Julia Skinner, PhD

Just going to repeat my oft-said refrain: Your hopelessness helps no one, and saying it’s all over/we’re all doomed/etc just relieves us, individually and collectively, of the control we do have over our selves + future.

Really wish more people posting things on this app would remember this!

Hey babe wake up, a new lofi study music channel just dropped

Currently having a Brain Episode ™ and reserve the right to delete this post!!

But I find it very offensive when people on my feed are saying “how dare you not talk about this!!!”

The people who need to hear it are not following me!

The people who follow me need to hear this:

This sounds lovely! Thank you!

Oh lovely! I’ve already submitted the manuscript BUT if my editor asks for more recipes I might be in touch! ❤️🍋

Book deal announcement! My next book, The Little Book of Lemons, comes out in 2027 from Storey!

It’s full of history, recipes, folklore, home care, and a few lil’ lemon spells to bring the magic of lemons into your home. I can’t wait to share it with you!

One can but not as readily, and the only really American style subs I’ve found are mostly at Subway which is…not really representative of the art form

I’m back in the US for 6 weeks and cannot overemphasize how many cold submarine sandwiches I’m going to eat.

Hundreds. Thousands even.

I shall lay my weary bones down upon a bed of stacked meat, bread, cheese, and crunchy shredded lettuce and at last be soothed.

Book deal announcement! My next book, The Little Book of Lemons, comes out in 2027 from Storey!

It’s full of history, recipes, folklore, home care, and a few lil’ lemon spells to bring the magic of lemons into your home. I can’t wait to share it with you!

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Emailed a few agencies to add me to their freelance rosters.

One said ‘no way’ because I’m upfront about refusing to use AI.

TBH I dodged a bullet: So if you’re looking for writers who want to write your blog, your copy, or your ebooks/whitepapers without AI…let me know!

Just doodlin’ my little doodles

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

IT’S PEEPS DIORAMA TIME

(My best Peeps diorama was my Samuel Pepys Peeps, which I now want to redo but with these pop tart Peeps)

could a dying empire do THIS

Keep forgetting there’s a World Cup literally like a mile from my house this year

Cat in a Flat Cat sitter in Blackpool: Experienced cat sitter on the Northside (can also watch your sourdough starter!)

Cork city friends with cats, I’m now a cat sitter on this website and you can hire me to watch your cats (and water your plants, feed your sourdough starter, etc). I’ll be back in mid-April to take care of your creatures!

catinaflat.ie/pet-sitter/9...

It’s a fun rabbit hole! When I was working in libraries these were starting to be talked about but not as much as now. Imagining/adapting a system to our records, rather than the other way around, feels like such a valuable exercise when thinking about stories holistically

Yes, they have been (I’ve written about that in some of my books). Thanks!

*are two examples.

There are plenty out there that I’m probably missing, but the Māori classification system in Wellington library, or Glasgow Women’s Library’s feminist classification system

Explaining cataloging history + practice from the start takes more bandwidth than I have, but some resources are:

journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/11/01/d...

No…it means different classification systems for organizing those stories. Classification systems = things like LOC and Dewey Decimal. But folks are now thinking up other systems rooted in different organizing practices. It’s the system itself we’re looking at, not ingredients/location.

Thank you @savorpod.bsky.social friends! Also happy to answer questions if folks, say, go to the food bank and end up with a ton of carrots or something else that you aren’t sure how best to use!

Librarian friends (and adjacent archives, museums, etc folk):

I’m developing a Finding Your Food Story class that includes imagining decolonial classification systems for our own stories.

I’m looking to add to my list of examples: what are your favorites?

Y’all I just love Cork so much

A friend and I were talking about Alysa Liu’s figure skating win and she said “the joy she she displayed honestly reminded me a lot of you when you’re doing your work” and whew, there’s no better compliment out there.