Today's marking motivation was brought to me by a note from my husband, cuddles from my dog, and brilliance from my students.
Like most things in patriarchal systems, this silence is bad for dads and worse for everyone else involved in caregiving.
Earlier in my career, I tried to get academic men to talk about this. Didn’t really work. There was one panel on parenting at a major conference in which the only two men in the full room were me, a panelist, and a (gay) friend who is not a parent and doesn’t want to be one.
YES. That word is the brightest thread in its rich tapestry of bs bsky.app/profile/pfyf...
How many times I saw the word "tapestry" in undergrad papers in the 20 years I've been marking papers before the invention of ChatGPT: 2. Maybe 3. Number of times in the two years since the invention of ChatGPT: 60. Maybe 70.
At the time of writing, our staff are witnessing people being shot at as they attempt to flee the Al-Shifa hospital. MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients.
“The pattern of underspending across Canadian provinces suggests both an ideological motive and a certain degree of coordination amongst conservative premiers. Is the push for healthcare privatization, then, a calculated move, fueled by the concerted hollowing out of our provincial systems?”
