Prince passed away 10 years ago today.

RIP, your music lives on.

Collabra: Psychology is published by UC Press, a non-profit publisher. It's #openaccess and is the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Worth supporting!
(read: resign from the profiteering corporate publisher you're editing for and apply to join Collabra!)

On the Hidden and the Important My good buddy Jim Lang always says that April is the cruelest month in higher ed, and each April that rolls around does nothing to prove him wrong. Hope you're doing ok out there, newsletter friends,...

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A black and white dog with black eyespots sits on a wooden kitchen floor and looks up appealingly at the person standing next to her (the photographer). The dog appears to have a little smile and the expression "I'm super cute, how about giving me some of those treats you're cutting up?"

POV: someone is cutting up treats for the dogsitter and you would like to remind them that you are a very very good girl

Happy 80th birthday, Tim Curry.

Blurry picture (real) of a horse floating through the air

on my way to get a second ice coffee

Beautiful hotel landscape in Tucson AZ

Speaker and panel on a brightly lit stage

The @aacu.org CLASS conference launched with a panel on leading in higher education through love.

Friends are everything. Full stop.

Who else is still feeling the joy this morning? 🙋‍♀️🚀🧑‍🚀 THIS is what science can do!!

Keetail needle fish
Remind me of sardines

In his first 100 days, Zohran Mamdani has:

-Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies
-Cracked down on predatory landlords
-Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program
-Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets

This is what leadership looks like.

wowza!

“Intimacy is both one of the most longed for and repulsing facets of human experience.” - @jasminegunkel.bsky.social

I wrote a piece for Psyche Magazine about how intimacy makes us vulnerable, why we should seek it despite its risks, and how thinking more carefully about the nature of intimacy can enrich our understanding of our own experiences and help us to be better to each other.

who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep

remember those other branches of government

oooh I'd love to take credit for brilliance, but I think this is someone else!

i think we should be clear that just because the astronauts did not immediately declare the moon haunted, does not mean it is not haunted

it may mean that the astronauts are now themselves haunted

have we prepared for this eventuality and if so how

I can't tell you how many times I've chortled reading this book. Or done an air-high-five to an invisible Jessamyn.

Christina Koch’s facial profile backlit by Earth in the background, through the spacecraft window

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

No, no they do not

A full moon riding behind the ocean and land. Faint

The full moon, a little compressed looking, over the ocean, fully orange

The full moon just yellow

Great day for Moon fans.

If I were on a mission whose computer system required me to deal with Microsoft Outlook in space, I’d give up and go back to the slide rule

Snafu Edu - University of Oklahoma Press No matter how skilled, thoughtful, and well prepared professors are—or how motivated and engaged their students might be—things sometimes go wrong. In th...

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“'I can’t read the room like I can when I’m teaching in the classroom,' complained the professoriate, a group that in my personal experience is frequently unable to read the room in any type of gathering."

- @geekypedagogy.bsky.social, cracking me up. (Re: Zoom webcam wars of pandemic teaching)

Thoughts of Spring Sending a newsletter in the evening on the last day of the month counts as making the deadline, right? Life has been busy on fronts both personal and professional – all the usual Simmons University p...

Squeaking in March newsletter in the last four hours of the month.

Just a few teaching and learning links and thoughts, and then Blair Braverman just breaking my whole heart.

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vertical image of a still retention basin and sunlit sky. the sky is split starkly down the middle, clear on the left, gray clouds on the right, sun at the center. the cloud line is reflected perfectly on the basin surface below the horizon. photo by Lindsay Schiel NEORSD

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock.

straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

Close-up of marine life showing a starfish in motion

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Grey pebble with imprint of seashell. Held in a hand. Background is pebble beach.

Tiny fossil seashell imprint on a Brighton beach pebble.