Thank you for everyone's kind feedback on today's webinar. Below is the link to a recording and a feedback form to help improve any sessions I may run in future. Recording: youtube.com/watch?v=Y40Wy1… Feedback: forms.gle/XLbnNGP8e9vqgV… thoughtsofaphd Academic Chatter™

Working with WE1S Project for the past 19 months and participating in its summer camp has been a humbling and valuable learning experience. Check out what I've learned from working "extra" remotely we1s.ucsb.edu/research_post/…

How #universityofmiami treats International students, especially the ones in minority, needs some serious professional observations. I wrote a piece about how UM refused to join the International campaign protecting Iranian applicants to Grad schools back in November 2019 /1

Please follow UM AAUP-Alliance if you are a UM employee or want to show your support.

There are SO many reasons that people may have “unproductive” weeks, with or without children, and we need to create space for that

Ive taught 3 courses during the pandemic now & feel as experienced as a prof can be given that we are only 4 months into this. here's a few basic lessons I've learned and what I fear for the coming semester. 1/

COVID-19 is overwhelmingly more likely to spread via large droplets (coughs) and aerosolized droplets (saliva spray from talkers) than from surfaces. That means: wear masks, keep distance, go outdoors. Surfaces ("fomites") are often a distraction. thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/…

Before starting my junior year of college, I made a trip to the local Walmart. I shopped for chicken, eggs, and milk when I noticed a man shyly approaching other customers. He looked to be in his forties, and I could overhear him nervously speaking in Spanish. 1/x

The Seven Deadly Sins As Goats: A Thread Pride

Faculty at the Capstone College of Nursing received this email from their dean yesterday directing instructors with children to consider quitting their jobs so that The University of Alabama can hire replacements.

If academics want to earn the public's trust, they can start by acknowledging how obscenely conservative their institutional standards are. Forcing students to appear on camera at a specific time, demanding they meet deadlines to the hour--what scholarly purpose does this serve?

Great mentors have the ability to see in you the talent, drive, and vision that you can't always see in yourself, and speak into reality the things that you are capable of but don't yet realize are possible.

This statement approved by the UM AAUP-Alliance asserts our right to design our course content and mode of instruction as best meets the needs of our students. #facultydecide 1/ drive.google.com/file/d/1cqGNua…

A reminder for junior scholars: When engaging with media about your work, consider answering the questions you want to be asked regardless of what you’re actually asked—a central part of scholarly expertise is the ability to reframe a dialogue [1/5]

So proud of ⁦Dr. Anna Nelson Bennett⁩ for her newest article! Project MUSE - Bagatelle or Stregamenti: The Spiritual Potential of Material Objects and Spaces in Late Rinascimento Venice, 1580–1630 muse.jhu.edu/article/764052

Hi, I'm Dieyun. I thought you were fake and spoiled when we first met, then I realized that you are just really optimistic and intuitive with your emotions.