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jagosaurus
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it feels like life is just me constantly saying “do what now?” with increasing alarm and irritation
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Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social |
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Assistant Professor of 19th century British Literature. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education.
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jagosaurus
@jagosaurus.bsky.social
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it feels like life is just me constantly saying “do what now?” with increasing alarm and irritation
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
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Not entirely clear what result in the last several years made keeping him seem viable 🤔
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J.R.
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One of my favourite Art Deco pieces, over the door of the Fulton County Dept. of Health and Wellness. Swole spirit of medicine fights off the grim spectre of death, reminding you that medicine is Cool
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Foz Meadows
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being in my late thirties feels like I'm a third of the way into playing a really involved rpg and have only just got a sufficient handle on the game mechanics to realise all the ways I've been playing it wrong, only I can't restart or roll a new character and cross-classing late is punitive.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
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Tens of thousands of them
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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New LotR spin-off that’s just Gandalf getting baked with various characters and trying to recount Middle Earth lore stoned out of their gourds blowing funky smoke rings.
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Ryan Boyd
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Juice got weed, Juice got pills, Juice got that work on the corner cutting deals
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
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Assign less reading, eh? *glances nervously at my field of study based almost entirely on three-volume novels
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Annie Abrams
@annieabrams.bsky.social
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Academics in every discipline should be keeping a close watch on AP curricula and exams.
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Melissa F. Olson at #SDCC2024
@mfolson.bsky.social
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I want to start a podcast that’s just authors explaining their book dedications
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Randy Meeks
@imrandymeeks.bsky.social
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I don't even go there, and this is still the funniest shit
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Nathan K. Hensley
@nathankhensley.bsky.social
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Look at this absolutely badass edition of *Middlemarch* that @ronjaunee.bsky.social edited for Norton— intellectually fierce and elegantly framed, a new standard.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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“CLASS IS JUST A PERFORMANCE! Or, umm, CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS IS DISCRIMINATION!”, they shout from the windows of their cyber-trucks!
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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Step 1: break something Step 2: institute a barely functional substitute that has a few almost incidental positive qualities Step 3: cry bloody murder if anyone attempts to change the system bc of the few positives Step 4: break something else Anyhow, welcome to Education™️
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Tyler James Hill
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Gandalf's entire career is just showing up, saying cryptic shit, and then disappearing for weeks. Honestly, we could all learn a lot from it.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
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Unreal that admin has been starving Humanities majors while also ruling by reading hypothetical nuance into figurative language
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Saucy Rick Havoc
@rickhavoc.bsky.social
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Time for an economics lesson.
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Stori3d Past
@stori3dpast.bsky.social
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Suddenly reminded of "The Creative Song" on YouTube.
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Jaishri Srinivasan 💧🔥
@jaishrijuice.bsky.social
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Interesting special issue!
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
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Anything can be a memento mori if you think about it hard enough 🤔💀
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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😩😩😩
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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The crushing feeling of defeat when you’re almost done shopping and realize that you missed something you needed to pick up in one of the first aisles 😅😨
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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When I said I’d get things done “this year” I meant a year on Neptune* *60,190 Earth days
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Pavel
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Oh you're a pundit? Name every pun
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Charles Logan
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I think about this quote from Audrey Watters' Teaching Machines a lot: "With the students of Harlem as his test subjects, [B. F.] Skinner could rescue them from a failing system and as an ed-tech savior, he could then convince the rest of the world of the effectiveness of his teaching machines."
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Amy Sherman
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the last book I finished was a history of the book index so I thought I'd follow up with a book about the chapter
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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Based
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
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*luddite salute 🫡
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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“Hey! Great seeing you. Anyhow I have a pile of a few hundred folders in my office. Go sort around in there if you want that information I said I’d send you!”
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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Oh ya, those bad boys were like the checkout cards in old library books. You could read an entire network history in their previous crossed out recipients 😅
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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I don’t mind the library silence of low Bluesky interaction. It’s the cumulative feeling of all of us simultaneously and repeatedly losing our phones each time we put them down.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
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Mostly just dropped stuff in the receptacles on people’s office doors I think for intra org messages and calls/faxes/letters for the broader stuff 🤔 It was the golden age of memos 📝
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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“WHAT DID PEOPLE DO BEFORE CELLPHONES?!” There were just pay phones in various convenient locations and most of your day you were mercifully detached from the worries and cares of the broader world 😅
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George Musser
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As if we didn't have enough environmental problems, now earthworm populations are crashing: in the U.K., down a third in the past 25 years. No one is sure why. Fun fact: 1 cubic meter of healthy soil has 1 km of worm tunnels. 🧪 www.economist.com/britain/2024...
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Molly Shah
@mommunism.bsky.social
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Gonna check out this new Inside Out movie now I guess
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
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One of the reasons TA work is sometimes (AND OFTEN NOT) repetitive lower-skilled tasks is bc these are training tasks for early career scholars. If we automate them and eliminate the positions associated with them, we are explicitly gutting the future of these fields.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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Did a podcast with her the other day on the book! www.studiesinthenovel.org/interact/pod...
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James Wallis
@jameswallis.bsky.social
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Please remember, when reviewing anything online: * Three stars is now considered a negative review * Four stars is the new three stars * Five stars now means 'above average' On behalf of creators everywhere, thank you
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Lauren Eriks Cline
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Having been the subject of a faculty vote of no confidence at a previous institution seems in many cases to read as a letter of recommendation to boards.
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Wilbur72
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Farewell my friend, until we meet on the ‘morrow. - me, to my coffee
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Judith Butlerian Jihad
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Nature does not abhor a vacuum. 99.9999999999999999999958% of the Universe is empty. The rest is old boots and stars and tea stains and you. But atoms are also 99.9999999996% empty. Everything is mostly nothing really. Looking at it that way, it’s easy to justify eating an entire tub of ice cream.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
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You fucking did it, John. Proud of you ✊
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
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*crushing this and snorting it
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Loather
@loather.bsky.social
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why did we stop sending men to the moon. So many men could fit up there
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Andy Famiglietti
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The robot is not a bargaining unit member and must not be given bargaining unit work. Faculty unions should be looking over their contracts right now, figuring out exactly how to grieve or otherwise oppose the introduction of these systems.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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I don’t think our accreditation system is in any way prepared for what’s coming 😩
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Wicked Ho
@nicebutnot.bsky.social
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this is how my posts are written
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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So much of being a TA is negotiating what does not belong in the information system. Training only off of what is processed creates enormous issues.
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