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Academic Dad

@academicdad

Tenured at a slipping state college in the US. Married with a 6 and an 8. Pro-worker. Anti-lecture. Clem Fandango's middle initial is H.

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For the first time ever I added an attendance policy that allowed class absence up to a certain amount before points would be lost and almost half the class missed exactly the threshold amount of time it's so odd that they all had that same amount of missed class time.

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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

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On this recent Father's Day, parenting for almost a decade now, my 3 main pieces of unsolicited advice to people thinking of having kids are: 1) be rich, 2) live two doors away from rich parents with a huge house and a fenced-in yard, and 3) see 1.

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After this past year of students tripping and falling through of trying to use AI in college I find all of my thinking for the fall semester is focused on how extreme I'm willing to change my teaching to make AI use impossible in my courses.

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Student's getting a lot of heat but this is on the university, which I'm sure is no different from all the rest, including mine.

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If you think the UCLA kid is an outlier, or even a moderately uncommon case, I need to talk to you about this rocket to Mars I'm selling and no not the one that just blew up a different better one that's very real and has not blown up, unlike ChatGPT use by college students.

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When it’s a working class coded substance, it’s in the headlines. When it’s an airborne pathogen the ruling class wants to circulate, it dies in peer reviewed journals

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"[F]amilies of four must earn more than $200,000 to live comfortably in nearly every state." Can confirm. miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…

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The concept of "manufacturing consent" was the first thing I learned about intellectual self-defense and I thank Herman and Chomsky for it.

The concept of "manufacturing consent" was the first thing I learned about intellectual self-defense and I thank Herman and Chomsky for it.
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This dude has a real female partner and a child and says he’s not sure he’d choose them over his imaginary AI girlfriend who he loves if asked.