I'm very proud to share our newly published design paper about SciStory: Pollinators! SciStory is a visual novel that I designed and built to help students learn about solving complex socioscientific issues in their community 🐝🌻 Big thanks to the whole team 💙 scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...

"Quilen Blackwell, owner of a Chicago nonprofit that employs at-risk youth to turn vacant lots into flower farms, has won CNN’s Hero of the Year Award." chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...

I wrote the first draft of this paper six years ago, and now it is at long last out in the world! 1.5 years ago, I asked bsky folks "at what point do you give up on a paper even if you love it?" This was that paper - I gave it one more go, and I'm thrilled I can finally share it with you all 🙌🙌

Living in a small town with an overburdened healthcare system is fun, because you call your doctor to schedule an annual exam and they go "we can fit you in tomorrow in the middle of your work day because someone cancelled, or in six months"

Saw John Green at the Buskirk tonight, and it was delightful as always to hear his thoughts on the world. When asked why he stays in Indiana, he said what many of us feel: "we have challenges, but leaving won't make it any better for the people who are still here."

Bloomington is going to have an LGBTQ+ community center and I am so excited to see it flourish. They're currently fundraising to support the creation of the center if anyone feels called to donate! www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Okay fellow readers, I need more friends on Storygraph!! I love seeing what everybody is reading and getting suggestions for my never ending TBR. I am a big fantasy and sci-fi girlie but I love seeing recs from all genres! app.thestorygraph.com/profile/humb...

The academia version of "poob has it for you" is getting emails about the university changing tech providers. "We're switching from Machforms to Fireforms" "the whole website is down while we change from SiteHost to SiteKube" "Chrome River is now Emburse Enterprise" neat! idk what any of that is

Having an absolute blast doing music league with a group of friends - this week's category is songs from our teen years and given the age range of this group, I just KNOW the submissions are gonna be chaotic

Day 3 of a broken A/C during the heat wave in Indiana. The cats, who usually disappear to their various nap spots, are sprawled out under the living room fan. Placing bets on how many times we have to call maintenance before our management company agrees to replace the ~25 yr old failing unit 🫠

I resisted the demons and stayed up until 9:30 pm 🥱 I have never been so excited to go to bed But while trying to stay awake we found the best lasagna I've ever had in my life - if you're in Helsinki, go try La Lasagna, the staff are lovely and the food brought me to hangry sleep deprived tears

Me: You have to stay awake until nighttime so you don't feel like trash all week on this trip Also me: But I could just take an hour nap? Just a little one? Just a quick snooze?

I know we already had these conversations at the peak of zoom pandemic use, but feels like some people did not learn the lessons about the accessibility concerns that "everyone must have their cameras on" brings to a meeting situation.

I am so obsessed with the murderbot books (currently listening to #6 on GraphicAudio) and now absolutely loving the show and how faithful it is to the energy of the books. Highly recommend either/both!

We were saying goodbye to my 2 yr old nephew after meeting up for breakfast, and as we're walking away my spouse throws up a peace sign and says "Peace!" Nephew excitedly throws his little hand in the air (all five fingers splayed) and calls back "Two!!!"

Tornadoes in Bloomington tonight. Feeling extra grateful for this little community, because there's an atmospheric scientist who lives in town who always posts on here to update all the locals with precise warning info. He's on vacation abroad but stayed up late to keep us informed anyway 👑🙌

About to just drive the eight hours to go see my friends next week, because Southwest airlines is so deeply infuriating. Tried to book a flight yesterday, system was down with vague error messaging. Sat on hold, got a customer rep to put a 24hr hold on my flight. Wake up this morning, flight is gone

Got blocked by someone for the first time today for *checks notes* gently encouraging them to read an article they were critiquing before sharing false statements about the author's claims. But we're not allowed to research misinformation anymore 🫠

Because it's #EarthDay, I'm resharing my open library Against AI and Its Environmental Harms at: pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI... Educators, as we consider our work and commitments to our students and their futures, how are we teaching about AI's climate impacts? How are we resisting AI hype? #EduSky

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

This is the energy in the house during work from home today 😮‍💨 I am *~*overstimulated*~*

ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking

This is a video of PBS travel guy Rick Steves at the Edmonds WA Hands Off event, giving a speech which I think is one of the BEST explanations I've seen for the average person of what is going on now and it is 🔥🔥🔥. You are going to want to watch this. youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo?...

