I am pleased to see this critique - as experts we should hold our institutions accountable when they fail! And anyone who has tried to get institutional change in this space knows how challenging this can be - and typically is.
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Not just me but so many colleagues saying this year was the most draining year of teaching and marking of their lives.
tough to overstate how quickly science funding in New Zealand has been blown to pieces - on Friday the NZ govt straight up disbanded the Marsden fund (our version of the NSF)
it'll be replaced by a 'transition fund' with less money and zero information, as of yet, about what it will support
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The contrast between the gratitude and valuing of what I teach at HVL, and the (perhaps unwitting) questioning of my pedagogical expertise, knowledge, and ability to have a clue about my job, by my students back home, is doing my head in...
On my way home from a week at HVL in Bergen - what wonderful hosts, and a wonderful group of academics and students to engage with!! The teaching, socialising and travel are *exhausting* - but they are rewarding too!! Definitely a place I'm keen to visit again!
Misogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed.
The same Bill that a majority of our parliamentarians chose to progress to a second reading today was introduced in Australia by Pauline Hanson and their parliament told her to fuck off. The absolute shame of it all.
