How many new musical instruments can I learn simultaneously? A worthwhile experiment.

LOOK AT THOSE PAWS. 😻

📚 Librarians (especially those involved in professional orgs): this also covers IMLS, and includes an explicit ban on using federal grants to attend conferences except where specifically approved.

I am not trying to dunk here and also if library workers had been truly listened to in the last 10-15 years or so, the libraries being in danger would not be coming as a surprise to so many academics. Perhaps they would not be in as much danger, even.

Dear fellow white people, You can just say "fella". Or do the radio edit and pause for a beat. OR, pick a different song. It isn't that difficult.

A pound of ground beef is more than the federal minimum wage. Read that again.

this is still the homepage, woof

Seriously, students, do it now, before the library budget shrinks further, or library workers leave and aren't replaced, or...you get the idea. Now is the time to advocate for your library.

I'm too worn out to edit the video right now, so here's a photo instead.

I GOT TO PLAY A NYCKELHARPA. Film at 11.

This was so much fun! The Čoček was my favorite. There was something about that I could feel deep in my spirit.

About to learn some Balkan party dances at the NW Folklife Festival.

We're looking forward to attending this tomorrow. Singing, dancing, and revelries!

Do any of my mutuals have experience with ring splints? I'm thinking about trying some and wonder if it's worth it.

Do any of my mutuals have experience with ring splints? I'm thinking about trying some and wonder if it's worth it.

Want to help the SDS grow and sustain our yearly activities? We need your help to maintain Disability Studies Quarterly, host an accessible yearly conference, and provide access supports like CART and ASL at our events! The best ways to get involved? #DisabilityStudies #AcademicSky 1/6

Tomorrow is National Goth Day. The care and maintenance of your goth is important. Keep them out of the sunlight and be sure that their black eyeliner collection goes undisturbed. Do not discuss Morrissey with them. Make offerings of spider jewelry and Ghost on vinyl.

This seems like a good way to share that I am taking an unpaid sabbatical to recover from burnout and take care of my health issues. Also, this is a great read!

Just a reminder, this Monday morning in fascism, that taking up room and living as your full self is one way we fight back. Don't make yourself small for them.

Absolutely horrified at this planned study from my own institution: www.404media.co/researchers-... >>

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

A painfully important and urgent essay from our co-founder @katelynburns.com on the latest trans-femicide and the continued silence of the media on the subject:

This is too accurate. 💯

This is BAD bad. Instructure has been bragging about their data hoard to investors for years, and now it's been stolen.

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

🎨 @emilyfaery.bsky.social

Some days I feel so ill prepared to parent my parents. There are so many layers of complexity. Also, if you relate to this in any way, I see you. 💜

This is a key point that our head librarian pointed out to me. Flat or declining library budgets combined with rising ebook costs mean that increasingly the work of curating the collection is managed by outside vendors w no sense of specific institutional needs or attendance to concerns about AI.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 3891: Write what you care about. Don’t be afraid of revealing your feelings; your damage; your opinions. These things are what makes your writing yours.

For @theflytrapmedia.com today I wrote a personal essay about my beloved cat Samwise and how he saved my life at the lowest moment of my life. Come for the Lord of the Rings references, stay for our tear jerking goodbye. theflytrapmedia.com/who-rescued-who/

This is the condition the majority of academic spaces are in.

What about a trebuchet? What about a ballista? What about a torsion siege engine? Chat, if it is not a crib, bassinet, play yard, or bedside sleeper that meets federal standards for safe sleep, get that baby out of there.

always remember that u are someone’s greatest fumble

I have absolutely zero tolerance for the idea that food or housing or healthcare are things you should have to earn. Hell, delicacies and luxury apartments and elective healthcare should not have to be "earned"

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

"This is why we need the ballroom" Hmm no I'd say this is another reason we don't need the correspondents' dinner

Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.

Perfect case of what we termed academic content assetization in a recent paper, where HE institutions use their learning platforms to gather teaching materials from staff to then repurpose as future revenue-generating derivative products

The SciAm Union is disappointed that @springernature.com dragged our colleagues into a last minute meeting this morning with the notorious union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson (the same one Starbucks and Amazon hire 👀)

Even Jerry is like “Turkeys are NUTS.” I’m glad he found his chosen family.

For complicated reasons I have diminished agency over my own academic work, and I'm struggling to navigate that in a way that doesn't burn down the entire bridge. 🔥🔥🔥

Rich Miller stans rejoice! 💜 Great Pottery Throwdown judge opens first exhibition in Guildford share.google/F8FHMrWjDaiv...

Somehow, I finally made it.

I haven't even left the hotel where I had to spend the night due to canceled flights, and already my flight is delayed two hours. Nothing like trying to travel for a family emergency and getting nowhere fast.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

It was especially great when all the Delta agents disappeared upon cancellations. Great customer service.

Flying is so fun. (Sarcastic)