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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 3h

The problem with this dismissiveness of the WORK involved in implementation is that academics are at both a structural and practical disadvantage to admin. We shit on them? They shit on us. As above, so below, and as below, so above.

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 3h

It incentivizes them turning to other advisors, who may or may not know what they are talking about, but who at least appears to understand their own day to day reality better than some scholar who just waves their hand at the help and tells them to cook the meal as if by magic

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 3h

If the researchers ostensibly advising them on what to do have not addressed these, they aren't going to come across as especially in touch, and this lack of respect for their working conditions will have admin turn to people who at least superficially appear to know what they have to work around

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 3h

Who is supposed to be implementing your findings? What are they trained in? Will they need an interpreter? What resource constraints are they working under? Policy constraints? Political constraints?

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 3h

Let me put it another way. Saying admin need to "respect" academics without any clearly defined sense of how that is to be done shows a lack of respect on academics' part about the very long chain of things that must be enacted, as a matter of PRACTICE, between their findings and implementation.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 3h

"respect" is an empty signifier when it floats free of any discussion of how it is to be deployed in practice.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not the one whose country builds all their doors to swing inwards, making it both easier for intruders to get in and harder for occupants to get out in the event of an emergency.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 4h

Like sorry, "if you build it they will come" is a fantasy if you build it in the middle of an inaccessible swamp, fail to tell anyone you've built it, the audience you have in mind doesn't have boats, and you punish your colleagues who row their own boats to offer the audience rides.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 4h

Conflating research with publishing in scholar-to-scholar journals comes at the expense of publishing research in other outlets that would *cough* service both the profession and the rest of the world by demonstrating how that research might be applicable.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 4h

My hottest academic take is that academics should write for the audiences they want to benefit from their work or they should shut it when those neglected audiences don't use their work.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5h

'While researchers typically publish in academic journals and books, the authors found, higher education managers are more likely to consult practice-oriented journals, newsletters, conference inputs and social media platforms such as LinkedIn.'

Physician, heal thyself.

HE research ‘rarely informs administrators’ decisions’

Knowledge transfer should include the university itself, says thinktank after identifying disconnect between managers and those who study them

www.timeshighereducation.com

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 5h

Right, I know the reason, just not sure HOW legally codified it is. In the UK it's also fire code, but only if the capacity is more than like 60 people, so apparently practically everywhere just decided not to do it because they don't "have" to.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 19h

I'm not sure, but it might actually be against fire codes in the US to have the doors open inward!

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 22h

They all open inward into the buildings instead of outward.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 22h

Today is the first day I instinctively pulled one of the UK's death trap doors in the correct direction without having to think about it, please clap.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 23h

Imagine being a reporter whose beat requires observing the ways that science is clearly politicized -- even making an out loud comment to that effect -- and still slurping down corporate science this unquestioningly. Go read some Naomi Oreskes and Alan Brandt and assess your sources better.

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

historical memory is so very short

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a black shirt is making a funny face while pointing at something with his finger .

Alt: a man in a black shirt looks like he is about to ask a question but stops, speechless. There is nothing to say here. I just.

media.tenor.com

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

perfect tweet, no notes

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

A Westie might be a better choice. Scottish, tiny, hypoallergenic, and less .... Difficult and barkie than Scotties.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

I, for one, cannot wait to hear Dr Frizzle tell stories about Cassandra the service dog.

Click through her thread for links to multiple ways to donate! A yearly subscription to her blog will also get you access to her writing, to boot!

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 1d

ok confession time

I’ve been in the ICU for most of the last week & I’m struggling so so so hard

the doctor has suggested I
get a dog to help me, but I cannot afford the cost of a hypoallergenic dog, let alone the cost of a service dog

do we think this is even worth the attempt to fundraise? y/n

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

This acknowledges that you are not paying for the actual quality of the design or construction materials. Everything inside this screams cheap flip job on the developer's part.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

Like in principle I don't much care about the privacy element so much as the fact that it's just really cheap, crap design. If I'm going to live somewhere the rest of my life, I would prefer if it weren't somewhere the developer clearly disdained my existence.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

Why on earth would you pay 1.75 million to live in something so smashed together and with lack of separation that it feels like a bright student efficiency apartment.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, but hear me out. I have a friend with a Great Dane who is her balance service dog. The dog is big enough for her to lean on and rest a hand when she needs to steady herself.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

I, for one, cannot wait to hear Dr Frizzle tell stories about Cassandra the service dog.

Click through her thread for links to multiple ways to donate! A yearly subscription to her blog will also get you access to her writing, to boot!

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 1d

ok confession time

I’ve been in the ICU for most of the last week & I’m struggling so so so hard

the doctor has suggested I
get a dog to help me, but I cannot afford the cost of a hypoallergenic dog, let alone the cost of a service dog

do we think this is even worth the attempt to fundraise? y/n

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