2022 01 01 tweets
Not long ago, @NyashaJunior asked for planner recommendations, and got a ton of great ones in the replies. https://twitter.com/NyashaJunior/status/1472968052232888322 +
Replying to @kfitz
For my Remarkable 2 friends, however, I wanted to add this one: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1093713607/2022-remarkable-planner-remarkable?ref=cart +
Replying to @kfitz
It’s a richly linked and brilliantly designed pdf, with lots of room for goal setting, habit tracking, note taking, and scheduling.
Following up on some thoughts about planners and planning. https://kfitz.info/plans/
Replying to @EthanWatrall and @Mattermost
JEALOUS. SUPER DUPER JEALOUS.
Oooh. https://twitter.com/Dictionarycom/status/1477369055690600455
This thread makes me all the more excited for #ENG818, my peculiar writing class, which starts a week from today. Online at first, both sadly and happily, but in any case a place where we can do some work together. https://twitter.com/cgbrooke/status/1478105178951852033
Replying to @kfitz
\(Syllabus TK\. Watch this space\.\)
Replying to @cgbrooke
Ha! It’s called “Peculiar Genres of Academic Writing.” Focused on things like blog posts, personal statements, grant proposals, etc.
Replying to @cgbrooke
You bet! More soon.
HUGE congratulations to @JMUlibraries and @FuriousFlowerPC, and to @MellonFdn for their support of such an amazing project! https://twitter.com/nowviskie/status/1478413893814956033
I know you’re all waiting breathlessly at the edges of your collective seats for this, so here at last is my syllabus for #ENG818, Peculiar Genres of Academic Writing. NB: Tinkering is likely, if not wholesale rethinking, given the uncertainties ahead. https://machines.kfitz.info/ss22/
Replying to @katinalynn
Thanks, Katina! Frankly, it feels like a huge gift to myself — a course I’ve wanted to teach for a long time, and one that’s bound to help me as much as them.
On the collective process, and final product, of my syllabus for Peculiar Genres of Academic Writing. https://kfitz.info/eng818/
Replying to @moncia and @katinalynn
Hmmmm… 🤔
This is delightful to hear :) I’m sorry I’m not able to be there in DC, but will hope for better next year! https://twitter.com/LydiaTangPhD/status/1479139214449119236
Replying to @katinalynn and @moncia
Now THAT would be fun.
I may never do this well again.
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Replying to @StephenBelcourt
It’s inevitable. :)
Replying to @mannahattamamma
Pretty much. I can send you a link if you want one, but then you’ll be in there with the rest of us…
Ooh, go get it, folks. I read my pre-ordered copy as soon as it arrived and immediately added it to my syllabus for #ENG818: https://machines.kfitz.info/ss22/ https://twitter.com/alnthomas/status/1479485829584199682
RT @BerniceKing: Sidney Poitier
Poor People's Campaign, Resurrection City, Washington, D.C., May 1968
Powerful beyond the stage and scre…
RT @wynkenhimself: I think often about what could’ve been if she’d been confirmed as Asst Attorney General for Civil Rights. What a loss th…
RT @InvestInOpen: It’s launch day at IOI! ✨
We’re excited to share the first look at the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services \(COIs\).…
Replying to @elotroalex and @MellonFdn
Oh, wow, I missed this somehow. Huge congratulations! I am super excited to see what y’all get up to.
RT @nowviskie: Thanks, Taylor & Francis! The sooner people realize that *all* for-profit academic publishing is icky pay-to-play of one kin…
RT @nowviskie: Here’s better news!
Replying to @DDMeringolo
God yes, this. I got my first job because my predecessor in the position died suddenly. My luck required someone else's tragedy. I have never forgotten that.
God yes, this. I got my first job because my predecessor in the position died suddenly. My luck required someone else's tragedy. I have never forgotten that. https://twitter.com/DDMeringolo/status/1480351198817435650
RT @susanirenebrown: Today’s the day for expressing interest in volunteering ADHO’s anti-structural-racism task force. Please consider it!…
Replying to @sharonmleon
Oh no.
Replying to @GrinnellCollege and @BerondaM
BERONDA. Beronda! Huge congratulations! I am delighted for you, and for Grinnell! \(And so, so sorry for us\!\)
This is a huge win for @GrinnellCollege! And a sad loss for us at MSU. Congratulations, @BerondaM — I can’t wait to see what you do! https://twitter.com/GrinnellCollege/status/1480951404692971521
Replying to @DianeJakacki, @brettbobley and @jamescummings
Hey, congratulations!
Wow, this is devastating but brilliant. But devastating. https://twitter.com/kevinrmcclure/status/1481014672811773954
Replying to @sharonmleon
Completely.
RT @humcommons: Hello new followers! We're so excited to see all of you! We're a nonprofit academy-owned and governed platform for collabor…
I need a less off-putting colloquialism for “using our own product” or “living up to the message we profess” than “eating our own dog food.” Any suggestions?
Replying to @CameronNeylon
Yeah, exactly. Something that conveys “if we’re not willing to do it, why should others be?” without making it seem gross.
Replying to @aj_boston
That will get you into serious trouble!
Replying to @researchremix and @matthewdlincoln
I like this one. Conveys the ways we should be celebrating what we do so well!
Replying to @SarahEBond
That definitely gets the second part, but misses the “demonstrating our product is good by using it ourselves” bit…
Replying to @NateJohnsonFL
I like that one.
Replying to @RyanDeschamps
That one feels a bit close to “making this up as we go along,” but I get what you mean.
