Category: Micro
- November 1, 2019 Seven years ago, I was applying for grad school, wrestling with the idea of leaving French teaching behind. The longer I spend in this career, though, the more I believe my experience learning and teaching language and culture affects my work.
- October 30, 2019 Libraries are beautiful places: I just left one with four volumes of Star Wars/Unbeatable Squirrel Girl comics and a copy of Dr. Wil Gafney’s “Womanist Midrash.”
- October 30, 2019 I had my information literacy and critical thinking students annotate the Wendy’s roleplaying game with comments about how it functions as a persuasive document, and the results are delightful.
- October 18, 2019 The hardest manuscripts to review are the ones that promise something that’s legitimately needed in the literature but then fail to follow through with that promise.
- October 5, 2019 Attention thinkpiece writers: My toddler is now requesting avocado toast for dinner. I am now taking bids for the right to interview us and complain about millennials and their kids in your column.
- October 1, 2019 Today, my kid grabbed a TPB of Ms. Marvel I had checked out from the library, hugged it tight, and announced that she loved it, so I’m feeling pretty good in the parenting department right now.
- September 28, 2019 Yet another Grammarly ad has me thinking... I think my skepticism about AI is not so much the mistakes it makes so much as it is the assumption that human experiences are so well-structured that they can be reduced to an algorithm.
- September 26, 2019 Starting to wonder if Solomon’s “wise” suggestion to cut the baby in half was actually his editorial summary of the advice provided by three conflicting reviewers.
- September 24, 2019 Just learned that there’s a French cover of “Raindrops Falling on My Head,” and now I want to know if they use it in the French dub of Spider-Man 2.
- September 21, 2019 I feel subversive (but absolutely justified) whenever I argue for interpreting “quantitative” data through an interpretivist lens.
- September 18, 2019 Completed a flat-tire-halfway-to-campus bike commuter’s biathlon today.
- September 15, 2019 Gonna start spelling GIF as /dʒɪf/ to make my feelings about the pronunciation clear.
- September 14, 2019 I keep getting automated emails from work that I shouldn’t be getting, but I’m an edge case of what the inclusion criteria are. It’s frustrating, but also a good reminder of need to reflect on variable definitions in computational research. 😂
- September 14, 2019 Just had the surprising experience of seeing the term “NPC” defined and explained in a responsible conduct of research training.
- September 13, 2019 I know some people have strong feelings about split infinitives, but if it’s good enough for Kirk and Picard, it’s good enough for me.
- September 11, 2019 I set up a private Slack group for one of my classes today, and within 15 minutes, they had turned my face into a custom emoji. 😂
- September 7, 2019 When it comes to macaroni and cheese, the spoonfuls I snitch from the pot while serving my kid lunch taste better than any of my own childhood memories of it.
- September 5, 2019 I hope the Disney+ Ms. Marvel show will have an episode set in France where Kamala fights a local super who believes her burkini-based costume to be « une atteinte à la laïcité »
- September 3, 2019 In the years since its release, I have begrudgingly accepted that the 2005 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is not that great. The hardest part of that acceptance, though, is how amazing some of its constituent parts are.
- September 3, 2019 I just misread an email from my professional organization of choice as announcing the creation of a number of “research submarines.” Turns out they’re just working on “summaries.”