Kelly Sheppard

spouse, parent, home cook, educator, cynical optimist, tRNA biochemist at a small liberal arts college

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

@NicoleAuerbach How much is NBCU likely making on sports betting? $100 to $200 million per year? That advertising & promotion isn't helping and creates a financial incentive to protect sports betting.

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

@wilnerhotline Really?

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

Why institutions of higher learning can not maintain institutional neutrality. Every college/university president should be calling out the retreat from knowledge.

[O.C. Register @ocregister]

Measles, whooping cough spike amid low vaccination rates https://t.co/1heVJ5heib

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

If only there were a safe process for removing pathogens from milk.

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

@MushtaqBilalPhD Writing is an important part of the research process for engaging the human mind deeply in the material.

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

Other selections - brand/reputational, operational (e.g., price to administer, score, etc.), legal/political pressures, market, and comparability to the past on top of the reliability and predictive validity.

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

Can we admit the SAT has not been optimally designed for how it is used? It has evolved over time. There is a founder effect and there are selections beyond performance that combine to give rise to likely a sub-optimal test.

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

@sethlfowler @neetu_arnold There are colleges that are staying test optional based on internal data.

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

@sethlfowler @neetu_arnold Poor admissions team that isn't using all the data that is available regarding predictors of academic success in college. They did the easy ones and removed one of them without modeling the impact.

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

Schools needing SAT/ACT with GPA may be telling you their admissions team isn't looking at all the data available and taking the easy route.

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

Colleges have more than GPA and SAT/ACT scores from students that are useful for admission-schools applicants attended, the classes taken vs. those offered, AP scores, grades in college courses, etc.

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

Hypothesis: Declining student performance in the U.S. may be partly influenced by the fact that educational systems of the 21st century were directly & indirectly designed, shaped, influenced, and led by cohorts with historically high childhood lead exposure.

[Agustín Fuentes @Anthrofuentes]

Fantastic review: Not in Your Genome https://t.co/HhqKQcHyRa via @nybooks

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

Really appreciate @janecoaston having me on her show to discuss our Harvard/Epstein series: https://t.co/aUSSHp5LX6

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

We found the secret “Jeffrey E. Epstein Fund for Women’s Athletics.”

It opened a new rabbit hole into how the billionaire pedophile used Harvard to launder his image.

And why the world’s richest university whitewashed its own Epstein investigation 🚨👀 https://t.co/tvf0bleuvA

[Amesh Adalja @AmeshAA]

“No child deaths were directly linked to COVID19 vaccines, according to the FDA’s long-awaited analysis..former CBER director Prasad claimed in a leaked internal memo that ‘at least 10 children have died after & because of receiving COVID19 vaccination.”
https://t.co/GvLNQP52XC

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

There is growing evidence from the ship that you probably don't need "prolonged close" contact to spread the virus.

And the implications here are pretty clear

If we are serious about ending this outbreak, all the passengers should undergo a full quarantine away from others

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

@tppwastaken @SethLargo Ours is the same. Students are creative. The question is how much effort do faculty and staff want to put into enforcement.

[Kelly Sheppard @kstrna62]

@GoldbergDoron @tylerblack32 My son has ADHD. Wife did not take acetaminophen when pregnant nor has she in a long time. She is allergic as is her mom and maternal grandmother.