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From the mountain west, I'd highly recommend making one of these to scrub your indoor air: Corsi–Rosenthal Box - Wikipedia
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Sanman
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Interesting design and I am all for making anything with duct tape. However, my wife has been an air purifier advocate for a while now, so we have several in the house already.
I think I like the duct tape aspect as well. I love things that are cheap and can beat more expensive things.
Tried listening to some of Ariana Grande's new songs and became concerned that I couldn't really understand what she was saying, only to realize no one else could either. Looking forward to getting this section of grant reviews done today.
I am reading a book about gender affirming care. The information is good. I really wish more authors who do advocacy work could write in a less chastising voice. I am reading the book. I am already sold on the message. I am a quarter of the way through, and they are still writing like they have to justify why the work is important and how people consistently get it wrong. I have put down so many potentially lovely books because I didn't feel like feeling lectured about something I already agree with. That is my early morning Friday rant.
I am looking forward to going to the farmers market this weekend.
I am looking forward to going to the farmers market this weekend.
I think you're touching on an important point about persuasion. I'm listening to a book on archaeology by Kenneth Feder called Native America. It's a wonderful book about the peopling of the Americas and the lives of ancient peoples through the study of the things, and contexts, they left behind. It begins with a call for better public outreach, and a critique of how poorly archaeology often communicates with the general public.
But he also spends a lot of time being sanctimonious and beating a few dead horses. The points are important, for example, emphasizing that people were here long before Europeans “discovered” the Americas, but after a while I find myself thinking trust the reader to understand your original point. You don't always have to return to the same injustice to make clear that it matters.
I think persuasion is really important to consider when you're trying to reach a general audience. Subject-matter experts are understandably frustrated by the misconceptions, injustices, or bad arguments they encounter over and over again, and I imagine it can feel like this is their chance to finally correct the record. But in the long run, that tone can alienate a pretty large group of readers-including people who already agree with you.
Sometimes I think advocacy writing gets more focused on signaling, “I understand the stakes and I am firmly on the right side of this,” than on making the most compelling or effective case. And ironically, I think that can make the advocacy less persuasive.
I agree. I enjoy being pushed to think deeply and challenged on my old thinking, but it requires some pacing. If I am consistently being presented the content in an almost adversarial framework, it becomes fatiguing over time. I think that can work under certain conditions, but it's rough when the purpose of the book is primarily educational. I need to keep this in mind for some of my didactics. I have had some really good trainings where the presenter approached teaching like everyone showed up in good faith and had a confident enthusiasm for the material. I want to make sure I keep that spirit.
Your book does sound interesting. I might give it a listen after something lighter first.
Watching clips of a very public trial of a mom who killed her 3 kids in my state makes me sad to see the hot mess that the behavioral health system is. Whether it was intentional or a result of PP psychosis, there were so many missed opportunities to possibly change the outcome.
I've been sort of following it and would love to hear what you think should have been done differently.
The inpatient discharge process sucks across the board. Not enough collaboration with outside providers unfortunately. Which is likely because of insurance policies and not because staff aren’t willing to try. But as an outpatient provider, I can’t tell you how many times clients have gotten discharged without reaching out to discuss discharge needs/plans.
Limited engagement of the other parent (in this case the father) in planning/coordinating for services. Curious if providers asked her if she wanted to sign release for the husband (I’m not watching every moment of the trial so maybe it was learned they did, but in general that doesn’t happen much).
Just a ****ty situation all around.
Limited engagement of the other parent (in this case the father) in planning/coordinating for services. Curious if providers asked her if she wanted to sign release for the husband (I’m not watching every moment of the trial so maybe it was learned they did, but in general that doesn’t happen much).
Just a ****ty situation all around.
I have been on a social bender for like six days and I'm really looking forward to some introversion time this weekend. I'm surfing with a few friends tomorrow, but clearing the rest of my weekend for whiskey and my book.
Terrifying experience: my uber driver was a decently published PhD in biochemistry. Dude got super ill during the tenure process, didn’t get it, and is now driving for a living. Academia is a BS profession. Nice car though.
Let us hope that he is not in the midst of creating an autobiographical super-villian 'origin story'
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The testimony from the inpatient psychiatrist really showed the potential liability drawbacks of round and go models—she came across as having close to zero interaction with or knowledge of the patient, and I can see that not sitting well with the jury.
On the flip side, I got super sick during my tenure track and I think the schedule flexibility of academia was a saving grace. I’m having a bad flare out of nowhere right before the beginning of the semester, though, which sucks.
Just finished second week at new job. Worked with psychometrists for first time in my career (I appreciate them doing a lot of the dirty work, like sending out links for global forms!). Just finished moving the last of our stuff from storage are to new apartment. Currently sitting out on the terrace of our new 32nd floor apartment, hanging out with the gargoyle and enjoying the views of what you might not be surprised we're still calling Lake ONTARIO! Heading down to the city square later to the Muslim Festival for some good food and music. I hope you all enjoy these last weeks of summer- especially those of heading back to class next week!
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Not Friday, obviously, but a future Friday: I gave up and requested time off on GTA VI's release date
