Beckie Supiano

Nothing quite like going to email an expert to request an interview on a big, complex topic, thinking their name is familiar, and realizing you’ve written them before…with a ridiculous question for the footnote of the Chronicle’s daily briefing 🙈

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Sign up for our new podcast! It's a fresh take on the topics you read about in the Chronicle. I had the opportunity to talk to Jack Stripling, our host, about my story, Is This the End of Reading?

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Why Students Can’t Work on Their Own Many struggle to complete coursework independently. How can professors adjust?

Well, thanks @sarosecav.bsky.social for the new followers! I lurk way more than I post, but will say a quick hello. I cover teaching for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here’s my latest: www.chronicle.com/article/decl...

ChatGPT Has Changed Teaching. Our Readers Tell Us How. One year after its launch, this new tech has professors rethinking assignments and students experimenting in the classroom.

Yep! www.chronicle.com/article/chat...

This was a big piece of Sheryl Sandburg’s argument in Lean In— “don’t leave before you leave”

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BREAKING: Kevin Guskiewicz, the current chancellor at UNC- Chapel Hill, will be announced as Michigan State University's president at 8 a.m. Friday meeting, sources tell me. Meeting notice to be issued tomorrow morning.

Look who’s here! The other half of the Chronicle’s Teaching team, bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social!
Just in time for POD, which she’s attending.

Thanks!

I’m not going, but Beth is!

A dark grey/brown life form sits in the middle of an ordinary sidewalk. A fish. With whiskers. It is a walking catfish.

A wider shot confirms this walking catfish sits in the context of an ordinary neighborhood sidewalk, nestled between a can for dog poop and a no parking sign. The day is wet, but the fish is definitely on land.

Just when you think you’re used to the snakes, gators, coyotes, bobcats, Bufo toads and all of the many bugs:

Why aren’t more sports teams named for mythological creatures? So many good ones no one’s even using

I’m sure this time of year— when you can see Christmas lights, inflatable turkeys, and skeletons peeking out of coffins all within a block—is magical everywhere
But I think it’s extra special when you live in a place that’s still too hot for any of it

Just wrote “November” rather than “Friday” at the top of tomorrow’s to-do list before copying over all the things I didn’t get done today
Nice try, brain!

Teaching Alongside ChatGPT The fall of 2023 is the first full semester in which faculty members have had a chance to rethink their teaching in a world where generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are ubiquitous. We want to hear ab...

What’s going on with students’ use of ChatGPT and the like this semester? Beth McMurtrie (not on here yet) and I are doing a bit of crowd sourcing for a story we’re working on. If you’re teaching college students and have thoughts on this, tell us here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Does this thing really work? I intrigued

Whispers: so am I 😬

Sitting here pondering this, drinking coffee that isn’t quite hot enough

At this point in my life, I think a good superpower would be the ability to make my coffee stay the correct temperature until I finish drinking it.

De-pluralize a band

U1

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Man, I don’t care how good generative AI gets: I don’t think I’ll ever get a story done without at least one conversation with a human colleague who gently suggests I might get myself unstuck if I try doing some more reporting and/ or writing

How many ballet pedagogy experts do you think I know?

So interesting! This reminds me of some discussion on the other site a while back about students calling all books “novels.” They’re coming in with one idea of reading, analogous to one idea of writing a paper?

I should have said this the first time: Megan recently shifted beats and is covering faculty issues. So if you have some thoughts on that, get in touch!

So far I’m trying to keep this place just for work stuff. My Twitter got broader. And my linked in… yikes

Imagine I’ll live a bit longer with less doom scrolling/ knowing about every bad thing the instant it happens.
But listening to people who live/study what I write about interact—and learning about more of them—
is tremendous. And social media brings in people who don’t conference, for instance.

Penn Demoted Her. Then She Won the Nobel Prize. On Katalin Karikó's triumphant vindication.

Since it's what got me onto Bluesky, I may as well make this story my first post. I spoke to @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social, @holdenthorp.bsky.social and @tnfalpha.bsky.social about Katalin Karikó's Nobel Prize. Is it karmic payback, evidence that academic science is broken, or somewhere in between?

So apparently the move if you really need it to be off is to turn phone all the way off before alert and for at least 30 min after