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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 14h

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 13h

#Inktober2025

Day 13: drink

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 16h

Missing the Mexican food IS really tough. We just eat nothing but whenever we're back in the US for visits.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 16h

I don't normally go in for 25 minute youtube videos, but this was interesting enough to listen to all of it. A lot resonates.

Though, when we moved from US to EU 20 years ago, we summed up our reasons for not wanting to go back much more succinctly:

Better food
Better travel
Better chocolate

Kelly C @kacphl.bsky.social · 19h

Yup. This guy nailed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

www.youtube.com

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 17h

None of us have any manuals, the best we can do is our best, and hope other people have figured out something that can also work for us that we can crib from, cliff-notes style.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 17h

Also: this sounds so very tricky to navigate, I hope you get good/useful advice, I wish I had more to give, and the very fact that you're asking all these questions means that they're getting way more support than they could've gotten from many parents.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 17h

So, I dunno, maybe they might help? If not now, later?

This is the final post in the series, if you start here you can quickly click back through to the first one, but you can't click forward b/c I'm too disorganized to edit old posts to add links:

diaryofdoctorlogic.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/w...

Writing While ADHD, Part 3: I’ve Got All These Ideas, Now What?

This post follows on from this one. So, you’re deeply mired in the “writing-as-discovery” process, finding out all sorts of interesting things, swapping between writing and readin…

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 17h

Of course it took me 20+ years to be able to articulate this, and longer to articulate what DID work for me. But I did, and now I have blog posts! And I share them with my uni students (usually the ones writing their final year dissertations with me) and they are SO grateful.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 17h

I'm reading through the various thread replies, wondering if I have anything useful to add, and I read this and thought "oooh! resonance!"

I remember being taught a lot of things about How To Write which NEVER worked for me and I found baffling.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, no, that doesn't work.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 1d

The VC of Leicester has been announced as the new Chair of UCEA.

He's been VC of Leicester since 2019. He's the one responsible for forcing out scholars in ways that employment tribunals showed was not permitted.

The the kind of guy UCEA values.
www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o... #UKHE

book cover of 'shaping for mediocrity': The cancellation of critical thinking at our universities.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 23h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Potatoes
Requiem for a Dream
The Entertainer by Scott Joplin

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Milk
Nine Months
(Simply Having A) Wonderful Christmas Time (The Pipes of Peace are #2 on the list, looking at *you* Sir McCartney).

Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 1d

Semolina pudding
Man Bites Dog
Fairytale of New York

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 1d

Week three of our strike over university redundancies - people are becoming giddy!

Someone in a frog costume holding a UCU placard.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with @benburgis.bsky.social's critique of the critique. I can be pretty analytic philosophy sceptical (see e.g. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-...) but sometimes people just kinda flail in critiques, they basically just make stuff up about it.

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If You Want to Critique Analytic Philosophy, It Helps to Know Something About It

A note on Neil Vallelly's essay "Analytic Philosophy Is a Dead End for the Left."

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

"What the Tortoise Said to Achilles" is what got me in...

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UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social · 2d

A problem UCU has to contend with is that academics have no leverage over management in UK HE.

Refusing to teach or mark is no problem for senior management, as they can bypass academic roles.

In fact, they are itching to sell degrees without any substantive academic involvement.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, Covey never worked in academia, did he...

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

I'm doing okay with the things that are *due*, they mostly get done by their deadline (sometimes even a day or two in advance!). It's all the little tasks that don't have due dates/deadlines that keep piling up.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

#Inktober2025

Day 12: shredded

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

#Inktober2025

Day 11: sting

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

#Inktober2025

Day 10: sweep

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

#Inktober2025

Day 9: heavy

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

REVIEW: “Woodsong” by Arthur H. Manners

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REVIEW: “Woodsong” by Arthur H. Manners

Review of Arthur H. Manners, “Woodsong,” Flash Fiction Online 145 (October 2025): 19-22 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman. There’s two layers of horror to this s…

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

It's so disheartening. I'd love to be able to feel like I'm making progress with things.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

What I'd really love to be able to do this week is accomplish some of the things on my todo list that *don't* have deadlines.

They're the things I keep putting onto my "this week" list which keep getting pushed to my "next week" list by the end of the week.

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