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Friend of the blog Alex has an interesting new essay “Why I Didn’t Put a Trigger Warning on My COVID-19 Assignment” up on Heterodox Academy. Check it out! https://heterodoxacademy.org/why-i-didnt-put-a-trigger-warning-on-my-covid-19-assignment/
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Oof. This comic from SMBC. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/funding
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Today, I am feeling acutely peeved because the pandemic has eaten up a semester of my sabbatical. I know I shouldn’t think this, I’m counting my blessings, etc. But there it is. Sabbatical is a major perk of a faculty job, one that makes up for a lot of other things. Yet here I was,
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Bits and pieces of doing the job: — Emailing with one program manager while working on a project report for another, from a different agency, and I feel a little like I am secretly juggling two significant others, nly instead of flirty texts we exchange graphs and Gannt charts and highlight slides and requests for
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For my fiction writing, I use specialized search engines — Duotrope (paid) and The Submission Grinder (free) — where you can look up different magazines, acceptance rates, and all sorts of cool stats. The engines rely on user-reported information on acceptances and rejections (dates, whether personal or not, whether preceded by a hold, etc.). Each
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I’ve written some (OK, maybe a lot) about the way I (dis)organize my time. My goal is not to throw shade at list lovers and über-organizers. However, I feel like the only “how to” voices we hear online come from the people who advocate that success, money, and happiness stem from buying planners and planning-related
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In my role as associate editor of a specialty journal, in the recent week or so I’ve been given, over and over, the crappiest of gifts: that two-line nonreview review, accompanied by a recommendation to reject. Some of these came from people who really should know better. These reviews are worthless. I cannot use them,
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Dear fellow readers, I am a STEM professor who decided to pour my frustrations into an essay. It’s written in a personal style, shaking my fist at the heavens about students who have never developed good skills in high school math and yet refuse to switch from a highly quantitative field to something else. I
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Wait, you thought I was done with links? BWAHAHAHAHAHA! No. And then Me and my sister recreated Mick Jagger and David Bowie’s Dancing in the street vid. Ur welcome @laviniajwright pic.twitter.com/F7kVT1kGTs — Maris Jones (@themarisjones) June 12, 2020 Asian parents have been parenting like this forever, I see 😆 -Tao Qian (~365–427 AD), translated by
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Lots to write about, but even more to do at work, which means I’ve hit a point of overwhelm at which I don’t feel like doing anything. But the work must be done, so, without further ado, Twitter links! It’s okay to take a break for your mental health. pic.twitter.com/joJNDbNY7T — Swear Trek (@swear_trek) June
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