Marc Jones @marcjones@scholar.social

Acronym anxiety.

When you see NLP in somebody's bio and you wonder.... Is it the nightmare of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and you have to run away, or is it Natural Language Processing and you want to talk with them?

• I don’t see any point in peer-reviewing or gatekept journals for most areas, humanities especially. Online videos, q&a sites, uploaded PDFs have much wider reach and I don’t want my papers to be ‘prestigious’ and read by a total 5 people incl. reviwers.

• I think the gossipy, office-politics socialisation work that’s pushed into scholars, & the administrative busywork, makes for basically the worst possible environment for reading, writing, thinking, defeating the whole purpose.

"Innovation," "social entrepreneurship," and "development" are a neoliberal dog whistles.

Does anyone have experience producing slides for a course that are genuinely accessible?

I'd like to use PDF slides to show text, equations, images, tables, and plots in support of a mostly traditional lecture. I'd also like to make those slides available to the students as a study aid (I am not following any particular textbook). I would like this material to be as accessible as possible to Blind and Visually Impaired students. Anyone have any advice or experience?

honestly, given the reactions that the phrase "OK, Boomer" have been getting in the media, you'd think packs of teens have been systematically targeting elderly people for brutal street muggings or something. but, no... it's just a phrase, and a mild one at that. why is it so upsetting?

because it's not rebellious or confrontational, which are things older people are used to getting from younger people. it's straight-up *dismissive*. and it's not something we, GenX, the first-generation children of the Boomers, ever had the chance to express.

our rebellion was taken away, repackaged, and sold back to us when we were too young to know what it was for or why it could be powerful. we grew up feeling helpless and hopeless, trapped in a world where we had nothing meaningful to say and nothing useful to do because Doom was Nigh--the ozone layer, nuclear war, the Y2K bug, politicians that hated us sending us off to wars for blatant lies. Boomers got to have their Swinging 60s--we grew up under the specter of AIDS. we were isolated from each other, so we never realized that we weren't alone. and when we were finally able to get our own voice out into the popular culture, we spoke obliquely of isolation, depression, inward-turned knives.

Your value as a person is not based on your ability to produce journal articles, get high scores on tests, etc.

You deserve respect and dignity regardless

Depeche Mode implies the existence of a Depeche Median and a Depeche Mean

Yes. Use it. The answer is always yes. Everyone does not have a perfect hearing. We have microphones for a reason.

Re- #introduction, since my first one was over a year and two careers ago. I'm an instructional technology consultant at a Big 10 school. I started 2 weeks ago & I love it so far- it's a tech team full of humanities people.

My MS is in library science, MEd in curriculum & instruction, BA is English and Journalism. I've worked in public and academic libraries lately and spent 12 years teaching high school English and journalism. Married to a sociologist and have a 9 year old and a 13 year old.

My friend is defending her diss on Halloween. She is doing her diss on a Victorian ghost story man.
SO she is going to defend in full Victorian goth. She's got lace. She's got cameo brooches. She's got black shawls. She's got the hair. She's ready to show up n be spooky.

I'm so proud of her.

Some day I hope to find a community of #K12 teachers on here.

I got close with scholar.social, but they're geared for higher ed.