Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈

What a lovely girl!

can also confirm that the modern mocs are both aggressively stylish and also comfy as all hell as far as more formal footwear goes!

I was just running here to recommend Manitobahs. They hold up great in Minnesota winters, anyway--not sure how that stacks up to Alaska!

"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," goes harder than any Civil War song has any right to go.

this is right and you should say it

“Democrats need to abandon trans rights to win” is a mirror image of the message that WOULD win:

“Republicans ran on affordability, then passed the largest tax hike in history and made your healthcare costs triple. Now they’re obsessing over trans people, like they’ve solved all the real problems?”

We ALSO sometimes have food trucks with little fresh fried hot donuts outside our hardware stores. A+ innovation delighted to discover it in Minnesota

they're quite bad enough for undergrads, judging from the many students I dealt with who clearly needed accommodations but had been badly enough burned at a previous point that they were visibly afraid to ask for basic, reasonable, easy-to-meet stuff like class times that didn't set off migraines.

not to mention the social penalties for seeking and obtaining accomodations that go above and beyond the ones that exist for simply identifying publicly as disabled. which go up *substantially* the farther you get from undergrad, ime.

If I had to guess, I'd say that "they chose violence because curiosity was too scary" explains at least half of all the mean and hateful crap that people do to other people online.

Many of us need to keep writing federal grants (both for political reasons and as a Hail Mary to keep people employed) despite the feeling it's a waste of time, so... if you got an NSF or NIH grant funded this year, would you mind bragging about it in the replies, so it feels like the odds are >0%?

I always have to go back and edit all my comments when I'm done with a script to take out all the cussing 😅

As a bioethicist, I also feel the need to add that the central issue with eugenics is “it’s evil” not “it’s factually incorrect.” And if we finally learned that, maybe big name bioethicists wouldn’t publish “what if eugenics but hi-tech” every five years.

NOW, it's a pseudoscience because it's been debunked & is no longer mainstream scientific thinking. Calling historical eugenics a pseudoscience lets science & scientists of the past off the hook (Also, PS is more of a modern-day term. We had terms like "quackery" but eugenics was not that)

1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!

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The strongest point here: "No one would criticize me for hiring a plumber, of course."

The objections to professionalized housecleaning (if it's paid for fairly) are sexist. Even if disguised as "leftist." It's saying "women's work" should be free.

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@anthrofuentes.bsky.social and I are working on a letter regarding the archiving of #NSF #DDRIGs in the #SBE Directorate and impacts on our fields. What did you/your students discover as a result of a DDRIG award? What other impacts resulted from the award? Post here or DM. Please repost for viz.

all right, bsky, I got a question. Does anyone know of a scholarly example of *affiliative interactions* between two male mice occurring anywhere in the literature?

because I can't find any, and I'd like to prove myself wrong if someone knows something I don't.

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

Check this out:

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Yep: you're the student who truly needs the time, and it should be there for you to use!

anyway, I do care about fairness, so how wonderful that writing exams to fit the time allotted offers maximal fairness to all of the students!

(for reference, rule of thumb I was taught is to write exams such that they can reasonably be taken in about half the time allotted for everyone.)

in *real* world we usually have time to check our work, or we knew going in that we wouldn't have that time and could prepare appropriately. Can't do that on exam.

But THESE people are going to complain that it's not fair to kids w/o accx? Their whole schtick is not caring about fairness!

Also absolutely true, and I suppose that for students of those sorts of instructors the extra time would be generally useful to everyone, not just kids w/ accommodation.

Those people really piss me off, bc they are partially testing cognitive/writing speed as well as material grasp.

absolutely. that was also an explicit accommodation in our system so I was treating it separately. You're totally right about the necessity of separate "quiet rooms" as an accommodation though, that one is crucial for a lot of folks. I can see how you'd use "extra time" to communicate the need too.

This doesn't mean I think extra time is necessarily a bad accommodation. For someone who is really bad at time management and anxious about it, it can matter a lot to be able to set time management, and the anxiety, aside while testing. I just don't think that it's giving anyone a competitive edge.

Let me reframe this: perhaps we should not discourage them, as it might also discourage disabled people from seeking accommodations out of fear that they will be accused of faking their disability; or, they will refrain from seeking accommodations out of fear of "not being disabled enough."

I have also found that students with extra time allotments usually use them as more of a security blanket than anything else, in case of attention being unpredictably wandering or whatever. I have generally found these students tend to finish at around the same times that non-accomodated ones do.

I don't think kids *are* failing because of time. In my experience of teaching college, most everyone is done around the time when people say "pencils down", and there are almost never incomplete answers from students who show mastery of material but leave entire questions blank and unfinished.

I think I have a reference somewhere for loaches producing sound "by forcefully expelling air from the anus" but I don't have time to check before deep cleaning the lab. However, I suspect this knowledge will bring you joy anyway.

one of the pics is Billboard Chris (professional troll) saying "individuals who identify as trans should be automatically disqualified from holding any position as teacher or professor", with the undergrad's mom- an attorney defending J6 rioters- agreeing.

this is about kicking us out of teaching.