For the past week, MS Word has been suggesting autocompletes for words that are incomplete and in the wrong location. Turning off autocomplete in the settings doesn't fix the problem. Does anyone know a solution other than yeeting Microsoft off of my computer?

The story of ed tech is a repeated loop of massive hype and massive disappointment See MOOCs, and now AI Evidence can interrupt this unproductive cycle The Stanford SCALE Initiative, led by rock star Prof Susanna Loeb, brings evidence to the conversation scale.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...

The Trump admin’s rewriting of rules governing college accreditation “obliterates” autonomy & is is being described as “a cluster bomb being dropped on American higher education.”

I took the damn cybersecurity course more than a month ago. I know because I complained about it at the time, in writing. Now it shows as not finished. And I need to do it again. After taking the pre-screening and get 96%. Again.

My sister in Christ, I have some bad news for you.

I'm so ridiculously proud of my kids. 19yo is following her heart, despite the uncertainty of the path forward. She'll be doing an archaeological fieldschool this summer! 16yo has decided his schedule for next year, pushing forward entirely on his own volition. (we argued for less work!) 1/

The Red Cedar keeps rising. If we get more water I’ll be swimming to work.

At this point in the news cycle, I need the media to understand that Evangelicals and Catholics have always had a fraught relationship. So, no, folks raised to think the Pope was the anti-Christ are not going to be offended by anyone criticizing His Holiness.

These names remind me of the time when i convinced my 5 year old that "crepuscular Dusseldorf" was a swear word. It was actually really funny when she stomped her feet, turned red in the face, and screamed that at you. (Look, sometimes with kids you gotta take your joy where you can.)

so many layers that maybe we do live in a simulation bsky.app/profile/arob...

TIL "clavicular" has a meaning other than "of or pertaining to the clavicle" and I really hate this for us.

Oooooooh! [seriously, the light bulb just went on over my head]

Y'all, I'm going to have to sit with the fact that our VP thinks he's both holier and more versed in theology than the Pope.

Important context here: The men were not pardoned. They filed suit to have their convictions thrown out. The DOJ would normally oppose this, as the original prosecutors. But to do that… they’d have to assert the men committed sedition… on behalf of Donald Trump. So instead, they just fold.

I have more to do, but I've been working for 11.75 hours and I'm freaking done. I don't mind doing this occasionally but I've been doing it waaaaay too much recently. And I can't really complain because, honestly, my boss would be mad if she knew I was working these hours. LOL

👇👇👇 I will just add that this is particularly true for Catholic converts who grew up in the Anglo-Protestantism of the US and didn’t experience it through the same cultural lens as many of us cradle Catholics.

I am excited to announce that I found a whole new level of bad writing on Kindle Unlimited today.

Terrific piece. This is what actual partisan capture of campus speech looks like

One of the most Michigan parts of my accent is how I say "roots". This thought brought to you by trying to communicate with non-Michiganders about the cause of our basement flooding.

Motherhood is having conversations with your kids like: Me: As a general rule, you shouldn't climb roofs. 13yo: I know that now.

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE TAGGING ME IN ON THE VATICAN / PENTAGON BEEF HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

I'm thinking about all the people googling "Avignon papacy" or looking it up right at Wikipedia, and I love this for all of us. It gives me hope.

The red cedar river is not where it usually is. Some denizens of campus are happier about this than others.

Please support our union’s work toward a fair contract by NOT crossing our digital picket line! That means not visiting @ProPublica.org today, April 8. (And please resume your support of @ProPublica.org all other days, we love the journalism we do!)

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

I have two choices for where I work: 1) my office, where it is currently 80 degrees; or 2) home, where the heat has been out since Saturday and it's probably around 50. (No, I can't go someplace with a sane temperature. It has to do with the kind of connection I need.)

My husband and I had our first date here. Archaeologists really do have the absolute best meet-cutes.

Wooooooooooohooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

I can no longer say that nobody has been to the moon in my lifetime.

🐈🐈🐈

Oh good, it’s Deep Truths at Three AM. I hate this show.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

The fuckin' strait was fuckin' open before he fuckin' started to bomb Iran.

Time to put aside the end of the world and finish my grading.

Every time people wax nostalgic for the “good old days” I point out that 3 of my 4 grandparents died in their 50s.

I cannot believe I tempted fate like this! The result is 6” of water in our basement and no heat.

I'm not going to tempt fate, but if I were going to tempt fate, I would say this game is going well.

Did I just hallucinate a country song about implementing the maga agenda?

Happy Catur…whoops. Sorry. That’s a basketball.

Rightwing dudes: "Women shouldn't be in leadership. Women shouldn't vote. They're not rational like men." Also, somehow, rightwing dudes: "The hand of God teleported me to a Waffle House."

I usually roll my eyes when institutions say they want to add “AI requirements” to their curriculum, but then I heard a student tell her friend that she wanted to be a nurse, but “all that will be replaced by AI” so she switched to business. 😬

OK. You need to have a desktop version of Zotero and the Word document needs to be open on your computer, not online. However, you also need to have your Zotero library open in your browser. If you stand on your head during the full moon, you can add a citation. In the wrong font.

So here's how you do this: in Outlook, click on "groups" in the left navigation panel. Then choose the group you want to email. You need to have the correct permissions. It is a group email address. Kinda sucks if you want to mail merge, but it gets the basic job done.

People have been telling me to use a citation library for forever. Last year, I finally, after 30 years in academics, started building a Zotero library. Today I tried to use it to finalize a draft of an article. The version of Zotero I have is not compatible with the version of MS Word I can use.

Below is a picture of everything I'm capable of dealing with right now:

FYI, I'm running my periodic cleanup of my Bluesky feed. Meaning I delete all old skeets, not any of you, friends.

If his "military vision" was articulated in last night's speech, well...I don't think very many people who make it to the top of the chain of command are capable of that level of ludicrous ineptitude.

This is exactly what I needed this morning

We are led by a dithering buffoon.