As spring migration ramps up, some tall buildings turn their lights off at night to save #birds from deadly impacts with glass, but not enough At a time of declining songbird numbers, we need better policy than voluntary measures to protect all those winged beauties from this fate:

How punching in the face improves being punched in the face by people that don’t want to be punched in the face.

Think of the football teams!?!

Despite not assigning enough coding homework, l'd like to think I've done a decent job teaching data viz this semester but it's been a really hard time to do it. I've invited lots of questions. Some of which, translated, are equivalent to "what shutter speed should I use on my camera on Tuesday?"

Payday loans from the government?

If you think legislation that targets “low enrollment degrees” only impacts the humanities please look at this list. Degrees in chemistry, math, physics, political science, data analytics, psychology and economics are being eliminated. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/o...

Where does SpaceX gets its money though?

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Bermudagrass is ugly. I’ve been displacing it in my yard since I started looking more closely at the ground in about 2014/15. So many new plants and animals. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

In better news, a small group of pine siskins just visited me.

While trying to do as many good, necessary, and important work things this week, the back of mi brain was filled with questions like “is this worth it?” And “I wonder what other jobs are actually like?” Pretty sad questions after all these years.

You’d really think the minimum of Patriotic Duties would be to stop mowing your lawn in times like this.

It hurts me using $$ … $$ in quarto.

I wonder how representative of all American jobs this is, it’s too annoyingly formatted for more attention right now. www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

It’s fun how this cord hole is in the exact middle (side to side) of my desk where I might like to write or rest a laptop.

The hard part of teaching is the internal expectation to teach the same things we've always taught, but teach workforce-ready things at the same time, when those are often very different things.

My childhood promised flying cars and my adulthood delivered cybertrucks.

Hello old friend. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Get 10,000 steps a day, while using Chat-GPT as a brain.

“… for entertainment purposes only” Well… come on then.

One of my Tuesday night classes this semester was cancelled for winter weather. About half of the rest, including tonight, have been threatened by severe weather of some kind. And that’s not counting the one sunny day threatened vaguely by ‘destruction of civilization’ (and potential retaliation).

Working from home to the sound of leaf blowers. The forecast is windy with gusts to 33 MPH, the leaves will blow themselves.

I sometimes wonder when you know it’s time to give up and try something else.

“Wait a minute. What time is this? Where am I?”

This is not a comment on student performance at all, even checkmarks cost ink, but I bought myself some new pens to motivate myself to write and grade and mid-quiz I just ran out of green ink. I’ll add, it’s a pretty satisfying pen with a nice point. www.jetpens.com/Zebra-Sarasa...

The only added working space I need would be provided by you not popping up in front of what I am working on.

I logged on to Amazon to look for something (for comparative information) and was shocked that I’d forgotten how cheap and junky most listings looked.

I’d like to say I spend most of my time inspiring students, but I spend a significant amount of time walking back and forth to the shared printer and adding paper.

I was recently at a tech event turned AI event and during the panel I hastily scribbled, “hasn’t the world run out of hard drives because of this?” Only for, moments later, a panelist to say something like, “because it’s been so successful, there are no hard drives left for us.”

Which fad is worse for education, microcredentials for everything or 90-credit degrees?

When you feel no shame for being a sellout and destructive towards higher education and writing skills... www.ru.nl/en/radboud-i...

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A different kind of weekend blues.

This playlist is incredible. www.kgou.org/show/weekend...

Three Northern cardinal eggs disappeared suddenly last week (snakes, cats, birds?), but we do have Carolina wrens, Eastern phoebes, and Eastern bluebirds hatching today - that I can find at least. I suspect there are some woodpeckers out there somewhere.

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In no particular order: Chickens Plants Music Vaccines

Correction: “… and it’s expected to get better.”

Did you know congressman is a portmanteau of ‘conman’ and ‘gress’? Giving conmen more power to step all over the millions of little people they represent.

Downloading attachments from Outlook is my passion. I can’t believe we subjected our astronauts to this.

Use photos of healthy, smiling people.

Does your campus/workplace send out emergency weather alerts/briefings? If so, to whom?

Happy woodpecker day.

April 1 was a week ago.

Umm, 8pm EST is in the middle of my class tonight. For weeks its been severe weather maps running in the background of our minds and desktops. Now this.