Associate Prof

The "masks are child abuse" and "the child must birth a baby" venn diagram is a circle

Well-endowed highly exclusionary universities asking job candidates to submit DEI statements rather than transferring material resources to the educational institutions that serve large underprivileged populations is pretty comical.

This is the only real time travel paradox

every piece of software now: "I see you've opened me to do work, would you like me to update?"

the joke is that tenure is a pie-eating competition where the prize is more pie, but technically it seems to be a pie-eating competition where the prize is serving on committees

I should put a bowl of this Halloween candy in my office in case anyone wants some. -Me, working from home. Alone.

Me every time rereading something that I wrote 20 minutes ago:

How to make six figures a day in grad school:

the one rule of reporting i've learned is that if a subject sounds really dry or nuanced or boring just call up three people who have made that subject area the focus of their professional lives and listen to everything they say and 95% of the time you come away like HOLY SHIT

@profmusgrave Our students need x number of clinical hours to graduate and they enroll in practicum to go out into the community and get those hours with supervisors out in the community. They don't meet as a class or anything and the listed instructors don't teach/get to count it as teaching

So what exactly does “practicum” mean? Please bear in mind I’ve been in and around universities for something like 15 years, and I think I’ve even taught some of these.

Here is a lab lab! Our lab here needs to wear PPE just like the people doing the science. He is the service dog of a student in a chemistry professor's lab. (Shared with permission.)

I am just here because I am supposed to be writing.

All female student athletes were ~asked~ to come to the game to recognize 50 years of Title IX. We were on the field for maybe 15 seconds then screamed at to get off. If you want to honor female student athletes, then do that, not this.

"The worst script is the one never written" he said to himself as he wrote the second worst script.

@profmusgrave No one asked and no idea if anyone cared but I reported that alongside citations and altmetrics for each article on my dossier

Ok, WHO is tracking **article downloads** as meaningful parts of the tenure process?

i bought a little notebook. it’s not going to be like all those other times i thought i could use a little notebook