I spent some time with "Returning the Gift" as I was writing an article on gift/contract recently--thanks for writing it, Rebecca!

Only @rcolesworthy.bsky.social can tell us if this is canon.

A tool that signals how far they diverge from an aspirational norm is not that useful for the task of learning that student’s unique entrance into critical thought, and any process that separates me from the difficult work of learning the student’s language is an obstacle to helping them.

"You fail to historicize," of course

Can we have a rule that everyone gets to do this once in their career?

The little *thwip*s that signal a change of topic 😍. Especially the one that comes right after you mention synchrony/diachrony. "We could talk about that all day, but maybe that's not the best thing to talk about." *thwip!*

bUt HeR wAlkiNg sTiCk

arguably harder to get an assistant professor job than to become Pope, strictly going by percentage of likely candidates...

I cry every. single. time. 💔

w/ thanks to @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social for the convo leading to this ridiculous meme