Putting the cat in education. Teaching-stream faculty @UofTCompSci. I'm interested in inclusive teaching & what gets in the way of learning to program. she/her
Toronto, Ontario
Joined March 2008
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Want feedback on your @UofTCompSci grad school application?
GAAP connects prospective MSc/PhD students with current grad students for application feedback: sites.google.com/view/toront…
Please share with those who would benefit/consider volunteering!
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I was evacuated from #Jasper while camping with my husband and two young kids this week. This is my #jasperwildfire story. We arrived at Wabasso campground Sunday afternoon. It was 34 degrees, and the man at the check in booth was sweating profusely in the heat. He (1/22)
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Do you use the Canadian COVID-19 Forecast?
We need your help for a funding application.
We're asking people how the Forecast affects your decisions and actions related to infection prevention.
Please respond and share this anonymous survey!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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There would be changes if this is happening in the global north
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UofT ECE is hiring a contractually-limited graduate-level teaching-stream assistant professor in the area of software engineering with the potential to be a long term position.
The deadline is June 3. Feel free to reach out if you are interested! linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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SRI Associate Director @SheilaMcIlraith and SRI Faculty Affiliates @dianelynnhorton, David Liu, and @SteveCoyne18 are behind an award-winning program to integrate ethics education into computer science. Thanks to @UofTCompSci for the excellent coverage! 🔗uoft.me/aq7
ALT Four headshots in colour, from left to right: Sheila McIlraith, Diane Horton, David Liu, and Steve Coyne.
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Excited to be at @SIGCSE_TS in Portland, Oregon this week!
Come to our panel this afternoon on "Interviewing the Teaching Faculty Hiring Process" with @GeoffreyChallen, Nate Derbinsky, @welcomemattwang, and @jangle
sigcse2024.sigcse.org/detail…
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An expansive musing thread on mask non-use, which I am now calling "mask akinesia".
Every class I teach, I walk in with my mask and my Aranet4 CO2 detector, to measure air quality. I'm lucky: the rooms I teach in are always below 800ppm and often below 700ppm.
1/20
Jacqueline Smith retweeted
Mask akinesia is about being normal. Normal.
Normal is defined as what the herd does. It's not about what is right or good or safe or natural or just. It's ONLY about what everybody does.
Masking was never normal, even though everyone did do it for some time.
9/20
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Blog article about "Gender Diversity of Graphics Conference Leadership"
docs.google.com/document/d/e…
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1. Toronto's founding cat arrived 230 years ago this summer, sailing into our bay on a warship.
We don't know much about him, but here's a little thread about what we do…
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By the way, also, not that Chow is proposing this, but you raise the tax on my fully detached three story home in downtown Toronto even as much 10% and it goes up by about $90 a month. I’d still be paying less than my parents pay in Guelph. I’d deal.
I’m seeing the Ana Bailão attack ad on
Chow around so wanted to add a bit of context. It uses a clip of Chow saying she’s “ready to tax.” Here is what she says before and after that about her tax plan:
youtube.com/clip/UgkxSDFKqbC…
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✔️32 apps tested
❌29 failed
Learn more about the mental health apps that ‘self-help’ themselves to your most personal mental health data. #privacynotincluded🔻
foundation.mozilla.org/blog/…
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What’s often left out of Sylvia Plath’s story is the fact that she was fighting to get mental health care right up until her last days.
In the end, her writing couldn’t save her. A person alone with their journal can only do so much, says @anne_theriault.
thewalrus.ca/mental-health-j…
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June 21, join Daniel Zingaro of @UofTCompSc & @LeoEPorter of @ucsd_cse for the #ACMTechTalk "LLMs: A New Way to Teach Programming." Learn how GitHub Copilot & ChatGPT can help students focus on problem solving rather than syntax.
Register free to attend: bit.ly/3OQqLXH
ALT Photo of Daniel Zingaro and Leo Porter
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“What if Roe was just an opening salvo in the war against women’s autonomy? We often think of Roe’s fall as the culmination of decades of conservative lobbying, but what if it was just the first step?” vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/…
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Going back to the pre-pandemic conference-travel culture is simply not morally acceptable. cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/…
Jacqueline Smith retweeted
The insistence that “back to normal” = “everything in person and only in person!” is harming vulnerable people. It’s harming my family. It’s harming those who are doing it to their vulnerable contacts, because vulnerable people have value and contribute to their communities.
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This tonight ! Come join us if you are free and in Toronto. eventbrite.com/e/rehearsals-…
