Academic Dad

Tenured at a slipping state college in the US. Married with a 7 and a 9. Pro-worker. Anti-lecture. Clem Fandango's middle initial is H.

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

People say, "You're a professor, you must be rich.", and I say uh...no...I'm not...but I *live near* rich people and teach their children, and I've studied them, and I've seen how they make other people's lives miserable, including mine.

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

@n_hold @AlysonMetzger Fancy camera and audio systems in classrooms for remote teaching were installed in every room at amazing speed, they now gather dust, statues on a wall.

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

I read attacks on average professors as punching down at this point.

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

@juliettemm

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

@mark_giangreco @ChiTownSports "South Side: stand up!" John, South Siders were only sitting in *your* mind, nobody else's.

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

@Chicago_History It's pronounced "joolse" as in goose

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

"What puzzles me is why a senior University academic would allow their name to be on some of the many manuscript submissions I have reviewed."

Senior academics are the worst abusers of the publishing system in general, that's why.

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

If you are a University lecturer and supervisor of Master’s students, by all means encourage students to learn how to write scientific journal articles but please stop encouraging them to submit such exercises to actual journals because you think it would be a good learning exercise for them. 🛑 ✋🏽 Many/most editors and reviewers provide their time voluntarily as part of their sense of duty to science. It is the job of the paid University supervisor to check the students’ work.
What puzzles me is why a senior University academic would allow their name to be on some of the many manuscript submissions I have reviewed. Did they even read it? Every author must sign that they have read and approved of the final manuscript, so what’s going on?

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

@AJEarley4

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

@mark_giangreco @KalshiFB Cap Boso

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

@mark_giangreco Great new profile pic!

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

@PerellClips I can't get back the ~1:45 that I watched

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

I expect nothing from AI companies--those with the most blood on their hands here are university administrators, They've done fuck-all to help, and often actively made it worse.

[Librarianshipwreck @libshipwreck]

One of the things that doesn’t get said enough in the discussions about AI and universities, is how professors/instructors/TAs are being expected to clean up the giant mess that these AI companies have made.

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

It’s like the mayor just made a list of shit people have to do or put up with and he’s just working through the list seeing what he can do.

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 New York City has announced free tax preparation to all working families.

This will save New Yorkers an average of $346 per year.

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

@CCguerilla Learning can barely be assured in in-person classes but asynchronous online courses were highly cheatable even pre-2023. I don’t teach any (other than 2020), but my students love them.

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

@collegeplayers9 @gordonbeckham That hussle

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

To my colleagues far and wide: if it's good enough for The Pope...

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

I can confirm that this is 100% false.

Not only was it written by hand, but the first drafts were literally written on paper with a pen.

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

This is true but being a professor means having every minute of your work life filled with crap to do, esp for the kind of professor most ready to serve students by changing their practice. There is no real space for most professors to try something new and hard at work.

[Will G @BillyStu]

Now that this equilibrium has been upset, professors resent being asked to do what true education should ask of everyone involved: try something new and hard, and grow from your failure. 3/3

[Boba Cyclist 정 @BobaCyclist]

“I can’t give honest feedback when it is not honest work. I can’t help you work out how you want to think about something, how you want to be in the world, if you are not using your own brain to tell me where you are.” 👍
Any educator defending the use of AI is a scab.

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

I don't think anyone should care what happens to the White House. Why do you care? What is this about it being "the People's House"? What dream are you holding onto?

[Critter @asclepiasyriaca]

This is what Donald Trump has done to the People's House. It's just a busted ass trash palace.

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

Please send me students looking for a faculty to be more dialogic and intellectually-engaged with them, and who know how to respond in a humane way to someone attending to their educational needs.

[Hollis Robbins @anecdotal]

The bluntest comment I've ever read about why students are turning to AI: “What kind of economy and educational system has made a robot feel more viable, attentive, more dialogic, and more intellectually available than the institution charging students for a degree?”

[Academic Dad @AcademicDad]

@anecdotal The institution charges for the degree and faculty in most cases would love to be able to fill the roles of being viable, attentive, dialogic, and intellectually available, but the institution prevents it and many students don't want it.