@ everyone who judged the pile of squishmallows in the background of my zoom calls 😂 This is so real though: "If it helps you with stress, it’s a much better alternative than taking a tranquilizer or drinking a glass of wine. It hurts nobody."

I've been telling anyone who will listen how fantastic GraphicAudio productions are, but I just finished Morning Star (book #3 of Red Rising) and I am actually in awe of the voice actors on this one. The depth of emotion, the immersion?? I don't think I can ever go back to regular audiobooks

“Everyone has the fundamental right to disagree with the government: Full stop.”

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

A little moment of joy - we have the first true spring week in Bloomington, and the cats are overjoyed that deck time is back

It's not for everyone but this song is a journey that is worth every second open.spotify.com/track/2Gt7fj...

One of my favorite things about faculty writing group (other than it helping me get articles out quicker) is that after every session we all put a silly sticker on our name cards as a reward. A bit of whimsy that reminds you at the end of the semester how much you showed up & how hard you worked 😄

I don't know what it says about me that my measure of a good book is whether I have to clean the tear spots off my glasses when it's over. But I just finished Onyx Storm and my glasses were spottyyyy 😭

Every day (every hour?) brings fresh horrors so tonight I did what I always do when life feels scary and overwhelming - cuddled under a blanket and watched an animated movie that makes the world feel beautiful for a little while. Highly recommend The Wild Robot for anyone who needs a soothing cry

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

Thinking about this a lot tonight. However you feel about tiktok as a form of social media, it's a haunting reminder that Congress is perfectly capable of working together across the aisle, but chooses to do so not to help the public, but to control online speech and line billionaires' pockets.

Websites that log you out without telling you that you've been logged out (and without saving your progress) are the pinnacle of terrible design. The number of times I've hit "submit review" for a journal only to be told I've been logged out and all my progress is reset 🤬

I don't know how many of y'all are watching the migration of American TikTokers to RedNote, but it's the most fascinating thing I've EVER SEEN HAPPEN ONLINE. 🧵

I hope the people who string their balconies in twinkle lights or have purple/blue lights glowing from their windows know that I look at their lights fondly as I drive by and thank them for the moment of beauty they've shared with me

"We have set up a system of interlocking ninth circles of hell for all of our basic needs. Housing is a noose of landlord interests, developer exploitation and rising costs. ... Our moral economy is trash." Whew, this is a great read.

The paper, The Unpaid Toll: Quantifying the Public Health impact of AI, “finds that the generation of electricity for data centers hosting artificial intelligence applications could pollute the air so much that by 2030 an additional 1,300 people may die prematurely each year as a result.”

Meeting someone else who has lost a parent at a younger age is such a comforting yet devastating experience, equal parts "I'm so relieved to find someone else who understands this feeling" mixed with "I am so deeply sad that you understand this feeling"

People of Bluesky! Quote a favorite film using gifs only. (Since it's hard to read: "Beautiful things don't ask for attention.")

If you want to fight for immigrant rights I highly recommend Never Again Action, OCAD, Raíces, United We Dream, Immigrant Defense Project, Mijente, and Cosecha.

Kovu is anxiously watching election results from the safety of the laundry basket. Tempted to do the same tbh 🫣

SARAH MCBRIDE OF DELAWARE BECOMES THE FIRST TRANSGENDER MEMBER OF CONGRESS CAN I GET A HELL YEAH FROM THE STRESSED OUT CHAT