Dr. Molly B. Atkinson I gave up. There’s no way to do 80 hours of work in a 40-hour week, and the system relies on us to exploit ourselves. And our students see that, and internalize it. I refuse to do that. I work my week, and live my life, and it’s either enough or it’s not.

We define a successful search as hiring someone good enough to meet our evolving tenure standards, not so good that they leave after two years, and willing to work below market rates in an “affordable” location. Thanks for the question!

When students cheat on assignments it’s because they have been taught that the importance of grades outweighs knowing or learning things.

I am just a grad student, standing in front of departmental supplemental research funds, asking myself how $300 could ever be enough money to attend a conference

If no constructive, formative feedback is given during the semester, and assessment is only accomplished through high-stakes exams and electronic homework -why do we expect constructive feedback on student evaluations of teaching?

Need to grade these papers. But first, I’m gonna scrub every inch of the house clean with a toothbrush.

This week I tweeted about my new successful grant 🎉🎉 But you know what else happened this week? I failed....A.L.O.T. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ A thread 🧵of everything I wasn't excited to share with Academic Chatter™

Some advice I give my graduate students about how to keep on top of the literature in their field. A 🧵: 1/

Last year I taught myself R with resources I primarily found via Twitter. I've been meaning to share some of the resources here, and I finally have a little time today. So here they are... 🧵 Academic Chatter™ #rstudio #rstatistics

Want to get started on Zotero, but don't know how? Here's a list of my 8 Zotero tutorials - for FREE👇 Retweet it to share with your colleagues and students.

Here are 20 things you can do to become a better PhD student, postdoc and faculty member at the weekend:

Academia isn't a community or a family. It's individuals in jobs, that's it.

We need to talk about how often disabled instructors, attempting to provide radical access with flexible deadlines & participation requirements, wind up with their courses deprioritized by students who are desperately trying to shoulder other instructors’ hostile pedagogies.

Interviewing my students after their exam today…apparently they liked this exam the best this semester

Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD Do a buddy swap! Find someone to read your evals for you and take out all of the non constructive personal attacks for you. This way you're just left with constructive. The literature is pretty conclusive that women and POCs get dinged hard in evals and the comments can be awful

Today at Grading For Growth, I give 20 ways to get started with alternative grading on a small scale. Some of these are simple shifts in approach, while some are more concrete. But they are all good for students! #alternativegrading #highereducation gradingforgrowth.com/p/20-small-sta…