Hello fellow migraineurs who are also readers! A friend who teaches at Portland State is doing a survey about our reading experiences and it would be great if you were interested in taking it. Survey and more info here: portlandstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 📚

Okay, fall grades are in and I have a complete syllabus for one of my three spring courses (women's resistance literature). Now I get to do the fun work of lesson planning and powerpointing that course before moving to the next one!

We have raised more than $7K to make our friend Meghan Andrews’s posthumous book open access. Getting closer and closer to our goal. Please help us share this Go Fund Me page far and wide! Donate if you’re able. #Shakespeare #academic

For this month’s @outsidemag.bsky.social column, I took a rat taxidermy class, and it was… surprisingly sweet? As the teacher said, “We’re reclaiming what’s beautiful and interesting about the things we’ve been told are bad or gross.” I love my rat. His name is Meatball.

Two weeks ago, my colleague Dr. Badar Khan Suri was ruled deportable by an immigration court. Badar and his family find themselves once again in a terrifying, opaque, and costly legal ordeal. Please support/share?

This is your chance to vote for Oxford’s Word of the Year. corp.oup.com/word-of-the-....

In order to submit to publish with Wiley, you now need to grant permission for them to use their AI tools to extract content from your work.

I am not From Here, so I have never really cared about the Sheetz v Wawa rivalry. I prefer Wawa simply because it has a better name, but also: the Wawa Thanksgiving sub is unfathomably superior to the Sheetz version. #HotTake

It costs so little to believe in one’s students. And when students feel supported and encouraged, they do magnificent work. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

Mary Baldwin University is embarking on drastic cuts of its liberal arts programme and of humanities subjects more generally. A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!) Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h

I cannot believe how cool this blogpost is. This post will end all posts. Everyone can stop blogging now

I’m a graduate of an arts program here and am alarmed by the new president’s actions. Please read, sign, and share!

Started my disability lit course today with the news about Alice Wong. 💔

A bunch of my students are on our women’s hockey team and I went to the season opener this afternoon and y’all—I think I love hockey now??

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

A thing that I would love that I kind of can’t believe no one has done yet is for a Taskmaster contestant to wear the same outfit as Alex. 😏

Two small spots of good cheer today. Welcome in a year of darkness. 🩷

🤔 “This announcement comes just one day after Trump announced his “fat shot” deal with two pharmaceutical companies to lower the cost of popular weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Zepbound to around $150 per month” newrepublic.com/post/202898/...

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

Today is for catching up on marking. I've gone through about twenty assignments already, and I have another 99 left. Wish me luck!

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

Tula’s on the ball

Seems like it’s a good night for Dems. Nice to go to sleep with a spot of hope for a change. 🤞🏼

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Voted!

I suppose campaign text messages must work at least a little, but I have never ever not once changed my mind about whether or not to vote based on a text message. This skeet brought to you by living in a swing state and being annoyed by the constant texts. (Yes obvs I’m voting tomorrow.)

And this resource is more Philly local www.reclaimphiladelphia.org

JKR.

It's my favorite assignment of the year—sonnets! This time around, my students wrote sonnets about being tired; a cake pop; coffee; an insistent, hungry cat; a favorite mug; crunchy leaves; mom's homemade food; a hamburger eaten for lunch; football; breakfast; and Taylor Swift. 🤩

Fucking RETWEET

Do y’all know about red eye flights and how absolutely terrible they are, especially when you have a connection in the middle???

It is raining sideways and the wind is a menace on the Oregon Coast this morning. What a day to bury my dad! 🙃

It’s my birthday! I’m spending it doing my least favorite thing, getting on an airplane! To go to my literal father’s funeral!! Send them good vibes!! 🙃

Not me writing out my dad’s eulogy by hand because I don’t have access to a printer and reading a eulogy off my iPad makes me feel like scraping my skin off. (Pls light a candle for my poor cramping hand.)

Crowdsourcing here: if you had to introduce comedy podcasts to your students as a genre, what 5-10 minute clip would you play?

Boy I cannot wait to write my memoirs because the last 36 hours of my life ALONE would be rejected by Hollywood as being too unrealistic for any single narrative.

Doing all my spring advising this week, and it has so far been such a joy to meet with each beloved student and spend significant time with them talking widely about their plans and interests and dreams. I LOVE my job.

I mean *I* think it's perfectly hinged, but you should always cut the bear in The Winter's Tale.

Went to the dentist and they gave me an A+ on my teeth. 💪 We will take the wins where we can these days!

Add supplements or whatever you need to do, but make sure you're getting enough/lots of fiber in your diet.

ACLS statement against White House “compact”: THIS IS SOVIET SHIT

Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist best known for her work studying the behavior of chimpanzees, died Wednesday, Oct. 1. She was 91.

I need a movie for my Horny Renaissance class. Aside from Shakespeare in Love, what comes to mind?

Totally fine for random people to determine what colleges teach so long as they pass a small test first of explaining and operating the Large Hadron Collider, a simple task for people so capable of immediately knowing more than career experts in a field of study.

Tenure dossier preparation is upon me. Accordingly: if you've taught any of my articles/books/chapters/podcasts/blogs, used any material I've created in classwork, or have spotted a review of any of it, could you please reach out and let me know? Thank you.

Working on my syllabus this morning for a spring 2027 class. WHY AM I LIKE THIS.

Honestly this give me hope. If kids are using "AI" to mean something is incorrect that's great.