The single greatest piece of feedback I've ever received on a student evaluation:

'For a good chunk of the semester I was confused on what the reading for the week was, until I finally I figured out we were supposed to be looking at the syllabus'

A study in mice at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests the brain has a role in age-related hearing loss. Findings show too many brain cells firing at once causes a “fuzzy sound stage” making it difficult to filter out ambient noise & focus on a single sound. bit.ly/3I3jWP6 #NIH

RFI invites input on NIDCD’s support of non-invasive imaging in humans for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of communication disorders. All responses to this RFI must be submitted via email to [email protected] by March 01, 2022. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n…

I received a lot of high-level advice on my NIH #K99 /R00 Pathway to Independence Award: start early, training is important, but the actionable pearls of wisdom were accumulated over a period of 6 months.

Here they are, distilled.

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Because DEI is a proverbial pacifier for the purpose of making people racialized as White comfortable with working in a historically White serving institution.
dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/1…

Warning: Advanced phishing attack. Got a pop up on both my iPhone & Apple Watch about password reset. I didn’t take action. Then received call from 1-800-MY-APPLE. Here’s what ensued:

Such a cool story from Sarah Schwartz

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The dean sisterhood Univ. of Maryland celebrate the end of the semester! Thankful for the support, friendship, and peer mentoring that happens in this group! UMD College of Education UMD Architecture UMD Libraries Merrill College @ Maryland BSOS @ UMD Maryland Arts & Humanities

Here is a handy chart to determine if your symptoms are from COVID, flu, RSV, and/or a cold.

A great reporter at Business Insider who published an important investigation of Tesla. businessinsider.com/tesla-faulty-b…

One of the main reasons I’ve been staying on twitter was to follow journalists. With them now getting kicked off by the owner, I’ve started making the move to the big hairy pachyderm. AT jzsimon AT mas DOT to

Get your free COVID tests through USPS, restarting again tomorrow! Please get yours and be careful around vulnerable friends and family this holiday season politico.com/news/2022/12/1…

Junior Black Faculty pro-tip:

It's student evaluation season. For many of us, these evals will be problematic. Check in with your chairs/other allies on campus as to how your department/program accounts for bias in evaluations.

Please join us tomorrow, December 13 at 1:00 pm EST (UTC-5) for the 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬🔬🧠*trainee* session of E.A.R.S:
kameron clayton Carla Griffiths Amy LeMessurier John Orczyk Erica Shook
Seminar: pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/95396120820
EARS website: sites.google.com/view/ears2020/…

Elon Musk asserts that at maximum only 10% of that crowd was booing him.

Elon Musk voices his opinion that Dr Fauci should be prosecuted.

SPECIAL ISSUE: RECONSIDERING CLASSIC IDEAS IN SPEECH

This paper revisits the notion that second-language learners acquire #speech sound categories in their target language. doi.org/10.1121/10.001…

Melissa Baese-Berk @bchandra_pitt Casey L. Roark
UO Linguistics Pitt Communication Science and Disorders

#acoustics

Yesterday a group of white, male academics disinvited me from their conference after I asked for equitable treatment as the other invited keynote speakers, who also happened to be white and male.
A 🧵 on sexism and discrimination in academia:
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Congratulations Giovanni!

Dear Faculty, With the rise of GPT3, I will no longer accept the excuse that you “don’t have time” to write grants or work on research