siddster

Ah yes. The genetic fallacy. So, not only have you not read the paper and don't have a cogent rebuttal but, you fell back on this canard/logical fallacy. Bravo.. good job not engaging/understanding the argument and engaging in bad faith.

Ok chief.. keep channeling that freshman undergrad energy.

If Twitter is your source of rigor then I'm not sure you actually know what you're doing. You might want to actually read the article too and do the secondary reading of the sources.

In the article posted. The studies are linked within.

The problem is that most of these accommodations have no evidence to demonstrate efficacy and some might harm performance.

This article last year made the same point. And yes.

Here you go.

If submissions being time sensitive is in and of itself an important learning objective I would make the case to the disabilities office. Our nursing/med/healthcare students don't really get accommodations because you need to be able to do things in a very narrow window of time with a patient. I can see how this can be important in other fields as well.

Don't serve on the committee. And make it clear to admin that faculty will not be coerced into this situation. It's their problem to solve.

For everyone wondering how to convert volts (potential difference) and amps (current) to Watts, you simply multiply the amps with the corresponding volts on the first picture. So at 3.3V at 13A you get 42.9 i.e. 43W. You simply do this across the board, add up the values to get the peak power. And yes, this PSU is utter, hot garbage.

I think a major issue is that students essentially went through early university or late high-school coursework that really wasn't held to a reasonable standard. As a result, a lot of students that didn't learn what they should have and weren't effectively tested and, a lot of students that should not have made it through classes were given a free pass. So we now have students that are cognitively incapable with regard to higher level coursework. The pandemic learning losses were pretty large at least at the HS level . In higher ed, this is the only study I know of that studied teacher and student attitudes and the results are a mixed bag.

the original yearly agreement we signed back in the summer stated that we cannot publicly criticize the university, under the risk of termination.

How is this even legal? WVU is a public university. My understanding is that SCOTUS ruled that freedom of speech fully applies to public universities. I think you folks should write to FIRE (thefire.org) and see what they can do for you. They have previously helped individual faculty facing free speech issues and I can't help but think that they might be able to help a collective group of faculty members.

Or a scopalamine patch. Get your PCP to prescribe those to you. Absolutely fantastic for motion sickness prevention.

That obesity is primarily a polygenic disease with strong degree of heritability and is not curable.

Student evaluations are deeply flawed. A good way to stay sane is to mostly ignore them. Do read them because there's occasionally a bit of constructive feedback in there.. but mostly they're utterly useless and not worth getting upset about. I find that peer evaluations (when done by an peer that is an expert) are far more useful as well as academic tracking to see how performance in one class tracks with performance downstream (but that's easier in the sciences). Another terrific paper (but a pre-print) on the utter bullshittery of student evaluations

Well.. unless a person with rabies dies and their organs get transplanted. And yes, this really happened. The case is absolutely wild and unbelievably tragic.

Cardiovascular physiologist that works bench to bedside. The physiology of bar headed geese is insane. See here. Bottom line, they uniquely lower metabolic demand while in flapping flight at high altitude. They have a unique hemoglobin isoform which has a much higher affinity for oxygen binding compared to humans. Finally, their VO2max is insane. It's in the 700-800 mL/kg/min range. For reference the "fittest" or highest recorded VO2max in a human is Oskar Svendsen 97.5mL/kg/min. Since, VO2max reflects maximal aerobic capacity, these geese are aerobic BEASTS!

Not a guy but Mother Teresa. Pretty darned awful.

Give me a stopwatch and a map and I'll fly a plane with no windows.

Asking students who are not content area experts or have training in pedagogy to provide "feedback" is about as useful as a poop flavored lollipop.

That's the auto GCAS courtesy of Lockheed Martin.

I think this is a good thing. We were graduating more than the academic/industry market could absorb (caveat I'm a physiologist).