Helen Rottier
@helenrottier.bsky.social
PhD in Disability Studies. Disabled Dis-Epistemologies and Knowledge Production. Opinions are my own. she/her
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."
A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester
Dear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. In this letter, I will offer information ...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."
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ⓘ This account is like if you had an advent calendar for cringe
December 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
ⓘ This account is like if you had an advent calendar for cringe
It is such an immense relief that this morning I am eager to dive into work, rather than dreading it. I am so grateful for my new job. ❤️
December 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It is such an immense relief that this morning I am eager to dive into work, rather than dreading it. I am so grateful for my new job. ❤️
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I named my fists Primary and Source because I'm fixin' to cite you, Chicago Style!
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I named my fists Primary and Source because I'm fixin' to cite you, Chicago Style!
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Time for my annual appeal for bakeries to sell holiday cookie blanks — cookie-cutter sugar cookies with NO decoration, nothing else, not bundled with any decorating elements or anything — so lazy ppl like me can buy them and decorate them at home
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Time for my annual appeal for bakeries to sell holiday cookie blanks — cookie-cutter sugar cookies with NO decoration, nothing else, not bundled with any decorating elements or anything — so lazy ppl like me can buy them and decorate them at home
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Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
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Sometimes at church someone says or does something so stupid that the only thing you can do is lock yourself inside the vestry, open up the cupboard, and scream into the robes so that the fabric muffles the sound. It's a form of prayer.
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Sometimes at church someone says or does something so stupid that the only thing you can do is lock yourself inside the vestry, open up the cupboard, and scream into the robes so that the fabric muffles the sound. It's a form of prayer.
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Recently, as I was doing some deep breathing exercises in the vestry to cope with some nonsense at church, someone came up to me and said "these days I have to ask God for patience, because if I ask him for strength I'll deck a bitch." and honestly? Biblical levels of wisdom there.
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Recently, as I was doing some deep breathing exercises in the vestry to cope with some nonsense at church, someone came up to me and said "these days I have to ask God for patience, because if I ask him for strength I'll deck a bitch." and honestly? Biblical levels of wisdom there.
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I think there are conversations to be had among academics about how to structure rubrics, grading policies, and feedback mechanisms to make them harder for bad actors to exploit in a time of coordinated, vicious rightwing attacks on academia. But that shouldn't be the core takeaway from the OU case.
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I think there are conversations to be had among academics about how to structure rubrics, grading policies, and feedback mechanisms to make them harder for bad actors to exploit in a time of coordinated, vicious rightwing attacks on academia. But that shouldn't be the core takeaway from the OU case.
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Ugh winter cheerleaders piss me off. They are all "go take a walk in the woods through the freshly fallen snow you'll love it"
NO?? I live in a city?? I am waiting for the BUS??
NO?? I live in a city?? I am waiting for the BUS??
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Ugh winter cheerleaders piss me off. They are all "go take a walk in the woods through the freshly fallen snow you'll love it"
NO?? I live in a city?? I am waiting for the BUS??
NO?? I live in a city?? I am waiting for the BUS??
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On Episode 6 of the new season of Man on the Inside, there a concert poster for Scarecrow Boat.
This suggests that there IS a common reality within the Schurverse, and that Andy and April moved to San Francisco at some point.
(Or it's a subtle reference that's good for a chuckle.)
This suggests that there IS a common reality within the Schurverse, and that Andy and April moved to San Francisco at some point.
(Or it's a subtle reference that's good for a chuckle.)
The new Michael Schur show on Netflix, A Man on the Inside, is really good.
Great writing, and lots of actors from The Good Place/Brooklyn Nine Nine/Parks and Rec. And a great soundtrack, especially in the final few episodes.
(Do those actors constitute a Schur Cinematic Universe? A Schurverse?)
Great writing, and lots of actors from The Good Place/Brooklyn Nine Nine/Parks and Rec. And a great soundtrack, especially in the final few episodes.
(Do those actors constitute a Schur Cinematic Universe? A Schurverse?)
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
On Episode 6 of the new season of Man on the Inside, there a concert poster for Scarecrow Boat.
This suggests that there IS a common reality within the Schurverse, and that Andy and April moved to San Francisco at some point.
(Or it's a subtle reference that's good for a chuckle.)
This suggests that there IS a common reality within the Schurverse, and that Andy and April moved to San Francisco at some point.
(Or it's a subtle reference that's good for a chuckle.)
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A lot of people in academia, both instructors and admin, are pretty conflict-averse.
And so when that one prof is abusive in meetings, or a student turns in LLM output, or an outside group stalks prey…conflict aversion can mean “Don’t make a big deal of it.”
Which leaves people vulnerable.
