Matt Nazario-Miller, M.Ed. 💫

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After driving university-wide comms and content strategy for the last 3 years of my 10-year career, I’m now job hunting in a tough market. We all are. And staff in higher ed need community right now.

So I recently launched the Higher Ed Staff Hope Collective ✨ mattnazario.com/2025/08/23/a...

I haven’t talked about getting laid off on here yet - it’s been such a whirlwind since I got the notice on July 30 that my last day working at Stanford University would be on Oct. 1, 2025.

I now have less than a month to find a job. But I’m not alone - I’m one of 363 staff who got laid off.

I now own a neck fan. Life goals

cowboy carter: success 🤠

YouTube video by Dead by Daylight Go behind the scenes and check out how actress Angelica Ross brought Orela Rose to life.

She’s here to help.

Go behind the scenes and check out how actress Angelica Ross brought Orela Rose to life.

mentally I’ve aged 5 years every month of 2025 so far

Trump Is Taking On America’s Institutions but Resistance Is Building Courts and universities are trying to preserve guardrails on presidential authority in the face of the administration’s unprecedented assertions of power.

President Trump has tested his authority with such force that some institutions—universities, law firms and many lawmakers—have started to fight back

when the tax return finally hits 👌🏼

Can the IRS revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status? For years, President Donald Trump has complained that colleges and universities are “indoctrinating” their students with “radical left” ideas and has said they should lose their tax-exempt status.

President Trump targeted Harvard in a post on his social media site, questioning whether it should remain tax-exempt.

Can the IRS revoke the university's tax-exempt status?

A colossal squid is caught on camera for the first time in the deep sea A colossal squid has been captured on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers steering a remotely operated submersible.

A colossal squid has been captured on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers steering a remotely operated submersible.

The way How Bad Do U Want Me sounds like 1989 😍

opening email and slack after a week vacation 🫣

we thought the future would be bright, but here we are, over 30 and can’t even have eggs with our avocado toast anymore

the millennial experience is growing up being told the country will get better and it just deteriorates with each passing day instead

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

Trump administration gives schools deadline to cut DEI or lose federal funds Education department gives ultimatum to stop using ‘racial preferences’ as factors in admissions or risk losing money

we’re about to see which universities are run by cowards and which are run by leaders committed to their values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

idk I’d rather discuss why planes keep falling apart

coming back from Spain is so sad 😩 take me back

I find it hard to believe they couldn’t find better than hormona lisa, joella, etc. with all the people auditioning annually esp drag kings being turned away??

I went from screaming into the void on twitter to doing the same on bsky

I miss when drag race didn’t waste spots on so many contestants who aren’t ready

on the flip side, it’s also been interesting to notice who I’m pulled to reach out to and who I’ve been okay with letting go.

people aren’t built to sustain hundreds of friendships, anyway. it’s just refreshing to know who the real ones are and who just wanted to keep tabs on me.

after deleting all meta accounts and twitter it’s been interesting to see who stays in touch and who doesn’t.

spoiler: most people haven’t.

what if we just stopped listening to people unqualified to run a country?

what would it be like if people go on strike until things change? if we stopped paying taxes?

how bad do things have to get in the US before everyone revolts? what is the threshold?

I love this song

Gulf of Mexico 🇲🇽