Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Indeed. SCHs rule all, and that's been true of online education since COVID. 120
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I am generally a fan of the earlymoderntexts simplifications because bullet points and modern punctuation rule, but good Lord what have they done to the Meditations. A faux dialogue! "Vivid and clear" instead of "clear and distinct"?! 110
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 10/04/2026But if you can master this, padawan, the highways and byways of the country will pose no challenge to you 010
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Any theory of American politics that doesn't start with the instinct to throw the bums out badly misses the mark 020
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 07/07/2025From recent events, why would they need to make the trains run on time rather than simply lying and saying they did? 040
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 19/06/2025How would wearing a mask prevent an assault? 040
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 18/06/2025For my non-Utah friends, this is kind of a big deal. The Desert News is an LDS-oriented paper. Hope springs eternal. 020
Reposted by Mary Beth Willard Isabel Zaw-Tun @izzyzaw.bsky.social · 09/12/2024The Greeks absolutely had it right when they included a chorus in their plays. They knew audiences are dumbasses who need to be told “THIS MAN IS BAD. HE IS HERE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT *NOT* TO DO. WOE TO THE BUMPTIOUS FOOL WHO WOULD IDOLIZE HIM. YOU ARE NOT, NOR DO YOU WANT TO BE, ALEX DELARGE” 209187132215
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 09/12/2024At my institution, the faculty senate executive committee has seven women (of nine members), five who are also simultaneously department chairs. 010
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I must be missing something because the UCLA prof with the AI textbook is... not using it to replace TAs or de-skill the class or using it so she doesn't have to teach. 040
Reposted by Mary Beth Willard Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Yes! This story needs to be told. Dumping of history majors is incredibly short sighted. When administrators do this, they're revealing their ignorance of the discipline and its value across careers. 733659
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 03/12/2024"the coup started and was over by morning coffee" is not something that I'd expect would have a democratic resolution 010
Reposted by Mary Beth Willard Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Fascinating piece by @cherylmisak.bsky.social . I had no idea about the efforts of these brave philosophers. aeon.co/essays/how-a...aeon.coHow a Cold War underground university smuggled in Western ideas | Aeon EssaysDuring the Cold War, Oxford philosophers worked together to aid dissidents behind the Iron Curtain. I was one of them 1164
Reposted by Mary Beth Willard Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes 211971650
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Successfully got the kids to refer to my purse as the Bag of Holding 01010
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 30/11/2024@thisishannahkim.bsky.social The Neverending Story just broke my kids -- fiction in a fiction... 110
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Yesterday the kids made dinner and we watched the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving which was oddly on theme 010
Reposted by Mary Beth Willard Bence Nanay @bencenanay.bsky.social · 27/11/2024My 2016 book, Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception is now also freely downloadable at the Oxford University Press website: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 07020
Reposted by Mary Beth Willard Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024When a philosopher turns out to be a sleazeball that’s a concept creep. 1399
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 26/11/2024www.washingtonpost.com/education/20... Education drives equity. Universities maintain our strategic supply of nerds and make sure future nerds can train. The "demographic cliff" is a slow decline to roughly 1997 levels, a lie predicated on the assumption that Hispanic kids won't go to college. 1/washingtonpost.comRural students’ options shrink as colleges slash majorsAs enrollments fall, rural-serving universities are shedding degree programs ranging from music to chemistry. 110
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Appreciating the proper use of the subjunctive in Jeremiah was a bullfrog 000
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024People who are wondering how the war on higher ed is going should pay attention to Utah over the next few months. I stand a decent chance of losing my job because someone read a land acknowledgement at a different university, and that made the legislature mad. The press calls it a budget cut. 1/ 3177
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024We do not have a faculty lounge, unless you count the conference room with the non-working computer 110
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Also two weeks ago in aesthetics class one of us used Cormac McCarthy as an example of an author who wrote about horrible things and didn't do anything horrible 000
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 23/11/2024After splitting open a pomegranate I have a kitchen that looks like a crime scene and a new appreciation for Persephone noping out after six seeds 030
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 17/11/2024So corrupt they were the worst tyrants ever! 010
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Looks like this might not be a completely dead space? 021
Reposted by Mary Beth Willard Aesthetics for Birds @aestheticsforbirds.bsky.social · 29/02/2024Philosopher and baking enthusiast Christopher Bartel talks about his love-hate relationship with the Great British Bake-Off (er, the Great British Baking Show?).aestheticsforbirds.comThe Hidden Privilege of "The Great British Bake Off" - Aesthetics for BirdsA show about home baking should actually be about home baking. This one isn't. 172
Reposted by Mary Beth Willard jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2024i alluded to this last night but it is genuinely wild to see these antifederalist dudes basically ask supporters of the constitution, "what if there is a trump?" here's patrick henry at the virginia ratifying convention. 222391674
Mary Beth Willard @mbwillard.bsky.social · 04/02/2024I imagine it rather like Pleasantville, but with chartreuse 041
Reposted by Mary Beth Willard Philosophy Talk @philtalkradio.bsky.social · 05/01/2024This week: A vintage episode ahead of Beauvoir's 115th anniversary as John & Ken explore her life and thought with Shannon Mussett from Utah Valley University, editor of "Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler" – Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso...kalw.orgSimone de BeauvoirThe French feminist philosopher was born January 9, 1908. 1102
Reposted by Mary Beth Willard Geek Grammy @geekgrammy.com · 03/01/2024Google killing Reader led to the downfall of the internet. That's when it all started to go to shit. 1138457
Reposted by Mary Beth Willard Aesthetics for Birds @aestheticsforbirds.bsky.social · 30/12/2023‘Tis the season for year-end recommendations! So some of our staff are bringing you one thing that we experienced this year that’s worth telling others about. *Although not necessarily from this year! aestheticsforbirds.com/2023/12/30/a...aestheticsforbirds.comAesthetics for Birds Staff Give One Rec from 2023 - Aesthetics for BirdsFrom the 1990s silver screen to the depths of the internet, here are our staff picks of 2023. 052
