Dr. Liz Norell
@liznorell.bsky.social
#ActuallyAutistic educator, writer, bibliophile who already loves your dog(s). Opinions are mine. Out now, my book <The Present Professor>! https://www.oupress.com/9780806194691/the-present-professor/
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Dr. Liz Norell
@liznorell.bsky.social
· Dec 19
A professor’s presence is their biggest asset
The Present Professor may help you reflect on what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.
www.insidehighered.com
Thanks to @biblioracle.bsky.social for sharing lessons from my book, , in his @insidehighered.com column today! I hope others will find a supportive companion and purposeful encouragement in its pages. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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With the incomparable @mimirocah1.bsky.social on the inside story of a DOJ in disarray.
The Prosecutorial Malpractice Coming From Pam Bondi’s DOJ Is Getting Harder to Hide.
The President’s Dear Pam posts are really starting to backfire.
slate.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
With the incomparable @mimirocah1.bsky.social on the inside story of a DOJ in disarray.
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We offen think that we’re the only one struggling, even if we know logically it’s not true.
But the moment we enter a space and speak that idea aloud, the whole room nods.
This is why community matters - not for inspiration, not for free therapy, but for recognition.
But the moment we enter a space and speak that idea aloud, the whole room nods.
This is why community matters - not for inspiration, not for free therapy, but for recognition.
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We offen think that we’re the only one struggling, even if we know logically it’s not true.
But the moment we enter a space and speak that idea aloud, the whole room nods.
This is why community matters - not for inspiration, not for free therapy, but for recognition.
But the moment we enter a space and speak that idea aloud, the whole room nods.
This is why community matters - not for inspiration, not for free therapy, but for recognition.
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occasionally I think about this absolutely perfect five-question battery
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
occasionally I think about this absolutely perfect five-question battery
I posted this on the Engaged Learning Collective today re: my concerns around revisions to the vision/mission/values of my professional association. Several conversations helped me refine my thinking--thanks to those who spoke with me. engagedlearningcollective.substack.com/p/the-pod-ne...
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I posted this on the Engaged Learning Collective today re: my concerns around revisions to the vision/mission/values of my professional association. Several conversations helped me refine my thinking--thanks to those who spoke with me. engagedlearningcollective.substack.com/p/the-pod-ne...
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What if we began some of our classroom thinking not about how to surveil and enforce compliance, but how to incentivize and build trust?
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
What if we began some of our classroom thinking not about how to surveil and enforce compliance, but how to incentivize and build trust?
I've been waiting for the JHU Press holiday sale to preorder some forthcoming titles, including @karencosta.bsky.social's ADHD book and @edufuturist.bsky.social's Peak Higher Ed book. It's here--40% off all books! Code: HHOL25
(This is not spon con! I just want everyone to get these books!)
(This is not spon con! I just want everyone to get these books!)
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I've been waiting for the JHU Press holiday sale to preorder some forthcoming titles, including @karencosta.bsky.social's ADHD book and @edufuturist.bsky.social's Peak Higher Ed book. It's here--40% off all books! Code: HHOL25
(This is not spon con! I just want everyone to get these books!)
(This is not spon con! I just want everyone to get these books!)
One of the most liberating things I've ever done was decide that I'm done writing stuffy academic prose. I'm far more interested in letting my authentic writer's voice shine through anything I write. And that's why, on a Saturday night, I was JOYFULLY writing a short paper for my just-for-fun class.
November 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
One of the most liberating things I've ever done was decide that I'm done writing stuffy academic prose. I'm far more interested in letting my authentic writer's voice shine through anything I write. And that's why, on a Saturday night, I was JOYFULLY writing a short paper for my just-for-fun class.
It's just completely heartbreaking on every single level that this headline exists in the richest country in the world/history. 😭💔
James Van Der Beek is auctioning off ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Varsity Blues’ merchandise to pay for his cancer treatments.
James Van Der Beek Sells Dawson’s Creek Merch to Pay for Cancer Treatment
James Van Der Beek is auctioning off ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Varsity Blues’ merchandise to pay for his cancer treatments.
www.vulture.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It's just completely heartbreaking on every single level that this headline exists in the richest country in the world/history. 😭💔
It's objectively an offensive move to have a conference app with a section on "inclusion" that includes lorem ipsum text and nothing else. Like just leave it off, mmkay? Nobody made you make that choice.
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It's objectively an offensive move to have a conference app with a section on "inclusion" that includes lorem ipsum text and nothing else. Like just leave it off, mmkay? Nobody made you make that choice.
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Email the president a picture of your outfit everyday to check if it’s in compliance with ‘gender’ expectations
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Email the president a picture of your outfit everyday to check if it’s in compliance with ‘gender’ expectations
This research is fascinating. Often to the detriment of their career progression, autistic colleagues (and myself) are frequently constitutionally unable to witness deviation from procedure or inefficient processes without pointing it out.
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Trivial example: I report every typo in kindle books.
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Trivial example: I report every typo in kindle books.
