Hey, Margaret Bates is a graduate student who's doing a study on romance book buying behaviors and would like your input, if you have a chance. forms.office.com/r/b6E8qJV8Tm

I just wrote an "essay" for a class using LockDown browser. I had to uninstall a plug-in I use for work regularly, and I had to disable my 2nd monitor. Instructors who use LockDown should have to do this every time they open the LMS so they understand how disruptive it is. #StartByTrustingStudents

Many colleagues/friends know that I take classes for fun to learn and to inhabit a beginner's mindset. This summer I'm taking a sociology of education course, my third (ever) sociology course, and I'm learning a good bit ... including how much I *loathe* the textbook we're using. a 🧵 /1

Update: We have more than 500 people registered! They represent many countries, including the USA, Canada, Honduras, Colombia, Uruguay, Ukraine, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, and Australia. WOW! sites.google.com/view/virtual... #VirtuallyGather26

Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.

💡For those who teach intro to stats, I wrote up a series of ungraded assignments I've been doing for years in my class. Students build a dataset of their favorite movies, and each assignment helps them develop a key skill. Hope you find it useful! (Incidentally, I also reveal some of my favs.)👇

We are not, as a nation, the good people.

so excited to share that I contributed to @thenation.com's special issue on America at 250 I wrote about the need to reinterpret the Constitution in light of the unfinished and urgent mission of Reconstruction here's hoping I did y'all & Frederick Douglass proud 🙏🏾 www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Jennifer Pusateri in today's #FutureTrendsForum mentioned being "rigor triggered," and someone (Ed Webb) called it "trigor'd," and @thetattooedprof.bsky.social I needed you (and everyone else) to be aware of this brilliant language innovation. TRIGOR'D. 💥

Some days are harder than others. On days like those, I'm so grateful there are people spreading this kind of Breaking News.

A useful resource for educators and students. And I also appreciate this from @emilymbender.bsky.social: "Be a stick in the mud! If you think about our current situation as mired in mud that's hard to walk in, if you plant a stick, you can start to create firm ground for others to join you on."

My friend @liznorell.bsky.social at the University of Mississippi is doing a survey about student disability accommodations. The purpose: "data collected will primarily be used to inform disability services teams." Here's the link: uofmississippi.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Graphic design is my passion.

HELLO ACADEMICS INTERESTED IN DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION PLEASE TAKE FIVE MINUTES TO COMPLETE THIS SURVEY. :) It's IRB approved and everything!

Faculty: Help us build a wish list for accommodation requests! We invite instructors to share perceptions of disability support services for students in #HigherEd. Take a short survey (IRB approved) here. Questions? Get in touch! Corrected link: uofmississippi.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Faculty: Help us build a wish list for accommodation requests! We invite instructors to share perceptions of disability support services for students in #HigherEd. Take a short survey (IRB approved) here: uofmississippi.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... Questions? Get in touch! #Accessibility

My friends add this emoji to all such statements: 💅 As in: We don't claim her. 💅 We don't know her. 💅 She doesn't go here. 💅 etc.

@raygunjudas.bsky.social goes hard and I am *here* for it! #UnionLabel #GreatestStoreInTheUniverse #LetsGoAlgae www.raygunsite.com/blogs/news/o...

I brought this up in a reflection about how women with ADHD are always looking for more ways to be organized. What if the problem isn't your ADHD, but that you're carrying the cognitive load for a household of people?

Inside every grade there are at least three often contradictory pressures. Is this grade to show that the student completed the assignment w clear effort? Is the grade reflecting the student’s full command over the desired skills? Or is this grade reflective of systemic pressures on the instructor?

I LOVE this tool, showing annual temperatures over time. What does your graph look like? showyourstripes.info/c/northameri...

@mississippitoday.org offering up a bit of knowledge validation. 🏆

I have the same reaction to their rolls & cinnamon sugar butter. 😍

I do not understand how you reconcile the moral panic over grade "inflation" (scare quotes intentional) with the insistence on "performance-based funding" for state institutions. (Unless the whole point is to defu... ohhh, wait.) mississippitoday.org/2026/06/18/i...

This post is just begging me to lament the decline in reading skills. Except, hello, it's not college students + AI, it's motivated ignorance among senior citizens in the Senate. But please, tell me how college Ss are suffering a loss of reading stamina and critical thinking skills. 🙄 (sarcasm)

But I was told it was inevitable.

I'm just saying, my husband could have done a better job on this reflecting pool reno with a toolbox, three trips to Home Depot, and a couple of YouTube tutorials.

When you don't have an original thought in your head, plagiarism is quite easy. And when you have no morals whatsoever, doesn't even matter who you plagiarize.

Good grief, Sara Ahmed's book _Complaint!_ goes hard: "Not taking sides is taking sides: it is trying to stop the complaint about harassment rather than trying to stop the harassment" (p. 133). Truly, I couldn't continue reading this book without a community around me. #HigherEd #Trauma

Life finds a way.

The #GenX desire to go for a drive whilst rocking Willa Ford's one hit and pretending The Horrors don't continue to unfold.

"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

LOVE ISLAND USA SEASON BABY!!! sean, welcome to the resistance. don't let them make you feel bad for being hot and going on TV

Not me crying at a Norwegian #Pride video. 🥹🏳️‍🌈 I wish I lived in Scandinavia. (The Norells are Swedes!)

I will always get my hackles up by a piece that criticizes students, especially in the headline. But this piece by Tyler Jagt makes many good points: www.chronicle.com/article/my-s... . Chief among them: "Why are first-year writing and reading-intensive general-education courses...

I'm really excited to share this piece with the world, after having it on my (physical) to-do list for *ages* (and on my mental to-do list for even longer)...! I'd love to hear your thoughts: How do *you* use your to-do list? engagedlearningcollective.substack.com/p/reconsider...

OK, well, that's impressive.

I'm going to visit the #puffins of Maine next week...!!! Watch my favorite live cam, the puffin loafing ledge: explore.org/livecams/puf...

Coming Monday from the Engaged Learning Collective--a piece I've been meaning to write for months. #FriYAY!

I just got two of these last week, and I am fully obsessed. For my #FidgetToy friends, if you don't have something like this, you really should. littleouchies.com/products/lit...

Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.

Although nearly every page drags up trauma, I'm slowly reading Sara Ahmed's book, Complaint! So many lines resonate, e.g., "You can be dropped out of conversations and activities for not doing institutional work in the right way." . Currently experiencing this in one particular [redacted] context.

This is a fascinating piece. www.chronicle.com/article/theo...

My working theory is that the Pope has hired Stephen Colbert and his writers, and after Stephen hosted the local access news Friday, they helped finesse the encyclical document over the weekend. Colbert+co: popping up globally to make a positive impact in unexpected but delightful ways.

Fwiw, season 3 of the #TraitorsCanada was a standout season of reality TV. Except for Kevin (whom we don't talk about), everyone was likeable and the game play itself kept us on our toes. Dom is, in particular, eminently likable.

Brb gotta burn down a few hectares of rainforest to make my email sound less hostile

A great list, but it's missing @josheyler.bsky.social's incredible book, How Humans Learn.

Let this be a warning.