Tenured at a slipping state college in the US. Married with a 7 and a 10. Pro-worker. Anti-lecture. Clem Fandango's middle initial is H.
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20 Jul 2025
People say, "You're a professor, you must be rich.", and I say uh...no...I'm not...but I *live near* rich people and teach their children, and I've studied them, and I've seen how they make other people's lives miserable, including mine.
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If you're a professor using AI to grade papers, you should quit immediately.
Summer fruit “season” looking like summer fruit “week” based on prices this year, then we’re back to apples grown on another continent and stored for 18 months.
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Jun 15
The initial spread of learning-objectives-based instruction at the college level was protection against administrative takeover of teaching, not capitulation to it.
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Jun 13
Not long ago I had a part of a course where the students knew the material wouldn't be "on the test", and they all just opened their laptops and ignored me.
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Jun 12
The first US millionaire got special permission from the federal government to trade furs and then was a drug lord.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J…
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Jun 12
A lot of why professors cross-talk and disagree with each other here is bc our institutions are so different. If we were in each other’s shoes we’d prob agree on how things are “with students” and “in academia” these days. Prob the only thing we can all agree on is admin takeover
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Jun 10
Yes, but also I'm pretty sure the "human experience" and "world-class education" being referred to also costs a lot of money, unless faculty break their backs to make it happen at low cost for the institution.
Jun 10
Excellent op ed from our own Mark Levin on UChicago's deal with Anthropic:
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Jun 9
Just want to point out if you see someone trying to cross the street but oncoming traffic isn’t stopping, you can angle your car into the oncoming lane to make them stop. Works like a charm.
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Academic Dad retweeted
who up doing activist postmodern scholarship to undermine the humanities?
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Academic Dad retweeted
It’s all about a billionaire family handed legacy, generational billions whose only goal is to make billions more
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Jun 4
Taking a trip with the kids is less focused on the trip itself and more focused on setting up their GI tracts so that they can still poop when you get back home.
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Jun 4
🚨 Scientists say a protein found in whales could help humans live up to 200 years.
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The study found a protein in bowhead whales enhances DNA repair in human cells and extends fruit fly lifespan but did not claim it could enable humans to live 200 years. nature.com/articles/s4158… urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/sec…
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Jun 4
There is a possibility that the current iteration of faculty saying "students are not able to do what they could before" is worse than before. I mean, it's possible. This might not be the same old gripe.
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Academic Dad retweeted
There is little doubt in my mind that higher ed will have to change. I would like a university that defends the right of an education and away from the dictates of its corporate overlords who never cared or understood education, but this is wishful thinking on my part.
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Jun 4
I read attacks on average professors as punching down at this point.
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May 31
"What puzzles me is why a senior University academic would allow their name to be on some of the many manuscript submissions I have reviewed."
Senior academics are the worst abusers of the publishing system in general, that's why.
May 30
If you are a University lecturer and supervisor of Master’s students, by all means encourage students to learn how to write scientific journal articles but please stop encouraging them to submit such exercises to actual journals because you think it would be a good learning exercise for them. 🛑 ✋🏽 Many/most editors and reviewers provide their time voluntarily as part of their sense of duty to science. It is the job of the paid University supervisor to check the students’ work.
What puzzles me is why a senior University academic would allow their name to be on some of the many manuscript submissions I have reviewed. Did they even read it? Every author must sign that they have read and approved of the final manuscript, so what’s going on?
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May 30
I expect nothing from AI companies--those with the most blood on their hands here are university administrators, They've done fuck-all to help, and often actively made it worse.
One of the things that doesn’t get said enough in the discussions about AI and universities, is how professors/instructors/TAs are being expected to clean up the giant mess that these AI companies have made.
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May 29
It’s like the mayor just made a list of shit people have to do or put up with and he’s just working through the list seeing what he can do.
May 28
🚨 New York City has announced free tax preparation to all working families.
This will save New Yorkers an average of $346 per year.
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May 27
To my colleagues far and wide: if it's good enough for The Pope...
May 27
I can confirm that this is 100% false.
Not only was it written by hand, but the first drafts were literally written on paper with a pen.
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