Cosmo’s doggy daycare took holiday pictures of all the pups this week. This is the content I needed in my life.🎄🐾

Something about logging off before a holiday and coming back the following Monday to find you're in a whole new month is extra disorienting.

If this November isn’t proof that time isn’t real, nothing is.

My advice for on-the-go conference content? Get yourself a phone gimbal! This thing has been my bestie at #NACADA25.

Watch out, Vegas — @josieahlquist.bsky.social and I are here this week, providing on-site content support for NACADA’s Annual Conference. Excited to show all the academic advisors some love (these people are so delightful and passionate; they deserve it)! 💙💚

It is wild how out of sorts I feel when Asana is down.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

The Life of a Showgirl is the sparkle of goodness I needed this week. ✨❤️‍🔥 On my second play-through. So far my favorites are The Fate of Ophelia, Elizabeth Taylor, and Actually Romantic. But honestly, the whole album is a gem and I think this is the best Taylor's voice has ever sounded. 🥰

If you're asking me for money and the first line is "Hey Sewell" ...

The word “could” here was a real choice… 🧐

Please enjoy this photo of happy, floaty jellies from my trip to the Baltimore Aquarium this weekend as your Monday morning timeline cleanser. 🪼

Pro tip: If you find poison ivy in your backyard and feel that gloves will be sufficient protection during the removal process because it’s just one plant and you’ve never had a reaction before and you’ll be super careful…you should probably put on some long sleeves.

Sending so much love to the students and employees in these communities. 💔

This is an important thread. It seems weirdly disrespectful to try to turn Kirk into something he clearly despised.

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

The PA cicadas are out of control this week. I have never heard them so loud, so consistently. *eye twitch*

Live footage of me ⬇️ working at a café as a bro at the next table mansplains marketing to two women by recommending Gary V and what is essentially a "spray and pray" marketing approach. This is my personal hell.

Learning that Taylor Swift is a fellow sourdough baker has brought me so much joy. I hope she also follows Gigi and Eloise on TikTok.

While I am AMPED about the Taylor Swift album announcement, I feel an equal amount of cringe seeing the thirsty brand comments on the TikTok announcement. Nobody needs to see a laundry detergent fangirling. Like…why?

I invested in a lap desk, and it might just be the perfect hybrid of comfort and ergonomics that my WFH habits needed. And there's a CUPHOLDER! 💁🏻‍♀️

I definitely did not need a close-up photo of a screwworm filling up my feed as I drink my morning tea. Just a note for all the media outlets of the world.

The sky just OPENED and there is an inch of rain sitting on my ground-level deck. Cosmo the fuzzy sunbather does not approve

Letters to the Future. 💌 What do you want the next generation of higher ed leaders to know? Submit a short letter of encouragement here: forms.gle/T2PhZyras7wu...

Just went out to see why my dog was barking his head off & going full fur-raised in our backyard — he had cornered an opossum & the thing was playing dead on my freshly mowed grass. So if I get an Apple Watch alert about an irregularly high heart rate today, we know why. (No animals harmed, btw)

Fall conference season will be here before we know it, and I know my association friends are busy planning things now — so plan to be seen, superstars. 🤩

Instead of election-season debates or hiring committees for senior leadership positions, I think we should stick all the candidates in a room & watch them participate in a critique session for a writing workshop or art class. Some of these folks were never misunderstood to their face & it shows.

If ever there has been a time in your life to imagine the world you really want, now is that time.

Can I opt out? 🫠

Starting to feel like reading the news as I wake up is not the healthiest way to start my day. But also...what is healthy? **gestures wildly**

In an effort to eat a bit more mindfully and live a bit more slowly, I finally caved and let a friend talk me into becoming a sourdough girlie. The starter (which shall henceforth be named Lil Sourbastian 🐴) arrives tomorrow. Wish me luck and toss me discard recipes in the comments if you got 'em! 🥖

If y'all need me this weekend, I'll be streaming Taylor Swift nonstop and basking in her well-earned liberation. 🙌

I just used Gemini Deep Research for the first time...🤯 With a fairly basic prompt, it showed me its research process broken into actionable steps that intuited the use case for the research (which I did not provide), cited its sources & displayed results in both paragraph form and data tables. 😳

I just gave in and turned the heat back on. 😭

I just used chives from my herb garden in today's lunch, so I'm pretty sure I could live off the land if I needed to.

If you’ve ever wanted to get my real-talk, behind-the-scenes advice for your social media strategy, posts, campaigns, or analytics reporting — now’s your chance! I have a limited number of spots open for one-on-one coaching, and I would loooove to connect with some higher ed friends! 💜

Higher ed associations: What if your social media was more than a megaphone? Our new post shows how to shift from transactional content to transformational connection. 💡 www.josieahlquist.com/from-transac...

I will never stop being amazed at people who are insistent on having deeply personal phone conversations on public transit.

#HigherEd associations, prepare to be engaged! We have all the member-focused, mission-driven marketing & comm support you’ve been looking for. And I loooove working with professional orgs! 💜

Follow-up: the shirt has arrived and we’re REAL CUTE! ☺️ (Shoutout @tvparrot.bsky.social & @penamerica.bsky.social)

I need Google Docs to understand that I never want it to spontaneously switch from my Google Workplace account to my personal Google account. Like...never. Just use the account currently active in my browser, please and thanks.

We don't talk enough about colleges as economic drivers. Yes, degrees support lifetime earnings & alumni provide skilled labor—but the very presence of a college in a town is a huge source of employment, funding for local initiatives & community resources. Closed schools hurt more than students.

Ordered! Let’s all be cute together while we support education & free speech. 💁🏻‍♀️

Today’s joyful moment is brought to you by the happiest pup in the world.

I'm not sure if this is a confession or a tip—but I've been using Feedly like it's 2012 & I just learned about RSS feeds. There's something really satisfying about a list of articles from publications I hand-picked. Nothing extra. No algo. Just knowledge at my fingertips like the interwebs intended.

If you, like me, don’t know what to do with your TV now that Traitors is over — click your way over to Netflix and start watching Million Dollar Secret. 📺💰 It scratches the same itch (although there’s no substitute for Alan Cumming’s fabulous wardrobe).

I’ve been watching so many old seasons of Top Chef. And yet I can never remember to take meat out of the freezer in advance.

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

Pro Tip: If you wear overalls while you have a back spasm, you can be fashion-forward AND easily carry your phone and some snacks in your many pockets as you waddle from room to room like a momma kangaroo.

Ordered my copy today from bookshop.org!

Hop in the TARDIS, friends! Tonight’s gonna get timey wimey. #SpringIsBiggerOnTheInside