Ooof, I'm listening (or was listening) to an academic podcast that uses all sorts of acronyms, even while speaking! And, guess what? My brain can't track all of your acronyms because I don't have a paper to refer back to. Stop this! Just use the words!

"there should be no uncontested races" is a thing I'm seeing and I would like to invite every single person who says that to join their local Dem committee and run a race themselves.

Here's a Washington in some leaves

one thing I love about modern UI design is the lack of error messages. Ideally, the user should have no idea why their app is malfunctioning or what they can do to fix it. this is how a phone asserts dominance.

experts predict humans will continue aging

I used this recipe, modified, for dinner tonight

I have permission to send my next draft to my committee... this is minorly terrifying.

The snow has begun!

Hey pals in the route of this cold snap, especially the northern regions: charge your external power packs! The trees here in central Ohio are still covered in wet, heavy leaves. Snow is going to snap branches more than it would in winter, taking out powerlines www.foxweather.com/weather-news...

Washington is "we need more area rugs" old, so we got two more this morning. I donated $25 to our local food bank/food distributor. I need to go feed the bird (again) while it's not pouring out.

I'm seeing a few of these convos, and once again I'm wishing our large items had learned how to host online conferences! Not only do I not have travel funds, I can't afford to get trapped somewhere - but online conferences mean we aren't reliant on an unstable government.

Well that's not a great start to the race

“…each step toward AI-driven medicine is also a step toward deeper, more opaque forms of data capture, surveillance and social control.”

This sort of thing is proving the church's "once baptized, always Catholic" doctrine because I haven't been in a church except on Christmas in ten years but I still start vibrating when I hear this shit

Yes! Good tutoring isn't instruction, it's helping students figure out what they already know and problem solve from there, sometimes using instructional materials (textbooks, recorded lectures, walk-through).

Got my first seed catalog of the season! Pine tree Seeds has a few new varieties of echinacea (I know, I know, not as good as the true drive variety) and zinnia

This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓 The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺 The facts are so good 🥺 Eels are so cool 🥺 Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

Because this has Mandala Effect’ed for most of the last week, I’m writing it down to get it out of my head. If someone around you has both a substance abuse problem, AND they’re abusive or hostile to others, especially while under the influence, treating the substance abuse has to come FIRST.

There is a "doctor" on insta telling women that it's not a histamine reaction, you just need to use a vibration plate and watch sunrises while barefoot. Or, I could take a bunch of antihistamines to actually calm my shit down

Husband got this ad: "Beautifica is a 360 journey through worlds real and imagined, from mindblowing particle fields to unashamedly euphoric fantastic environments almost impossible to describe." And goes: looks like a bunch of computer graphics

Everything sucks so here is my dog eating ramen. 🍜

Seriously, if you have a Sikh gurdwara in your area please let people know about this. We have at least one here in Detroit Metro that I know of. Bonus is that Sikhs are, on the whole, extremely rad people.

This captures so well the feeling of trying to do scholarly work right now, to maintain and communicate the joy of it publicly. It feels embarrassing to care so much about the thing itself when all people will do is sort it into two bins, for and against.

I think this is where the Nexus of news deserts and regional institutions meet. My local newspaper used to heavily cover local college sports - football, lacrosse, hockey, etc - because local kids go there! It's exciting! But the local paper is now mostly crap, while the sports are still good!

Ok. I guess I should accept the reality that it's going to snow and get some of the outdoor stuff taken care of.

I have POTS. there is not nearly enough seating, covered or not, because society hates homeless people.

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

Today is a fall open house, where admissions believes it's best for each program to have a table. Families come up, one by one, to ask questions, meet some of our faculty, and then wander the space to talk to other programs. Admissions then wants us to give a "tour" of our "space".

If they're closing the commissaries, then a LOT more military personnel are going to need SNAP. Just another pointless self-inflicted wound.

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

I don't want extra buttons or ruffles or bows. I want pockets.

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” - James Baldwin -

I'm hungry and itchy and need to go to campus tomorrow, but I'm eating peanut butter in a soft tortilla instead of getting ready for bed. I think it's time to give Gen X all of the leadership roles.

I worked at an institution using an AI product to text students weekly prompts. One was a mental health check which included suicidal ideation. The head of counseling balked - that's a huge risk! Company said it's a basic prompt used by most campuses who use their product.

Gods, Target commercials are almost as weird as perfume commercials as they get more and more desperate

My urticaria and rosacea are flaring, they have steadily gotten worse through the week. I'm so itchy. My scars itch. My earrings are itchy.

I was at a football watch party when a GLP1 ad came on, I mentioned how amazing it is that was have pharmaceuticals from lizard spit. One of the kids said "I don't want to take lizard spit!". Parents (evangelical) said "if you take care of your body, you won't need to take any medications"

Third nighttime attempt to watch anything on ESPN+. Third night I might not watch anything. Maybe HBO has hockey tonight.

This resonates with what the disability rights community talks about a lot, which is that people prefer to believe they’ll never be disabled even though you are guaranteed it the longer you keep living

I can say this (as a dude who "fibers") Spinning is soothing, and it's easy to carry about (same of for knittting/crochet). There are portable means of weaving. And you will get people coming up to talk to you, in a wholesome way. So many upsides.

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Yes, of course, everyone knows exactly what a finger bun is.

Get hyped, Ohio/Pennsylvania/Indiana/Illinois! Here's a count of each winter finch that Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Avian Conservation Biologist Ryan Brady got yesterday in northern Wisconsin (then posted to Facebook). That's... so many awesome birds headed our way!

If you call me to ask if you need a new job, I will probably tell you yes. And I will help you negotiate for that new job's salary. And I will ask how you need help for childcare during the transition. And I will remind you how amazing you are.

If a college RA - you know, the ones who gently remind you not to be loud after 2 am - so much as hints that you would be happier if you died, the college is liable. And these so-called AI contracts are much more expensive than an RA (and infinitely less useful).

I very much enjoyed this candid conversation about some of things going on in higher ed that make marketing difficult. Many of the things talked about transcend the marketing world, imo

When I share with educators there is no evidence for learning styles, inevitably they ask for other/better ways to differentiate or personalize their instruction. This meta-analysis shows personalization by learner interest positively affects retention and transfer. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky