How We Get Free
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After dragging a bit on revising the intro chapter last week, I had a great writing day that made me feel back to my normal writing self. Onward and upward! Getting closer to a full and complete draft of this book manuscript!
Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
The necessity to rush things out the door that came with being pretenure means I read things now like “damn, I wish I had cited this in that published article”…it is an unfortunate downside of the system.
Yes it took me about an hour and involved signing up for a 7-day trial of a proprietary website, but I found the damn thing!
Student: I’m having trouble finding this newspaper article from a small local newspaper published in 1916 for the final project.
Me:
This semester has been a lot. At first I thought it was the extra independent study I took on (that I an enjoying!). And then I realized it was that and a bunch of little things that had snuck up on me in service work in particular. It makes it harder to isolate and reduce when it’s 10 things, not 1
😂😂😂😂😂 don’t knock it until you try 6 inch heels!
I don’t blame them! My feet would be sore too!
File under most random thing left in my classroom. And also I would have left those too! 😅😅
I just wish this for all scholarship and not just the post-tenure, unrushed production…🥴🥴
It could be a size larger because you’ve been eating their leftovers and sitting in the car for hours driving them to activities. 😂😂
topic and this semester by reading along side grad students I’m doing an independent study with. It’s meant extra work this semester, but I’ve also flagged references and ideas for the next round of projects, the report I have to write this summer, and current projects. Calling it a win! 2/2
Post-tenure I have been prioritizing getting back to the parts of the job that bring me joy: being a lifelong learner, playing in data, and reading broadly. The latter is hard to make time for, but I have opted to build it into my teaching with a discussion based class last semester with a broad 1/
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Yup.
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That’s a personal choice!
It’s called a nap.
Oh agreed on empirically interesting results! There’s an audience!
I am constantly addressing this issue in feedback on draft articles and in peer review. Your study is a case of some broader phenomenon language is way more stronger than no one has studied x group/place/etc. Tell me why I should care.
THIS!: “Being the first to study a particular topic is typically an insufficient scholarly contribution in of itself, because firstness doesn’t necessarily correlate with the needs of readers… your case for scholarly contribution will be more convincing.” @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social
I am behind this week. Service meetings got in the way of midterm grading and some other non-research work. It means tomorrow has to be a catch up day at least part instead being fully a research day. Giving myself grace because it will only get worse if I don’t handle this to do list!
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It was everything!!
I just did a day and a half mini writing retreat with a friend and…10 out of 10!! Absolutely recommend!! All we did was get away from home responsibilities, spend one night in a hotel, eat, talk shop, catch up, and write. Simple but effective!
Yes! Full-time faculty are happy to write your a letter of rec. Try to give us at least a month's notice.
"It is frightening to consider a world where I am fired because I wrote this column. It is more frightening to imagine a world where I stayed silent and allowed a colleague, a student, a fellow human being to be targeted by the government." @bakerdphd.bsky.social
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PSA for those undergraduate or former undergraduate students who feel nervous about asking faculty for letters of recommendation or to be references! I have written letters for graduate school for 32 students and probably served as a reference for another 10. It’s part of the job!
AI writing is banal, lacks perspective, and robs of us the intellectual rigor and the creative process. I wrote about my exasperation with those who treat AI as a replacement to which to outsource the real work rather than simply treating it like what it is: a tool. substack.com/@mirandayave...