Indeed. SCHs rule all, and that's been true of online education since COVID.

Kim Weeden@weedenkim.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Alluded to but not elaborated: Instructors who still have in-class assessments will see declining course enrollments. Those who have take-home (or online) exams will see rising enrollments. Stack this on top of butts-in-seats budget models and you get some, um, interesting incentive structures.

I am generally a fan of the earlymoderntexts simplifications because bullet points and modern punctuation rule, but good Lord what have they done to the Meditations. A faux dialogue! "Vivid and clear" instead of "clear and distinct"?!

But if you can master this, padawan, the highways and byways of the country will pose no challenge to you

J🍩ey Bag 🍩f D🍩nuts 🍩@joeybagovdonuts.bsky.social · 6mo ago

If you’re coming to Pittsburgh for the NFL draft and have to drive, all I’ll offer is thoughts and prayers

Any theory of American politics that doesn't start with the instinct to throw the bums out badly misses the mark

RationallyDense (they/she/he/any)@rationallydense.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I think the issue is that mainstream parties are all bad at governing. So every few years, voters go "Well, this didn't work out. I guess we might as well try the other guys..."

From recent events, why would they need to make the trains run on time rather than simply lying and saying they did?

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · last yr.

Even now, when I watch that Star Trek ep with the Nazi planet and the dying old man says of Hitler's Germany "most efficient state...earth ever knew" I yell at the TV. I even footnoted it in a book:

How would wearing a mask prevent an assault?

Philip Bump@pbump.com · last yr.

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

For my non-Utah friends, this is kind of a big deal. The Desert News is an LDS-oriented paper. Hope springs eternal.

Politico@politico.com · last yr.

The editorial board of a publication in Sen. Mike Lee's home state of Utah called on him to apologize for his posts about the Minnesota shootings, writing that they “were unacceptable for anyone, let alone from a member of the Senate.”

It's the entire game.

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 2y ago

developing an ear for the cadences and music of language is a difficult and worthwhile thing.

The Greeks absolutely had it right when they included a chorus in their plays. They knew audiences are dumbasses who need to be told “THIS MAN IS BAD. HE IS HERE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT *NOT* TO DO. WOE TO THE BUMPTIOUS FOOL WHO WOULD IDOLIZE HIM. YOU ARE NOT, NOR DO YOU WANT TO BE, ALEX DELARGE”

At my institution, the faculty senate executive committee has seven women (of nine members), five who are also simultaneously department chairs.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 2y ago

This article is about the US, but one cannot overestate the deep, deep misogyny of academic life, its hatred for and rejection of family and caring responsibilities, or the way in which admin/ service roles are dumped on women. A hostile ecosystem. www.science.org/content/arti...

I must be missing something because the UCLA prof with the AI textbook is... not using it to replace TAs or de-skill the class or using it so she doesn't have to teach.

Yes! This story needs to be told. Dumping of history majors is incredibly short sighted. When administrators do this, they're revealing their ignorance of the discipline and its value across careers.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2y ago

Moderating a panel of past History majors, telling our current students about the career paths they took — from politics and law to cultural work and consulting. Really impressive, and that’s with a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter missing due to being sick. History: Just Do It

"the coup started and was over by morning coffee" is not something that I'd expect would have a democratic resolution

Fascinating piece by @cherylmisak.bsky.social . I had no idea about the efforts of these brave philosophers. aeon.co/essays/how-a...

How a Cold War underground university smuggled in Western ideas | Aeon Essays

During the Cold War, Oxford philosophers worked together to aid dissidents behind the Iron Curtain. I was one of them

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Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

Successfully got the kids to refer to my purse as the Bag of Holding

Yräm, a braided floor mat

Pekka Väyrynen@vayrynen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi I'm Äkkep, a wooden door wedge.

@thisishannahkim.bsky.social The Neverending Story just broke my kids -- fiction in a fiction...

Yesterday the kids made dinner and we watched the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving which was oddly on theme

My 2016 book, Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception is now also freely downloadable at the Oxford University Press website: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

When a philosopher turns out to be a sleazeball that’s a concept creep.

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20... Education drives equity. Universities maintain our strategic supply of nerds and make sure future nerds can train. The "demographic cliff" is a slow decline to roughly 1997 levels, a lie predicated on the assumption that Hispanic kids won't go to college. 1/

Rural students’ options shrink as colleges slash majors

As enrollments fall, rural-serving universities are shedding degree programs ranging from music to chemistry.

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Appreciating the proper use of the subjunctive in Jeremiah was a bullfrog

People who are wondering how the war on higher ed is going should pay attention to Utah over the next few months. I stand a decent chance of losing my job because someone read a land acknowledgement at a different university, and that made the legislature mad. The press calls it a budget cut. 1/

We do not have a faculty lounge, unless you count the conference room with the non-working computer

Also two weeks ago in aesthetics class one of us used Cormac McCarthy as an example of an author who wrote about horrible things and didn't do anything horrible

After splitting open a pomegranate I have a kitchen that looks like a crime scene and a new appreciation for Persephone noping out after six seeds

So corrupt they were the worst tyrants ever!

Daniel Litt@littmath.bsky.social · 2y ago

yikes, unfollowing now. I loved his work as as the founder of Western philosophy and one of the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. didn’t know he was corrupting the youth of Athens

Looks like this might not be a completely dead space?