“As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.” —bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress

Some quick notes on the joy (really) of grading:

(I'm still mostly @melikhovo when I'm here on Twitter. Also at other, less, uh, Musky, places.)

This is the first time I've had an entire book published with a @creativecommons license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which I have wanted to be able to do for a while. It's a very personal book about writing & making, so especially nice to have as CC.

"The disproportionate scientific productivity of elite researchers can be largely explained by their substantial labor advantage rather than inherent differences in talent." https://t.co/0vZaqfv5UJ

Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. 🧵1/

💛 I've used this week to help students further their reading and writing during class time. I'm exhausted, they're exhausted. They responded to writing prompts for one of their weekly mini- essays, read part of an article in class, and then we discussed. We all felt better!

VERY PROUD to be the publisher of this groundbreaking book co-edited by @adelinekoh & @dorothyk98, originating 10 years ago with the vision of Adeline who received opposition to this work & left academia as a result. She deserved better but this award confirms her vision. 🏆🎉🥂

This book was published by @punctum_books & just won one a prestigious book prize in the US: best book in the Digital Humanities from the American Studies Association! 3 Barks! I don't know if that award came with treats, but we'll see. Read it here:

I see an exciting new academic series. I see books from the publisher cost $80-150. Ebooks the same. I see minimal and begrudging open access policies. I move on.

The same is true of the conservative justices at oral argument, as @Dahlialithwick and @mjs_dc among others noted this week. Lots of ruminating about how they think college admissions *should* work, not much of anything that sounds like legal analysis. https://t.co/qLkWndHiMl

Universities "and museums in the United States hold the remains of over 116,000 ancestral Native Americans. These ... numbers reveal a story about how scientific racism positioned some groups of people not just as inferior, but as objects of research." https://t.co/7EAvtwNSqX

.@williams_paige reports on a right-wing organization leading the charge to reshape the American education system by aggressively campaigning against local school boards.

Pretty standard committee meeting length...

Welp, Today is going to suck. Today starts the final process of taking down affirmative action. AA has been nothing short of the most successful social policy in American history (bar maybe the GI Bill), but too many white folks hate it so now it's going to die.

"Both studies suggest that as women become more 'agentic,' demonstrating agency via stereotypically male-associated traits, they are punished for violating gender norms with lower student ratings." https://t.co/jnwQow26dL?

Critics will say “ew #ungrading teachers are in a cult; it’s like a religion to them” and I’m over here thinking “dude, if a pedagogy comes from kindness, count me in. Who do I pray to? bell hooks? THAT’S AMAZING.”

The Leadership Institute claims to have trained more than 200,000 conservative activists with a network of over 1,700 clubs and newspapers on campuses nationwide. “People think that 90 percent of college students are Democrats, but that’s not true.” https://t.co/auMoDROqnP

You need a good reason to do this, and should assume you don't have one; they're rare. Too many people default to secrecy instead of openness when they're not sure what to do, and many mentors don't know or care to give good advice.