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I'm working hard this morning to convince the State of Massachusetts that I should be exempt from the oral communciations course requirement due to my 215 delivered presentations including international plenary talks. Wish me luck.

🧵🚨: Remember the recent #genAI cheating scandal at Brown? Everyone talks about the average score drop from take-home midterm to proctored final: 95.7 → 48.8. That number alone can't settle anything. But the released data can, and almost nobody has looked at it. So we did! Read on. #AcademicSky

What exam scores can and cannot prove about unauthorized AI assistance: Evidence from a highly public classroom episodeIn spring 2026, an economics professor at Brown University gave a take-home midterm and, after unusually high scores, made the final exam proctored. Among the 59 students who completed the course, ave...arxiv.org

HEY NERDS: tech question. On one hand, I hate Google products because of fascism and DEI rollbacks and data (un)privacy. So I am an Apple guy (where they get you on hardware). However... I hate having an iPhone. My iPhone 15 pro is too big. I'd love a 3 -5 in phone. But those are all Android. Help.

Oh, you'd like a thorough, scientific debunking of this terrible WSJ piece about alleged rises in allegedly destructive estrangement from parents? HOLD MY FREAKIN' BEER.

The Number the Journal Doesn't Substantiate: A Response to the Wall Street Journal on Therapy and Estrangement — Chad M. TopazThe Journal says a survey of some 7,000 estranged parents found a third who believed their child's therapist had influenced the cutoff. The nearest public survey can't be reconciled with that number, ...chadtopaz.com

Update, he claims "it just fell open to that page." Good thing I have 30 years of trustworthy marriage with this man.

My husband is already gone for the day and I just wandered into the kitchen to find THIS. I am actually fearful that this man is planning a pizookie.

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i try to use this exclamation sparingly, but it is warranted. DAFUQ???????

I'm grateful to have been in (asynchronous) communication with @kylesiler.bsky.social about his important paper, "The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles." A colleague and I had comments; Siler had great responses. Read his insightful work and the subsequent discourse.

Hi I have a successful and somewhat decorated career in academia also I am shit at taking blood pressures EMT training is hard I am humbled pass the beer

🇬🇧💂📚Today, I’m celebrating UK release day for my book! Brits, enjoy! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Unlocking JusticeHow we can challenge social injustice—with data and humanitypress.princeton.edu

Still cannot believe we are doing Weekend at Mitch's.

I have no idea how it came to be that my book is "What we are reading today" at Arab News but I am VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS!!!! www.arabnews.com/node/2652513...

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Unlocking Justice’ by Chad M. TopazThe American legal system does not offer equal justice to all; we can see obvious racial disparities in sentencing, policing, and incarceration. In “Unlocking Justice,” Chad Topaz offers a concrete wa...www.arabnews.com

I am very excited to have this out in PNAS as of right now. This one is a case of: I can believe a thing to be true (increased LLM usage) but I can also believe that a particular set of evidence does not demonstrate that truth. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Next Chris Nolan movie in rap form, License to Iliad.

I don't use Meta products (no Facebook, no Insta, etc.) and I will not buy the Meta glasses. BUT... I dislike the absolutist discourse that anyone who has smart glasses is a pervert. I have prosopagnosia. An assistive device that told me who I was talking to at any moment would be life-changing.

I am really chuffed to appear today in "The Story Architect," which is the online newsletter/magazine of the esteemed writer (and doer of many other things) @elementsofwriting.bsky.social. I hope you'll consider checking out the piece, "The Mathematician as Storyteller." #MathSky #ITeachMath

The Mathematician as Storyteller: A Conversation with Chad Topazin his book about problems of social justice, Chad Topaz toggles between stories and statistics. In this Q&A, he explores his approach to both.thestoryarchitect.substack.com