Janet Gooodall

And the book gifting programme is amazing..

a brown dog with the words `` it 's true yes '' written on its face . Alt: a brown dog with the words `` it 's true yes '' written on its face .

Sundayish sort of Sunday. More organising of the office space - I'm terribly untidy at the best of times but now almost all random wool is corralled into soft clear plastic cubes that zip up and stack; I've found lots of stuff that's been missing for ages... small wins but I'll take 'em.

I'm sorry you're not well! Are there not places that deliver around you? Here, Just eat and Uber will deliver just about anything, including groceries?

Hand knit dog hat in various shades of pink.

Item - have had a refresher driving lesson. Was pretty good - only one small panic, no crashes, etc. Calling it a win.
Item - office rearranged again, all getting better. Also a win.
Item - SinL requested a hat for small terrier person... Why, yes, that is the same wool as vest for DH...

Subjects in order of purity - sociologists, then psychology, through to maths - all in a box being held up by existential philosopher - who is being tickled by a nihlist

Also, I ran across this on a blog and it is amusing me no end.. (here hodges-model.blogspot.com/2016/03/fiel...
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Purity

There is, I believe, an XKCD comic that comes after this one - xkcd.com/435/ - that has philosophers outside asking why people are in a box - but I can't find it?

Happy birthday! And you are not old. :)

Change is actually possible.

They were designed in an age when 'academic' equated to white, male, middle or upper class, with at the very least a wife, if not servants to support him. That is no longer the case - so why do we act as though it were?

I rarely go to conferences anymore - they're really not set up for anyone who struggles with walking long distances (or stairs). They are also not set up for carers (which I am not but it's not actually all about me).

And also added performativity - how does one behave 'properly' at a formal dinner?

Yes, there is value in in-person conferences. There is also value in hybrid conferences, which allow both options - this is not an either or. And why for the love of all that is, do we have formal dinners? Dinner, by all means, but formal? Not necessary, and an added expense.

And it struck me strongly. I ended my membership of one group because it insisted on conferences in expensive, non-accessible, difficult to get to by public transport, hotels. Yet we managed to have conferences in lockdown...

The quote is from Hohti, R., & Truman, S. E. (2021). Anglocentrism in the academy: On linguistic privilege, mastery and Hoito. Reconceptualizing educational research methodology, 12(2).

"... conferences are difficult spaces in which academics are required to undertake considerable emotional, physical, and academic labor in attempts to “fit in” & to perform the unspoken rules ... that tend to privilege the White, Western, middle-class unencumbered male academic" (thread)

And it all just takes so much TIME... and recently we've had papers with three rounds of reviews, which I've never encountered before....

I always warn students and early career researchers to allow a couple of hours for this... and have no idea why it has to be this way!

Hand knit vest in various colours of pink

Early Friday #ShowMeYourKnits Just finished this - my husband chose the colourway (why wear something that's not bright? he said). It's a fake faire isle yarn...

Hand knitted hat in the shape of a fish (eyes not yet attached)

I love these! I promised a student that if they got 500 responses to a survey, I'd make them one... Then my dean said something that led to another one being made and gifted to him.. I gather it's on display in his office!

Thank you!

Ohhh, thank you! /wanders to the library website...

PhD Research: Books Babies and Bonding YouTube video by Caroline Z-D

One of my PhD students did a fabulous study on the DPIL in the UK - there's a video here: youtu.be/pKU5kqKypY4?...
It's such a fantastic programme...

a fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table with the words `` help '' written on it . Alt: a fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table with the words `` help '' written on it .

Due to learning the word yesterday, I am following a rabbit hole into research on Anglonormativity. I can't find much that relates the concept explicitly to the UK context - what am I missing?

a little girl is walking down a set of stairs and saying `` all better now i 'm all better now '' Alt: a little girl is walking down a set of stairs and saying `` all better now i 'm all better now ''

My day has started with rearranging and tidying my office. I'm now physically tired (it's five past 9) but working in a better space.

Someone might be able to help?

Friendly February - Day 25: Thank three people you feel grateful to and tell them why actionforhappiness.org/friendly-feb... #FriendlyFebruary

kermit the frog is driving a car with a seat belt . Alt: kermit the frog is driving a car with a seat belt .

What does being an older academic feel like? Well, today it feels like scrabbling around for information for an upcoming keynote and remembering - belatedly - that one wrote a literature review about that very subject some years ago....

Am I reading the white paper correctly? "We will put collaboration at the heart of the system by moving to all schools joining or forming high-quality school trusts, including
enabling new local authority established trusts" - ALL schools will now be in trusts? That seems.... odd

I've not used it for an actual lit review (with you on the black mark thing) but I have used some of the sites for literature searching and... the only value I have seen is that you get a spreadsheet. I actually get much better results by hand...

'If you see a black woman, don't make assumptions' Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock on the common misconceptions she faces as a black female space scientist.

This
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...