Lots I like about this one. It picks up @CameronNeylon’s interest in the pre-service family meal in restaurants — both that if it’s not good enough for us, it’s not good enough to be served, and that it’s an opportunity for the staff to learn about \(and improve\) the product. https://twitter.com/GinnyLDN/status/1482109680625324039
Replying to @kfitz
And as a reminder to a team, “we need to eat what we cook” brings us back to sustainability, nourishment, and more
I will only ever share these in the event a total wild-ass guess works.
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Here’s to the joys of the wild-ass guess.
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File under Goals. https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/1482855988159995906
Hear, hear! I received my copy late last week, and can’t wait to dive in! Congrats, all. https://twitter.com/mkgold/status/1483465105794867212
Replying to @kwazana and @ColumbiaUP
Ooooooh! This sounds great. Congratulations!!!
Replying to @kristinarola
Highest merit. ❤️
Replying to @martin_eve
How rude. That should be “Mr. Loaf” until invited to use his first name.
Replying to @profwernimont
God, how awful. Jacque, I’m so, so sorry.
Replying to @profgeojustice and @devoneylooser
Looks chewy! \(Seriously, congratulations, George — I’ll look forward to hearing more about your transition\!\)
Ahhhh, I just realized why some of the reactions to my tweets about not dumping work on your colleagues right before the holidays so got under my skin. Those reactions were all “that’s your own problem; set better boundaries.” +
Replying to @kfitz
The problem, as @cwarzel and @annehelen brilliantly explain, is that boundaries are personal. What we need are guardrails, structural devices that can protect us from careening work payloads.
Replying to @cwarzel and @annehelen
The annoying email from your boss or co-worker that plows into your life at 4:59pm on Friday is a problem that you should not have to fend off through personal discipline or resiliency. We need collective agreements that protect all of us.
Replying to @kfitz
Huge thanks to @cwarzel and @annehelen, and the brilliant OUT OF OFFICE. Read it today.
RT @windloochie: @kfitz @cwarzel @annehelen YES boundaries get bulldozed by bureaucracies.
Replying to @DrYoFiggy, @MellonFdn, @jmjafrx and @taoleighgoffe
HOORAYYYY!!!! This is phenomenal news, Yomaira, and I can’t wait to see how this project develops!
Replying to @wynkenhimself
I have been trying ALL afternoon to come up with a good Desperate Housewives joke, and failed.
Replying to @martin_eve
Enormously well-deserved congratulations!
RT @ProfessorCrunk: I just need Biden to appoint a solidly progressive Black woman. None of this middle of the road stuff. Middle of the ro…
Dang, this thread is smart. It makes me think there’s an update of Veblen to be developed, asking why the right has been overtaken by a sect believing that the visible and outward sign of grace is no longer consumption but facts and logic and science all telling you you’re wrong. https://twitter.com/cmpriest/status/1486404185083953154
RT @kmapesy: The #MSUGlobalDH Symposium Registration is now OPEN! The program is announced as well, and we are buzzing about it! https://t.…
There was a time, not too terribly long ago, when I could go days on end without being asked by something in my feeds or my inbox to think about the world-changing significance of NFTs.
Those were the days.
Sadly, believable. https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1486470195036270600
Replying to @kmapesy, @LizaPotts and @schopie1
Oy, don’t get me started.
The word of the day is RANDOM.
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This was only a prologue. Where books are burned, in the end they also burn people. https://twitter.com/gmbritton/status/1486733297178714114
RT @humcommons: We will update everyone when uploads have been reopened. All current deposits remain available for download during the migr…
RT @humcommons: We're in search of an Infrastructure Developer: someone responsible for designing, supporting, & improving the research tec…
I’m in the midst of producing materials for two reviews right now, one my college’s standard annual merit review, and the other a reappointment review for my administrative role. +
Replying to @kfitz
The level of anxiety that these processes surfaced in me is quite something. This despite the fact that our merit process is entirely humane and the reappointment process is being managed by the best folks possible, in the most generous possible way. +
Replying to @kfitz
The problem is that the last two years have produced both a multiplication of the things that need to get done and a drastic reduction in the internal resources \(not just mine; everyone’s\) available to do them. +
Replying to @kfitz
And as a result, thinking about the statements required — of accomplishments, of goals, of vision — has focused my attention on everything I’d meant to do but didn’t, on everything I had to let slide, on every way I failed. +
Replying to @kfitz
This morning I finally made myself sit down and start thinking positively about what I actually have done over the last two years, and where I still want to go. And something finally broke loose, and the anxiety started to abate. +
Replying to @kfitz
I wish for a similar abatement for all of you in annual review mode, or in reappointment, tenure, or promotion mode. You did a LOT, even if you didn’t do everything. May you be surrounded by colleagues who can help you see that, and an institution that recognizes and values it.
Replying to @toddbutler
The good news is that my college and department have tried really hard to make the annual bean-counting into a kind of bean-sowing instead, asking us to reflect on our deepest goals for our work and then think through how we’ve been working toward them and what remains ahead.
Replying to @toddbutler
It keeps things purposeful and values-oriented, but it can still be hard to carve out the time to remember the *why* of all this work when there’s so so much of it to do.
Replying to @jean_bauer
So true. It may well be a factor for me; my last real review was for promotion to full. It turned out well, but it was super painful. I said to myself at the outset, “the worst they can do is hurt my feelings.” I failed to realize that they could REALLY hurt my feelings.
This is a super exciting group! Congratulations to all, and to the @HuMetricsHSS team for such a compelling project! https://twitter.com/HuMetricsHSS/status/1488209658934444032