Marie van Staveren
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chemdrv.bsky.social
Marie van Staveren
@chemdrv.bsky.social
They/them. Chemistry teaching faculty at UMBC. LongCOVID. Programming, equity, and non-traditional paths in chemistry education. Centering humans and hope. Opinions very much my own.
Finishing chapter 1, remembering that Freire's work shouldn't be watered down to problem-posing education as opposed to the banking model of education. The entire first chapter is about the oppressed and conditions for revolution.
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Take two after my morning book club: so far so smooth, getting Jimmy Johns while I wait for the campus shuttle
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I want them to shout back no.

How gross is it for him to say that as if they have a way to not give permission.
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
OH and my favorite! "Grad students tell us they're struggling and they're not graduating on time. We've told them to graduate on time. They report same. Must be a them problem."
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Must be a problem with the students, how could it be something wrong with us?
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"I taught them four times how to do this skill and they still can't do it. Can you also teach them using the same methods?"
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Students don't read my Blackboard announcements so I post repeats of them and they still don't read them. Kids these days suck."
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The topic is effects of AI on student cognition...
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
That's perfect, thank you
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I don't even want to do my own research in my own field most of the time, let alone All The Fields. Plead just let me read other experts work.
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Wow yes there's a lot happening in that
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
But, as recently came up in my neighborhood, 12yos with brown skin *are* kids
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I have writing and lesson planning to do so naturally all I want to do is clean my lab. But I can't do that until my new speaker arrives so I'm doing a puzzle upside down and writing using six different colored pens.
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM