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Dr. Liz Norell
@liznorell.bsky.social
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#ActuallyAutistic educator, writer, bibliophile who already loves your dog(s). Opinions are mine. Out now, my book <The Present Professor>! https://www.oupress.com/9780806194691/the-present-professor/
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · Dec 19
Thanks to @biblioracle.bsky.social for sharing lessons from my book, , in his @insidehighered.com column today! I hope others will find a supportive companion and purposeful encouragement in its pages. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
A professor’s presence is their biggest asset
The Present Professor may help you reflect on what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 20h
Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing, @asv.bsky.social !!
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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 1d
wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus
My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 20h
So so so many things.
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 20h
Never saw it coming! 👀
a man in a suit and tie is sitting on a couch and says in shock
Alt: Ross Geller from Friends sits on his couch while wearing a suit and tie and appears to be in shock.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22h
Welcome to the era of “Kavanaugh Raids.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 2d
My student-led team, schoolstorylab.com, has just rec'd IRB approval for this yr’s project, an inquiry into READING. (We built on @liznorell.bsky.social's survey.) It will take less than 10 min. & is open to ANY STUDENT in ANY COUNTRY, 18 years or older. Plz share widely!
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School Story Lab
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 5d
I am so freaking tired of institutions breaking hearts. Hugs to you, sis! 🥰💜
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 5d
I've done a lottt of travel this year, and a big shout-out/major kudos goes to the AGLS organizers for offering a conference meal that was delicious and pretty darn inclusive! It's hard to do, and they did it well.
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 8d
Officially endorse. 😎
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 8d
Yall please go watch @merriam-webster.com’s new AI ad😅

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YouTube video by Merriam-Webster
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 9d
Well said.
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If Men Tried to Understand Their Comfort, They’d See Who Paid Its Cost.
I’m a heterosexual, cisgender white man from a small rural community in Wisconsin.
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 9d
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social @mjsdc.bsky.social please join me in ragey eye rolls in the direction of 1 First Street. 🙄🙄
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 9d
Someone please alert the Chief Justice that courtrooms are failing to stop discriminating on the basis of race. 🙄
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Bryan Stevenson is the best of us, and I adore him to bits. I am angry on his behalf for the million tiny cuts he experiences doing heroic work.
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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d
So exhausting..
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 11d
This is great. Being a political scientist at the moment is a bit like being a climate scientist a few years back. You can see clearly catastrophe is coming, but most people seem blithely unaware of it
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 11d
An outstanding interview. Patrick Iber of Dissent Magazine has interviewed the legendary Polish political scientist Adam Przeworski about de-democratisation in the USA, and what lessons he’s gleaned from Chile, Peru & beyond.

Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14d
My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂
Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons
Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 18d
I'm listening to Anne Lamott read Bird By Bird. Why has nobody ever told me this book is delightful?!?! 🤣
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But seriously, I had no idea it would make me snort laugh on a nighttime flight.
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 19d
For many years when teaching American Government to undergrads, I started the semester by reading Brene' Brown's chapter, "People are Hard to Hate Close Up. Move In." We need that lesson now more than ever. Here's an excerpt. brenebrown.com/articles/201...
A Ministry of Presence
An experience of collective pain does not deliver us from grief or sadness; it is a ministry of presence. These moments remind us that we are not alone in our darkness and that our broken heart is con...
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 19d
I'm not linking to the piece/naming the author intentionally, because it's a fraught time for anyone to speak--but especially those working in higher ed. But we must find ways to connect with one another, even imperfectly, because doing so is healing. Connection is the antidote to hate.
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 19d
I appreciated the piece I read yesterday and again this morning about the importance of talking to students about events unfolding around us. Especially the idea of "rigorous empathy": "to ask why people we disagree with believe what they do, and what fears and hopes animate their positions."
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 21d
Unacceptably empty dog food bowl.
Ginger, a tricolored basset hound, is out of food and unhappy about it.
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 21d
Also having this day. But here's Ginger, aka: Ginger-roo, GinGin, Wigglebottom (her middle name), Gingey, G, and Baby G (in her puppy pics).
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 21d
#Disability advocate friends: I thought I bookmarked this site, but now I can't find it -- it was a tool for assessing the accessibility of physical spaces, and it was a checklist of sorts. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Anyone have a link you can share? Help me jog my memory!
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 21d
Happy Constitution Day to all who celebrate.
(Is it just me? It might just be me.)
a man in a suit and tie is holding a piece of paper that says i have a constitution .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a piece of paper that says i have a constitution .
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 23d
Wes Bentley of Yellowstone, Hunger Games, and American Beauty fame. He was a year behind me in high school, but moved to Little Rock his junior/my senior year. I had a MASSIVE crush on his older brother, who was a dreamy French horn player. 😍📯
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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 24d
Today, @olivia.science and her colleagues speak about their efforts to resist the uncritical adoption of AI in academia. Read all about it in today's blog, and see their open letter below:

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g...
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 24d
This thread might help folks feel (or even be) safer in these times. 🧵
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 25d
Gonna write some brief troll mitigation tips for you all because like any successful, happy woman on the internet, i’ve had ‘em

Tips break down into two main areas:

1. Defensive tactics: how not to make it easy for them

2. Offensive tactics: fuck ‘em up

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 24d
Really important @TimothySnyder column open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Free Speech and Me Speech
A helpful distinction
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