@jon276.bsky.social
Author of “Requiem for a College.” Husband, dog dad, English and rhetoric professor, writer, advocate. University of Berwyn.
An important take as it examines the effects of cuts on the student experience, ostensibly why our whole industry exists. But as I explain in “Requiem for a College,” the “era of austerity” was impending long before anything started rolling out of the White House.
12.08.2025 12:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#art
11.08.2025 12:06 — 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0If you’d rather not shop Amazon, the book is also available at Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million.
#academicsky
AI. Executive orders. Enrollment cliff. High student debt. All of these are bearing down on #highered. How financially secure is your college? Reading what happened to me and others may help you find out.
#academicsky
“The week of eating badly” has ended. Time to try to get myself back together.
11.08.2025 11:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The 3 Stooges are credited with giving Lucille Ball her big break. Decades later, Lucille Ball rescued the show Star Trek We owe the 3 Stooges for the existence of Star Trek.
This is actually fairly accurate.
#NyukNyuk #BoldyGo
My dad told me a story about having a drink with Mr Lovell at some local dive bar when this sequence was being filmed for The Man who Fell to Earth back in the 1970's.
My dad said Mr. Lovell had a lot to say about space and what he saw there...
I'll leave it at that.
Rest in peace, spaceman.
There’s such spirit in this series.
“I want to do a Superman series.”
“Yeah, we got like ten bucks.”
…
“Let’s do it anyway.”
#metvsuperman
Ah yes. Yet another “it’s just like Earth” episode.
Oh well. I’m Trek or die.
#metvstartrek
I had a professor in undergrad who told us he’d “drink Julie Newmar’s dirty bath water.”
You see, the 90s were a different time…
#MeTVBatman
a very long grilled cheese sandwitch on a griddle
therapist: long grilled cheese isn't real, it can't hurt you
long grilled cheese:
Oh no! Maybe with one of those cheap antennas you put on your window. I think they’re available at Wal-Mart.
10.08.2025 02:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0💕 right back atcha!
It’s MeTV night if you feel like a blast from the past. 🙂
As werewolves go, he’s one of the more sharply dressed. I’d steal his lewk.
#svengoolie
You have every right to rant. As the spouse and caregiver of a chronically ill and disabled person, everything you said is the truth. Most people just don’t realize it.
10.08.2025 00:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Our lesson for the night?
Botany kills.
#svengoolie
Clear the air lanes! #Svengoolie
10.08.2025 00:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm not a big fan of crowds. And by "crowds" I mean one additional person or more
08.08.2025 18:45 — 👍 105 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1If you’d rather not shop Amazon, the book is also available at Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million.
#academicsky
It’s #selfpromotionSaturday and I’m proud to present my hybrid memoir, “Requiem for a College.” In 2017, my small college closed. I went on a research quest to find out why, and found how the collapse connects to current trends in higher ed.
#academicsky
Authors write the book, and authors or publishers release the book, but it's readers who weild the power behind the book. If you love something you've read, tell everyone, give it as gifts, sing its praises high and low. This and only this is the real magic in publishing.
09.08.2025 04:13 — 👍 186 🔁 49 💬 3 📌 3we can't upgrade the computer that runs the UV-Vis because the instrument software license server no longer exists. Anyways, sometimes it do be like that #ChemSky 🧪
04.08.2025 21:18 — 👍 168 🔁 23 💬 11 📌 3Straight outta @greatdismal.bsky.social’s canon
04.08.2025 20:29 — 👍 118 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0
Haley Cohen Gilliland's A Flower Traveled in My Blood tells the story of a group of grandmothers who spent decades searching for their stolen grandchildren during and after Argentina's "Dirty War."
08.08.2025 14:24 — 👍 173 🔁 36 💬 6 📌 3GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.
07.08.2025 20:22 — 👍 809 🔁 172 💬 26 📌 20"Say three positive things about your writing!"
1. “You always meet deadline.”
2. “You never do anything normal.”
3. “You spelled ‘Saskatoon’ correctly and actually seem to know where it is.”
If you’d rather not shop Amazon, the book is also available at Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million.
#academicsky
