@actualham This whole article hurts my heart, but the story of the Whitewater Faculty Senate chair who left academia because she saw no future in Wisconsin #HigherEd really resonated with me. Same reason I left UW-Madison 5 years ago. Republicans have gerrymandered themselves into permanent control of the state legislature, and they are outright contemptuous of the UW System. @academicchatter
@kcarr2015@MirrorAyako@allstartrek I no longer care about this as intensely as I did 25 years ago, but the whole "separate power supply for the holodeck" thing is a load of nonsense that somebody came up with in the 90s to justify lazy creative choices (which, to be fair, may have been foisted upon them by Rick Berman or UPN execs). To see it used on modern productions by people with way more creative freedom than the Voyager writers kind of annoys me. These people should know better.
@neilhimself god it's all so incredibly tender (both good and bad) to read and watch. We are truly in a special place with TV right now that we get access to this and some of the other truly beautiful stories which artists are rendering. I swear every week—I'm a psychotherapist—one of my clients references something to illustrate the pain in their own lives. Happened to me today with Sex Education (client referenced Maeve's mum's funeral), it's happened with Good Omens, WandaVision and others.
@bryanalexandee I've had an abiding interest in disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity since a Stanford professor could not answer how his field (CALL - Computer-Assisted Language Learning) was a discipline. Disciplinarity is also a weak point of Indian academia, as you notice, e.g., with journals combining disparate fields. Therefore, I started a culmination of my work by explaining the difference between a field and a discipline, then I defined terms related to online education. If you haven't already read it, check it out some time: "Online Education as a Discipline" at https://doi.org/10.20935/AL434 or https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353073973
Huh. #NetGalley just gave me the top reviewer badge; someone at the publisher thought my review of Moved to Murder was good enough (despite being brief and critical) to be featured on the book's page.
Alright, let's see how many Plant Scientists/Botanists we can reach here in the Fediverse.
Reply to this tweet with an introduction of yourself, what first attracted you to plants, and what you work on now. And boost this toot! #Planticipation#Botany#PlantScience
@ml I forgot to say what first attracted me to plants: walking through the woods in Virginia during my childhood, learning to recognize (and avoid) poison ivy and Devil's walking stick, reading the 'Foxfire' series on Appalachian technologies, and a certain fascination with magic and sorcery from reading Tolkien, Arthuriana and the like
@ml and what brought me to mushrooms was an eastern European girlfriend, of course! I tell the story in the special "Mushroom Issue" of Economic Botany published on the 50th anniversary of Valentina Pavlova and Gordon Wasson's ground breaking ethnomycological survey 'Russia, Mushrooms and History' who shared a similar mushroom honeymoon
@maikel@tiago@academicchatter Weren't there a bunch of bad-actor instances that mastodon.social and a bunch of other instances defederated from?
Also, the instance I'm on occasionally blocks mastodon.social when a lot of spam is coming our way and it seems to work out okay. Full defederation isn't the only option, there are several shades in between.
I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.
@reginasbread Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, The Fresco and Gate to Women's Country both by Sheri Tepper, The Kingston Cycle books by CL Polk, Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon are a few ... @bookstodon
@reginasbread I can rememeber a steampunk/victorian space opera novella, where a middle-aged lady became a leader of a colonial planet uprising, because the government forces burned her cannabis lot.
If anyone can give me author and title, I will do a pot ceremony for you.
Can't wait to try them at the office. If they are as incredible there as they are here with just my wife and kids, it might make me waver in my belief that there is no God.
My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through #Kickstarter: