There are so many people I’m in awe of on here, but I just want @aliciaandrz.bsky.social, @jacasiegel.bsky.social, @lizwfab.bsky.social, and @knittaphd.bsky.social that you have a standing invitation to coffee if you’re ever in the Seattle area. #academicsky

For the last few years, my “research” has consisted of thought pieces and synthesis. It’s been good work, but it’s not new. This week, I received IRB approval to begin a new research project. Something original will soon be coming to this space. #academicsky

It’s January. I’m flying to Wichita for my grandfather’s funeral. The next gate over is going to Cancun. My family members need to start dying in warmer climes. Fairly certain my grandfather would have agreed. #academicsky

Office hours music - 1/15/26 #academicsky

Office hours music - 1/14/26 #academicsky @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social

Office hours music - 1/13/26 #academicsky @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social

The next time someone asked me why I’ve missed a deadline or not replied to an email, I’m going to blame the tree frog living outside my office window. He is distractingly loquacious. #academicsky @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social

Office hours music - 1/13/26 #academicsky

Office hours music - 1/13/26 #academicsky

Just had the extraordinary pleasure of informing three students that their tuition will be fully covered by the Shereen Paff Soecial Education Scholarship. I’m grateful to the Paff family for their endowment and their commitment to future SPED educators #academicsky @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social

Office hours music - 1/8/26 #academicsky

Mrs. Delarocker is watching hockey (a derivative of her Heated Rivalry obsession), and I’m watching diesel engine repair videos. We’re sitting next to each other on the couch, and we are deliriously happy. 29 years of marriage, baby. #staymarried #academicsky

Totally gonna be a pick me prof this semester. I’m not like the othered tenured faculty. #academicsky

My grandfather died today. He was 96. He spent 50 years as an English professor in a small-town Kansas college. He introduced me to Wendell Berry. He held his beliefs loosely, meaning that he was filled with wonder and awe by things he didn’t understand. He was gentle and kind. #academicsky

A middle-aged fellow named J ran marathons back in the day. “I’ve still got it!” said he, ‘til he blew out his knee while attempting a couch to 5k. #ThisIs50 #MySurgeonIs20YearsYoungerThanMe

We did a little pre-Christmas gift opening. Mrs. Delarocker got me underwear with her picture on it. I married WAY UP, folks. #staymarried

That time of year thou mayst in me behold, etc. #academicsky

Don’t know if y’all are following the WA floods, but this is from yesterday. My house is in the yellow circle. We got this notification while my wife was in recovery from brain surgery and I was trying to get my grading done from the hospital. So, you know. Not a stressful season. #academicsky

Friends, my department is hiring for TWO tenure-track positions: one instructional generalist and one in special education. Come train teachers in the Pacific Northwest. Please share this far and wide. #academicsky #teachereducation www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/sear...

Grant received! It’s small, but it will facilitate some of the boring administrative stuff that actually makes teacher preparation possible. Woot! #academicsky #teachereducation #teacherpreparation #teachertraining @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social

#teachereducation peeps. Has anyone been to this conference? Is it worthwhile? #academicsky www.chicagosummit.org

Mrs. Delarocker’s 50th birthday is right after Christmas. She’s hard to buy for on a normal year. However, I have just had a gifting epiphany, and I just need to tell someone, anyone, that I have achieved transcendence. Thank you for listening. #staymarried

My youngest is wrapping up their first semester at my university. Spoiler alert: telling parents of freshmen to “let go” is easy. Letting go of your own kiddo is not.

Friends, my university is for hiring tenure-track faculty positions in biology, education, math, English, psychology, and civil engineering. Join me in the beautiful Pacific Northwest! Please share far and wide. workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau... #academicsky @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social

Friends, my department is hiring a tenure track assistant/associate professor of education. Please share this opportunity far and wide. Assistant or Associate Professor of Education workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Mt. Rainier from my office window this morning. No filter. #academicsky @mountrainier.bsky.social

My youngest, a freshman at my university, just got campus library job. I joked that I have an ILL book that’s three months overdue (which is true), and they straight up ratted me out. The library fuzz are now breathing down my neck. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth, indeed. #academicsky

@duchesssexpert.bsky.social I’m rarely on Bluesky, but I was thinking about you the other day and thought I’d look you up. Lo and behold, here you are. We lost contact when Twitter devolved, and I regret that. I hope you’re well, my friend.

Office hours music - 6/4/25 #academicsky

What should have been a quick oil change in preparation for my upcoming 2000 mile mountain motorcycle extravaganza hit a snag in the form of pinhole leaks in my cheapo oil recycling tub. But now the dinosaurs have been returned to their cages, & we launch on Friday. @royalenfieldriders.bsky.social

Fresh from the groomer. Total babe magnet.

Pagliacci.

Yesterday, I sat in a committee meeting, had a paper rejected, prepped for finals, secured some funding, admitted some grad students, wrote some marketing copy, celebrated our salutatorian (ed major!), revised a chapter proposal, & had dinner with a monk. A pretty normal day. #AcademicSky

Mrs. Delarocker and the breadstick #felinesky

Special delivery! #felinesky

Two firsts this week. I submitted my first fiction manuscript for publication, and I received my first rejection letter for a fiction manuscript. When I said I wanted to bring balance to the Force, this isn’t what I meant. #sciencefiction #academicsky #writersky

I submitted my first science-fiction manuscript for publication yesterday, and the editor still hasn’t given me a decision, despite having had a whole 24 hours to read my work with care and precision. Do they think I’m compulsively checking my email for fun? #DoBetter #AcademicSky #ScienceFiction

Well, I’ve submitted my first ever fiction manuscript to a publisher. This is a new kind of feeling. #academicsky

The primary benefit to riding a motorcycle is the smugly superior coolness that it bestows upon you, but calculating your MPG is a close second. #motorcyclesky @royalenfieldriders.bsky.social #academicsky

Academic journal editors: do your journals have policies about the use of Chat-GPT or other AI tools in manuscript generation? Do those policies differ if the usage was self-disclosed by the author?

Melt. #felinesky #academicsky

So I posted a video on Instagram, and I added a Paul Simon classic for music. IG shortened the name, and I feel like there’s a message in there for me.

Mt. Rainier from my office window. @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social @mountrainier.bsky.social #AcademicSky

Mrs. Delarocker won’t announce it if she has some down time, but there will be signs.

Office hours music - 4/17/25 #AcademicSky

I’m back on my midlife-crisis-motorcycling-to-work nonsense, and it’s glorious. She’s the prettiest girl at school. @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social @royalenfieldriders.bsky.social #AcademicSky

Felis Friday #AcademicSky

Moonlight through cherry blossoms. Taken while walking the dog last night.

Backyard delights

Friends, we’re hiring for tenure track positions in history, sociology, poli sci, accounting, and exercise science. Come be part of something great Also, this is literally the view from my office. You, too, could work in the shadow of Mt. Rainier. #AcademicSky @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social