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Mama, poetry nerd, mountain air breather, ed developer, Teaching Matters author.

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Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom (Volume 6) (Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed) Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom (Volume 6) (Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed) [Neuhaus, Jessamyn] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom (Volume 6) (Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed)

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19.03.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

More of this, please!

18.03.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

18.03.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2851    πŸ” 819    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 46
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Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.

"If science is to honour one of its core values β€” a commitment to the truth wherever it might lead β€” scientists must stand up when DEI matters"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

17.03.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
Instructions On Not Giving Up 
by Ada LimΓ³n

More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor's almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of spring rains, it's the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white and taffy, the world's baubles and trinkets, leave the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath, the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then, I'll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist, I'll take it all.


from The Carrying: Poems
Milkweed Editions, 2018.

Instructions On Not Giving Up by Ada LimΓ³n More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor's almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of spring rains, it's the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white and taffy, the world's baubles and trinkets, leave the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath, the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then, I'll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist, I'll take it all. from The Carrying: Poems Milkweed Editions, 2018.

Ada LimΓ³n

14.03.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

12.11.2024 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 172432    πŸ” 21321    πŸ’¬ 6562    πŸ“Œ 1369
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How the humanities got us through the pandemic (opinion) Michael J. Socolow asks if we have already forgotten how the humanities got us through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Opinion | When the Humanities Kept Us Sane

Michael J. Socolow asks if we have already forgotten how the humanities got us through the COVID-19 pandemic. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4bN7yzv

12.03.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Linda Pastan

What We Want

What we want 
is never simple.
We move among the things 
we thought we wanted: 
a face, a room, an open book 
and these things bear our names-
now they want us.
But what we want appears 
in dreams, wearing disguises.
We fall past, 
holding out our arms 
and in the morning 
our arms ache.
We don't remember the dream, 
but the dream remembers us. 
It is there all day 
as an animal is there 
under the table, 
as the stars 
are there even in full sun.

From Waiting For My Life
w.w.norton 1981.
#lindapastan
#poetryisnotaluxury

Linda Pastan What We Want What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names- now they want us. But what we want appears in dreams, wearing disguises. We fall past, holding out our arms and in the morning our arms ache. We don't remember the dream, but the dream remembers us. It is there all day as an animal is there under the table, as the stars are there even in full sun. From Waiting For My Life w.w.norton 1981. #lindapastan #poetryisnotaluxury

What We Want
#lindapastan
#poetryisnotaluxury

05.03.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A good word from the good Lorde.

01.03.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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NM Supreme Court stands by DEI β€’ Source New Mexico New Mexico Supreme Court releases open letter stating its ongoing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

sourcenm.com/briefs/nm-su... #landofenchantment ❀️

21.02.2025 05:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Danusha LamΓ©ris
SMALL KINDNESSES

I've been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say "bless you" 
when someone sneezes, a leftover 
from the Bubonic plague. "Don't die," we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons 
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you 
pick them up. Mostly, we don't want to harm each other. 
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile 
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress 
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. 
We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these 
fleeting temples we make together when we say, "Here, 
have my seat," "Go ahead you first," "I like your hat."


From Bonfire Opera 
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.

Danusha LamΓ©ris SMALL KINDNESSES I've been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say "bless you" when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. "Don't die," we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don't want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, "Here, have my seat," "Go ahead you first," "I like your hat." From Bonfire Opera University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.

Danusha LamΓ©ris
From Bonfire Opera, 2020.

11.02.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Clifton for every season.

09.02.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Researchers 'stunned' after HHMI abruptly cancels program to make science more inclusive The Howard Hughes Medical Institute abruptly ended a $60 million program to improve the retention of diverse college students

www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h...

07.02.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Just because they declare it does not make it so.

03.02.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 373    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

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