To everyone writing "sadly we couldnt convene" for whatever conference/program/lecture - please stop. Why are we not celebrating what we have achieved together? Why is there this overlay of remorse and regret? 1/4
I want to see "thank you everyone for attending our programming virtually this year. We:
- reduced our carbon costs by x
- made programming more accessible for caregivers, disabled individuals, parents, academics outside the academy, and the public
- decreased costs by x 2/4
- reduced our carbon costs by x
- made programming more accessible for caregivers, disabled individuals, parents, academics outside the academy, and the public
- decreased costs by x 2/4
- limited food waste
- increased our use of access tools like real time captioning
- recorded our work to increase accessibility and impact
- Created an archive that can sustain conversations
- saved our attendees x costs" 3/4
- increased our use of access tools like real time captioning
- recorded our work to increase accessibility and impact
- Created an archive that can sustain conversations
- saved our attendees x costs" 3/4
Some of us are not sad. Some of us had our best years of networking and presenting our work WHILE REMOTE. I'm so tired of treating this as lost time. There are so many people doing the work to make our current moment generative, reflective, and meaningful. 4/4 #AcademicChatter
Note: I'm explicitly using "had" here not because the pandemic is over (it's not we're very much so still in it and will be for the foreseeable future) but because institutions are already rolling back hybrid and remote access.
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