Sarah Gunning, Ph.D.

Last year, I found out students weren't looking at feedback even after we literally had an assignment about faculty feedback. They look for a grade, try to figure out why they got that grade (on their own, no digging, no tutoring center, etc), and never adjust behaviors

The metacognition is broken

STATEHOOD FOR D.C.

Cyndi Lauper in an iconic coral lip, gold and orange eyeshadow, leopard hair wrap, gold doorknocker earrrings

Janet Jackson with a perfect 80s bang & blowout and pink sweater

I want 80s makeup + big hair to come back. Can be one or the other; I am fine w that. But soon.

How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.

President Trump’s immediate family is making a dizzying sum of money that would be unimaginable without his Presidencies, including profits from overseas deals and at least five different crypto ventures. How much does it all amount to?

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 1, Episode 2

The cover of the August 18, 2025, issue of The New Yorker, “Summer Rays,” by Lorenzo Mattotti.

Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker: nyer.cm/Tmzu08x

ah! my student was just talking about this book!

"This will go further."

2 main things to do this week: Finish up the syllabus for 670 Teaching Technical Writing and complete last edits for a journal article on grant professionals. And a few student meetings today & Tuesday.

Great news!

I'm kidding, there is absolutely none.

muggiest of your life....so farrrr

There is just no precedent in recent world history of an advanced industrialized country sabotaging its own scientific establishment, and destroying the base of scientific knowledge necessary for basic policymaking. An avowedly, actively anti-knowledge regime.

What’s your favorite food fact that is true but sounds totally made up?

I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.

everyone assumes that doing a phd makes you know lots of things but really what it does is make you terribly aware of how many things you just don’t know and will probably never have enough time to learn

Fukuoji Kazuhiko (Japan) :
Starlit Street at Night, c.1990s

Thierry Lefort :
The Salamander, 2022

Oil on canvas
240 x 160 cm | 95 x 63 in

As @hypervisible.bsky.social points out, “these companies never start with consent”

bsky.app/profile/hype...

classic. Myrna Loy is iconic 🍸

Reading about Albania in 1990s rn & thinking the same

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

so why go to college at all?

What a day for maintaining hope, yikes

to what extent does the administration intend to use this money to fund things that congress won't, and also, treating states like conquered territories to be dominated is one of those things that really makes you think the goal of these people is to dissolve the union

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.

If the federal government can simply seize privately held patents then that is the end of the U.S. patent system, the legal basis for American innovation.

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

I hate the movement to shift responsibility for health onto the individual, knowing full well that A. health is social, and B. our society is structured so that most individuals are not privy to the resources they would need for full health.

letting Ai write your 'boring emails' for you...Please. I am asking for some high stakes stuff here in this email: I am not about to put it into the hands of a generic, ethos-less voice.

And yes, I know I am mixing metaphors...That is a trait of ME and MY WRITING

I am done now ☀️ goodnass