Ben Shapiro (he/him)

Nothing I have to say about this man would pass mods and there is no French Revolution emoji, so I will just spit on the ground and keep moving. IYKYK.

Evidently my middle aged final form is Doug Martsch and I'm very ok with that.

We are at drag brunch. Woman next to us is paying tips to the queens using $1 bills from her kid’s swear jar and celebrating her divorce.

To all the young people talking about getting their backs blown out: I had a terrible muscle spasm at the gym today and don’t understand the appeal.

What the actual fuck? youtu.be/2sSRf7VOCmQ?...

Uber breach?

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

Dear academics, can we abolish conferences and invest in smaller, regional colloquiums and workshops? We can use all the money saved to invest in so many critical causes/orgs related to our collective scholarship. I think we can act with more direct action and urgency.

This slaps! youtu.be/HhViCmUeHfs

The Aristocrats!

You should watch Furious

Going all in with „The human body was created to experience sexual extasy, no exceptions.“ at a Catholic seminary.

But learning isn’t just information accumulation. It’s social and cultural. It’s identity work and community membership. It’s building relationships with ideas and gaining access to domain specific practices. Stop building educational tools and systems on outdated theories of cognition. 2/2

Really want a Blue Lights x Line of Duty crossover.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade holds up well.

Very much agree with Pieris's argument: investing public funds exclusively in research 'applications' (believing that they have greater and more immediate economic value) will destroy the real driver of economic growth: basic science is the *only* economic engine arxiv.org/abs/2608.00172

In part 2 of this podcast, Priyanka Parekh, @benshapi.ro, and I talk about the key ideas and findings in our JLS article "Reconfiguring Science through Caring Human Inquiry and Design with Pets." Relational caring can add to rather than detract from science learning!

Priyanka Parekh, @benshapi.ro and I were interviewed for the Journal of the Learning Sciences Podcast. Here is part 1 of it, where we talk about the journey of this study and paper. Research can be a productively winding road!

I've been on review panels. Can you imagine what the NIH and NSF could do with another $1.5B right now? There's so much good science that's going unfunded.

I just always get a kick out of credential-obsessed politicos who disdain the people and places that confer them. But, yes, faculty lounge is like a lava lamp at this point. We've only seen them in movies, David.

Can we get a Marcia Roy prequel series?

Pod Alert! Tune in to Professors Priyanka Parekh, @joepolman.bsky.social, and R. Benjamin Shapiro discuss their Outstanding Article of the Year, "Reconfiguring Science through Caring Human Inquiry and Design with Pets", in part 1 of our 2 episode conversation! pod.link/1871587810/e...

When can I eat salad again?

Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.

We have always gone to the theatre to watch the powerful fail. The yellow freaks we call Minions refuse the tragedy. They open the curtain and show us the ugly underbelly we secretly crave. They ask for nothing but a master. They say, "Tell me who to work for." And we, God help us, we cheer.

Have a good weekend

Is it better than o brother where art thou?

LOL! I’m watching the first lecture in @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s class on Hitler, Stalin, and Us and he begins with a Spinal Tap reference. Bravo!

Of all the pro athletes, Nicole Heavirland seems like she’d be the most fun to hang out with.

Wonder if Fetterman will be the third GOP Senator to go.

Them’s my ladybugs

After all the stories they’ve held in order to promote their books and protect their sources, I wonder which journalists at @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com actually know what’s up with McConnell and when they’ll condescend to inform us.

Last night, I dreamed that Jose Cuervo got acquired and renamed Hank Azaria

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Wendell Pierce is on Fresh Air today! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

I wish the WSB people would get very into shorting them

Congratulations to @dffeldon.bsky.social for winning Best Long Paper at ISLS 2026. As a mostly qualitative researcher, I love seeing very high quality quant research in LS spaces.

Orange County, I am in you.

Simply banning kids from social media, rather than enforcing sensible age-gating on certain sites and encouraging safer places for kids to go (a la Club Penguin, Habbo Hotel, NeoPets, etc.), is such a disservice to kids and gives a false sense of security to parents. Don’t ban, make spaces.