Marc Jones @marcjones@scholar.social

My school system is running a digital film festival and several of my students have videos featured in the Middle School categories!

http://bit.ly/2020FilmFest

Voting is open to everyone, and anyone can vote once per category per day.

Please share. Voting ENDS on TUESDAY, April 14 at 11:59pm.

Reminder that scholar.social will not be participating in April fools' day, and a preemptive warning to be judicious in your choice of "jokes"

🍍 Content warnings MUST be accurate and descriptive
🍍 "It was April fools' day" is not an excuse for violations of our Community Standards
🍍 If you do something sexist/racist/anti-queer, even if you do it "as a gag" or "ironically," you are still doing that *in real life,* and will be treated as such

@bgcarlisle let's also add that the subtle difference between the English vowel sounds for a and e is beyond the ken of most foreigners, whomst are more likely to happen into situations where personal and personnel matters are confused

The English language: Let's make "a personal matter" and "a personnel matter" mean pretty much the opposite thing, and the only difference in pronunciation between them be which syllable is stressed

The English language: *Rubs hands together excitedly*

Please CW posts about Covid-19, especially if they're posted as Public

This is an expectation of membership on this instance

Thank you for understanding

mr rogers sings 'there are many ways to say I love you'

what are some ways we can say I love you while social distancing?

phone calls; cute memes; asking if people have bandwidth to talk about stress before going into stress; watching movies with people; text check-ins

How can we on scholar help each other during this time?

I know a lot of us are still pressured to produce research, teach, and everything else.
What are some ways that we could use this platform to help each other deal with typical academic nightmares that are now amplified?

checking my school email address.

lots & lots of spam from textbook vultures offering aid in transferring my course to remote learning.

wiley, mcgraw-hill, pearson, hawkes, bedford/st. martins...
fuck all y'all.

File drawer overflowing with unpublished data? Check out FIDDLE (file drawer data liberation effort) to find publishing options.

FIDDLE: http://s-quest.bihealth.org/fiddle/

Preprint: https://osf.io/6mcu3/

#introduction

Hi, everyone! I am a philosophy student and I am currently in the process of writing my MA thesis on the topic of Spinoza and social engineering. My further research interests include the history of modern philosophy, Marxist theory, and critical theory. Feel free to follow me! 😀

I told my students that there is gatekeeping in academic publishing. Stunned silence.

The moment students learn that academia is not as transgressive as they think is a hard time.

Ey I posted more things on my patreon!
If you sign up it helps me do things like pay for my doc bills and during the summer when I can't work because my loan forgiveness program is a POS

https://www.patreon.com/cyborgneticzz

From all the suggestions for this month's #JournalClub the following was randomly chosen:

"Folklore, Nationalism and the Challenge of the Future" by Wilson

http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgkmk.13

The submitter is welcome to de-anonymize themself and introduce why they wanted to read it—or not!

UC Santa Cruz just fired 54 TAs for participating in a wildcat strike, withholding fall quarter grades, and demanding a cost of living adjustment.

Fuck the UC.