trying a thing this term where I tell my students how I will help them if they're floundering with missing papers instead of just how I will punish them
I think most of the students that miss major assignments and then stop responding to emails and fall of the earth are struggling with mental health or executive function disability stuff and the time to reach out to them is before it happens bc after they r avoiding their emails
I failed out of college the first time bc of not turning in papers because my brain doesn't work right! I didn't talk to professors bc idk it's not like anyone had policies that seemed open to it so I felt like I'd have to really EXPLAIN myself but I didn't understand myself! :(
When I became a TA and realized that rather than my baby self being world's weirdest girl this is a thing that happens basically every term that academia just is like🤷♀️about I had some feelings! I think even just knowing this was a THING could have made a big difference for me.
Many of those papers I never submitted I in fact had something that, from my perspective now, I could absolutely give a student a passing grade on if they just turned it in but I just was totally spinning my wheels trying to wrap it up bc of how ADHD works.
Working on my disability statement. It's a little long now, but I think typical university provided ones are insufficient in a lot of ways—like university disability stuff generally, they're normally aimed at legal compliance instead of really reaching & helping disabled students
Some of my concerns with my school's required statement, which is pretty typical. Many students that would qualify for accommodations of course don't automatically know that, and accessibility for them also means giving them the information they need!
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ok summary thread: A good citizen noticed Britain’s leading transphobe Helen Joyce next to him on the train having a meeting about not letting trans people use the toilet. Then he noticed she was multitasking with a little Harry Potter porno on her phone archive.is/NJzXw
And look, it didn’t seem likely. But he found what looks exactly like what was on her screen and it is Draco Malfoy jerkin it to Hermione Granger’s underpants
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@jk_rowling Sex Matters responded by immediately confirming that Helen Joyce was reading large print Harry Potter porn in public, but only to stop people from being trans. sex-matters.org/posts/press-re…
I don’t think people fully appreciate what the @nytimes has done here. Nothing this extreme had been published in Israel and, as anyone could have predicted, the reaction was exceptionally genocidal rotter.net/forum/scoops1/…
Every soldier serving in Gaza must read this. This eliminates many questions and apparent "moral dilemmas". These human savages grew up in an environment that encourages it, and supports it. There are no innocents in Gaza
This detail was extremely salient to some Israelis and what it meant to them was that there are no civilians in Gaza
Look I just feel the same way about this as I would feel about a “leftist” making a big deal about America getting disproportionate attention when it is just one among many countries that perpetrate criminal wars of aggression
omg this just goes on and on. your country is currently perpetrating a genocide and you are directing your political energy into…. 6,000 word complaint letter to the international left???
Kind of essential context for the 10/7 attack is that the kibbutzim (full of civilians) were built around the Gaza perimeter essentially as self-sustaining paramilitary infrastructure to occupy and defend it until formal forces arrived, until very recently armed by the IDF
I think they always self-conceived as communities defending themselves but they had a military function and would actively engage in hostilities. By 10/7 they’d clearly largely lost their combat capabilities, just civilians living in this kind of paramilitary infrastructure
If you were trying to occupy the perimeter (a legitimate military objective) they’re the fortifications you would have to take, I have no idea how a formal military trying to comply with laws of war would navigate it. Really a nightmare situation
Lucy Letby was convicted of killing babies in ways that left no evidence and in some cases aren’t known to be physically possible (immobilizing lungs by putting air into stomach by ng tube) and if people learn you ever said the case was really concerning it’s all out hysterics
(The insulin results were for babies that didn’t die and weren’t independently considered suspicious. none of the babies that died were allegedly killed with insulin. If you care about wrongful convictions this being the only thing presented as hard evidence is a huge red flag)
She was accused by the unit’s senior doctors who would in normal circumstances be considered responsible for patient safety on the unit. Many of the babies Letby allegedly harmed and killed suffered medical errors, some really serious.
One of the most surreal moments of my life was when this picture was everywhere about the Nova party massacre and no one was like “is this a fuckin airstrike? what the fuck is this!”