warm weather while teaching middle school giveth (kids see your tattoos and think you’re cool) and taketh away (they are smelly)

paige, just before retreating into our bedroom: water is everything

i actually moved away from seattle so id be safe when the big one came (megan rapinoe and sue bird breakup)

I don’t even have words for this.

*grumpily* "We were all eagerly awaiting the chorus"

the entire grade btw

recently discovered that after i visited the 3rd graders at a school and taught them about frogs they were making frog calls for a week both at school and at home. unsure whether this is my b or my victory

met my coworker’s baby today & asked what kind of high contrast shapes hes been into lately but i guess it was the wrong question bc he didnt even reply 🤦🏻 i gotta brush up on my baby manners dude

if u see me taking pics of everything im doing it’s NOT for social media it is for paige media. using this method we just went to sfmoma together even tho shes in japan.

passed on to colleagues at my museum!

For the record, this is my comment to the journalist on Colossal’s dire wolf.

messaging my coworkers that one of them must take my place holding bugs for kindergarteners tomorrow because i have a hole in my thumb. this is what you can achieve when you grind

brought a snake (named ferdinand) to a 3rd grade class

51 children dead. Each one a universe.

heads up guys when youre talking about paper goods it’s stationery with an e, not stationary with an a

this was the third and last time i visited these classes and each one asked if & when theyd see me again and as i said goodbye to my last class (third grade) one of the kids said ur the best teacher EVER!! and wrote BEST on his little whiteboard and held it above his head

> yeah im really passionate about science education and science’s role in society but idk if i actually want to be an educator u know
> spends a morning teaching 3 classes of elementary schoolers about nature and is happy for the rest of the day

Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation.

Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

huge delight every time. best phrasing has been “it wouldnt know what to think!”

im 3 for 3 on asking classes what would happen to a frog if its brain froze and them responding with some variation of “it wouldnt know anything!”

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

It's not an exaggeration to say this will result in genocidal-scale death. And I don't mean in the distant, speculative future. Just the tens of thousands of pollution deaths in the relative near-term (Free link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

the people who spread the “female brains are bad at math and spatial reasoning” lies should be tried at the Hague

mr brammer im excited to inform u my fiancee who loves ur work very much was the first to coin this phrase

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

to me, lesbian-feminism is unremarkable — just a glimpse into how lesbian and feminist my mind has become

with a canvas on it that says EASEL

mini easel

At 26th and Nicolett in Minneapolis this morning—

Feds have just shot another person in the streets. Furious community members are gathering. State police and conservation cops here in front of ~50 federal agents.