Professors, Graduate School Directors, Dept. Chairs, PIs, Postdocs and white graduate students. Please take a few minutes to read stories from #BlackintheIvory We are telling our stories. True allies should be willing to listen.

Hey #AcademicChatter! For an interesting conversation about the relationship between teaching evaluations and teaching effectiveness, check out our recent paper in JARMAC and the corresponding commentaries written by several experts (linked below) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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If you define success solely in terms of gaining wealth, achievement, or influence, what you often lose is freedom. One of the greatest accomplishments in life is earning the freedom to choose how you spend your time. No currency is more valuable—or more scarce—than autonomy.

How "illusions of learning" can mislead students’ evaluations Amber Witherby @UmaTauber JARMAC the journal doi.org/10.1016/j.jarm…

The gap between the pandemic experience for academics with vs without school-age kids is a really important issue, and just to do my part to address it i'd like to reassure you that personally i'm completely unproductive despite having no children and I promise this will continue

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UW-Madison Psychology: NSF-funded 10 week summer undergrad PAID mentored research experience, w/weekly data science boot camp, for BIPOC/1st gen/low-income students. Run virtually in 2020; we shall see for summer 2021. Encourage your students to apply! psych.wisc.edu/nsf-reu-site-p…

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As a professor at a public university, who cares deeply about her students, I am beyond thrilled that we will have a President who was educated at a public university and knows the value and importance of public education.

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About a year ago, I wrote myself a ‘research philosophy’ and stuck it to my wall. When research opportunities have come up, I’ve used it to decide whether to go for them or not. I can’t tell you how useful and liberating it’s been Academic Chatter™ OpenAcademics

Definitely missing all of my Psychonomic Society friends this year, but not minding the increase of cats and leggings that seem to come with this virtual conferencing #psynom20

How to get a professor to do something: Q: Can you design and teach a new course, write a book, and repaint my house? A: Are you crazy? I'm way too busy! Q: How about in 6 months? A: Well, I'll probably have more time then...yeah, sure.

Great work Amber Witherby, I've been needing this kind of citation for years!

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YOUR REASON FOR SEEKING AN ABORTION IS THE RIGHT REASON. Whatever the reason is.