Could it be referred to #academic challenges? (On the door of a room at the Gästhaus I am staying in #Berlin) #Thoughts #Tuesday #academicwriting #Academiclife @academicchatter

@academicchatter

I'm finding a negative correlation with the number of full professors present and the likelihood that a meeting will actually take place without being moved at least once.

This negative correlation is exacerbated wildly if a dean is to be present.

(disclaimer: I do realize everyone is doing what they can. This is about too many meetings at all levels of academia.)

#TooManyMeetings #Academia #AcademicLife

Love it when problems solve themselves.

I was trying to figure out how to teleport in order to fit in a meeting with many busy people, that could only be at that one specific time which is inconvenient but not impossible for me so I said "yes".... and now the meeting has been moved to a time *much* easier for me.

#AcademicLife #Academia #teleportation #calendar #TooManyMeetings

A thread on fairness in instructing. I think we do a terrible job training new instructors on what it really looks like to be fair. When I started as a new assistant professor, I was very concerned about being fair.

But, I didn’t think it was possible to be compassionate to students and also be fair.

This is because I saw any act of compassion to one student would be unfair to other students.

I no longer think this is true. Here’s why. 1/🧵

#Teaching #AcademicChatter #AcademicLife #College

My work desk only exists for my #cat when I am working at it. Just had a Zoom meeting with my advisor where Chester proceeded to dive bomb it like a plane, roll on the keyboard, step on the keyboard, and scream directly into the mic. I have never seen my cat go near my desk if I am not sitting at it. :meow_bongo_keyboard:

#cats #academiclife #phdlife

*distracted wave at Masto*

Busy and sleep-deprived. Work on articles, home repairs headache (technician never came and I have faulty powerpoints), and maximizing practice for incoming music exams.

#today #musicians #litodons #academiclife

🆕 We're back and full of good news! The IHC will be welcoming six new doctoral students with FCT fully-funded scholarships.🥳

👉 Read the full story on our website:
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/six-new-fct-doctoral-scholarships/

@histodons
@anthropology
#histodons #PhDScholarships #AcademicLife #Anthropology

How did my September become so ridiculously busy? Happy to meet, how about the 20th 😮

Need to get better at planning ahead and protect some research and design time #AcademicLife

A fatigue kind of day today because of the health stuff I don't want to get into too much detail about.

Looks like I didn't get one of the grants I worked so hard on but oh well, I was expecting not to get it. At this point I've just had bad news for years (both academically and as a creative writer) and expect, almost welcome it (because I am perverse and also I am so used to rejection now that the idea of acceptance terrifies me).

Onwards and upwards. I'm more interested in the fact that I want to make a chicken curry for Malaysia's national day. IDEK, sudden craving for my own curry.

ps: the two types of sambal have sustained me all week and I'm so glad for them. Consumed with rice, salted egg, sambal belacan and sambal cencaluk. Heaven!

#academicchatter #academiclife #litodons #amwriting #writinglife #writingcommunity #MakanApaToday

Writing your ethical application and using your breaks to listen to leftist philosophers isn't a good idea. I am closing my day with 700 words of stream of consciousness that started as a reflection on the #RightToRepair and ended with a #SmashTheSystem call (unpublished and unpublishable for now).

#AcademicLife #AcademicMastodon #Left #AmWriting

Students usually attend #OfficeHours right before a deadline (an exam, assignment, presentation) or after receiving their grade. But with a little reframing, office hours can have a transformative effect on students and faculty.

https://ideasonfire.net/office-hours/

#AcademicLife #Pedagogy

The CEL movement is growing, wheels are turning!
More about CEL at Utrecht University here: https://www.uu.nl/en/education/community-engaged-learning
...and for colleagues at UU, there is another CEL course for teachers coming up from Feb - June 2024; very highly recommend! https://www.uu.nl/en/news/second-community-engaged-learning-course-registration-open-for-teachers

#CommunityEngagedLearning #HigherEducation #teaching #Academia #UtrechtUniversity #ProfessionalDevelopment #AcademicLife

I've been working since 8 this morning getting ready for the start of the new semester. Look at this lazy one. I'm going to need a new TA. #CatsOfMastodon #AcademicLife #Sociology #TeachingAssistant

The other thing I did was write to the liberal studies option centre to cancel my Tolkien course for the coming semester. Was sad to do it but I got my teaching schedule this morning. Four courses looks good on paper before you figure out that for two of those huge courses you're teaching two separate tutorials and that doubles your teaching hours. I think 15 hours is murder for an academic who has 21 PhD supervisees (and main for 20 of those). So now it's....13 hours.

#litodons #academicchatter #academiclife #today

So, clearing out an email inbox in which you have a dot-to-dot record of nearly 20 years of your work and life is both a liberating and disconcerting process. #academiclife #newjob

With the start of the academic year, I want to repost my expert learning article. Soon, graduate students will start their first lab rotations. A lucky few will walk in, and things will work seemingly magically on day one. For most, this marks the start of a sometimes arduous journey of learning to be an expert experimentalist. As a PI, have you ever wondered how to make this journey less arduous? 1/🧵

https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E22-11-0517

#Mentoring #AcademicLife #LabLife #GraduateSchool #GradSchool #PhD

*distracted wave*

Won't be business as usual on Masto this eve, busy working on article and monograph. There are hauntological intersections which is why this is possible.

#Today #academicchatter #academiclife #litodons

Syllabus_F2023_Final.pdf

[notices a wrong date or chapter assigned]

“Damnit!”

Syllabus_F2023_Final_FINAL.pdf

#ShortPlay #AcademicLife

how do you feel when, in a double blinded review, the reviewer suggest you to have a careful look at a previous paper written by .... you?

i am not sure if i should feel glad, furious ... or just laugh

#AcademicLife

#3GoodThings for this #Tuesday

1. Progress in my academic writing/research -- mostly because no one harassed or otherwise disturbed me today, or maybe I just tuned out the world to the extent that no one could.
2. The second batch of crab rangoon I made last night is so tasty! Made with store-bought wrappers but the good stuff. I don't know how to make them thin enough yet. Possibly the wrong kind of flour also.
3. Music for today: boygenius, Cocteau Twins, Jessica Pratt, Fleet Foxes, Future Islands (so excited whenever they drop a new single).

#Today #music #indie #indiefolk #indiemusic #indiepop #academia #academiclife #academicchatter #litodons