Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD

I love bison meat!

It's 40 degrees and I got a cold brew. Drink for the weather you want, not the weather you have.

Sometimes I remember that I was really alive when Michael Jordan was at his peak.

If the price for that is living through Trump then I guess it is what it is. Sigh.

My new bff is biofreeze

Yessss!!! I cannot wait for mine to turn that age!

Gonna make myself some hot chocolate with the good chocolate.

Trauma, treatment and Tetris: video gaming increases hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder - PubMed Tetris may be useful as an adjunct therapeutic intervention for PTSD. Tetris-related increases in hippocampal volume may ensure that therapeutic gains are maintained after completion of therapy.

It can also mitigate ptsd if played shortly following a traumatic event!

Being seen (by you) offers more protection than you know 💙

Keep doing that!

Thank you so much got sharing! Much to think about.

Sending you hugs for all that you had to endure 🫂

The thing that really hurts is when it's from WoC students 😔😔😔

Like it's one thing to make a joke about your prof being out of touch with pop culture, it's another to weaponize not having read a thing to invalidate their expertise. And when I defend myself I am called a bad instructor.

All of this!

Yes! The using a simple spelling mistake to invalidate my three degrees and very much like online behavior (which I also get).

This is all well and good...however I am untenured* so if I call it out, like you say, then I get student complaints and negative evals that jeopardize my possibility for tenure and promotion.

*it is even worse for precarious faculty like NTT and adjuncts.

This is fascinating. Would you mind sharing more?

When I was a student I would never!

Like I'm trying to model not knowing a thing and that being ok. I spent my grad career nodding along in conversations like I knew what writer/theorist they were talking about. But I don't get to do that in the classroom because of presumed incompetence.

We can all try to be better.

Wow!!! That's awful.

But it's not just me then. 😔

I have been brushing it off, but I'm beginning to realize that it's a very rude thing to say.

To your wm colleague's comment: oh, that must be white, I mean nice.

Lmfao! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm glad it's never happened to you.

And the audacity for me to get student evals that call me rude!

I'll do something a little similar, and say I haven't read every book published in English.

The humanities, literature and reading supposedly aren’t important….

but the synthetic word salad maker ingested fiction and nonfiction alike, indifferently, to generate its word predictions shaping life and death decisions in war, medicine, science, at home, etc. etc.

I can’t get over this.

Like I know this is how it is, but it still breaks my heart at the realization.

Is this typical? Or is it sexism/racism?

Examples include:
"You haven't read that book? And you're an English professor?"

"You can't spell that word and you're an English professor?"

So this has happened more than 3 times to me while teaching...I say something and a student says (out loud for the the entire class) "you don't know XYZ thing and you're an English professor?!" Has this happened to you?
#AcademicSky