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Marie van Staveren

@chemdrv.bsky.social

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They/them. Chemistry teaching faculty at UMBC. LongCOVID. Programming, equity, and non-traditional paths in chemistry education. Centering humans and hope. Opinions very much my own.

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Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 3h

I just got told I'm ahead of schedule on a professional thing that's a stretch skill for me and it feels like getting a gold star

Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 3h

Exactly! Why not make sure every group of students can use multiple colors

Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 4h

The inside of my teaching bag at the moment

The inside of a bag filled with a jumble of whiteboard markers, rags, and a cord of some sort

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Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 1d

I've dropped my phone but someone is texting me. Also I need to go to the bathroom and then leave for lunch. But my cat is being super cuddly, so I'm trapped anyway.

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 1d

much bigger problems than a few people lying about having a disability are:

-disabled ppl feeling the need to mask symptoms bc they get so little support/belief
-disabled people not getting adequate healthcare
-the lack of robust safety net to care for people with disabilities

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Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 2d

Between being an adjunct for years and my current philosophical differences with my department, there's no way I would have the career I have without Twitter.

Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 2d

Just love it when I've got a bunch of work open in various tabs and then suddenly I'm signed out of everything for no reason. So good for productivity.

Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 2d

Right? My guess today was social workers but I just checked and apparently it's early childhood educators

Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 2d

Also fun hobby while I wait for the bus near the convention center: sizing up convention attendees and guessing what the conference is about

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Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 2d

New skill today on my bike-bus commute: got out the door early enough to catch an earlier shuttle. And two weeks in a row making it happen at all!

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Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 3d

I have drafted too many emails and not done enough desk-crafts this morning and my eyes are fuzzy

Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 3d

haha perfect response

Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 3d

You might work in a chem department if.... you get a dept wide email asking if anyone has use of 23 bottles of chloracetonitrile

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Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 7d

I thought one student was off task, but it turns out that she took me literally when I said they could use any source, including texting their mom.

Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 7d

Wait Blackborad is bankrupt??

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 7d

The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

Data protection (UK GDPR)
Obtain confirmation that Anthology will continue to meet its UK GDPR Article 28 obligations as your data processor throughout the process.
Get clarification of sub processor stability (no changes planned; if changes are anticipated, please provide advance notice and details).
Confirm that no organisational changes arising from the restructuring will alter how your personal data is accessed, processed, or transferred; if any changes are envisaged, please outline controls, locations, and safeguards.

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Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 7d

Teaching a lesson where my entire class is engaged, feeling like I found a good take on AI discussion for this course

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 8d

I am filled with so much love and gratitude that I cannot grieve. Dr. Goodall worked tirelessly in her gentle, hopeful way for a better world for all life on Earth. She has laid down her field notebook for the last time; now it is for us to fill with wonder, joy, and connection, into infinity.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 9d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 9d

I put it in a google doc:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Digital Accessability for BVI students

My campus now has a countdown on our learning management system letting faculty know exactly how many seconds remain until we need to hit the new federal digital accessibility standards: Our relevant...

docs.google.com

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Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 10d

Thank goodness for timer caps on prescription bottles

Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 12d

Happy to email you a summary of what I've worked out as best practices if you like

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Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 12d

I have looked into this for a colleague and I have no resources or short answers, but many long answers

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 13d

That doesn't mean we shouldn't be upset or complain or use our voices! We need to! Just saying to direct our ire at the folks at the top who are inserting absurd priorities into a system that was working effectively and efficiently in the Before Times.

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Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 14d

Pharmacist: Make sure you drink plenty of water
Me, an overachiever with POTS: I'll drink several liters before lunch

Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 14d

Double vaxxed!

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