February wrap: 9 books 📚❄️ Snow days helped with more quiet and more pages. A Lenten absence from social media is also assisting. Highlights ranged from love & joy, to faith/justice, humor, grief, and thrillers in between. Monthly recap continues. What should I read in March? #BookSky #Bookstagram

An important contribution to the conversation. Take a read: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

January wrap: 12 books 📚powered by long weekends, cross-country flights, and public transit. Themes: belonging & inclusion, higher ed, memoir, habits, nature, Sabbath, and a little decluttering. Monthly wrap coming. What should I read in Feb? #Reading #bookstagram #booksky

Wrapped up 2025 with 54 books read—after setting a goal of 50. ✅📚 (108%… I’ll take it!) My annual reading list is a good barometer of how much I found time to disconnect at the end of the workday and the amount of time spent in airports and on planes.

Good morning

Morning walk in New England

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Moment of awe leaving work today.

DC always a delight to depart at night.

First time leaving a workshop with free books, sourced by attendees’ making individual recommendations and the organizers buying copies so there’s collective development. #booksky

When we gather as professionals, our expertise becomes more than individual; it becomes collective power for progress.

More people should be talking about this.

#41 of 2025. “Let’s not throw up our hands, let’s roll up our sleeves”. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #booksky

Book #40 of 2025: The Catalyst by Thomas Cech. It’s basically a biography of RNA. The science is mostly over my head, but I’m wading through. More importantly, I’m starting to see why mRNA vaccines arose and why they’re vital tools for both today’s ailments and those we can’t yet imagine. #booksky

California lawmakers pass bill to grant priority college admission for descendants of slavery - Los Angeles Times

This week’s new read. #35 for 2025. Judging from chapter 1, I’ll probably finish it this week although it’s a tome: 720 pages #booksky

Commute view #morningwalk

Take me back. Sunrise in Antigua 🇦🇬

Another year of MIT graduate student orientation is in the books! 🎉 Here’s to a year of learning, discovery, and building a graduate experience rooted in joy, care and excellence!

The Caribbean anytime. Beautiful 🇦🇬

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

Grand entrance to PDX

Wishing all who celebrate a joyful and meaningful Passover. May this season of renewal and liberation bring peace, reflection, and connection with loved ones. Chag Pesach Sameach!

Breaking: Columbia University's interim president is stepping down -- per WSJ www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Fresh buzz cut. Shedding winter and ready for spring.

Donations of any amount from 125 individuals will unlock $30,000 towards our Emergency Fund that supports graduate students in financial difficulty. Thanks in advance for your assistance. mtyc.co/r6tczf

Always a visual treat flying into BOS

“Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.” C.S. Lewis

Sunday dinner. #BussUp #iykyk

Avocado toast to get the day started. 🥑

I'm starting to think DEI may have been the only reason so many planes stayed in the sky...

My baby, as a baby, to brighten your day.

“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.” My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts. Sorry, but it has to be said:

Merit huh? www.chronicle.com/article/were...

Remember when Biden wanting to cancel or reduce student debt for some Americans was overreach? Those were the days smh.

On any given day these kids all <21, are written off by a ruthless society. This instrument invented and perfected by the descendants of slaves in a written off area of Trinidadian society, and yet we are reminded with all stacked against us -we are still magic! 🇹🇹 Enjoy! youtu.be/jSC_H_WVs_o?...