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scholar_farmer

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Musicologist interested in #nuntastic literacies; also teaches about #PandemicMusic and #Shakespeare. Prone to sunrise rhapsodies and fulminations against rural internet. She/her.

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scholar_farmer, to random
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My nun is uncharacteristically and ungenerously smug when reporting that a former Mitschwester was "condemniert und verdambt" for leaving the convent and tempting others to do so -- but partying in your private residence in town was evidently an irritant to those who were trying to live a more regulated life.

scholar_farmer, to random
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How like us our ancestors were!

In a donor list to an early 17thc convent, all the men (so far, only men!) are named & their titles given, & then the thing that they paid for is listed. One didn't just give money to the project; donors want their name on this window, that door, this meaningful space within the edifice.

My gift gets me glory, and all that.

Selflessness is/was clearly not a prized virtue.

scholar_farmer,
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An update on the monastic chronicle: they did have women donors — they’re listed in a separate chapter of the chronicle.

I didn’t realize money was gendered!

scholar_farmer,
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And in my monastic chronicle, men evidently pay for things, while women pay more often for prayers and services. (This is ca. 1606-7)

Not entirely, of course: one of the women pays for a window, and two others for specific door-latches. ("I scrimped and saved and paid for this lock and key, look at me!")

Also, you could be a servant and still help fund the monastery.





dailymedievalcats, to medievodons German
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Orange hunter.

Ms: BNF, Français 25526, f. 146v (14th c.). #medievalcat #medieval @medievodons

scholar_farmer,
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@dailymedievalcats @medievodons This would NOT be my cat, who has let the chipmunk move into our kitchen without doing anything more than step out of its way as it's dashing from here to there.

I want Orange Cat.

scholar_farmer, to random
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after transcribing text in 18th century German dialect for a month, I have lost all capacity for detecting whether or not something in modern German is spelled correctly or not.

scholar_farmer, to academia
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Dear Self:

No, you may NOT submit for that CFP. Not even if it's on a cool topic. Not even if it's shiny. Not even if it would be so much fun.

Finish your commitments, THEN play with bright shiny new toys.

@academicchatter

scholar_farmer, to music
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A field of solar-powered electronic instruments for the eclipse at

koen_hufkens, to LateStageCapitalism
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"Monopolist publisher objects to free dissemination of science funded through a tax evasion scheme"

It doesn't get much wilder than this I fear.

@academicchatter

#OpenScience #LateStageCapitalism #AcademicChatter

https://www.science.org/content/article/bold-bid-avoid-open-access-fees-gates-foundation-says-grantees-must-post-preprints

scholar_farmer,
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@albertcardona @koen_hufkens @brembs @academicchatter

To turn to the less fraught observation about the sheer awfulness of submission platforms, holy schmoly, what a hot mess! And now made double fun with two factor authentication that can’t penetrate my university firewall

scholar_farmer, to Virginia
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hike in the way back from my folks’.

Stream coming down the hill through the forest with a path to the left with on it
Small waterfall with mossy tree roots

scholar_farmer, to Apocalypse
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Finally watched all of (the version), which my students have been using as exs in my pandemics classes. What an obsessive score! Minimalism on steroids, or, as my son said, "pay the piano player for 10 minutes, then use a looper." Still, it fitted with the plot -- effective, creepy, non-narrative

I was taken with the chronological switching. Mosaic structure is remarkably effective for telling the story. Life in fragments: yup...

scholar_farmer, to animals
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You can’t possibly expect me to do real work with this much cuteness at my side…

scholar_farmer, to history
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This little gem is Flodoard's Historia Remensis ecclesia Bk 2. (Also in this volume is/was Hincmar's Opuscula in Causa and 's De Divortio; clearly a collection devoted to !)

You too could help identify the library fragments if you were so moved! https://haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/viewer/Identifizierung_Aschebuchfragmente/

jimbob, to random
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I keep hearing about this deluge of spam, but I have not seen a single one. And for that I praise the sysop.

scholar_farmer,
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@academicchatter @adamhsparks @jimbob truth. Poor @academicchatter — they’ve been beset

emmaaum, to random
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chuffed with myself that i got to bed and to sleep early last night, even with a nap.
gets up after chattering to myself in bed for an hour this morning, thinking it was at least 7.... it's 5 feckin 30 🤦‍♀️

scholar_farmer,
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@emmaaum careful, that early rising stuff can grow into a habit… and 8p becomes “bedtime with dignity..”

scholar_farmer, to TodayILearned
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Giving feedback on oral reports: I have everyone grade everyone and collect all the feedback. Then I read through the complete stack for a student and share to them 1) what their peers liked/found useful, 2) what they were curious about afterwards, and 3) how this ties to things we'll be doing later in the semester.

Student response has been over-the-top positive!

@academicchatter

scholar_farmer, to random
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It’s Thursday night — time for another cultural excursion! “Girl from the North Country”

scholar_farmer, to academicchatter
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I ceremoniously changed the cell color to green-for-done on my writing projects spreadsheet.

And there was much rejoicing!

@academicchatter

scholar_farmer, to academicchatter
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A colleague once taught me an important lesson:

Never start on a Friday that which cannot be completed on a Friday.

In that same spirit, I am going to say:

Never start in the last hour of the day a project which cannot be completed in the remaining minutes available to you.



@academicchatter

scholar_farmer, to random
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If you're cold, wear a hat. Even if you're indoors.

(Tennessee is having a hot fling with dangerously cold weather, and our sun-powered snow removal isn't working all that well for us; life is shut down until Wednesday...)

scholar_farmer, to HikingPics
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Dinky line: a former narrow gauge railroad line for harvesting timber up to 1936, now decayed into a mossy berm with a trail worn through.

From a splendid trip over the weekend to TN

ShaulaEvans, to TodayILearned
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My cousin may be going abroad next year as an ESL teacher. She has studied languages herself but doesn't have ESL teacher training. She has expressed an interest in reading some good books on language teaching & ESL teaching specifically to get prepared.

Can anyone in circles recommend good books on how to teach ESL that have practical, actionable advice for a smart, educated, motivated aspiring teacher?

Thank you!

@edutooters @bookstodon

scholar_farmer,
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@ShaulaEvans @edutooters @bookstodon My daughter Nissa, the family linguistics nerd, suggests "While We're On the Topic: BVP on Language, Acquisition, and Classroom Practice" by Bill VanPatten as a good place to start

scholar_farmer, to Travel
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St Nicholas of Bari church — the one with the frescos. Wow!

Angel holding a swan, dressed in yellow with pink shawl

scholar_farmer, to scifi
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If you are up for a wild romp through conspiracy theories, you should read Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell, which is a delightful yarn and ever so upbeat. Cheery books are fun! And, as my daughter said, the research that went into the backdrop for the story must have been WILD! In addition to the (wild) adventure, the book keeps asking: who are the good guys? An important question, even if garbed in pop culture references!

scholar_farmer,
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@Beulah no, adding Jodi Taylor to my list! Thanks!

I reread Doomsday book during “Safer at Home” — it rang differently than when I read it when it first came out!

Willis is so good, and those two books are the best of her oeuvre! I even followed up by reading Three Men and a Boat!

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