Those are dissonant messages: “This thing threatens fundamental academic values, but you need to teach it to your students or they will suffer.” 👏 @thetattooedprof.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/some...

yes

I confess I'd probably agree to have Isaac Chotiner interview me, as long as it isn't published. Think about what you could learn about yourself by having someone delicately but ruthlessly hone into the heart of all your hypocrisies and weaknesses and eviscerate you on that basis.

Reading this essay by @sarosecav.bsky.social on thriving in challenging times has given me some great, practical, & hopeful ideas to focus my academic energies on for the year ahead. Here’s hoping I can take them to heart before the system breaks my heart (again). www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

you need to admit your crush before the rapture

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Timeline cleanse, featuring the majestic sea flap-flaps (aka mobula rays). They're a migratory animal, moving from one part of the ocean to another in large groups called "fevers". They migrate to follow upwellings that enrich for zooplankton food items & to visit their breeding grounds. (📷:OCR)

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

I got *really* excited about this hotel pre-check-in option but then realized that it meant you'd be bringing your own pet, not that you'd be temporarily assigned one for your room. Dammit.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

Yestergram networking in the Fenway with buds from Berklee/Boston Conservatory. A new academic year dawns!

psych departments post a faculty job that has nothing to do with AI challenge

September newsletter by me newsletter.sarahrosecav.com/meeting-this...

you ever get out of the shower and feel like damn i should take a shower

September thunderstorms call for cod Provençal and sourdough

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Part-time administrative assistant needed for a cool project at Simmons University! Can be mostly remote with some in-person meetings in Boston. Requires bachelor's degree Bonus: This person will get to work with Sarah Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social and Michele Lemons @michelellemons.bsky.social 🥳

Might just start driving to NYC once a week

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

BOOK TRAILER (#stopmotion by ME!) buy THE DEAD COME TO STAY today! Currently Amazon has the best price at $24! www.amazon.com/dp/133512187...

Sad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New by me, as we launch this new academic year.

Happy September 🎃🍂💜

the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands

CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.

Mood.

The killing fields of #Chicago, right now.

BWAH (if you don't know who Caillou is, you have lived a blessed life)

fave thing on the internet today is a reddit post by a nurse who asked a 5 year old if he had any questions, and was completely flummoxed when he looked her dead in the eye and went "why don't sharks have eyebrows"

This movie looks fantastic and I will watch the heck out of it, but it is yet another example of feeling like I ALREADY HAVE. Bring back trailer mystique, people www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnYE...

Aquatic Ape Hypothesis

My latest for @chronicle.com. Wherein George Orwell and I share some thoughts on nurturing academic well-being in a time of so many threats to our mission and really, the world at large. And also get cranky about AI. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

My daughter reports that today in school they analyzed John Mayer lyrics in one class and watched a movie with Jake Gylenhall in another. She does not believe this was a coincidence on today of all days. #IYKYK

oh gosh they put Paul Mescal in it I cried for approximately three days straight after reading this book youtu.be/wLOWdtjLCTo?...

Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading

Brb screenshotting this for my micro expressions lecture

Every August, the @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social / @harvard.edu Medical School Office for Postdoctoral Fellows Summer Teaching Institute is so enriching and such a joy. The broad smiles say it all.

From @sarosecav.bsky.social "Each essay in Of Many Minds describes a distinct lived experience that should compel higher education into action; collectively, they form a roar. Every last one of us in higher ed should pull up a chair to do some deep listening and reflection on paths to reform."

So please, spread the word! Get your library to order it! Recommend it to your colleagues! Re-Skeet! @agilefacultyrpr.bsky.social and I will be doing some podcast episodes and other events over the next 6 weeks. But this book is our gift to you, our community. press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

How delightful! When Descartes was mulling over emotions (which he called passions), which did he list first? Not anger, fear, rage, euphoria, or sadness. Nope. "Wonder". Today, many researchers refer to what he describes here as "prediction error" (triggering "astonishment")

Does anyone have a gift post for this they are willing to share? Does WSJ do gift posts? www.wsj.com/lifestyle/co...

Today in why I love human beings

Hello beautiful. 👀 #SnafuEdu @oupress.bsky.social @derekkrissoff.bsky.social @michellemillerphd.bsky.social @jamesmlang.bsky.social @liznorell.bsky.social @cjdenial.bsky.social @cyndik.bsky.social @josheyler.bsky.social @thomasjtobin.bsky.social @profcannibal.bsky.social

Look, I’m trying

It is not often I regret moving my subscription money from Bezos' WaPo to @theguardian.com, but it does happen www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

This is adorable?

oh friend coffee you are always delivering www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...