current mood: john marshall having a misadventure in the library of congress
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Scientist: *sees a spider with long legs*
Scientist: I think I’ll call it daddy…… Daddy long legs
🌙take me to your wonderland🌙
where are they going??
To their fucking Wonderland
im sorry
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After reading about gender-bias and conversation dominance in the classroom, I asked for a peer to observe a physics class I was teaching and keep track of the discussion time I was giving to various students along with their race and gender. In this exercise, I knew I was being observed and I was trying to be extra careful to equally represent all students―but I STILL gave a disproportionate amount of discussion time to the white male students in my classroom (controlling for the overall distribution of genders and races in the class). I was shocked. It felt like I was giving a disproportionate amount of time to my white female and non-white students.
Even when I was explicitly trying, I still failed to have the discussion participants fairly represent the population of the students in my classroom.
This is a well-studied phenomena and it’s called listener bias. We are socialized to think women talk more than they actually do. Listener bias results in most people thinking that women are ‘hogging the floor’ even when men are dominating.
—Stop interrupting me: gender, conversation dominance and listener bias, by Jessica Kirkpatrick from Women In Astronomy
Implicit bias is a thing, just like privilege. Calling it out isn’t meant to shame anyone, but to alert us to step it up and improve ourselves so everyone can have a voice. Be conscious of what you and others are saying, and know when not to speak.
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I’m organizing my next English conversation class around an in depth analysis of “anaconda” by nicki minaj I think these kids are gonna learn a lot
possibly my favourite scene from anything ever
ok what the hell is the x files
If you don’t like Nicki Minaj I just feel like…you are of the devil and i can’t be associated with you in any way, shape, or form
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this may come as sad news for some of you but Outer Space is Gay. all of it
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I got “Dipper’s and Mabel’s Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun” in the mail today, and it is one heck of a great book. There are secret messages all throughout it that are written in the newest symbol cipher:
And I just finished decoding them all. Holy crap you guys. I’m putting em under a cut, they’re really intense.
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