We keep adjusting our goalposts, trying to meet students where they're at--but for some, that place is a kind of non-place, where they don't complete any work or engage with the class, but still receive a high grade. Emails are ignored. They can't meet a deadline or keep an appointment.

My job is to produce health information for the general reader in the UK. Not just me, part of a biggish team.
I have a list of trusted internet sources that can be used for research.
Yesterday, I had to take the CDC website off that list.

Came here to say maternal mortality 😭

we live in a culture that celebrates being burnt out - it's bonkers. just gonna start dropping at parties "did nothing all week and really hope to do more of that.

I think about this and: the tarot deck comes to us from Early Modern Europe. Its symbols like the goddess Fortuna / the Wheel of Fortune, a horse-drawn chariot in the street, etc., preserve odd bits of life in that era for us today. New age aesthetic has these elements baked in but it's unconscious

there really are more of us than there are of them and when we all stand up and pitch in, we win

And it's all based on misquoting him! "Survival of the FIT" means adapting to the environment -- very relevant in light of climate change. Survival of the fitTEST was not Darwin's idea 😡