Dr Maggie Glass

Oh that's well handy 🙃 I just remember more than one occasion landing in to you in Cork from Galway or Limerick absolutely desperate for the toilet, and but somehow the private coaches don't have that issue

And additionally, the busses don't have a toilet for a ??? hours long route, which is absolutely baffling

I lived in the west of Ireland for seven years so NRW winters were an improvement 🙃 but I really enjoyed the befuddlement on the optician's face last month when I came in with an urgent need for sunglasses and the sky was grey and tragic, and I am beyond delighted to have them with me today

In NRW too!

Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?

Plums

xkcd.com/3209/

I genuinely think about this daily

If I ever wondered how I got this reputation, I sent an email to a student this morning that began 'To intentionally misquote Legally Blonde: The Musical, "now you're thinking like a scientist"!'

So there is that

Darach

An excellent @languageonthemove.bsky.social post by Jenia Yudytska about how ChatGPT can actually weaken Ukrainian migrant mutual aid efforts.

Really sums up that class, to be honest!! They were a lovely group, I am so glad to have been able to teach them, even though I was really absent (illness, family emergencies, the fun never ends!)

That DOES sound like fun

It was a very kind way of saying that I had an extremely challening semester, and was Doing My Best to keep my classes going

Course evaluation season is upon us in Germany, and my favourite was the student who assessed that I am "maybe a bit chaotic, but generally very pleasant"

We are looking at a section of timber framed wall with close studding. In between is the undulating textured yellow ochre plaster.

Well done, you’ve made it to Wednesday.

As a treat - have some medieval wall.

Go on, you deserve it. 😘

Studying the culture around Ramstein Air Base like 😐

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Yeah, I've had conversations before about how the Scots Wiki scandal could have been disasterous for Scots as whole had AI picked it up. There are already contentions being had about the level of language proficiency required for minoritised language Wiki contributions, and this will not help

Not yet, but we're going to eventually! There were some extenuating circumstances that would have made it really challenging before now

Oh, you have my deep respect!! Mine was swapped - German wedding while living in Ireland, and just trying to reach the Standesamt from abroad was so much of a hassle that my sister-in-law (who was in the correct town) had to take over for us. We didn't have a reception though, because August 2020

50 runaway sheep ram-paged through a German supermarket in rural Baa-varia, causing shear mania on Monday morning.

After breaking away from their 500-strong herd, the brazen sheep spent 20 minutes milling around in the Penny supermarket before ewe-turning and seeing themselves out.

St. Jerome sitting at a desk, with a lion nearby. The illuminated detail os from the "biblia latina" from 1482, and the page can be accessed here: https://tudigit.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/show/inc-iii-104/

Holding hands with a feline species while trying to start your desk work. This 1482 image of St. Jerome and his lion nails it timelessly. #catcontent #academicchatter

I lived so far away from (the outside of the public system) school that a bus service was nonexistant, sooo

Oof

Same to you!

Maybe next year I will remember in time!!

רָעוֹת שָׂבְעָה נַפְשִׁי / בְּיָגוֹן כֹּחִי כָּלָה 😢
My spirit is fed up with misery /my strength is spent with grief 💔

As millions of Jews are getting ready to light the first Chanukah candle, we are crying with our Jewish community in Sydney.

At least 11 murdered and 29 injured at a Hanukkah Celebration 😭

1/4

This is amazing, congratulations!!!

This is our rhythm: academic becoming and realignment in deaf space Abstract. Deaf scholars have long worked at the margins of academic institutions not designed for them. Designated deaf academic spaces—where deaf ways of

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I definitely thought of you!