Nothing quite like going to email an expert to request an interview on a big, complex topic, thinking their name is familiar, and realizing you’ve written them before…with a ridiculous question for the footnote of the Chronicle’s daily briefing 🙈

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Well, thanks @sarosecav.bsky.social for the new followers! I lurk way more than I post, but will say a quick hello. I cover teaching for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here’s my latest: www.chronicle.com/article/decl...

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BREAKING: Kevin Guskiewicz, the current chancellor at UNC- Chapel Hill, will be announced as Michigan State University's president at 8 a.m. Friday meeting, sources tell me. Meeting notice to be issued tomorrow morning.

Look who’s here! The other half of the Chronicle’s Teaching team, bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social! Just in time for POD, which she’s attending.

Just when you think you’re used to the snakes, gators, coyotes, bobcats, Bufo toads and all of the many bugs:

Why aren’t more sports teams named for mythological creatures? So many good ones no one’s even using

I’m sure this time of year— when you can see Christmas lights, inflatable turkeys, and skeletons peeking out of coffins all within a block—is magical everywhere But I think it’s extra special when you live in a place that’s still too hot for any of it

Just wrote “November” rather than “Friday” at the top of tomorrow’s to-do list before copying over all the things I didn’t get done today Nice try, brain!

What’s going on with students’ use of ChatGPT and the like this semester? Beth McMurtrie (not on here yet) and I are doing a bit of crowd sourcing for a story we’re working on. If you’re teaching college students and have thoughts on this, tell us here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

At this point in my life, I think a good superpower would be the ability to make my coffee stay the correct temperature until I finish drinking it.

De-pluralize a band U1

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Man, I don’t care how good generative AI gets: I don’t think I’ll ever get a story done without at least one conversation with a human colleague who gently suggests I might get myself unstuck if I try doing some more reporting and/ or writing

I should have said this the first time: Megan recently shifted beats and is covering faculty issues. So if you have some thoughts on that, get in touch!

Since it's what got me onto Bluesky, I may as well make this story my first post. I spoke to @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social, @holdenthorp.bsky.social and @tnfalpha.bsky.social about Katalin Karikó's Nobel Prize. Is it karmic payback, evidence that academic science is broken, or somewhere in between?

Recent articles on barriers to better teaching have me wondering how pervasive straight lecturing is in higher ed. I know this study www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles... re: STEM & this finding that profs underestimate how much they lecture digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcont... is there more?

Briefly considered using the old Twitter egg for my photo. Too soon?