Beatriz Felício

You can have a historic library or a warm library, but never both

24.11.2025 14:14 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“I never asked my undergraduate students to write essays for me because the product inherently mattered. It was always the process: lose that, and the exercise loses its point.” #HigherEducation #writing #philosophy

24.08.2025 18:26 — 👍 34    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

21.08.2025 06:51 — 👍 1102    🔁 304    💬 18    📌 27

One thing I've always known, but saw concretely through faculty reviews over the past few years, is how academic grants + fellowships are self-replicating: when you enter that milieu, you have the *time* and capital to apply for more and more. Resources continually heaped on the same people.

07.08.2025 19:30 — 👍 105    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 2

Oh to be a pigeon in a historical library…

23.06.2025 09:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Converting spaces” at Queen Mary University of London (ft. a knee that fell victim to London’s sidewalks)

16.06.2025 11:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0