There’s a chance I’ll be made redundant. Thankfully I have some visa options (already spent £££ on a 5 year visa but hey ho), but always remember that your loyalty, hard work and the fact that you’re wildly overqualified is irrelevant
Were you spying on me with my “big mad” face on the train yesterday, death glaring at the girls watching videos top volume?
Gotta love my home state
UK colleagues/friends, I’m on the lookout for new career options!! Need a researcher in law/history? That’s me! Or do you know of a project manager role requiring a unique perspective? I’m flexible, resilient and dedicated (but for now I do need sponsorship). Pls send any leads my way and thanks!
Really really wants to go to Puebla for @rmclas-conference.bsky.social but funding for it is non-existent for me on an administrative contract. And flights from London are super pricey. #sadface #mexico
Throwback to Antalya 6 weeks ago. Kaleiçi and Aspendos
Next stop, Albufeira in May and hopefully Croatia and Istanbul later this year
Hello fellow traveler!
ADHD is fun!
Hope the snow hasn’t been super disruptive
🤣🤣🤣 that’s a blast from the past
Friends, I'm going to teach an adult education class on the Aztecs and Mayas (also other Indigenous cultures in Mexico). Gimme some snappy titles! I'm crap at writing them!
Gracias!
I’ve had students just do whatever they feel like for assignments (which already give them very wide latitude) or simply copy and paste AI answers as their own.
I loved online teaching until about two weeks ago
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Running statistics for my 4.34 training run
Map of training route
A bridge over wetlands and river with a cloudy sky
River and wetlands scene
Windy and rainy 4+ miles with a mile of absolute mud and muck. Very slow but a solid training run
Aww that’s great!
I hope you had a super Thanksgiving!
Seconding a version of the French 75. My fave cocktail ever!
super! I’m finishing up some revisions over the holidays for which I’d love a good venue!
This year is the pits!
Jesus it’s like Michael Scott calling Pam to get a list of jokes he can use at a client meeting.
He’s such a chode
Can one submit if they were tenured but are now an independent scholar?
I’ll throw my hat in for the Spanish and Portuguese contingents…
No idea what prompted this but oh dea. Best be prepared for war 🤣
German Christmas pyramid with candles in front of a window
decorated a bit for Christmas already
That’s helpful to know. If students want to brainstorm, I guess that’s fine. But a 100% copy-paste job from chatgpt is beyond ridiculous
If you use the Turnitin AI detector, do you find that it's pretty accurate? I've got nearly an entire class whose papers are 75% or more AI generated only. I specifically told them not to do this.
I’m so glad I decided on the five year visa, despite the expense, when my grad visa expired in the midst of the Tories mucking about with salary changes. In actuality, I should’ve gone the Global Talent route, but that’s besides the point
I’ve cut back on the socials! But hi!!
Poor Kona. We did daylight savings a week before the US and I’m still not adjusted!
New piece forthcoming:“Carcerality in Mexican History.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History. A comment from the editor: "I'm not sure anything like this exists for the field, so you've done immense service in creating this comprehensive bibliography." Super proud of my work!
Mexico enters the chat
Because everything in the world seems absolutely terrible right now, he’s my first successful logburner fire.
Now to get up, start revising some articles, and begin the process of switching visas and job hunting