And so when that one prof is abusive in meetings, or a student turns in LLM output, or an outside group stalks prey…conflict aversion can mean “Don’t make a big deal of it.”
Which leaves people vulnerable.
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
A lot of people in academia, both instructors and admin, are pretty conflict-averse.
And so when that one prof is abusive in meetings, or a student turns in LLM output, or an outside group stalks prey…conflict aversion can mean “Don’t make a big deal of it.”
Which leaves people vulnerable.
And so when that one prof is abusive in meetings, or a student turns in LLM output, or an outside group stalks prey…conflict aversion can mean “Don’t make a big deal of it.”
Which leaves people vulnerable.
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Pedagogically,
I don’t like forcing students do ‘rigorous’ things the days after long breaks. There’s often a feeling of malaise and a lot of trauma and we gotta make class a safe space again.
Community-building through conversation and games is how I re-enter the home stretch of the year.
I don’t like forcing students do ‘rigorous’ things the days after long breaks. There’s often a feeling of malaise and a lot of trauma and we gotta make class a safe space again.
Community-building through conversation and games is how I re-enter the home stretch of the year.
December 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Pedagogically,
I don’t like forcing students do ‘rigorous’ things the days after long breaks. There’s often a feeling of malaise and a lot of trauma and we gotta make class a safe space again.
Community-building through conversation and games is how I re-enter the home stretch of the year.
I don’t like forcing students do ‘rigorous’ things the days after long breaks. There’s often a feeling of malaise and a lot of trauma and we gotta make class a safe space again.
Community-building through conversation and games is how I re-enter the home stretch of the year.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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and this is why the Death of the Humanities Degrees is devastating; we're just giving up on teaching students how to synthesize information in a way that's not somehow tied to capitalism
One hard part of the literacy problem in the United States is there are a lot of people -- some of them with college degrees and beyond -- who don't realize that they are bad at reading
I don't know how to reach those people
I don't know how to reach those people
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
and this is why the Death of the Humanities Degrees is devastating; we're just giving up on teaching students how to synthesize information in a way that's not somehow tied to capitalism
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One hard part of the literacy problem in the United States is there are a lot of people -- some of them with college degrees and beyond -- who don't realize that they are bad at reading
I don't know how to reach those people
I don't know how to reach those people
November 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
One hard part of the literacy problem in the United States is there are a lot of people -- some of them with college degrees and beyond -- who don't realize that they are bad at reading
I don't know how to reach those people
I don't know how to reach those people
Lovely sunny morning to sit at the kitchen table and make a double batch of krumkake, my favorite Christmas cookie to bake and to eat! God jul! ❤️ 🇳🇴 🇸🇪
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Lovely sunny morning to sit at the kitchen table and make a double batch of krumkake, my favorite Christmas cookie to bake and to eat! God jul! ❤️ 🇳🇴 🇸🇪
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All I want for Christmas is for everyone to begin using the Oxford comma.
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
All I want for Christmas is for everyone to begin using the Oxford comma.
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What we are seeing here, to me anyway, is the end result of the commodification and gamification of education.
This is not a "students today" post--it's more "this is a new form of dysfunction" that doesn't look exactly like it's been in previous decades. It's more than just "first-year chaos." It's an across-the-board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and *connect* with others.
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
What we are seeing here, to me anyway, is the end result of the commodification and gamification of education.
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Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.
November 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.
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My oldest child, 5 minutes into A Muppet Christmas Carol, extremely suspiciously: “Heyyyyyyyy wait I know these monsters…”
Idk what about “Muppet” in the title and also every other viewing of this movie wouldn’t indicate that we would be seeing familiar characters but here we are lol
Idk what about “Muppet” in the title and also every other viewing of this movie wouldn’t indicate that we would be seeing familiar characters but here we are lol
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
My oldest child, 5 minutes into A Muppet Christmas Carol, extremely suspiciously: “Heyyyyyyyy wait I know these monsters…”
Idk what about “Muppet” in the title and also every other viewing of this movie wouldn’t indicate that we would be seeing familiar characters but here we are lol
Idk what about “Muppet” in the title and also every other viewing of this movie wouldn’t indicate that we would be seeing familiar characters but here we are lol
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Autistic and other disabled people have always been and likely will always be part of our societies, and are valuable human beings who deserve unqualified love, acceptance, and access to supports. Truth from an older article, since I don't write so much anymore:
www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosa/...
www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosa/...
My Autistic Son Needs 24/7 Support. And That's OK.
We have a good life, because we stopped buying into mainstream notions about what happy families look like.
www.buzzfeed.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Autistic and other disabled people have always been and likely will always be part of our societies, and are valuable human beings who deserve unqualified love, acceptance, and access to supports. Truth from an older article, since I don't write so much anymore:
www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosa/...
www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosa/...