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Amber Settle

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I no longer use this account. Find me on BlueSky: https://t.co/xuQfcNHKpf

Chicago, IL
Joined November 2018
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10 months
Apparently I joined Twitter (yes, I dead name this site) 6 years ago. I plan, however, to spend a lot less time here for a while and a lot more time on BlueSky. If you'd like to join me there I'm #MyXAnniversary
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RT @Tim_Walz: Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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Yesterday was the last day of the Fall quarter at DePaul, and it was a surprisingly good quarter for me. I had two groups of highly engaged students, and for the first time in a long time I didn…
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RT @midwestern_ope: Beautiful photo captured by a local Midwest photographer today at 4:55pm
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I primarily teaching introductory programming classes, and I have for a long time now. As a result, it’s rare for a student to have me more than twice, and I typically don’t see student…
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We are currently in the middle of the fourth week in the eleven week Fall quarter here at DePaul, which is enough time for me to get a sense of how my students are going to behave this quarter. Fro…
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We have reached the last week of August, and this year that means it’s time to prepare for my fall quarter classes which begin next week. I’m doing all the usual things: setting up the …
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I’m now three weeks into my summer, and as is typical for me in the past couple of years, that means my focus has turned entirely to research. The first couple of weeks after the spring quart…
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Today is the first of my final exams for Spring quarter, ending the long, difficult time for those of us on the quarter system. As usual, I’m tired and burned out, perhaps more this year beca…
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It doesn’t seem like that much time has passed, but I started working at DePaul in 1996. I was still a graduate student at the University of Chicago, and I was hired into a term position whil…
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RT @Komaniecki_R: With another semester ending, here's your annual reminder that teaching evaluations systemically disadvantage women. Even….
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We have reached the end of spring “break” at DePaul, something I put into quotes because the entire week is packed with activities for instructors. Typically we’re trying to grade…
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For a variety of reasons over the past couple of years my research productivity has declined. It made me a little sad, although I didn’t have a lot of time to actively correct the situation. …
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2 years
RT @MelaninRose89: Me watching that Kennedy Ad #SuperBowl
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2 years
RT @depaulalumni: 🔹 Who: The entire DePaul community (that's you!).🔹 What: Reaching 3,500 donors in 24 hours.🔹 Where: At .
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RT @OKWildlifeDept: @bettiebloodshed *underrated supporting mushroom:
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RT @OKWildlifeDept: hypothetically, . if I was going to nominate a film about a badger, .starring a badger, .called "Badger,".for best pict….
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Today is the start of the Winter quarter at DePaul, and after an extra-long break this year I have more energy than I did at the start of the Fall quarter in September. Being the start of a new cal…
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One of the unique things about working at DePaul is that you have the entire month of December free from teaching. I’m sure that those in the Northern Hemisphere on semesters feel very enviou…
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