Dr Tab (she/her)

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

Re-upping for no particular reason...

what are we using to track and keep our reading lists now??? 📚📒📌

Got my shingles with my flu vaccine also this week!

The Deeper Thinking Podcast Philosophy Podcast · Updated Daily · The Deeper Thinking Podcast The Deeper Thinking Podcast offers a space where philosophy becomes a way of engaging more fully and deliberately with the world. Each...

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What interest/habit have you picked up from a friend?

Colleges Need to Tell Their Stories, Then Live Up to Them Public opinion is swinging toward higher ed. Now is the time to fuel the positive story to mitigate the harm of Trump administration attacks.

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Meditation for Neuro-Spicy Folks My suggestions for neurodivergence-friendly meditation techniques.

I recently redesign my whole website and re-started my blogging, after a little break. This week's post is about how I'm taking moments to be present.
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How are you taking care of yourself?

What’s your research on?

History Education from the Classroom Up: Re-examining Purposes and Values of the Field History Education from the Classroom Up: Re-examining Purposes and Values of the Field” examines the purposes and values of history education from the perspective of teaching and learning in U.S. clas...

Call for papers: History Education from the Classroom Up: Re-examining Purposes and Values of the Field

We ask contributors to rethink the purposes and values of history education emerging from complex, “messy” classroom realities.

#edusky #sschat #academicsky

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Quinta Brunson Monologue - SNL

Me and Quinta down here like…

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Call for Contributions Because the writing, structure, and rhetoric of research writing in the academy often acts as a gatekeeping function, it is important for us to interrogate the ways in which it is keeping innovative v...

Are you looking for an opportunity to get published in an academic journal?

The editors of the *Journal for Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research* are looking for contributors for a collaborative article we are putting together. See details below. #urbaned #aaave

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Happened to open Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition today to this sentence on the Introduction: “Human animals unconscious of their capacities and responsibilities are not well fitted to take charge of earth-threatening powers.” (Margaret Canovan)

Yeah- we’re finding out the hard way…

Can’t wait to hear Vanessa Siddle Walker speak at @aeraedresearch.bsky.social #aera2025 #edresearch

All the small musical intonations seeping back up from the depths of my unconscious…

Remembering the feeling of Natalie singing parts of my life, healing wounds…

Also- Gold Rush Brides is such an underrated feminist anthem!

Our Time In Eden by 10,000 Maniacs on Apple Music Album · 1992 · 13 Songs

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I had forgotten how much this album had weaved itself into my brain. I can recall the smell and feel of the cd liner notes, with the one corner torn a little bit so that I had to be oh so careful sliding it back into the jewel case.

ADHD- When you make a cup of tea, get distracted and when you remember it, it’s lukewarm. 😕

Hoodies and poetry What spring is all about

Trying out the newsletter format--let me know what you think! 🤓

First on the Call Sheet.
HIGHLY recommend!! 🌟🌟🌟

RIP Chadwick #BlackPanther

Does Your Syllabus Sound Like You? Open-access tools developed at Baylor U. and MIT help instructors be intentional in their syllabus language.

An open-source tool created by Baylor University lets professors see where the language on their syllabus sounds like them and where it doesn’t, and offers ideas for getting a closer match. chroni.cl/4la9cj6

I absolutely LOVED it!!!

“Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s waiting out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.” #wisdom @pemachodron.bsky.social #whenthingsfallapart

#books #whatimreading @magebymoonlight.bsky.social

“…like trying to remember the name of the song you loved years and years ago: you feel haunted by the ghost of its melody, but despite your best attempts, the lyrics – the crucial key that will unlock that forgotten name – slip through your fingers like mist.”
#lovelywords #witchwound

Reflections on the Philosophy of Education Society conference in Baltimore earlier this month: tmessmore.notion.site/Philosophy-o...

#springingoffsubstack

“It might be that our _actual_ purpose is simply to be of use, to be productive and to make a difference. … The specifics aren’t nearly as important as the journey. … It benefits us because the liminal state of seeking … allows us to become truly alive.”
@sethgodin.bsky.social, This is Strategy

Ummm… 👇

See the problem?!