Conference friends: “I haven’t seen you in ages!”
Me: “Oh yeah I had a baby” 🫠
#mumsky #acmum #academicparent

Wasn’t ready for parenting to become singing Humpty Dumpty 50 times to lull my toddler to sleep #academicparent #toddlerhood #scimom

As an academic parent, carving out me-time is always a balancing act, even on holiday!
📍 Then: Netherlands, 2021
📍 Now: Norway, 2025
Same #yoga pose ⬇️🐶, same cuddly chaos.
#AcademicParent #AcademicMom #WorkLifeBalance #AcroYoga

got back on the socials after a long hiatus to LIVE TWEET this via bluesky. rushing from kids end-of-prinary school ceremony last night to join the action today #AcademicParent #FrenchHistoryNerdOut #CollectiveNoun?

Today's motherscholar life looks like submitting my R&R from the bleachers at the field hockey facility on campus since kiddo had practice & I had uninterrupted time to work outside. The beautiful weather was perfect for polishing off & sending in this manuscript! 🏑☀️👩🏻‍💻 #AcademicSky #academicparent

It was fun bringing my 10yo daughter to participate in a research study @surreypsychology.bsky.social last week. Bonus highlight was that she drew me this portrait on my whiteboard, which I can now never erase! ❤️ #academicparent

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Kiddo 1 asked kiddo 2 to peer-review his new Minecraft layout.
What "secrets of the trade" are your kids catching from having an #academicmom or #academicparent?

#momademia
#academicSky

I have a 4/4 teaching load. Last semester, I taught 2 large lecture classes until I was 40 weeks pregnant.

And now my kid instantly calms down whenever I talk to him in my professor voice. Wild. #academicparent

Btw a faculty development day, the holiday break and now an ice storm, we're at day 19 of no childcare. I don't get how I'm supposed to make this #academicparent thing work sometimes.

Toddler reaches to open a flap on a picture book. The picture in the book is a drawing of Santa reading a letter.

My attempt to finish a chapter draft by Christmas has turned into wiping snotty noses and reading Dear Santa approximately 50 times a day. Sigh. I got about halfway, at least. #academicwriting #academicparent

Productive day of maternity leave! Paper revisions sent back to a journal and my little one rolled over for the first time! I’ll pretend it’s always like this 😅😅 #academicparent #delusional

Got a child-free couple of hours and I'm floundering - doing the washing up because I've got too many potential things I could/should be doing 🙃 it's nice the house is quiet, but this always bloody happens
#academicparent #gamerparent

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In today’s version of #AcademicParent, it is ‘occupation day’ free dress. My small person is going as a vet, the classic scientist gateway.

Today is the first I’ve heard of it, with 5 minutes notice. Scouring the newsletter. No mention. Now digging in my car glove box for a gold coin donation.

As a non-teaching academic I'm not sure I can easily share but as an #AcademicParent it's hard not to feel worried about my kids being priced out or repaying loans their whole lives as that middle band who are always worst off.

Actually, I take that back. Let this be the start of my micro blog on parenting tips. 😂

#PsychSciSky #AcademicParent

Baked a sponge cake for a trifle with my girls over lunch break. #ParentingInAPandemic #ParentingInLockdown #academicparent

Another hilarious yet eerily truthful email message from my incisive child!

Received on one of those days when, overcome by general end-of-term fatigue, I can't seem to write a tweet without a typo. 🙃

#parenting #academicparent #writingstudies #anticorrectionist

@labroides #worklifebalance #academicparent that's adorable