Carrie Muir

What's your favorite combination?

1. books & bedtime
2. tea & the cold sea
3. moss & magic
4. gin & gin & tonic

Are we still having the ICM in Philly next year?

"Seriously, get therapy" and "Buy Apple stock" both work.

Available for pre-order wherever books are sold!
Kensington/Penguin: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781356...
Thank you for pre-orders & signal-boosts, it's a difficult time to promote right now but your support is *dearly* appreciated!

Frog and Toad hide the cookies in a box. From "Cookies" In *Frog and Toad Together*

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

Looking forward to reading new posts from @deandad.bsky.social, and to having him back in the community college world.

Sharing an article in Nature: “Sleeping’ cancer cells in the lungs can be roused by COVlD and flu — Inflammation from the respiratory infections seems to be the culprit, study in mice finds, by Max Kozlov”  Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02420-1   Visual: X-ray of lungs. The caption says: People infected with the virus that causes COVlD-19 (lungs of a person with the disease shown) have a nearly twofold increased risk of cancer-related death, data show. Credit: Rajaaisya/Science Photo Library   A quote from the article: James DeGregori, University of Colorado School of Medicine says that “Respiratory-virus infections didn’t just awaken the cells, they also caused them to proliferate, or multiply, to enormous numbers.”

Studies in mice showed that COVID or the flu can trigger both local & systemic inflammation, causing the awakening of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, leading to a significant expansion and the formation of metastatic lesions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#MaskTogetherAmerica

So ... we did it again! The July 2025 issue of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics is now ready for your enjoyment! At 415 pages, we hope that there is something in it that will appeal to everyone. Please check it out! #mathart #poetry #openaccess #mathishuman

scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Derek Stevens Audition - SNL

Spouse is in the kitchen chopping veggies. There may come a day when that doesn't cause my brain to play "Choppin' Broccoli", but today is not that day. (The veggies do not include broccoli, which matters not at all to my mental DJ.)

Sketch, for those unfamiliar.

We have just published the 2025 edition of the Team-Based Inquiry Learning (TBIL) Resource Library. This includes activity books and exercise banks for Precalculus (new!), Calculus (1 & 2), and Linear Algebra.

tbil.org/library/

Release MathJax v4.0.0 · mathjax/MathJax This is the long-awaited 4.0.0 release of MathJax, which has been several years in the making. Among the many new features in this release are: Extended font support (11 new fonts) A new default ...

MathJax 4.0 is finally out with
* 11 new fonts,
* line-breaking in-line and display equations,
* accessibility support by default,
* much improved performance using webworkers,
* and support for several new LaTeX packages.

Check out details at github.com/mathjax/Math...
#MathJax #LaTeX #a11y #Math

Will New AI Academy Help Teachers or Just Improve Tech’s Bottom Line? AFT says its AI training initiative will modernize teaching, while critics say it’s ‘a gigantic public experiment that no one has asked for.’

On a personal note, that I'm now to left of the head of a major teachers' union regarding the role of AI in education is, uh, strange.

www.the74million.org/article/will...

HEPA indoors, N95+ outdoors, oddly exactly what would help prevent Covid, and flu, and measles, and a hundred other airborne infectants and pollutants.

It’s so simple; why aren’t we doing it everywhere?

Five years ago, Congress overwhelmingly passed, and President Trump signed into law, the Great American Outdoors Act which was the most significant land conservation and outdoor recreation bill in half a century. (1/4)

Tech literacy is plummeting and it's not an accident. Big Tech thrives in low-information environments.

Congratulations!!!

red canada apples, painted by elsie e. lower, 1908

red canada apples, painted by elsie e. lower, 1908

a blond golden retriever just outside a bus. the pic is from the driver’s perspective. his front paws are on the first step. he looks like he just asked the driver a question.

This is Reggie. He’s wondering if this bus has any stops near the pet store. He’s been saving for a new toy. 14/10 all aboard buddy (IG: calebka88)

Toad sits in a chair, cramming cookies into his mouth. From "Cookies" In *Frog and Toad Together*

“We must stop eating!” cried Toad as he ate another.

Those are amazing.

A red rectangle with a white logo at the top that reads Art to Change the World. Underneath is a 2" x 3" black chalkboard sticker. I've written "reusable name tags" on it in green chalk marker.

The back, showing a small magnet fastener. You can use it to fasten the name tag to your clothing without a pin!

In my ongoing quest to get an A+ in Daughter, I designed branded reusable name tags for my mother's nonprofit. You can write on them in chalk marker and wipe them clean, and they have magnet attachments on the back.

Do not pay the danegeld

Ghost Days ebook — ASHER ELBEIN A short story collection about a wandering witch in 1900s Appalachia

Kirkus called GHOST DAYS a "finely constructed linked story collection," that's "crisp and highly sensory, building tension within each fable with the skill of a veteran storyteller" and "marvelous full-page illustrations" from @tiffanyturrill.bsky.social.

E-book versions now available on the site!

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

#BloomScrolling

YouTube video by AfroMarxist Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin

Yesterday (08.02.2025) would nave been James Baldwin's 101st birthday; here he is in conversation with Maya Angelou.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6sF...

Not sure if I want all the apples or to never eat apples again, though…😆

I use "Detach Quote" liberally, when someone is trying to dogpile, also when someone is using something I said to use it as part of an argument or assertion I don't want to be associated with, also when, I don't know, they're reporting in from Neptune and I don't know wtf they're trying to say

Decided to make yesterday just a rest day, and happened to get my library waitlist copy of "Black River Orchard", by @chuckwendig.bsky.social. Binged the whole thing in one go—great read. #Horror #BookRec

Not to pile on, but every 'c' in 'Pacific Ocean' is pronounced differently.