An autumnal moment this morning for #Caturday. #FenrisUpdate

Friday at last…

*taps sign*

One of my students is already familiar with my research. WILD. That's a first for me. 🤯

One thing at a time. And please prioritize taking care of yourself.

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

The world may be terrifying, but some things you can rely on. It’s officially decorative gourd season, and we have a new mug. Blammo. store.mcsweeneys.net/t/categories...

I’m telling y’all: watching Steve Harvey host “Family Feud” will cure all that ails you.

Every time my parents call me, I freak out because surely it must be an emergency. Don't call me randomly please.

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

Bruh

The #AAUP recently shared guidelines for how academic workers can protect themselves online, Incliding first response resources Please check them out (no library puns intnded.)

Some phrases are so well-known, you don't need to say the whole thing to be understood. E.g., you can say "birds of a feather" without saying "flock together." -“When life hands you lemons…” -“Great minds…” -“When in Rome…” Such partial phrases are called 'anapodotons.'

A lot of people are going to suddenly find out that the rugged man nodding gif is Robert Redford

Dealing with a MCAS flare was not what I needed this week.

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

I spent the whole day on course prep and then wrote one brief email that was solely for my personal interest and joy, and the energy required for the latter task greatly exceeded the energy required for the former. But I did it and the email is sent. Fingers crossed I can do fun things soon! 🎹

The next few days are going to be nothing but Canvas for me as I prep for the start of a new quarter.

We watched this video and then discovered that BWW makes cauliflower wings, so now it seems like we'll be trying those soon. No Napoleonic future for us, I guess. 😂

Share this with your dads folks. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

I felt this in my bones.

We just had the brightest flash of lightning and the biggest crack of thunder I have experienced since we moved to the PNW. My Midwestern soul was delighted. ⛈️🌩️⛈️

Read this -> Moeller, C. M. (2025). “Begging to be heard”: The Professional Exclusion and Marginalization of Neurodivergent Librarians (Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington). by @christinemmoe.bsky.social

Me: I'm not stressed! Also me: *about to cry because I can't connect to the printer to print the sheet music my parents sent me*

My hobonichi is the only planner I've ever been able to stick with and feel happy about using.

💯💯💯

Seeing more posts like this on social media: "As part of my teacher evaluation, I have to explore the use of AI in the classroom" "I've been asked to provide PD to my dept on AI. Any suggestions for tools?" Teachers are being made to work for free to sell AI to themselves and their colleagues.

BOOM💥💥💥

Reminder that things are in fact worse quality for more money, that no, Elder Gen Z/millennials/gen x, you're not imagining it, nor should you accept it as "the way things are." Shirts I've had 30 fucking yrs are still wearable, but a shirt I've had 2 months & worn MAYBE twice is already unraveling

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

🔖📚 Read Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with. This is one example of many where the people with whom library staff collaborate didn’t have the opportunity to advocate for them.

PUT 👏🏻 JEWISH 👏🏻 HOLIDAYS 👏🏻 IN 👏🏻 YOUR 👏🏻 CALENDARS The head of my org is Jewish. I have the Jewish holidays calendar on my work calendar so I don't schedule meetings during important holidays! I don't want him to have to do that calculus!

"Articles that are accepted for publication...incur a publishing fee charged to Authors, institutions, or funders." As if I or the institution I'm temporarily affiliated with have any funds right now. That's going to be a hard no.

Up early and getting ready for this talk. It looks like registration closes in ten minutes (link below). Looking forward to this!

I've definitely been feeling ashamed I haven't beaten the system, even though I know how deeply broken and harmful it is. All the subtle messaging about how to be a 'successful' academic is hard to resist, even though that vision is a mirage for too many of us.

If you are a federal worker who focuses on #Autism and your work has been affected by RFK Jr., I’d love to talk with you. We can speak on background. My signal is emgarcia.85

This reminded me of the time I had to let my students have a whole class to vent because they were so furious with Victor. They even used evidence from the text, and it was honestly pretty great.

This is basically turning student evaluations of teaching - which reams of scholarship shows is just sexist and racist bias-washing - onto students themselves. Will mainly be used to make white women and students of color appear 'uncivil.'

Happy Saturday to me and to Edward, who loves frothed oat milk almost as much as I do.

Oral history with @christinemmoe.bsky.social who talks about working as an academic librarian, transitioning to a doctoral program, and their research on neurodivergent library workers.

On 2/9/25 we have the @christinemmoe.bsky.social giving a #free online talk: “You deserve to take care of yourself” This is based on findings from a #research project on the #workplace experiences of #neurodivergent #librarians More info here ➡️ nlisn.org/events/ #Employment #Dyslexia #Autism #ADHD

BREAKING: Over 450 game developers behind hit video-game series Diablo have joined CWA, joining the historic fight for a better video game industry. Hail to you, union champions 💪

Next week I'm giving a talk for @nlisn.bsky.social about my research on the workplace experiences of neurodivergent library workers, focusing on the embodied knowledge that they enact while navigating barriers in their workplace and the profession. More info is available on the NLISN site.

Next week I'm giving a talk for @nlisn.bsky.social about my research on the workplace experiences of neurodivergent library workers, focusing on the embodied knowledge that they enact while navigating barriers in their workplace and the profession. More info is available on the NLISN site.

Offering 3 resources for people seeking ideas for what they might do in this moment: 1. We made a short workbook to help people narrow down or discover their areas of interest and focus. It's been downloaded thousands of times. Hope it's useful to you: millionexperiments.com/zines/making...

Co-authoring with a very busy colleague is proving extremely challenging, but hopefully someday I'll get to submit something about my work over the past few years. Meanwhile, I'm presenting away!😂🙃🤷‍♀️

Offering this for the Men In Aprons list:

“My point is that translating your language through AI is a lost opportunity to cultivate the sweetness within you. With your own words, connecting to the words of others, we can use stories for what they are for, which is to link ourselves with the stories of the people around us.” Excellent.

*breathe in* I am not a dumpster fire. *breathe out* I am a dumpster phoenix.

I keep trying to remind myself that I should not feel ashamed that my one of my contracts was terminated due to technicalities totally outside of my control, and that I have every right to be upset that I put in a month's work that I won't get paid for. The shame and guilt, however, run deep.