dusting this account off to prepare for the @pcaaca.bsky.social conference next week! I'm so excited, these conferences are the highlight of my year. looking forward to presenting, mentoring, and connecting with friends and colleagues! #PCA2026conference

if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean

If you enjoyed #PCA2025 you might want to consider joining us at this year's FSNNA! The conference CFP is now open for both general submission and our new undergrad-specific showcase. The whole conference runs fully virtual. Details below, but do reach out with any Qs: fsn-northamerica.org

This is Maggie. She saw this tree blossoming into its true colors and thought of you. 13/10

Finally home and in bed after a long day of panels and travel... and already making plans for next year's conference (and things to do between now and then!). Is this what it's like to be an area chair? Thanks for an excellent time in NOLA, @pcaaca.bsky.social! Looking forward to Atlanta 🫡

We are here for it!! #PCA2025

Surprisingly cold, potentially diseased, and everyone around instantly knows I'm a tourist, but I *had* to do it

Hello NOLA! #PCA2025 @pcaaca.bsky.social

I talked with a student and they are going to apply to a conference! This is the first time I have done anything like this! But they've been doing so great this semester and there are a couple small online things going on this summer I think would work great. I feel like a real professor! Exciting 🤩

Today I got the best compliment a teacher can get: a student told me I'm basically the professor version of Miss Frizzle 🤩 if you need me, I'll be off managing this massive ego 💁🏻‍♀️

Morgana has been trying to pick up the emotional support animal slack and lemme tell you, right now she's knocking it out of the park

I know I complain about students who can't follow directions or who just don't seem to put in the effort but every so often you get a heartbreaking email and it's just like. Idk man. This is why I do this, so that students have someone who is going to respond kindly and help them...

Happy International Asexuality Day!!!🖤🩶🤍💜

interview request! interview request! interview request!

Just got my first job response that was neither an acceptance nor a rejection but a "we've put this position on hold while we reevaluate our hiring needs at this time" so, y'know, that's great and cool and I'm totally chill this is fine

Trying to explain to a friend still in the program why I joke about hating medievalism without being like "after you finish your diss you hate everything about it and all your choices haunt you forever, tainting this project you once loved" and thereby scaring him off

I love this story by Keith Uhlig, and particularly the ending: "I think for a lot of us LGBT people, the message resonates," Mountain said. "Maybe people tell you you can't do something, but you can go ahead and do it anyway.""

Ugh, I *just* booked with delta for my conference next month 😩

Should I derail a really irritating and pedantic discussion in my group chat's pedagogy channel by sharing this

First they came for decorum and I said nothing because honestly fuck decorum

#caturday #flow

Teaching isn’t whatever romantic ideal you have of Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds or Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society. It’s constant power struggles, constant emotional labor, for little pay and little acknowledgement.

This just feels good

Somehow all of us who teach are supposed to go to work tomorrow and stand in front of a room of people who hate school and hate reading and hate learning, and we’re supposed to pretend like anything we do or say matters in a country that also hates education.

I simply do not believe the truth of our existence is that we have to be this selfish and malicious to be happy

#Pokedex # 831 #Wooloo! The only thing better than this #sheep #Pokemon is it's shiny version! I feel like the #blacksheep of my family some days so it's like my spirit animal! #sketch #drawing #cute #wool #Ink #alcoholmarkers #art #artist #cartoon #traditional #artsky

Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

Just crying about the indomitable spirit of people and dogs

Sometimes when you hear, "You can't," the correct response is, "Watch me."

Full-on ugly sobbing right now

Me, letting a student postpone an assignment because they're overwhelmed with exams and can't focus: I'm such a pushover Me, looking at the world around us: maybe we all deserve a little grace right now

being autistic is cool being autistic is hard being autistic is joy being autistic is pain being autistic is whatever it is to you

The vibe is: dissociating down 77 at 1AM the Sunday night before going back to class after spring break on the way home from an exhausting weekend trip listening to funk and eating dots, planning out a paper in a field that isn't yours. Cruise control is on and my brain is checked out

The continued focus of the media and general public on Columbia’s loss of $400 million which is a much smaller sum of money to an Ivy League institution than $100 million is to Maine is elitist bullshit that treats regional schools and their student and alum communities like we are disposable

Seeing people in the replies who have some sort of quibble (but beef tallow is yummy! abortion is murder! children may not be dying but they're being raised democrat which is even worse! (tbh I don't even know what that last one was going for)) is honestly so depressing how can you argue with this??

Vaccines cause adults!

If you see this post a photo from your device with no explanation

My friends set me up with the window open so the room would be cool and have a little air circulation so I could sleep without a fan, but then they found me a fan anyway, which is now set up in front of the open window, in March, in NY... it's 34° outside and I am a *little* chilly 😬

My day 🫠

Thanks, I hate it

More proof that Charlotte is terrible 🙄 on my way for a spring break mini vacation! Only about 10000% stressed but hopefully in about 2.5 hours it'll be worth it!!

This visit's offering to the wishing tree - I keep making small, reasonable wishes with a single shell on a pilfered piece of string but this year I brought my own thread and made a pretty little wind chime-esque assortment of different shells and an absolutely *buckwild* wish because why not?

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

The world is burning but please y'all: use Alt Text on your images.

I would eat his heart in the market-place.