Marc Jones @marcjones@scholar.social

Intro post? I guess I never did one.

Hi, I like a lot of things. In my youth I channeled all my feelings through a funnel of rage. Now that I’m near 40 I am just as excitable, but anger leaves me exhausted.

I love:
-gardening
-cats
-video games
-non-edgelord teevee/movies
-vegan food
-swimming
-scifi books (particularly Le Guin, Miéville, and Cherryh)
-music with synth

I have an anxiety disorder, and when I disappear off here it’s cos I’m trying to not make Regrettable Toots.

in german we differentiate between "Luck" and "Success"

You don't say "Good Luck!" ("Viel Glück!") before an exam. It's not a game of chance.
You can "Much Success!" ("Viel Erfolg!").

In fact, for teachers it's not even allowed to say "Good Luck!" but use the proper "Much Success!" instead AFAIK

sadly dict.cc says that this differentiation doesn't translate well into the english.

Look what arrived in my mailbox today post #pll3. #NowReading #Psychology

https://scholar.social/media/qyl4Ho0SxgbIz9a43Jw

"I still remember that I knew that I was weird," Dornyei at #pll3

Dornyei gives us all advice on how to appear more highbrow in any future talks. Either Plato or Aristotle probably said something about what you are thinking or talking about. #pll3

https://scholar.social/media/cxWG17a8Jt9C07KId4w

I am engaging with #pll3 through this Masto backchannelling about #backchannel.

https://scholar.social/media/Mz5gUFXAPfm5EX9t3Gk

between the github/microsoft deal and apple dropping opengl i feel like the future path of non-proprietary foss programming in education and the arts has become much rockier in the past few days

Video recording student presentations: Good.

Student self / peer assessment: Great

Students really needing individual assessment from teacher so I sat and reviewed / commented on videos total of 6 hours today: gotta be a better way.

(I know. Use rubric in-class and feedback live. But know I can't do that consistently / fairly for 3 hours straight on a Wed. morning. This lets me take breaks / see all prezos before I start grading. Sometimes there are common problems related to instruction!)

Academic institutions: We take abuse seriously.

Also academic institutions: We are going to fully embrace and endorse Twitter for institutional communications and provide this website with free content. Good luck queers.

tech bros on twitter arguing against libraries in favour of "spotify for books" because authors/publishers (or rather VC investors) can't use libraries as their primary source of profit is just a perfect example of silicon valley's willful ignorance or complete contempt for the ideas of public service and the commons.

rather than everybody creating a public space and sharing resources they'd have us all completely separated and paying countless times over for the same thing.

On my run there are places by the sea where sometimes people stay the night in a caravan, & it is not uncommon to see waste left on the ground. What is it like to have so little care that you knowingly leave your mess RIGHT BY THE WATER’s EDGE where it will be dragged into the sea with the next tide? I can understand that ppl mess as ‘fuck you’ to society, but what they say is ‘fuck all the children to come’. They will see the effects.

I recycled these. #smallstories

We're interviewing part-time language teachers. We have good students and a very pleasant campus centrally located in #Tokyo. Pay is decent and we try our best to treat adjuncts well. (It wasn't so long ago that some of us full-timers were part-time.) Small faculty.

https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=3&id=D118060028&ln_jor=1

#ELT #EFL #CLIL #job

@ink_slinger @cathal @mitras2

Yes, #publishing failed results are necessary.
But the constraints I find are :
1. lack of #recognition. Journals look for positive results to improve impact factors.
2. Time - You spend lots of time compiling and writing the failed #hypothesis and get rejections. You may utilize that time on another project.

Will it make sense to just create a "Failed projects #archive" without any peer review and protected by #CC BY-SA to make things easier ?

@Tdorey

My observation in a fairly toxic workplace culture at the moment: psychological safety of others is all of our issue.

In a very specific situation I'm involved in as an advocate, this means arguing that creating a culture of psychological safety that results in slower process is the first priority over improving resource efficiency and enhancing employee performance.

What's hard for people to see is that safety makes sense for everyone, not just those who feel at risk.

RT @fr3ino@twitter.com: Because of #GDPR, USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk! 🙄
5.2MB → 500KB

So I just got home from the Society for Clinical Trials, and everyone there seemed to have realised this year that Twitter exists

The journal for the society was pushing its brand-new Twitter account; several people I know and respect were unabashedly promoting their Twitter brands

And I really feel like uncritically accepting new technologies into health research is a thing that happens way too much

What are your preferred alternatives to Google Drive's shared documents for writing/editing? Preferring ones which don't require accoutn/login!

Please Boost!?

A gentle undirected note that hashtags here don't work in the same way as on Twitter. They're purely for searching, not for metrics.

This may not be everyone's view, but Mastodon (to me, at least) shouldn't be about accumulating metrics - it can be so much more: it can be about building community.