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Rebecca Scott
@philosopanda.bsky.social
Philosopher, community college educator, union member, RPGer
Behold! The #survivor48 finale cocktail menu! 🍹🌴

#RHAP #survivor48 #cocktails #cocktailsky
May 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Brainstorming cocktail ideas for the #survivor48 finale. Kyle’s has to be solid and sophisticated—maybe a twist on a martini. Joe’s is overly sugary and sweet—a bit too much. Kamilla’s strong and satisfying like a rum old fashioned. Eva, some kind of frat boy punch. Not sure about Mitch…
May 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I’m gonna be offering a critique of backward design tomorrow for an AAPT Talking Teaching session (spicy, I know). It’s free to attend and you don’t have to be an AAPT member. Link in replies.

#philsky #pedagogy
May 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Experienced an important department chair rite of passage today. First time I’ve had parents show up for a student complaint meeting. 🙃🙄
April 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
My 3yo has gotten really into me reading him chapter books. So far we’ve read Stuart Little, a bunch of Magic Treehouse books, and James and the Giant Peach. I think he would really like something sci fi. Any ideas of sci-fi books good for little kids (and also fun for me)?
February 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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One day and 1/3rd of the way there! Thank you!

Ryan’s glioblastoma has reached his brainstem and he’s got doctor’s orders to go to Greece one more time.

Please chip in or share if you can! 💛💛💛
February 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Here’s some more of me describing and thinking out loud about my pedagogy fwiw.
Critical Thinking
Topic: Identifying assumptions/presuppositions built into questions
Reading: “What are we (not) doing when we struggle to ask questions?” Giancarlo Tarantino
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February 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Critical Thinking
Topic: Identifying assumptions/presuppositions built into questions
Reading: “What are we (not) doing when we struggle to ask questions?” Giancarlo Tarantino
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February 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Dear philosophy twitter friends, a glioblastoma has come for @xaos.bsky.social and me, @jsthrill.modphi.com, @shengokai.bsky.social, & @philosopanda.bsky.social have organized a gofundme to help send him to Greece one more time. If you can chip in please do so here: www.gofundme.com/f/send-ryan-...
Donate to Send Ryan and Jennifer to Athens, organized by Jamie Lombardi
We're a group of Ryan's friends who would like to help send him to Athens one more tim… Jamie Lombardi needs your support for Send Ryan and Jennifer to Athens
www.gofundme.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Got confirmation of my sabbatical from our president. Yay! But my real question is, do I reply to the email or is it annoying to clutter the president’s inbox with a Thank You. And do I reply all (thus cluttering the inboxes of my Dean and Provost)? The truly difficult questions of academia.
January 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Julian (3yo): if a dinosaur tried to eat you, I would ABSOLUTELY save you.
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January 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Critical Thinking Day 2
Topic: Curiosity
Reading: “Curiosity’s Got Style” by Perry Zurn @perryzurn.bsky.social and Dani Bassett
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January 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hey #philsky if I posted semi-regularly about in-class activities I’m doing and my pedagogical thought process would that be annoying and boring or potentially helpful?
January 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My philosophy of gender class is gonna be so special (I think/hope)! 9 students and they all want to be there. Spent our 1st session talking about our hopes, commitments, responsibilities and earliest experiences of gender norms. I’m so lucky. ❤️
January 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
One of the great things about academia is you usually see people on an every other day basis so you can wear the same pants two days in a row.
January 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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January 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Teaching philosophy of gender for the 1st time.

Units:
1) Sex, gender, and social construction
2) Masculinity and the “new misogyny”
3) Intersectionality and Decoloniality

Reading stuff by Lorde, Bettcher, Manne, Srinivasan, Khader and a bunch of others

I’m so stoked!
January 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Creating AI-proof assignments is virtually impossible and I think we need to be realistic about different strategies for different classes and contexts. My old self would have tried to prevent AI use by doubling down on intrinsic motivation and relationship building but…
January 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
TIL: old monkey mummies eat blueberries and new monkey mummies eat snakes.

Follow me for more questionable facts from a 3yo.
January 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thurs., Dec. 19. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organized with the Teamsters.

Let's fucking go! 🔥
December 19, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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Dice. D20s, D6s, D10s.
What goes in this bag?
December 19, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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RACHEL MY QUEEN OUR QUEEN WE ARE NOT WORTHY #survivor #survivor47
December 19, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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Teeny's rope glimmers with embers, about to break.

Suddenly, the flame begins to move away from her, as she cries out, "No!"

From the jury bench, Genevieve pockets her wand, her Gust of Wind spell complete

For the last time, she had spun Teeny

#Survivor47
December 19, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Rachel should take Sam to final 3 and not let him win fire in front of the jury.

#survivor47
December 19, 2024 at 1:19 AM
I want Rachel to win this challenge but if she does, this finale is so over.

#survivor47
December 19, 2024 at 1:10 AM