Autistics (vs non-autistics) "are less likely to make errors in self-assessments of their cognitive performance"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "findings provide valuable insights into both the cognitive strengths of autistic individuals and the mechanisms underlying metacognitive biases"
Reduced Susceptibility to the Dunning–Kruger Effect in Autistic Employees
Evidence indicates that autistic individuals are less susceptible to social influence and cognitive biases than non-autistic individuals. However, no studies have been conducted on the Dunning–Kruger....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This research is fascinating. Often to the detriment of their career progression, autistic colleagues (and myself) are frequently constitutionally unable to witness deviation from procedure or inefficient processes without pointing it out.
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Trivial example: I report every typo in kindle books.
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Trivial example: I report every typo in kindle books.
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I was told there was a crisis of free speech on campus that must be reversed
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I was told there was a crisis of free speech on campus that must be reversed
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The first section of our forthcoming book is a deep dive Gee's "Academic Transformation" at WVU from those who actually lived it; after you read it you won't be able to fathom why some people in the higher ed space still insist on taking him seriously. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
The Campus Crisis Toolkit
sunypress.edu
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The first section of our forthcoming book is a deep dive Gee's "Academic Transformation" at WVU from those who actually lived it; after you read it you won't be able to fathom why some people in the higher ed space still insist on taking him seriously. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
Brilliant writing here.
how I came to be in the Epstein files
How I Came to Be in the Epstein Files
A conspiracy wrapped in a conspiracy theory wrapped in an enigma
www.theatlantic.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Brilliant writing here.
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As someone mentioned earlier, maybe this is the reason why billionaire tech bros need AI to summarize emails. What does this even mean?
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
As someone mentioned earlier, maybe this is the reason why billionaire tech bros need AI to summarize emails. What does this even mean?
I'm routinely asked to send my SSN in emails, along with my full name and birthday. Including, notably, by my congressman's staff in their DC office when we requested a White House tour many years ago. 🤦🏻♀️👀
As a tax man who works with high net worth individuals, I am routinely asked, and after that demanded, to send non-password protected full tax returns via email
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm routinely asked to send my SSN in emails, along with my full name and birthday. Including, notably, by my congressman's staff in their DC office when we requested a White House tour many years ago. 🤦🏻♀️👀
I'm here from the future to say I'm pretty sure this man will not be saying this 10-15 years from now.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I'm here from the future to say I'm pretty sure this man will not be saying this 10-15 years from now.
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
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We're talking about trust at our staff retreat, and I'm reminded of @liznorell.bsky.social's lovely piece about the role of reflective writing in building psychological safety on a team: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We're talking about trust at our staff retreat, and I'm reminded of @liznorell.bsky.social's lovely piece about the role of reflective writing in building psychological safety on a team: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
OK this is super cool and an issue I'll look forward to reading.
the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education is currently accepting proposals for upcoming Special Issues -- and we want your ideas to lead the next big conversations in the field.
More info:
www.nctm.org/JRMESpeciali...
#iteachmath #AcademicSky
More info:
www.nctm.org/JRMESpeciali...
#iteachmath #AcademicSky
JRME Call for Special Issues Proposals - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
“Strengths Based Research at the Intersection of Mathematics and Disability” Special Issue Editors Rachel Lambert and Jessica Hunt Neurodivergent, Deaf and or students with disabilities are mathemati...
www.nctm.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
OK this is super cool and an issue I'll look forward to reading.
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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"stop asking faculty to 'put some pedagogy on it' to address symptoms of societal collapse"!
- the great @karencosta.bsky.social
- the great @karencosta.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"stop asking faculty to 'put some pedagogy on it' to address symptoms of societal collapse"!
- the great @karencosta.bsky.social
- the great @karencosta.bsky.social
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Leave it to the HHS boys to depathologized HRT in order to pathologize menopause. “HRT has saved marriages, rescued women from depression, prevented children from going without a mother,” Dr. Makary said.
No, menopause does not kill women or cause divorce.
The many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement
No, it doesn't kill women or cause divorce.
www.motherjones.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Leave it to the HHS boys to depathologized HRT in order to pathologize menopause. “HRT has saved marriages, rescued women from depression, prevented children from going without a mother,” Dr. Makary said.
I am simply unwilling to rely on these black boxes to generate anything on my behalf or for my use, nor am I willing to feed it my thinking or writing in service of unstated goals and potentially immoral uses. Some of the generative AI tools out there are potentially useful, sure, but at what cost?
“What ChatGPT says about politics — or anything — is ultimately what the people who created it say it should say, or allow it to say; more specifically, human beings at OpenAI are deciding what neutral answers to those 500 prompts might look like and instructing their model to follow their lead.”
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Is a Warning
The centibillionaire’s Wikipedia clone is ridiculous. It’s also a glimpse of the future.
nymag.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I am simply unwilling to rely on these black boxes to generate anything on my behalf or for my use, nor am I willing to feed it my thinking or writing in service of unstated goals and potentially immoral uses. Some of the generative AI tools out there are potentially useful, sure, but at what cost?