When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; #culture-death is a clear possibility.
How did i miss that?!? Yes, that is one of the ones i've read. Considering when it was written, and before the internet/digital age, WOW!!! That is one i'd like to re-read. I've yet to get anyone else to read it, but i keep trying :)
Thanks for sharing!
Le 5 mars 1535, le consulat de #Lyon décide de remplacer le médecin François Rabelais du fait de ses absences dans ses fonctions à l'Hôtel-Dieu.
Arrivé en 1532 à Lyon alias "Myrelingues la brumeuse", l'écrivain y publie Pantagruel (1532) puis Gargantua (1534) sous le pseudonyme d'Alcofribas Nasier.
Extr. du registre de délibérations consulaires conservé aux #ArchivesDeLyon (cote BB 25, folio 23r).
I try to be very positive and cheerful about my profession: teaching. It's a fluffing tough job and you have to see the best in it - every lesson, every day, every student. And it can be the most rewarding and important job a person could do. But, my goodness, today was a challenge. When your leaders don't seem to care about their staff and are actively making it more difficult for you, you just get worn down. But. Tomorrow is a new day. Always. #Teaching#Education#edutooter@edutooters
@edutooters@hlseward
I’m not a teacher but close family members have been, so I offer this:
On particularly bad days when you’re sure you can't possibly cope, it can sometimes help to remind yourself that your track record for getting through bad days so far is 100%.
@michaelcymro@edutooters@hlseward @actuallyautistic @bookstodon
I added this message, to actually my actually autistic group and book group for relevancy of book by Fred Roger’s.
The message may seem ableist to some in my group, but at the end of the day, “We are in all this together”. ♾️❤️
Latest item listed on eBay as I continue raising funds for new Eating the Fantastic podcasting equipment — the DC Comics 1994 Editorial Presentation — in which Death is called "the most popular supporting character in all of comics" — which I expect caused @neilhimself to blush. https://www.ebay.com/itm/166371988714
I pretty much 100% recovered from my bout with the COVID. Slight sniffle, but then again, I spend pretty much the entire winter with one, so who knows? Seems like the rest of the family, even the unboosted one, has avoided my fate, which is great. Probably shouldn't go back to hockey tomorrow though, at least if I'm reading the CDC guidelines correctly. I'll just wait until next Tuesday to get back on the ice.
I've been playing the Guardians of the Galaxy computer game. It's a strange one. 🤔 It has a bit of combat and some character progression, but it really is more about puzzle-solving and plot(!) than a real RPG. It even has quicktime events, which I thought disappeared years ago. Still fun though. And 4 Guys Co-op had a long session of Serious Sam 4 but we couldn't get level 3 finished. I may have to ease the difficulty a bit. @videogames#videogames
Also been getting plenty of reading done in my last week of freedom. I finished The Swerve, which was a fascinating (no really!) look at a medieval humanist and his efforts to uncover ancient texts, including a pivotal book by the Roman philosopher Lucretius, On The Nature Of Things, which the author posits as "How The World Became Modern". No really, it's great stuff! I've started on the 2nd Cormoran Strike book, The Silkworm. @bookstodon#books#AmReading
Anyone lucky enough to be in NYC on Oct 17, 2023 might consider attending this fascinating lecture.
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself is a wonderful speaker, and basically a world expert on Norse mythology.
Maria Dahvana Headley's new translation/rewriting of Beowolf is like seeing it in a whole new light. The depth of meaning and beauty of her word choice made me shake my head in wonder more than a few times.
Online post by Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.n.. October 17th in NYC. It will be fun and educational and you will learn a lot about Norse Mythology and the Iliad and suchlike. Do come.
It is a bit sad (or funny) to see that those interesting discussions often mention Bluesky and rarely Mastodon (despite the fact that the later as 10 times more users and is connected to an even bigger network: the Fediverse).
As I said previously: we should stop trying to make social networks succeed:
This week's #TidyTuesday is about Doctor Who :tardis: and in this screencast I show how to use empirical Bayes to estimate the rating for different episode writers:
Question: what books are really effective at body language or the different little beats in long stretches of dialogue? My current novel is dialogue-heavy, and I'm looking for more examples of how other writers make these scenes memorable.
"The main and interesting conclusion in the abstract is that of the 45% of alumni not continuing in academic research, one third does industry research and one third is in a science-related profession."
@IanSudbery@copdeb@cyclotopie@cyrilpedia@academicchatter of course, that doesn’t guarantee awardees will land in a secure position, and it would be good to have an analysis, but - I would be surprised if most DP5 awardees aren’t in stable, even TT jobs.
It would be interesting to hear how many of these institutions do offer a TT position.
I think for the equivalent Wellcome ECF program, a proleptic appointment is fairly rare, although not unheard of - we have an ECF with a proleptic, although they had already done a (short) postdoc before getting the ECF.