AERA is still a mixed experience for me🤷

Proud moment right here. Three generations of scholars. From left to right: Spencer (my academic father), Rich (my academic grandfather), me (grateful academic son and grandson). 🙏 #aera2026

Natty vibes. Go GAMECOCKS!!

I really hope I get a TT family job this year!

How does one build up a following on this thing? Haha

Love the Alaska's are falling in price.... Showing the resellers what's up

I got an R&R!!

New t-shirt of my hero came in the mail today! 🙏

Coulda had an email 😂

🔥🔥Hot off the press! Glad to share my new publication,"Identifying the Depressive Subgroups Among Adolescent Black Boys and Adolescent White Boys Who Have Been School Policed and School Disciplined." (Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research). jultr.scholasticahq.com

I just did my first r code! Yes! #rstats

New publication, "Association Between Education Attainment and Hypertension Among Community-Dwelling Older Black and White Adults: The National Health & Trends Study." journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FM5XA...

Semester finished!

Open rank search = we want a full professor, esp in these uncertain times😂🤷🤦

Another paper accepted...right an I'm walking in to see Wicked II!!!🔥🔥

Just found out I got a manuscript accepted for publication! 😤🙏🔥

I resubmitted 5 manuscripts this evening!!😤💪

Hi blue sky

Dodgers.TRUE BLUE. World Champs!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌🙌🙌🤍💙⚾😤

Strong draft and tables sent to my lead/senior author. Proud of myself!

Got four R&Rs! Excited but overwhelmed. I asked for two extensions, and they were granted. Grateful!

academia is lonely

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Phew...I submitted two special issue manuscripts this month. One to an education journal and the other to a medical journal.

Look what came in the mail, ready to dive in and learn!

One of the highlights of my life was meeting Dr. Siddle Walker and having her sign my copies of a couple of her books, "Hello Professor" and "The Lost Education of Horace Tate." She was so kind and patient with me. My cup runneth over 🙏❤️📚 #area2025

Exceptional, exceptional book regarding the countless contributions and stories about how Black women gained liberties and freedoms for themselves and everyone! Thank you, Dr. Jones!🙏

When your doctoral advisor's (Spencer Platt) in town and you grab dinner at one of bmore's most famous delis, Attman's Deli, then get to listen to the only-and-only, the famous Deborah Cox....liiiive!!! #forevertothee

I hate the new android update!

🚨🚨 Excited to share my new publication!🚨🚨 "Comparing the Depressive Health Profiles Among U.S. Adolescents Who Have Been School Disciplined and School Policed: A Person-Centered Approach" in #YouthandSocety. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KJRBK...

This job market..

105+ job applications, now...for this job market season..

REALLY productive day! I sent back all the corrections for my proofs of one manuscript, and sent a great completed, full draft to my senior authors of another manuscript! Thank you!🙏

Interview methods are helpful but they didn't solve all problems, they were never meant to.

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Keep stacking days..

Come see me at #AERA2025!

♨️ ♨️ ♨️ HEY YALL, I'm excited to be in community with everyone at #AERA2025. Here's what I'll be sharing, so please feel free join.

Even tho we did a lot of things wrong, us millennials gave ppl the microwave popcorn button and pre-laced shoes. Doing God's work!

Wow this years almost halfway over!

MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED!!😭😭🙏🙏🔥🔥

When you get to have Detroit style pizza with a really good friend, and buy a new book on Detroit...all in the same evening and by coincidence 😎 @mrc-slc.bsky.social

W.W.J.D. -- "What would *John* do?" VOTE for the "Beloved Community." Congressman Lewis is a human we all need to emulate, especially right now.♥️🙏

Great zoom interview. Now we wait.

Good times! Got to catch up with my old roommate and fellow transit advocate!

Get your proposals in by June. Great editorial team and reviewers to work with! #jaacap www.jaacap.org/call_for_sub...

Got my new mplus....now I'm broke.

✨✨GOOD NEWS✨✨ I have been invited to serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Educational Foundations, by the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Kendall Deas. Grateful to share my expertise and insights on education and health, and how they benefit the foundations of education. My cup runneth over.🙏🤓🔥🚀🎈

✨✨GOOD NEWS!!✨✨I'm honored, humbled, and excited to become a WTG Foundation Scholar, to say the least. I'm grateful to become a part of the ICQCM family! Looking forward to studying novel quantitative methods to apply education and health scholarship to STEM spaces that empower Black learners.

SEMINAL WORK AND REQUIRED READING!!🤩🔥📚 Dr. Bradley's book, "Harlem vs. Columbia University," taught me much, but I will share two points.