#Profs

Something that always strikes me is how surprised my students are when I take an interest in their interests, research, & careers in general. Y’all, it goes a long way
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Happy Back To School to all the university undergrads!! To help you guys out in this school year, here’s a thread of things I wish I knew as a science
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I was going to save this appreciation for #communitycollege English profs until my son turned in his final papers Monday. But it seems a good day to talk abt the
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Thread scientifique Une étude sur plusieurs années, menée sur le terrain hostile de la Sorbonne, m'a permis de déterminer avec une marge d'erreur de 0.1% le profil des étudiant.e.s
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Thinking about names today. At my undergrad, everyone was addressed by their honorific - Mr/Ms/Mx Lastname. Every classmate learned my "difficult" last name. We'd practice with each other to make
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Iowa in the 2020s is going to combine the worst of Scott Walker's Wisconsin with the worst of Sam Brownback's Kansas: we'll be a low-wage, low education extraction economy state
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Hi everyone! I’ll be live tweeting #UAlberta’s General Faculties Council (GFC) meeting today! Follow along for updates #abpse The meeting today opens up with Kate Peters, GFC secretary, explaining the
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I have spent this weekend reading about theologies of the internet after finishing week two of the semester, where I’ve watched colleagues continually tweet specific things (complaints) about profs, classmates
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I understand it's hard to speak to black Zoom screens with names but no faces. I get it. But I won't force students to turn cameras on. I asked them
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I regularly see lots of "don't worry if your grades suck" posts, but I rarely see advice about how to work around/through it. I, too, didn't have good grades 1st
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I'm applying to postdocs and jobs this cycle and I have not seen one job listing for history of medicine, early American history, or american studies that explicitly lists disability
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The costs of applying to an econ PhD are INSANE. It would have been difficult for me if I hadn’t been working full time when applying. See Anna’s thread/responses for
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Plenty of students feel a lot of pressure, especially at the start of a term, to be "perfect".But studying all day, every day isn't sustainable! ESPECIALLY not right now.During times
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I'd like to offer a big old fat fuck you to every person who has ever maligned community colleges. Thanks to your classist bullshit, thousands of students everywhere believe that
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"Quand on veut on peut 'spèce de victime gnéééé" Nan parce que la solution pour lutter contre la bourgeoisie c'est que Raymond ouvrier chez Renault se mette à lire Emmanuel
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SO I know there’s been a gazillion threads on this, but I’m supposed to teach 3 classes next quarter with no childcare & aside from concerns about how on earth
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