french fries than US farms - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/26/rfk-jr-cares-more-about-french-fries-than-us-farms/

An MIT study of 54 ChatGPT users: using it for SAT essays led to the lowest brain engagement and poorer neural performance than using Google or writing unaided (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

Michigan State University professor Josh Cowen announced Thursday that he is running for one of the battleground state’s most competitive congressional districts,
joining a crowded field of Democrats seeking to challenge Republican Rep. Tom Barrett.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Cowen said federal worker layoffs and cuts to research funding and Medicaid inspired him to run for the Lansing-area seat that Barrett flipped in 2024.
“What it really means in our daily…

Michigan State professor Josh Cowen announces run for US Rep. Tom Barrett's seat
A third Democrat has announced a bid to run against Michigan Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett in one of the battleground state's most competitive districts. Josh Cowen is an education policy professor at Michigan State University known for his research on school voucher programs. He announced Thursday that he is running for the state's 7th Congressional District that encompasses the capital city of Lansing and surrounding rural areas. Barrett flipped the district in 2024, winning by 3.7 points …

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

🎻 Lisa Murkowski warns Donald Trump's freeze may close Alaska schools
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5415377-murkowski-trump-administration-school-funding-freeze/

The 'Boy Crisis' Is Overblown (Jessica Grose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/girls-boys-school-performance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk8.6mKP.TZqSP1WGOvK-&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p83#a250723p83

Slam dunk! Which boys basketball champion is Northeast Florida's best of the 21st century? https://www.jacksonville.com/story/sports/high-school/basketball/2025/07/24/florida-high-school…

Cynthia Santiago, an attorney in Southern California, won her high school presidential class race the same year Stephen Miller,
the current White House Deputy Chief of Staff,
lost the class speaker race.
More than 20 years later, Santiago is trying to fight Miller’s mass deportation efforts.
Santiago, the daughter of immigrants, has been working to defend immigrants’ rights since 2012.
But having gone to school with Miller, watching his rise to prominence in P…

She beat Stephen Miller in the race for high school class president. Now she’s fighting his deportation efforts
California attorney is fighting Miller’s mass deportation efforts by working as an immigration lawyer

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 515 nodes and 6379 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 409 nodes and 8557 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Section 7 high school boys basketball tournament 2025 brackets, teams, schedule https://www.sportingnews.com/us/high-school/boys-basketball/news/section-7-high-school-…

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

Three-time defending Iowa boys team has new coach https://www.sportingnews.com/us/high-school/boys-basketball/news/three-time-defending-iowa-boys-team-has-new-coach/fde900a1ddac0a2cd2d58165

White House to Release $1.3 Billion in Frozen Funds for After-School Programs (Sarah Mervosh/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/us/trump-after-school-funding.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p120#a250718p120

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

VOTE: Who is Northeast Florida's high school boys tennis player of the quarter-century? https://www.jacksonville.com/story/sports/high-school/tennis/2025/07/14/florida-high-school-boys-tennis…

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Tempo…

Tune In: Texans High School Girls Flag Team Faces Dallas Cowboys for NFL Championship on ESPN https://www.houstontexans.com/news/tune-in-texans-high-school-girls-flag-team-faces-dallas-cowboys-for-nfl-championship-on-e…

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 668 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Micah Parsons' HS coach reveals mindset that makes Cowboys star generational https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-high-school-coach-reveals-mindset-that-makes-dallas-cowboys-star-generational-ta…

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Tempo…

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 668 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 668 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 1437 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 188508 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 378 nodes and 3267 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish