SFH

Yeah. I think I'm solidly on team "sports gambling should be illegal again."

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Current status.

Thank You Aimee. Like no thank you, actually.

Among other reasons, one of my chief frenemies in high school was named Amy 🙃

Hey! New faculty! Your annual reminder to keep track of *everything* you do in some way or another. I just dump stuff into a Google doc, nothing fancy, but saves a ton of time when working on promotion & tenure docs.

(Ask me what I'm working on right now...!) 🧪

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

post a random pic or everything will go wrong in August

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."

--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

Black text on white background reading: Salt air, and the rust on your door, I never needed anything more.

a small white dog rests in the lap of their human. he has a nonplussed expression as he gives a high five in which his entire paw is making contact with the tip of his human's pointer finger.

This is Pea. He gives high fives like this because he is small. 12/10 (IG: wandoo._.pea)

Oh cool, a new White Lady Invents an Expensive Blood Technology Thing That Sounds Too Good To Be True and Will Definitely Turn Out To Be a Scam just dropped

Swift Leadership: A Taylor-made Approach to Influence and Decision Making Swift Leadership: A Taylor-made Approach to Influence and Decision Making uses the case study of global popstar Taylor Swift to explore a range of leadersh

lol I'm writing a letter to one of our collections endowment donors and discovered that my boss bought this gem while I was neck deep in trying to get an article out: www.emerald.com/books/monogr....

Incredible. I love it, 10/10, no notes.

Sports are bad.

Sigh. #Tigers

Black text on white background reading: And I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home.

🐾🐾🤍.

I'm not sure! I remember being told or reading somewhere that resumes should be 1 page for early career folks, but I can't remember if that came from grad school or not. I also used a longer CV to apply for most of the acad lib jobs I went for coming out of grad school so 🤷‍♀️

An important thread: there are AI problems but crafted them as IP and fair use issues carries series risks

Google search for “all you can eat buffet near me” Al Overview To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your

The singularity is awesome

oh no

A black and white cockapoo (cocker spaniel/poodle mix) sleeps in a large, high-sided dog bed. His chin rests on the side of the bed and one of his ears is flopped across it. The feet of a large stuffed hippo toy are in resting on the side of the bed in the background.

A wild rabbit is stretched out under some bushes, exposes its white belly. One of its ears is up like a little antenna and the other is down in relaxation.

My sleepyhead boy and a bonus campus bunny

Bar chart showing what Americans do when they encounter paywalled news articles online. Among those who encounter such articles, 53% say they try to find the information somewhere else; 32% give up on accessing the information; 11% try to access the article without paying; and only 1% pay for access. The chart is based on a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults, conducted in March 2025.

NEW from @pewresearch.org: What Americans do when they encounter paywalls

Only 1% say they pay for access.

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

by = ✍️

buy = 💵

bye = 👋

Bye Bye Bye = 💁🏼‍♂️💁🏻‍♂️💁🏼‍♂️💁🏻‍♂️💁🏻‍♂️

And don’t start acting funny with the middle eastern/Arab community because of what is currently happening.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Yay my power’s flickering for the thousandth time in the last two months love it

this is all just a distraction from the colorado rockies sweeping a series

this is the politics equivalent of me watching Ohio State-Notre Dame in January of this year

not Aaron Rodgers, Pittsburgh has suffered enough

To be clear Aaron Rodgers on one of my teams is not something I like but more importantly the timing of the announcement is hilarious