It is impossible to overstate how much Sea Otter Awareness week cheered up my Instagram feed. Following lots of aquariums was an excellent idea. 🦦
On the one hand, though I do want to read it, I am not really keen enough on Intermezzo to want it in hard cover. On the other hand, it is currently possible to get it at a discount at some national chains for close to what will likely be the cost of the paperback when it eventually comes out. Hmmm.
I just opened up a file of some PPT slides from my classes in early March 2020 and it felt like my whole world tilted a little. I don't know what's more disorienting: that I don't feel like the same person I was then or that I do feel like the same person I was then, both of which are true.
Quite enjoying The Bee Sting so far. 🐝
"I think we can’t persuade students to read what we want to teach them; we have to teach what students want to read." Really? To me this is really abandoning education as a project of discovery, not to mention challenge and growth. This is to abandon both them and our own values.
Where we’re at now, like it or not. 😑 A history major “runs his assigned readings through ChatGPT to generate summaries of the text, answer specific Q, & identify quotes. ‘I don’t have the time to literally read every single word that gets assigned,’he said.” www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
Students are turning to YouTube, podcasts and ChatGPT-crafted summaries rather than actually reading their assignments for class. Professors are unsure how to adapt.
Andy Fillmore’s despicable lie about Halifax’s unhoused www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...@timbousquet.bsky.social
These are our people, this is our problem.
Talking about Donne today in class and tempted just to play this clip and let them all go early. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXow...
YouTube video by C Darwin
I have no idea if the talk I'll be giving in the department will stand up to their scrutiny but I am happy to find that I am still genuinely interested in it myself and at the end of the day, that's the point of this whole enterprise. Curiosity-driven research ftw!
What did we even do before PowerPoint to put off the real work of preparing a talk we have to give while still feeling like we are working on it? 🙃
Ok, this is a bit of Sally Rooney discourse I have to weigh in on. When did 33 become middle aged? Or even “approaching” middle age? 🙄 😅
