Derek Silva (derekcrim.bsky.social) Profile picture
prof + writer | voice + producer @endofsportpod. words in @time @guardian @jacobin etc. new book w/ @nkalamb “the end of college football” coming @UNC_Press
Jan 19, 2022 22 tweets 2 min read
university administrators abound want faculty to be able to deliver courses online or face-to-face -- depending on administrative needs -- but don't want to talk about how that labor will be compensated they preach flexibility and accessibility, but scoff at your entitlement when you tell them each format requires fundamentally different pedagogies
Dec 8, 2021 19 tweets 10 min read
“Athletes are brainwashed from a young age”

Why do many college athletes reject the insidious term ‘student-athlete’?

Latest from @EndofSportPod @nkalamb @JohannaMellis in @guardian

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theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec… As @Brittcollens22 tell us, it may be endorsed by some athletes because many “don’t understand the implications behind the word.”

Why not hear it from the guy who invented the term?
Sep 25, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
Just had to show a cop my driving passport on my way to buy alcohol with my age passport.

Maybe later I’ll go to Costco with one of my capitalism passports. This morning my partner and I decided to use our money passport to grab breakfast.

What’s next? Maybe we will go use our library passport to take out a couple books.

Or maybe we will go do some physical activity with our exercise passports.
Mar 7, 2021 26 tweets 11 min read
So administration at Laurentian University used Tri-Council research funds to pay the bills.

This is happens after decades of systemic underfunding of public education and @fordnation @RossRomanoSSM say it has nothing to do with them.

I have some thoughts. A thread. Ross Romano @RossRomanoSSM, Minister of Training, Colleges, and University, knew about the financial issues at @LaurentianU MONTHS go. Did not then and is doing nothing now.

FIVE of LU’s board members are appointed by the provincial government.

This didn’t come out of nowhere.