i will find out!

welcome to the war on cars 🫡

i will ask. and they will probably say ‘eh’

i just felt like i needed to tell people to avoid backing out last minute. let’s approach it as a bit of fieldwork

i am doing this while on asos lol

does it reassure you that it is explicitly targeted at directors of education? me neither

i will preempt any confusion by bringing the laptop with the ‘ai is not inevitable’ and the ‘tech won’t save us’ stickers

i will report back

extremely torn between ‘i need to know what is going on on this front’ and ‘i am at risk of causing a serious incident at my workplace because i have no poker face’

pals, i need to tell you that i volunteered to attend a workshop on ‘using ai for marking and feedback’ later this week because i, apparently value my own health and sanity less than my curiosity

yep. just very boring ‘hey try to communicate in ways that is easy to understand with everyone’

another one for the sociolinguistics class, i see

Identify agents who could use additional coaching to improve performance By tracking negative changes in sentiment for specific employees, you’re able to put plans in place for additional coaching or training needed to improve their interactions with customers — improving customer experience.

this shit is so sinister

yeah tbf i drink my coffee (which i bring along with the aeropress coffee maker) black

personally my main problem is that i don’t have the self control not to waste 5 minutes on my phone every time i pick it up

what, do you not enjoy having to use two factor authentication 15 times a day to access your email/moodle/zoom/fridge*?

*new idea to limit milk theft on campus

‘two penguins walk across an iceberg. one penguin says to the other ‘you look like you’re wearing a tuxedo’ to which the other responds ‘maybe i am’’

this is the sort of shenanigans the internet was invented for. kudos to the onion

babes at the current time i don’t even know which *department* i will be working in in september

i was also asked to submit the class size which is very funny in the current climate

oh fun! one of my classes is literally ‘english language and the media’ so i will add something like this! perhaps more broadly: find a piece of media incl memes that illustrate what we talked about this week

at the risk of being a classic UK academic and causing distress to all US academics, i absolutely hate that I have to decide on all submission dates and types and things by tomorrow for classes which students have not registered for yet

or, have you come across the consultancy firm ‘listening exercise’?

this is based on my (genuinely surprising) experience that students do cite real research but it tends to be really strange journals?? maybe found via google?

maybe this will help us build a collective reading list

i‘ve added a ‘bibliography task’ for every week: find at least 2 academic sources relevant to the topic of the week and/or a specific question to instil better research habits

(credit for completion without any hallucinated sources)

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

read: absolutely infuriating and inhumane

classic home office behaviour