Taylor Watterson

Tracy Deonn’s New York Times Bestseller, Legendborn, sitting on a wooden coffee table. A yellow mouse cat toy peeks in at the edge.

Starting the year with a re-read (so I can jump into the 2nd book for the first time).

3 of 3: we must dwell on the past-- the stories, the counter-stories, the tragic stories, the joyful stories -- to provide our children with a less wicked world than we have today.

Today, I'm holding space for a lot of things. But tomorrow, we must continue to act.

What "Wicked" might mean for my daughter's Black skin by Asif Wilson - VISIBLE Magazine As the temperatures dipped below freezing in Chicago, my family and I braved the cold to see “Wicked,” the Broadway musical-turned-movie that follows Elphaba and Glinda through their time at Oz’s Shiz...

2 of 3: contrasted with

... the most beautiful and touching glimpse at what can be; Asif Wilson's heartfelt love letter to his future daughter after watching Wicked.

Wilson writes, "But trust, you are the leader we’ve been waiting for!"

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1 of 3: The themes from Wicked have had me thinking a lot today.

... yet another school shooting, 2 days after the 12th anniversary of the Sandy Hook tragedy. This time, in my home of 6 years, Madison, WI. The repercussions of how we [fail to] dwell on and respond to "historic" events.

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater as a kid

This photo captures a hard-at-work employee reminding you that, "What is familiar is not always safe."

Make sure YOU have the best prescription for success by talking about OTC safety with a pharmacist or credible resource like medlineplus.gov/ency/patient...

The holidays are tough... especially in community pharmacies [healthcare + retail = 😨].

I still love this 2023 NIOSH Science Blog: Help for the Holidays: Preventing Fatigue, Violence, and Stress in Retail

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Same! 😂❤️

Photo of a PPT slide. On the left of the slide is a red square box with the words “We ❤️ TMFS”

AMAZING first slide from Callie Walsh-Bailey at #DIScience24 ! #academyhealth should start selling “We ❤️ TMFs” and “I ❤️ TMFs” merch!

a cartoon dog says squirrel to a man Alt: a cartoon dog says squirrel to a man

When thinking about the pace of #DIScience24 , how do we deal with distractions of new frameworks and models and desire to quickly build new catapults and bridges?
- @jhfordii.bsky.social

Such a good question! It’s tempting to follow the newest “perfect” framework and restart all over again.

So fantastic to connect with you at the conference! Next time we’ll have to watch out for unregulated peppers! 🌶️ 😂

We were sitting next to each other! 😂 I agree 100%! This was an AMAZING session! (And Bluesky is the way to go 😉).

I learned so much from listening to their heartfelt stories and ability to look back on “catastrophes” with humor! ❤️

Great question, “how do we demonstrate validity when publishing the results after we get things back on the rails?” The answer may be a Protocol 2.0! #DIScience24

UW Madison School of Pharmacy faculty, staff, & graduate students have approximately 10 presentations and posters at the Academy Health #DIScience24 Conference! Look for our sessions on complex implementation strategies, OTC meds for older adults, a nationally recognized COPD EBP and FRAM modeling.

Screenshot of a PPT slide. “Oh $@/* My Study is Totally &%#’ What the &$:@ Do I Do Now?

#DIScience24 #academyhealth one of the best sessions I could attend as a junior faculty member doing implementation science. IS requires flexibility, open communication, and DOCUMENTATION!

Attending in a brilliant workshop on User-Centered Systems Design today! #DIScience24 officially kicks off tomorrow! Woohoo! 🎉

Let's talk numbers: To date, since Oct 25th, we have found 395,000 Bluesky posts that link to a research paper or other research object that has a scholarly identifier like a DOI, PubMed ID, URN etc

This is enormously high for a platform that has only been open since Feb to general sign-ups.

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Screenshot of Spotify Personalized Playlist. "Journaling Scream Afternoon. You listened to movie tunes and animated films and television in the afternoon. Here's some: scream, journaling, crying, people pleaser, relatable and sad"

Okay, Spotify... "scream, journaling, crying" seems a little too specific. 😂 No need to call me out like that.

Screenshot from Nov 2024 StoryGraph summary. Top books include Harrow the Ninth and Nona Ninth. Read 13 books, 3,605 pages, with an average rating of 4.23. 92% were fiction, 92% were print.

Loving my @thestorygraph.com November monthly wrap up! 🥸📚

But was it, “white. wine?”

Sounds like something Euro Jym would say…

Health Tech! We’re always talking about how to optimize machine learning in health care. 🤔
So great to hear @jonbois.bsky.social ‘s perspective! 😂

Health Tech!

I CANNOT WAIT for this reading wrap-up (and for my TBR list to grow)! 🥹

a woman is sitting at a desk in front of a computer with a toy motorcycle on the desk Alt: GIF of Brooklyn Nine Nine where Rosa slaps her desktop monitor. Woman with brown hair in leather jacket, sitting at a desk and slapping the side of her computer monitor.

How Monday is Your Monday? Our Microsoft 365 is down. 🙃

Better watch the Jenna Marbles instruction video… very informative. 😂

Words cannot describe how incredible Wicked is. Run, sprint, FLY to see this! I cried no less than 5 times at this incredibly poignant and timely film!
Donna’s Review: “Amazing!”

Dragonfruit a book by Makiia Lucier From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythology. In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the po...

Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier!

"In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. But as with all things that offer hope when hope had gone, the tale came with a warning."

Get Real: Today’s Higher Ed DEI = Dismantling Ethnic Identity DEI initiatives and policies have done little to alleviate the contention that surrounds Black women’s academic journeys.

I read this brilliant article by Dr. Pamela Hoff. And then I read it again. And then I read it a third time.

#AcademicSky, we MUST do better to challenge racial capitalism embedded in higher education.

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