Adam Blank

New episode! This time we talk to Adam Blank from @Caltech about master's degree only teaching faculty by discussing what a job title should mean. csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e3_teac…

AlphaGo is book-smart 🤓 Tic-Tac-Toe robot is street smart 😎 twitter.com/billym2k/statu…

Time for the weekend again

As I mentioned in my talk at GraceHopper last year, my association with the conference is pure unadulterated gaslighting. And after my talk last year @AnitaB_org decided to double down. Shame.

For all the oppressed yt folks out there.

@TaliaRinger Yep. I'm still dealing with it in therapy, honestly.

@countability Wow sounds like classic emotional abuse & workplace bullying

His whole thing was always saying alienating things loudly to try to get people to shut them down so he could feel persecuted. He and Pedro were their own little echo chamber, but Pedro was in it to harm people, and Stuart to become a martyr

One of the best parts of being a prof is hearing from alumni and what they're up to. Had a favorite prof in college (or even just one whose class meant a lot to you?) reach out to them once in a while and let them know. They want to hear from you :)

If you are straight and cisgendered, over the next few years you may start seeing and hearing LGBTQ people a lot less. It may be very gradual and subtle, and therefore hard for you to notice. So, I'm going to say now, while you can still see and hear me- this was deliberate.

As a person with ADHD, I know what it's like to experience so many memory errors that I've just learned to take them for granted. That's why this Pride, I'm partnering with C++ to

New Taulbee survey dropped (👍 to @ksm_csed for passing it along): cra.org/wp-content/upl… For those that aren't familiar, it has a lot of info about CS faculty in the US - demographics, hiring, salary, enrollment, etc.

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

A teacher invited me to speak about CS in her 2nd grade classroom in Florida. Then this DeSantis BS emerged and she asked if I would be disclosing that I’m trans. I said yes and she rescinded the invite. This is what erasure looks like. nytimes.com/2022/03/16/opi…

This might be a hot take but I’ll say that the introduction of pronouns at the beginning of a class has always made me, a trans person, uncomfortable because it suspends me—maybe me and one other person depending—in a state of hypervisibility.

For everyone teaching this term: do you recommend students to go to the Accommodations Office at your uni? If you do, are you aware of what that process looks like? Hint - the process is not good. It is not empowering. It is costly, time consuming, and demoralizing. 1/10

Turns out gender euphoria isn't just...the lack of gender dysphoria...who knew?

@hazelnym I know it’s just a joke, but diabetes is serious and for many of us isn’t our fault or necessarily due to “eating badly”. :(

Brain: DO A THING me: okay let's watch- brain: NO Me: Ok maybe let's make some - BRin: BORING Me: or i could rea- BRaen: ABSOLUTELY NEVER Me: scroll? BRAIN: WHY NOT DO THING *meltdown* Golly gee ADHD Sure is about not sitting still, huh?

@Caltech Apparently, we're going to add a footnote and change the wording...progress?

Hey @Caltech -- as a non-binary member of your faculty, where do I fit in on this chart? #current-gender-diversity" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">inclusive.caltech.edu/about/demograp…