Jessica Tripler

I am so very sorry to hear this. What a wonderful person. Glad she is surrounded by love. Grateful to have "known" her online for many years. Sending vibes of comfort, care, and peace to all for the remaining days.

I stuck it out and it did get better but it’s probably my least favorite AH!

#Romancelandia, can we keep this GFM going? Robin is out of hospital, but the medical expenses and bills due have not stopped. Please chip in what you can, and share regardless; every $5 adds up.

(remember: tip GFM $0, they charge fees to recipients)

It’s so not worth the risk! Plus more time for reading.

the FMC is dealing with a lot, working on a lot, and the MCC knows this. She gives her trust to him in very deep ways, making her extremely vulnerable. And he stomps all over it for not very good reasons.

I've read and enjoyed everything Ali Hazelwood has written, more or less, but I may have to DNF her latest, Deep End. I don't see how the MMC can redeem himself. #romancelandia #romancereaders

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

Photo of a light skinned Black woman wearing a shirt that says “Dope Black Writer” holding up a print copy of the book Black Love Matters

It’s my bookaversary! Happy three years to BLACK LOVE MATTERS, the book of my heart! I didn’t let the pandemic, cancer, or corralling 13 authors in ten states and two countries hold me down, and we got something magical in return!

What are you reading this first day of Black History Month?

He’s so great! I discovered him through Lana.

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

Im so sorry. Crossing my fingers for you.

It's been rough on campus. So many of my colleagues have had grant applications pulled, had to cancel fed funded funded conferences, and on and on. Just so scary and disheartening.

Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.

Agreed. All my subs are banning links to X and many are adding Meta links, too.

My one bit of hashtag-resist advice is to start a blog. I'm 100 percent serious. A blog, a newsletter, a tumblr - whatever. The blogging craze erupted largely in response to the Bush era & it's time for the people to reclaim their own platforms. Whatever you use social media for, put it on your blog

Julie Ann Long's My Season of Scandal is absolutely fantastic. How is it possible this woman is not a NYT bestseller? She is one of the best in historical romance and has been for many years!

A blue book cover with the title Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians printed in white with the word HARM repeated printed in black and red strike through

@cethompson.bsky.social and I are so excited to share the cover for our book Do Less Harm out soon with @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Disgusted Barbie meme

I might agree with you if it were an ethical theory course, lol. I find a lot has changed in the classroom since you were an undergrad. A whole new world.

Trying to create my bioethics syllabus, a course I haven't taught for years, and I am struggling mightily. I think I'll quit and read some more of My Season of Scandal by Julie Ann Long.

Truly horrifying.

Please take care if you choose to read this. It is excellent. I feel sick.

Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies Visit the post for more.

Since GenAI in classes came up, here is a very interesting document on GenAI Refusal in Writing Studies: refusinggenai.wordpress.com

Yep, it's in-class written exams for me this spring (with appropriate accommodations for students who need them of course).

2 big beautiful copies of A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE UNITED STATES: FRKM MARGINS TO MAINSTREAM

Friends, look look look! I got to see this live and in person for the first time ever at MLA yesterday. A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US—now at the @sunypress.bsky.social booth (and on the website here of course: sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...)

Yep. Absolutely love the plot of this one too.

That’s great!

Photo of book cover for There's Something About Mira by Sonali Dev

This showed up as a freebie with Amazon Prime, a "First Read", yay! II guess I get two free books a month? Is this new? Sonali Dev's There's Something About Mira. Coming out Feb 1.

Photo of book cover, What A Fool Believes by Michael McDonald

For my fellow oldsters and young Yacht Rock fans: listened to Michael McDonald's memoir, What a Fool Believes, driving down to NYC and back -- it was great!

Make A Scene by Mimi Grace cover

Forgot to mention which book I picked up at The Ripped Bodice. Make A Scene by Mimi Grace, a fake relationship for a wedding date romance.