Chuck Pearson (he/him/etc.)
@shorterpearson
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Assistant Dean of Math and Science at Tusculum University. All sorts of other nerdy things.
Apple News supplies nightmare fuel for @edsbs.bsky.social, @celebrityhottub.bsky.social et al.
One of my favorite places on Earth. Adding a picture of Castlewood High for no good reason except it’s dang beautiful.
This is absolutely hilarious (Claude does recognize who I really am, but I really am reassured to know that computers, even large language models are really, REALLY stupid)
Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.
This is the fifth year of me running my silly miniclass (this go around on heat transfer and calorimetry) for Tusculum Upward Bound Math and Science, and this one went as smoothly as any other in the past.
And he's all kinds of deserving, and I'm hyped. I saw his blurb for the TICUA Young Alumni media post yesterday. And...well.
Update: I never got the ransom note, but I do have this now (and, as others have speculated, this is probably pushed by Instructure)
I need more Jacksonville State supporters to come alongside this effort. They're moving up the table but still trail Liberty. @newap-georgia.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social
It's not just tournament week here at Tusculum. It's the first of TWO tournament weeks. And collegiate tournament week for our friends at Vanderbilt (that we sadly can't join in on because of our high school tournament week). It's quizbowl time in Tennessee.
It’s been the first two days gone, but I saved the big post for the second day, when I was in front of my first lecture classes. Year 12 gone. Year 10 at Tusculum. And the first time in this shirt since the heart of the VI campus burned. Always and forever: remember why you’re here.
Here, have four more. One of these is not like the others.
"What perfect albums came out when you were 16?*" "*No retroactive cool, please. Albums that were in the house that you actively purchased and listened to." Even at 16, I was too eclectic for anybody's good.
Counterpoint: keep it going, @mnufc.com love, a #Crew96 fan
In my inbox this morning. Of all the penny-wise, pound-foolish idiotic things. But that could speak of this entire administration.
It's time to dust off the blog. Here's a line from the White House budget document proposing the wholesale elimination of TRiO and GEAR UP programs for first-generation college students. The text of the proposal is in the alt-text.
I'm showing this website to my junior seminar students today. www.mynextmove.org I'm going to make a point of this text at the bottom of the site. Federal support makes tools like this possible.
And what I'm releasing this morning to my classes: the first version of my AI policy. I really don't like it. Weighting exams so heavily isn't my idea of a fun time. But it's where I'll sit for this semester.
one of my former students who follows me on a different social media platform has a message for all the current students who might be following me, inspired by the current writings
I'm viral and things are getting buried, but I wanted to make sure I brought this comment out from a buddy on another social media site, which is in the same vein. We need to make clear to our students and colleagues that Chat-GPT isn't just some 21st-century calculator-equivalent.
Mourning with the rest of the Tusculum community the passing of Dr. Nancy Moody today. The University’s reflection is posted on Facebook. www.facebook.com/share/p/LZAP...
This is a genuinely smart take on Netflix streaming having exclusive rights to the Women’s World Cup. www.nytimes.com/athletic/601...