Thea Abad Pepperl, PhD | 🇵🇭 🇺🇸

wife, mom of 4, biomedical engineer, assistant professor interested in design thinking and inclusive teaching practices, judoka | jujitera | kali, she/her/siya

[Thea Abad Pepperl, PhD | 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @theapepperl]

@peacocklady0 Engineers and technicians tend to resent managers that don't know how to use the equipment or could step in and handle the day to day processes, or who manage from on high (different floor, corner office, etc).

[Thea Abad Pepperl, PhD | 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @theapepperl]

@erinmanalo @RJPway4EQ Aww, I love it when a good pub comes out and you can be like "ooh, I can reference this! "

[Thea Abad Pepperl, PhD | 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @theapepperl]

@jacasiegel University-wide email listed promoting a culture of care as an objective, then defined it as ensuring students graduate on time. I was shook. The bar truly is so low.

[Laura Gibbs @OnlineCrsLady]

resharing this again for anyone who missed it earlier; I have learned SO MUCH from the people in this group, and I'm very glad that we're starting up again after our summer break
...and pinging @theapepperl and @MiaZamoraPhD in particular for the beauty of constrained writing :-)

[Iliana Sucre @thetckteacher]

We each wrote a poem based on George Lyon’s poem “Where I’m From” and then picked our favourite line to make a whole-class poem. This is where we are from!

[Thea Abad Pepperl, PhD | 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @theapepperl]

Hmm... might show this as a case study for patent searches. Anybody have other examples of vintage artifacts where some provenance could be determined through patent search?

[Thea Abad Pepperl, PhD | 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @theapepperl]

My dad asked if I wanted barbecue, and I thought he meant the pulled kind, not the stick.

My FilAm card has been revoked.

[Remy Levin @RemyLevin]

I've been using Mendeley Desktop daily for years, & have an annotated library of thousands of pdfs. Today, I switched to Zotero. Here's a 🧵of tips on how to do this, if you're also tired of Elsevier's BS and want to make the switch w/minimal effort while maintaining workflow.

[Ranjith K Sivakumar @Sivakumar_SRK]

@LNivisonSmith @thoughtsofaphd @PhD_Genie @thephdstory @HaPhDsupervisor @Dissertating Just dropping it here!

[Thea Abad Pepperl, PhD | 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @theapepperl]

@Bali_Maha Hope you feel better soon!

[Thea Abad Pepperl, PhD | 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @theapepperl]

@Bali_Maha 🤣 this is why I sometimes introduce myself as Thea, rhymes with "slay ya". Lol, it's my MMA fight name.

[Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpacheco]

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance
-- Kurt Vonnegut

[Thea Abad Pepperl, PhD | 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @theapepperl]

@peacocklady0 Pretty much, yeah... but have you seen academia?

[Chris Friend @chris_friend]

Hear @AsaoBInoue read “Assessing so That People Stop Killing Each Other” from Hybrid Teaching: Pedagogy, People Politics.
I’m grateful for his generous permission to reprint the piece, as well as his time recording this version. https://t.co/jwlmn2p2Zj

[Thea Abad Pepperl, PhD | 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @theapepperl]

@conway_lab @VCU_BME @OhioState @OhioStateBME @OSUCCC_James Best wishes! We'll miss you, and I know you're going to do great work at OSU

[Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra]

It doesn’t take a title to make you a leader.

If you are challenging the status quo, trying something new, or working to create change, that is leadership and it means you are a leader.

[Thea Abad Pepperl, PhD | 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @theapepperl]

@tannertheteach @erinentrada I dunno, when there are lines like "And natives don’t mind dying, you know. They don’t feel about it as Europeans do.”... I just feel that would make kids feel a certain way and should probably be addressed.

[Thea Abad Pepperl, PhD | 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @theapepperl]

@tannertheteach @erinentrada Genuinely curious, how did they respond to the blatant imperialism in that book?