Nicholas Cox

Teacher, writer, historian, dept chair. PhD. Two-Year College Advocate. I ❤️ Houston

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

Come hear my pals and I discuss "The Future of Undergraduate General Education: Texas After the Midterms – AHA" November 18, 11am CST.

https://t.co/8dme8MQytM

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

@ragandboneshop @oh_tuntun If you engage book content on Threads you’re going to be flooded with self published “indie” authors complaining about everything

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

@EricaGrieder Here to promote Wesley's excellent book on this case,

https://t.co/JMkas7oegY

[Lily Kepner @lilykepner]

NEW: After shuttering majors in ethnic and gender studies, UT’s provost approved a new social and cultural analysis major that draws on the closed majors’ fields.

UT also will keep American Studies and Urban Studies.

Here’s what to know ⬇️ https://t.co/PwvYuIEhmk

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

@evan7257 @RiceUniversity Lots of backs turned, quietly as I recall.

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

@LoriCarriere Agreed, but unsure the relevance of your post to mine.

I was pointing out the silly STEM practice of dudes putting their names on papers they did not write and then acting like that's totes normal.

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

Humanities here (History) but "who...is writing papers that you author on?" is so hilarious to me because....the faculty is the author is the writer.

[JET @jetlining]

@Afinetheorem who is TAing your classes, running your experiments, and writing papers that you author on? because it sure as hell isn’t a faculty member.

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

Good list.

[Clare Amari @Amari_Clare]

Ok, y’all. Since this blew up, I’m gonna dive deeper. If you’re trying to understand the people, places and issues that flipped #Texas on Tuesday, here are four books (and one podcast) to get you started. 🧵

[Mr. Make It Happen @SupportThaNawf]

We have to say “Mississippi” after each number

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

Oh.

[James🗳 @_fat_ugly_rat_]

TX-09 is looking very interesting; Alex Mealer is down 23 points in the Harris portion of TX-09!

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

And 1600-1870s never comes up again beyond 8th grade unless students go to college. A vast swath of the state learned, and mostly forgot, what is effectively a child's understanding of the Founding.

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

Poor K-8th grade civics education about the creation of a bicameral Congress does lasting damage in the public mind about "why" it is structured as it is (along with the Electoral College).

This is a pretty good run down of why states are equal in the Senate.

[William Hogeland @WilliamHogeland]

Giving each state two senators is rationalized after the fact by the idea that small-population states should have equal representation. In fact the system led to the *creation* of small-population states, by partisan majorities in Congress, in order to stack the Senate.

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

misinformation "sticks." And here in Texas, we have a current 8th grade and 11th grade US history sequence that teaches US history up to Reconstruction in 8th grade. So colonialization, Indigenous, Revolution/Constitution, slavery/antislavery/Recon taught to children.

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

@Vanessid I still have an upright 8 foot template with the holes predrilled for the pegs, and can duplicate my unit by adding another upright whenever I want. I used to make tables and shelving units for HPB at the spot over by NRG when they still had the warehouse in the Loop.

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

@JesseDHale1 @lionel_trolling But, people can like what they like, for sure, I like Batman, Lord of the Rings, etc. Be a nerd! But my pals who went HP crazy (or Disney crazy) tend to be a bit older and it was because they had kids when these things were peak.

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

@Vanessid The shelves in my banner photo were built in the HPB carpenter shop lol, identical to their 8 foot units.

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

When my father accepted a PGA Hall of Fame award in Florida his walk up song was Sinatra’s “My Way.” Boss move.

[Adam X. McNeil, PhD (aka Metaphors & Memes) @CulturedModesty]

If academic conferences provided a walk up song like they do in baseball, what song would you choose to lead you into your conference panel?

[Nicholas Cox @npcox]

Just saw “Wicker” and…I haven’t been in a room with that high a girl to guy ratio since the last time I saw Ani DiFranco.

(Movie was so great, go see it!)