Tom Huck

Biologist & Educator. Muscle Physiology & Biomechanics. Northern Arizona University M.S., University of Arizona B.S.

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@BrownDace @CLTPublicHealth Love the idea of trying new methods to enable learning. During the pandemic & the widespread adoption of remote learning, the concern was that students would look up answers on their evaluations. Wild thought: design evaluations to encourage informal research as a learning tool.

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@page_gould Hierarchies and castes are stratified by people who hold those with less power accountable for the actions of those with more power. Unfortunately, this is why those with the most responsibility are often held the least accountable for their actions.

[Paul Gorski | Equity Literacy Institute @EquityLiteracy]

Backward Systems Thinking: Trying to "diversify staff" our way to antiracism by recruiting people into a racist system, then providing them with mentoring and other "supports" ostensibly to help them survive the racism we're ignoring. Then acting surprised when they leave.

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@DrMarissaKate Is this for a paper or greater project?

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The primary objective of teaching should not be to help the students learn how to memorize and spit out information under academic pressure.

The purpose of teaching is to inspire the desire for learning in them and make them able to think, understand, and question.

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@ZJAyres They’ll straight up prevent you from having the platform to share evidence. Choose to interview everyone but the complainant, deliberately not dig deeper into apparent behavior that makes the university liable, & conclude investigations before someone can submit their info.

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@DrBlackDeer “Well-meaning”

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@Stopworkplacebu Do you know of any studies that validate this social dynamic?

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@Insurgent_Prof When I—another instructor at the time—expressed that it wasn’t okay for teachers to call students names, the manager of the course said “Why does that bother you? Did someone once call you “a little f*cking p*say who needed to get laid?”

Academia can be toxic.

[Jenn | Reappropriate @reappropriate]

Official GoFundMe for Dr. Zijie Yan’s daughters. Dr. Yan was killed in the shooting at UNC last week.

https://t.co/UPUDRufyjf

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@BRAINCURES @JulieH_Psyc @C_L_Fox Hi Krzysztof, are you aware of any journalists addressing cases of academic bullying?

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@RVAwonk “induced threats of meaninglessness increase the likelihood of treating other people as enemies or scapegoats; moreover, offering a visible enemy or scapegoat to one’s perceptions of calamities leads to a restoration of the sense of meaning.” https://t.co/36fajlCvBW

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

It occurred to me that much of what we see on social media right now — namely, rising levels of hostility & cruelty, and increasingly rigid in-group/outgroup boundaries — is probably, sadly, a coping mechanism that reflects an attempt to cling to a world that no longer exists.

[Paul Gorski | Equity Literacy Institute @EquityLiteracy]

Thanks, @patrickmlarkin for posting this from my and Katy's book! Often the issue isn't the absence of equity efforts, but the fact that what passes for "equity" is usually high-optics and low-impact DEI stuff. Not surprising when optics are rewarded and real impact is punished.

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@doc_thoughts Not an update, but related

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@jamesmfinley It’s not a documentary but the movie Columbus features a ton of Modernist architecture as a thematic backdrop for the story. Highly recommend 🎬

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@stevemagness Is this testosterone decrease reflected in fathers and mothers?

[Tom Huck @thomasghuck]

@XueliWang1 @WPParrish3 Congratulations! Where can I find the dissertation and/or papers?

[Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts]

Another reason I started saying "people racialized as White" is due to being at presentations and reading articles where people racialized as White talks about "the minorities" as the only racialized groups and thus the category White gets rendered invisible.