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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 8h

And to disconnect students from their peers. You know who cannot come together and rise up against our overlords? People who don't know how to talk to one another

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 2d

Should You Stay in Academe or Go? share.google/Amv4Irfugthf...

According to UNL, I should go 😝

Advice | Should You Stay in Academe or Go?

How to assess your odds of finding a faculty job and figure out when to pivot to another career.

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 3d

Slowly starve the universities. Why is UNL in financial trouble? IDK because the state refuses to fund it and we had tuition freezes and then insufficient increases during a time when the cost of everything is skyrocketing?

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 3d

Unsurprising that they targeted interim presidents. I'm pretty sure my department was targeted because have an interim chair

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 4d

I'm glad I was able to talk to a friend that went through this the day they told us. Knowing what to expect helped. Even if what to expect was anxiety and chaos. But damn, this is the most maddening and depressing thing I've ever dealt with

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 4d

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BOR comments from AAUP members

Metrics over Mission? - The Bugeater

Beth Niehaus, UNL AAUP Chapter Member-at-Large, spoke at the NU Board of Regents meeting on Friday, October 3rd. She spoke about the importance of values to institutions of higher education and the di...

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 5d

Almost 20 faculty and staff traveled to Omaha today to tell the Board of Regents exactly what we think of the program cuts.

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AAUP Road Trip to BOR - The Bugeater

I have always loved roading tripping with my colleagues, especially for field work. Today’s road trip was for some less enjoyable reasons, but the company was still excellent. Members of programs iden...

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 7d

One faculty, one Nebraska

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 7d

Program closures hurt Nebraskans!

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you colleagues in community and regional planning for your slogan work!

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 7d

Is 11:06 too early to start drinking?

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 7d

Current mood

a young boy is laughing with his mouth open in a striped shirt .

ALT: a young boy is laughing with his mouth open in a striped shirt .

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 7d

I haven't read your piece but I'm curious if you spoke to any rural scholars or people in rural communities?

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 7d

Same. I bought like half a week's worth of groceries the other day and it was like $50 more than I thought it should be.

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 7d

I do wonder when media outlets will get interested in ballooning everyday costs. My family's grocery bill has exploded over the past six months and - unlike when a Democrat is president - this is a non-story.

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 8d

99, 94, 94. Best reviews I've ever gotten in a grant proposal. Still didn't get it.

If I still have a job and we still have a functional government, it would be great to resubmit it 😂

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 8d

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 8d

Ken Bloom is one of the smartest people I know and incredibly thoughtful about what it means to be part of a university

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An alternative vision for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln - The Bugeater

Today’s post is a proposal that has been circulating UNL’s College of Arts and Sciences, authored by Ken Bloom. Dr. Bloom is the Willa Cather Professor and Chair in the Department of Physics and Astro...

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 9d

"Ultimately, just because you can calculate a z-value doesn’t ensure that it has meaning in the context of the data."

Do not mess around with the statisticians 🤷🏻‍♀️

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 10d

I would also suggest not doing this TO Statistics

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 11d

Can't do that with Statistics and howdy, would I not want to be the one trying this with our Statistics department. These administrations would be failing classes in both departments

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You Can’t Do that With Statistics - The Bugeater

In my last post, I mentioned how incomplete Academic Analytics (AA) is at capturing every faculty member’s productivity. In this post, I’m going to be discussing the problems with how the AA data is b...

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 11d

Can't do that with Statistics and howdy, would I not want to be the one trying this with our Statistics department. These administrations would be failing classes in both departments

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You Can’t Do that With Statistics - The Bugeater

In my last post, I mentioned how incomplete Academic Analytics (AA) is at capturing every faculty member’s productivity. In this post, I’m going to be discussing the problems with how the AA data is b...

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 11d

And some provide teachers with pre-recorded read alouds, so children don't even see an adult reading 🤷🏻‍♀️

Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 11d

Teachers choosing books isn't everyone doing their own thing when teachers choose together and write curriculum together. That skill is not just one for text book writers. There's plenty of room between chaos and scripted programs

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 11d

But there's not actually a reason teachers cannot choose their own books. Nothing about SOR requires deskilling teachers

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 11d

That's exactly why she wanted to do it, to build background knowledge and motivation to read by choosing high interest books. But when SOR becomes only high quality instructional materials, which can only be prepackaged programs... Then yeah

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Dr. Sarah J. Zuckerman @drszuckerman.bsky.social · 12d

I definitely quibble with number 2.

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