What's it like to do your PhD, go start family planning & dissertate while caring for a newborn? And what's it like to parent in this fascist hellscape? Dr. Jenna Nassiri and I dive into these queries - it's a great convo! @academicaunties.com! www.academicaunties.com/episodes/aca... #academicmama
It's #BacktoSchool ✏️ day for my kids! And, boy, does this #AcademicMama feel FREEDOM 🔔 in the house--the week between their going back & my semester starting is super productive.
Between 3 birthdays 🎂🥳, getting ready for school, & [🌎 🚨 issues], I've had a hard time writing. Today I'M BACK, BABY! ✍️
Finally, huge thanks to my partner and my little boys for being my companions and most excited supporters on the journey ❤️
#familyexpedition
#australia25
#academicmama
I've been using #academicmama as that Facebook group has such a large membership.
Image from a math workbook and handwritten long division in pencil.
Tonight’s 4th grade math homework prompted my daughter to challenge the premise because, “There are 3 genders, Mamá: girls, boys, and non binary.”
#genalpha makes me hopeful!
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#academicmama #gender #diversity #inclusion
Applications are open for our Caregiver Travel Grant 2025! Apply now for a chance to receive flexible funding to cover caregiving expenses while attending an in-person scientific conference! Apply: www.mothersinscience.com/caregiver-tr... 📅 Deadline: March 31, 2025 #WomenInSTEM #STEMM #AcademicMama
I was basically off my computer for 2 wks. Did get a bit twitchy because I genuinely LOVE the work I'm writing now, but I soaked in time with my kids, Xmas movies, 5 audiobooks, & made a decent dent in magazine pile. Now enjoying writing w kids back in school before my semester starts #academicmama
Visited the “Computer Museum of America.” My kids’ highlight? Using an electric typewriter. Mine? Explaining to them why we endured this soundtrack each time we wanted to go online. The things we now take for granted!
#dialup #internet #modem #sound #academicmama #genx #ptsd
Photo of the back of a cardboard box of cereal that reads “Together we’re saving pandas” with a panda photo and other statistics printed.
Son, “How does me eating this cereal help save a panda?”
Anyone have a 9-year-old friendly explanation of the non-profit industrial complex I can pass along?
#nonprofitindustrialcomplex #charity #academicmama
I miss the snuggles & sweet baby smells, but having big kids is fun.🤩 15yo & I have been bingeing The West Wing (21 episodes since Sat). He made 🥑 toast & fried eggs for all yesterday & started my Xmas present last night…cinnamon rolls for tomorrow…ofc I was 🛌 bc he bakes at midnight! #academicmama
Picture of two dogs, one white and one brown/tan, and a man with his young son sitting on his lap all relaxing on the couch with a decorated, lit Christmas tree behind them and the mantle has their Christmas stockings hanging up.
Happy #Christmas Eve Eve!
#AcademicMama #DogSky
Having a hard time focusing at home w kids on break.
15yo is teaching 8yo how to play Super Smash Bros and they are so stinkin' cute.
#AcademicMama
Hey fellow part-time academics! What are your tips on managing workloads and expectations on your time? Hoping to get better at this in 2025. Do you set out of office replies on non work days? Do you just say no a lot? or are you some kind of timelord? #academicmama #academicchatter
Not on the cards for today: food poisoning from a kid daycare holiday party. Pretty sure it was the fruit tray. Students got their grades with 50 minutes to spare! And in between nausea I’m finalizing a proposal for a conference. Y’all, never again 😫#AcademicSky #AcademicMama
Picture of part of a worksheet. Question: any special edict: something happened and you can no longer do your career job choice #1. What will be your second choice? Answer in handwriting: Batman. Question: how much does it pay? Answer in handwriting: It pays in justice.
Being an #academicmama is extra hard at the end of the semester when my own work is bonkers busy, the HS kid has serious finals, & the middle & elem kids have performances & events…oh and it’s 🎄!
Here’s a sample of the sarcastic delight that is my high schooler, hopefully will make you giggle.
1. Cleaning the house.
2. Checking kids' closets for clothes they've outgrown.
3. Laundry.
4. Cookies, because we deserve them.
5. Seriously that paper that's been languishing for months NEEDS to be finished TODAY.
#academicmama
That sounds fun! Although that gif shows me every Monday morning (or maybe every morning?) as an #academicmama with two littles 😂
A fantastic week at #F24MRS is coming to an end. Lots of great science and the opportunity to catch up with old friends and new 💙 Big shout out to the @roysocchem.bsky.social grant for carers who made it possible for me to be here with my 2yo in tow 💪 #TravellingScientist #AcademicMama
Me this semester. Usually my body waits until classes are over to get sick, but not this time! How is one supposed to be sick while also being a parent and a professor!? And the emails just keep coming!? #academicsky #academicmama
This touches so many #academicmama moments & resonates with my experience (baby 1 in PhD year 3; baby 2 during postdoc (transitioned to TT from leave).
A “flexible supervisor” is necessary, but we need some best practices. What is “flexible? Missed opportunities on leave cannot be recovered.
Superstar #AcademicMama!
Two men cutting sugarcane
Excited to be here! Follow me for posts “stellar” #globalhealth, #anthrosky, and #academicmama content!
Hoped to snerdle this morning, but my children had other plans ...at 5:40am 🥴
Maybe tomorrow?
Who am I kidding, probably not 😅
#AcademicMama
Reposting as a brief hello and intro about moi to my new skeeters! 🫶🏼
#AcademicSky #PhDlife #AcademicMama
Great to see so much new engagement here! Re-introducing myself for new folks. I'm a cognitive-developmental psychologist tenured at a SLAC (Lafayette College in Easton PA). I study children & media and am an #AcademicMama of two girls, ages 6 & 9 years. I'm an avid reader and walker in all weather.
Hi new and old #episky friends! I’m a first gen assistant professor at the University of Illinois. I research substance use and mental health in populations with high stress occupations and life circumstances. I’m also an #academicmama x4 😅
Looking forward to seeing this community grow!
I’m Lucia. I lead a lab studying #Sleep in typical and non-neurotypical development using #genomics and #Compbio. I’m also a Latina immigrant #academicmama and thus my existence in this country right now likely makes a lot of people uncomfortable
This is how you implement an inclusive conference for an #AcademicMama - a livestream of the auditorium with an infant play area & toys in front of it. This sends such a powerful message. Great job @infantstudies.bsky.social #ICIS2024
Do you need vacation after conference travel? me too.
How about time to rest after vacation? me too.
And then days of sleep after kids' spring break? me three 🙈🥴
On the bright side, it's nice to be back in my home office 😆
#AcademicMama
