Here's What I Learned After A Year Of Not Making It To Interview On The Academic Job Market:

God. DAMN.

THERE'S ALREADY A PLAN?! www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca/about

@solomonmissouri.bsky.social Heard this thing on WWE and philosophical teachings on the CBC and thought "you know who might enjoy this?" www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Not sure how I wrote grant applications before the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack I know I *did*....but...*how*

I did this and so can you!! You can also bring up the lost revenue from the scrapped digital services tax which could have comfortably paid for a year of sweet, sweet essential postal service!!!!!

Dress for the job you want! Which today is *consults mirror* Led Zeppelin IV-era Baba Yaga as such things go

oh HELL yeah

So I WAKE in the morning and I step outsiiiiiiide and I take a DEEP breath and I get reeeeeeeal high and I Scream from the top of my lungs,

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Good people of BlueSky, behold! My Spouse!

Super-skeeting for science

Finally made it to the good part of the internet

OH HELL YES. OH FUCK YES.

BEHOLD OUR BEAUTIFUL BOY AND DESPAIR

If this was a just world, you would all be able to taste this

Hummingbird battle royale is BACK ON. I would be surprised at the amount of rage packed into something so small but you see, I have two younger sisters So

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

🎨 Ahead of our first in-person #BlackInNeuro Conference this week, we’re looking for neuro-inspired art for our 5th Annual Report! 🧠✨ Submit your drawings, photos, paintings & more by Sept. 30th! 🔗 forms.gle/mcW28wmzWF3j... #5YearsOfBIN

A great Fun Fact about me is the only time I got into my parents' alcohol as a teen was to make crème pâtissière for tartelettes aux fraises

*eyes "supporting documentation" tab in application portal* *clicks purposefully*

Recovery update: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBdF...

I STARTED THIS TODAY AND IT IS EXCEPTIONAL. BUCKLES ARE SWASHED. TIMBERS ARE SHIVERED. AND SO FORTH.

How it feels being back in my own house in my own pyjamas after a weekend of emergency appendectomy fuckery

HEY YOU. JOCK. YEAH, I'M TALKING TO YOU. YOU NEED MORE NERDS TO BE BUDS WITH? YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.

Today is mine and @accordionadam.bsky.social's 17th wedding anniversary! Have spent the day in pleasant reminiscence of how broke we were and how beautifully everyone pitched in to put on a 200-person Maritime wedding. And eating tacos. Gotta have tacos.

I start SO MANY conversations and conferences about the properties of knitted fabrics, my GAWD.

Tha mi sgìth

Conflict! at the Hummingbird Feeder

I am a 38-year-old woman in STEM and today fulfilled my destiny by obtaining my first ever pair of Birkenstocks.

So my glib-sounding-yet-sincere theory on this is that, after a lifetime of exposure to diet culture, ever-shifting fashion and beauty standards, the wellness industry, and the eight hundred MLM schemes cycling through our friend groups; most of us are simply immune to grift.

Every year we're away from home, @accordionadam.bsky.social makes me a drop-dead gorgeous chocolate cake

@eldritchgirl.bsky.social Happy birthday, birthday twin!! (it's still our birthday in Vancouver...and there's still masses of chocolate cake left...if you're into that sort of thing)

Today is my birthday. You are legally obligated to eat cake and be sweet.

PYTHON, YOU LIME-FACED SONOFABITCH, WHERE ARE MY VARIABLES. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING? ORIENT MY GODDAMN OBJECTS, YOU SCALE-ASS FUCK.

12 months post spinal and sternal fractures and I am finally (finally) where I was weightlifting-wise before the accident

The two best films I have seen this year, and it's no contest, are Godzilla Minus One (a masterpiece) and KPop Demon Hunters (also a masterpiece). I don't know what this says about me exactly. *touches earpiece* Breaking: this says my taste in movies rules

One of the most amazing things about academia is getting to know people from everywhere. And one of the most amazing things about getting to know people from everywhere is that magical moment when you go "SO. Tell me about food."

You can also link their own Values and Ethics Code! Organizations love when you link their own Values and Ethics Codes! parks.canada.ca/agence-agenc...

Canada: “We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide”

"I curl your hair, but there is atmosphere today, so" My hairdresser (who is amazing and Ukrainian and amazing) said this to me in 2021. I think about it daily.

Sitting in a field listening to an Inuktitut cover of Heart of Glass. It rules.

My job rejection tiara has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my job rejection tiara

Got to experience the universality of humanity today thanks to this song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D_G...

Devastated to learn that no one broke into my kitchen and left an entire chocotorta in my freezer while I was away

Some students' anxieties are themselves signs of strength, where they struggle to discern the outline of things in the distance that weaker students don't even look towards and might not see even if they tried.

FORTUNE SMILES UPON ME THIS DAY. Went into The USB Drawer looking for a slide deck from 2015. And found it. On the first try. High fives to the right, fist bumps to the left, please form two orderly queues.

Pants wearing vs not pants wearing...nah. If we're doing a categorical relationship measure, it should be "who is the David Bowie and who is the Freddie Mercury in a performance of 'Under Pressure'"

Sitting snug up in an attic room and listening to the weather turn with a drop-dead gorgeous cross-breeze. May you all see such beautiful times!

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