Dr Cat

Community college veteran. Generalist. Talk to me about feminism, pop culture, and neurolinguistics. (And everything else). Opinions may be salty.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

@ktb38 Her survey would be more accessible if she didn't block people lol

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@naomirwolf @michaelmina_lab He did. Didn't you read his website?

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@abcnews I've literally never had my name spelled right.

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@realmallard1 @Literature_Lady Wonderful news!!

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I'm into it.

[Kristen Glasener, PhD @kglasenerPhd]

Learned today that @UNC is moving to Pass/Fail for undergrads. They also created a new grade for those affected by COVID-19 called CV as an alternative to IN, which will give students three additional months to complete work. Well done. Others should follow their lead.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

@v_solesmith Yes, but maybe I too would like some pasta and you don't need FORTY SEVEN FREAKING BOXES OF IT.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

Picked up some stuff from the office and I'm sitting here, ready to leave, and I just keep crying. I know it's stupid, but it really feels like the world is never going to be the same. I'm worried for my students. I'm worried about the tiny life I've built.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

@SJDJ @Momademia Make sure you do an OTHER where you ask them any concerns, because we're trying our best, but we can't think of EVERYTHING.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

@MS_Sociology @AcademicChatter I give it as an option, because last week, it was all my students wanted to talk about. It'd be dumb not to give them a chance to channel that into writing about it. However, they have 4 other topics to choose from. Maybe we can trust our students to take care of themselves?

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

@karol It's just plain tokenism. I want someone with POLICY and PLANS and MORALS. (like, the opposite of Trump). Not just a vagina.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

@dianaarcher_14 I wonder if smoking (VERY common in France and Italy) accounts for these patients.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

Just created a survey to find out my students' ability to access video. Can't really proceed without knowing if that's going to be an issue for them.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

@ChrisYandle @AcademicChatter Great, can you tell me how I'm supposed to show my students a Netflix episode when accessibility issues mean I can't presume all my students have a Netflix sub or the bandwidth to play it?

Online is not the same as f2f. Any prof who loves their job knows it.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

I need a word stronger than shitshow.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

Since all my students somehow think campus will give them coronavirus but not, say, the Starbucks they had last week, I'm honestly not even sure what I'm supposed to do in class today with the few who do show up.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

@AcademicChatter Face to face. I need to see the campus, honestly. Interviews go both ways--I want to see if I want to work there, too! I want to see the classrooms, the library, the student spaces, etc.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

#COVID19 advice: Don't just #washyourhands, also CLEAN YOUR DAMN PHONE.

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@dannagal I needed this thank you so much!!!!

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Oh my gosh YES, this!!!

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

I honestly don't believe any of the BS stories about 'the computer mysteriously refreshed on me'. They're digital natives. They cannot be this bad at the internet.

But if they are, woe betide them if we go fully online.

[Dr Cat @professorkitty7]

Posted repeatedly that I was not online on Tuesday nights. Posted last evening that the exam was due at midnight and that, as I said, I will not be around. Posted "there will be no reopening of exams".

Guess what I have in my inbox this morning?