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biologist, mcgill university, @michaelhendricks.bsky.social
Aug 31, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
Faculty must teach, but there is no policy I can find that says the administration can specify the mode of instruction.

I assume if such a power existed, the provost would have put it in this memo, which he didn't.

@maut_apbm @CAUT_ACPPU @maut_apbm @CAUT_ACPPU Our policies predate the existence of the technology to teach remotely. They simply don't address it--so they will need to at some point. But McGill spent the last year arguing remote teaching is a great substitution for in person (to support enrollment).
Aug 26, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Happy #McGill200! Some of you may have heard that @mcgillu is opposed to a vaccination mandate... this is not true! McGill University is a research and learning community of students, faculty, and staff who've all been worn pretty thin by the pandemic. 1/5 So it's no surprise that McGill University--from our health scientists and legal experts to our faculty (@maut_apbm) and student (@theSSMU) associations--is in fact strongly in favor of a vaccine mandate that would allow us to teach, learn, and work as safely as possible. 2/5
Nov 21, 2018 12 tweets 26 min read
@Charles4Freedom @NeuroLatina @500ws_montreal @500womensci @AdmirableWomen @WomenDoingSci @etilmercurio @McLNeuro @DrJenGunter @steminist Women get less credit for the same contribution/effort on publications. Macaluso et al. 2016; Feldon et al. 2017 @Charles4Freedom @NeuroLatina @500ws_montreal @500womensci @AdmirableWomen @WomenDoingSci @etilmercurio @McLNeuro @DrJenGunter @steminist Women receive lower teaching evaluations despite equal teaching effectiveness, Boring et al. 2016; MacNell et al. 2015
Oct 31, 2018 26 tweets 4 min read
Gender disparities exists in many aspects of science: a fact. The question--or argument--is why. Many causes have been proposed. Almost all of them are non-mutually exclusive, and many of them are difficult if not impossible to separate. /1 Let’s say for a given cause, the weight of that cause on disparate outcomes can be anywhere from 0 to 100. What we are ostensibly arguing about is these weights. /2