Assistant Professor at University of Washington. @uw_cms. Writing about image reproduction and automation. Mostly here for the Jeanne Dielman memes. She/her
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My article on AIR CONDITIONING just dropped in the fab new issue of Discourse. Read to hear me wild out on image ideologies, mass production, atmospheric work discipline, a fire at MoMA, conservation handbooks, macaroni factories, & more muse.jhu.edu/pub/27/article/…
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This is functionally historians' hobo code. Do *not* expect a hot meal at this library.
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Holy Father the post will perform better if you append the url in a threaded reply as opposed to linking it in the tweet
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Yup. My pedagogy has been AI-proof for years 💪
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It’s amazing how everyone is lamenting the way AI makes it impossible to assign take-home essays anymore when you can just give students in-class exams with true/false questions.
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I have seriously considered the following for large lectures:
Final grade based on a combination of (tough) exams and (easy) in-class activities.
Writing a paper is optional. Not extra credit. Optional. Won’t affect grade one bit. The reward is deep, engaged feedback
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There was this brief but wonderful golden age of my parenting in which I was able, through a combination of screen-deprivation and sheer hype, to watch my favorite experimental films with an emphatic and easily impressed toddler
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5yo just told me the promotional reel playing in the cheese department at the grocery store is the best movie she’s ever seen. May have overdone it on the no screens thing
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I feel so bad for the kids these days. The price spread between the donation bin and luxury consignment has totally collapsed. In my youth, if you knew even a little bit about fashion, this gave you enough information asymmetry to utterly dominate your local charity stores.
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Very last European uncontacted tribe to catch the nationalist mind virus
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It’s crazy that they made a book with all of the correct answers in it
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my point is, how are we blaming people for holding onto their jobs?
it's not like most schools are going to replace retirees with new TT lines
come on
where I work, older profs are being encouraged to leave via a new scheme called the Retirement Incentive Program--that's RIP, yes
they will not be replaced
the programs will shrink and be amalgamated with others, including across universities, or they will close
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Imo you should, at a bare minimum, have read the book you are criticizing. Not reviews of the book. The book itself.
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4 Nov 2024
need to be six beers deep at the new deal club
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The perfect academic article does not exi— taylorfrancis.com/chapters/e…
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sorry if this sounds old fashioned but whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
the droghte of March hath perced to the roote, and bathed every veyne in swich licóur of which vertú engendred is the flour
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Also: reading is like athletics in that you have to build up strength and stamina and strategy, also in that it gives you more and more joy as you get better at it. It’s unlike athletics in that you don’t age out: it just keeps getting easier and more rewarding!
If you’re in a funded graduate program in the humanities, then reading IS your job. Graduate students in coursework should be spending no more than 20 hours a week on teaching because they NEED to spend 20 hours on reading
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