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Good morning, comrades! Let's start the week with some thoughts on institutional and student emailing.

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I also reinforce it by genuinely not responding quickly to emails. It lowers expectations ;-)

Yup! I do it by constantly reiterating when my office hours are and that they are the best/most appropriate place to get specific, timely answers and one-on-one attention.

Oh no. This is terrible. Thinking of you and your family and hoping that this rest does you a world of good <3

A big mazel tov to the 5 men who he molested when they were boys and his students. I hope you sleep better tonight. May his memory be obliterated.

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Last: this is a reminder that there's a difference between Best Practices (ideal) and Best Practices (reality). Once you have job security, stop driving yourself mad to reach that ideal. Create a new reality with boundaries.

I am a prof all the time, but I am THEIR prof only some of the time. They pay for my classes as part of their tuition, but that's not the ONLY thing that their tuition is paying for, so it would be a mistake to treat it as such.

It doesn't mean that I'll *never* respond to emails, it means that I want students to adjust their expectations. If they were sending Teams messages to their high school teachers, they need to know that that resource is not available to them at university.

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If my students don't feel comfortable coming to class early, asking questions in front of the class, or visiting my office hours, that's really not on me. Their tuition pays for a range of supports. My support is available during class and office hours.

The necessity is this: my students see me for 3.0 credit hours a semester. I am there to answer questions in class. If they get there early, they can ask me early. If that doesn't work for them, they can ask me during my 2 hours of officially-mandated office hours a week.

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So, with that in mind, I'm no longer doing the "drop me an email" thing. Sure, it was best practices to be able to give infinite feedback to my entire classlist before they submitted their assignments, but that was going way above and beyond the necessity.

Now, I frame everything around "you pay for a whole range of resources." Classes. Library. Academic Learning Centre. Mental Health services. Their tuition payments are holistic and it's *their* job to get their money's worth.

Six years in, I still feel anxious about students feeling like they're not getting value from me for their tuition.

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Six years ago, I was precariously employed, COVID was ravaging everyone's mental health, so "if this doesn't work for you, email me" was my common refrain. It came from a really good place. It is not sustainable.

Emails. Student emails. There was a time when email didn't exist: it wasn't part of the job description. Remember that.

This is my 6th year at my permanent job. These thoughts are based on my having the job security to be able to make decisions for my mental health.

Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good morning, comrades! Let's start the week with some thoughts on institutional and student emailing.

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4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ohio 49% Sherrod Brown (D) 46% Jon Husted (R) Iowa 48% Ashley Hinson (R) 47% Josh Turek (D)

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Democratic Senate nominees are now leading or tied in five reliably Republican states, according to a new NYT/Siena poll. Kansas 45% Adam Hamilton (D) 45% Roger Marshall (R) Texas 51% James Talarico (D) 45% Ken Paxton (R) Alaska 50% Mary Peltola (D) 43% Dan Sullivan (R)

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We won’t be stringent on the deadline, but it the official deadline is today!

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Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey! That’s huge! Congratulations, Declan!!!

Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fellow RoHo grad here! Congratulations on this exciting opportunity!!

Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Canadians: remember that today goes way beyond the orange shirt. Open that wallet! I've just donated to the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre in Nunavut - join me!

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Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com · 30/09/2026

Happy first birthday to *After the Feast*—my little cookbooklet meant to share ways to reduce food waste and make the most out of your turkey-dinner leftovers! The PDF is free to download, and print copies support the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre. ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

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After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung

After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🎉🎉The catalogue for the groundbreaking @Folger.edu exhibit “‘To Hear Her Speak’: Black Women in Shakespeare” is live & open source. But if you are an academic, PLEASE ask your library to buy a copy. We need to show lasting interest in these times! asu.pressbooks.pub/to-hear-her-...

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Acknowledgments – To Hear Her Speak

Recovers a previously hidden theater and performance history of Black women engaging with Shakespeare as actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors.

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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No prob! Like @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social , I was pissed that I had to pay my own money to check my institutional email!

You best believe I'm teaching this infographic tomorrow:

Consent is freely given, reversible, informed, enthusiastic, specific (FRIES)

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Jamie - we can claim 1/4 of our phone bill on our PDA...but that assumes we haven't used it up on our awesome scholarly adventures 🫤

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Phoebe Buffay: I Have To Go Scream Into A Pillow

I lied. The thing I hate most about MFA is that Microsoft is like, oh, you want to opt out of MFA? We get it. We totally agree! Give us your biometrics instead!

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ALT: Phoebe Buffay: I Have To Go Scream Into A Pillow

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