dralistruthers.bsky.social
Reader at Warwick Law School | Child Rights | Public Legal Education | Widening Participation | #TaskmasterEducation Co-founder | Creator of @schooltasking.bsky.social | Munro-bagging Scot ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
โSurprisingly socially functional for an academic"
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Hello @warwickengages.bsky.social ๐
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Ah ha, @philjemmett.bsky.social, WIE is on here!
*adds them to the Warwick Starter Pack*
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I can say with absolute certainty that you have presumed correctly ๐
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Brings to mind my 5yo's favourite joke.
Why shouldn't you give Elsa a balloon?
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Does your full face feature on the Cameos, or just your mouth and chin, as per the picture?
Or is it on a pro rata basis? 30% of the price for mouth and chin? 50% for nose down or nose up. 100% for full face?
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I can't actually read this because it's behind a paywall, but I'm so glad to hear that I'm paying for 2 after school club places (& some days for additional clubs on top of this, but still paying to keep the after school club places) when I could just be clocking off at 3pm.
Silly old me.
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Congratulations, Nic! ๐
That's amazing news and it sounds like a brilliant project! ๐คฉ
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@dohertylawteach.bsky.social said in an email to me yesterday that they are going to use the video for their UG teaching at Lancaster ๐คฉ
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I despise LinkedIn. It's full of people posting self-obsessed nonsense under the pretence of offering advice to others.
Yesterday I watched a duck eat a bowl of yeast & explode.
I exploded from eating yeast once too.
It was a tough time, but here's how I literally put myself back together.
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This is why you're a top journalist, Jack.
You've absolutely nailed 'mind-blowingly exciting' and 'heart-wrenchingly sad' in one momentous opening line.
Bravo, bravo.
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Apparently, 'blowingly' isn't a word. It *should* be a word, I think.
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Except on LinkedIn, you have to make that first line either (i) mind-blowingly exciting or (ii) heart-wrenchingly sad.
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I just ignore all of them. My policy is that if the conference or journal is legitimate, they wouldn't need to be cold-calling the inboxes of academics.
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I love running School Tasking. It's joyful & unbelievably rewarding, but it really is a whole job in itself.
In my workload allocation, it accounts for 7 days.
I ran 5 Regional Finals & we have the Final & Away Day coming up.
That's ALL my allocated project hours before I've done *anything* else.
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You are also in this category AND benefit from the additional fact that you haven't pilfered pineapple sunglasses from me (yet) ๐
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Aside from the fact that he's now (albeit probably inadvertently) pilfered two pairs of pineapple sunglasses from me, I agree with your sentiment that he's a jolly good egg (in the metaphorical, rather than football-team-based, sense).
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Also, I wish students would understand that THEY CANNOT TRUST CHATGPT...
bsky.app/profile/dral...
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Oh, 100% it's a depressing way of looking at university. But, yes, sadly I think an inevitable outcome of neoliberalism in higher education.
I was definitely sheltered from this world in studying Law at Edinburgh - very few tuition-fee-paying English students wanted a degree in Scots Law ๐
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Though being Scottish (& thus educated for free at the University of Edinburgh), perhaps I just notice it far more than my peers who similarly paid tuition fees back in the day.
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There is a gradual slide towards instrumentalism. Students see themselves far more as consumers & we are meant to be offering top notch customer service by giving them a degree that will get them a job. The love of learning remains for some students, but they're likely in the minority.
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I think if you've been an original reviewer and have suggested changes, the decent thing to do is to re-review (unless, for example, leave prevents this).
It doesn't take nearly as long to re-review & it avoids this really unfair situation.
Sending positive vibes for the next reviewers ๐ค
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That seems like an odd process? Why wasn't it sent back to the original reviewers - did the journal give a reason? I can see why you're miffed - that seems...unfair...
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Absolutely stunning ๐ค
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With the exception of the HE sector, which is a daily bin fire, but nobody seems to notice (except @gsoh31.bsky.social)...
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I don't know, he did have a scientist gang at the National History Museum who refused to each lunch with the blue blazers (rude).
It could be Chandler. His work colleagues don't even know his name.
Perhaps we can collaborate on an academic paper about this.
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Phoebe, certainly, has an additional friend: Denise.
(this will make sense only to die-hard Friends fans, of which I'm confident you are, Mark, so I anticipate no problems).
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