Yes!!!!

Still masking. None of our other problems have gone away.

It's 2026. The pandemic continues on. SARS-CoV-2 remains a mass disabling event. The sooner people start always masking and adapting the better life will be for everyone. The science is there.

Thank you

Same here! I only have one working lung and tons of preexisting conditions.

All I want for Christmas is for people to acknowledge the pandemic continues and to adapt their behavior accordingly. This starts with wearing high-quality masks. Millions will be reinfected with this novel virus today.

And it’s an excellent book!

Weaving stories of the kids I’ve learned from with the latest scientific research, I explain everything from what gender identity is, to what gender-affirming medical treatments entail, to the research on bathroom bills, sports, conversion therapy, and more.

Don’t agree or disagree, just learn - The Cougar Social media forces us to think in polarities: we either “agree” (and maybe “like” or “love”) or “disagree” with what the algorithm sends our way. Carrying this kind of thinking […]

My latest! "More sophisticated forms of engagement than 'agree' and 'disagree' exist in the classroom. Ideally, we want to consider lots of different, different perspectives and think about how and why those ideas exist."
thedailycougar.com/2025/11/21/d...

Sometimes, like today, I am even more extremely and deeply frustrated and irritated at how ridiculous people en masse are being about how the world has changed since March 2020 and how they refuse to follow science and consider how easily they could protect others.

thank you!

I'll be in the hospital at least three days. Dr. Ian McCutcheon will be doing the surgery, who I've known for over a decade. Excited and ready to get surgery #7, brain surgery #2 all done!

Brain surgery to remove a large tumor on the pituitary will be January 5 at MDAnderson. They are also going to remove three painful neurofibromas while I'm under. Total surgery time will be about four and a half hours.

my latest!

It's a bit of a guesstimate. We know that nationally ≈60% of students take at least some classes online, ≈25-30% take all of classes online. There's a lot of online only colleges/programs. The comm colleges that I track have ≈70-80% online classes. At the uni. where I teach, around ≈40/45% online

A frustration I have with most articles, webinars, discussions, and other conversations about college teaching is that they totally ignore and erase that a majority of said instruction now occurs in online, not face-to-face, classes.

If you are a person who told everyone they were overreacting in 2016, and you have since realized you were wrong, I think you have a valuable role to play right now:

Talk to people who aren't convinced things are *that bad* about why you were wrong and what you wish you had done differently.

If ANYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET did to our White House what Donald Trump just did to our White House, Republicans would be losing their motherfucking minds.

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between? COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

Don't miss @salamonsmd.bsky.social , et al.'s new article

Covid-19 is Airborne AIDS.

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

My experience is that these self-appointed critics and would-be reformers of the higher ed system *never* take the opportunity to talk to people in the higher ed sector. They’re just not curious and don’t ask questions. They know the answers in advance. They’re the antithesis of real scholars.

A course catalog with various elements relating to diversity, equity and inclusion crossed out from several course listings.

Texas Systems Review Course Descriptions, Syllabi, as Critics Scrutinize Them

Syllabi and course information are becoming increasingly public and Texas institutions are scrambling to scrub them of controversial topics like gender identity. https://bit.ly/4q3VMaW

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

This is key to understanding the FedSoc Supreme Court: the facts do not matter. They will invent their own reality and substitute it for the reality we're actually living in.

I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material.

Administrators caving to this is terrifying.

In Texas - right now - 1 out of 19 are sick with the on-going novel virus that people en masse deny even existing.

We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”

Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.

Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/

Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.

#CripLit #CripArts

Important publication of mine is out!
I've been anxious to share this for many months. My essay--“A Model of Cripnormativity (Or, Is the Crip Body Accepted?)"--is in the latest issue of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature.
wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1...

thank you, Jennifer! Hope your Fall semester is a good one!

Terrible move.