Sue Owen
@aggiejournalist.bsky.social
Ex-newspapers, now alumni comms. Texas Aggie '94. I write a lot about Texas A&M and its history: linktr.ee/aggiejournalist. Known to emit Muppet noises.
@linkerm.bsky.social i'm in the archives and looking at your original print of this! I thought you'd like to see 😊 I was hoping there'd be a notation about which year, but haven't been able to confirm
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
@linkerm.bsky.social i'm in the archives and looking at your original print of this! I thought you'd like to see 😊 I was hoping there'd be a notation about which year, but haven't been able to confirm
Congrats to the nearly 5,000 Aggies getting their Aggie Rings this week! Here's a little physics experiment from @aggienetwork.bsky.social -- @tamu.bsky.social's Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova helped us explain the phenonemon, and that's my hand doing the spinning 😊
October 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Congrats to the nearly 5,000 Aggies getting their Aggie Rings this week! Here's a little physics experiment from @aggienetwork.bsky.social -- @tamu.bsky.social's Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova helped us explain the phenonemon, and that's my hand doing the spinning 😊
Re-upping this since we have lots of new Aggies this semester 😊 The maroon stripe on this College Station Whataburger was the chain's first "college colors" display in the country! Story link in next post ⬇️
October 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Re-upping this since we have lots of new Aggies this semester 😊 The maroon stripe on this College Station Whataburger was the chain's first "college colors" display in the country! Story link in next post ⬇️
"Ball 6" in fall exhibition ball! Aggies up 3-0 over TCU
October 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"Ball 6" in fall exhibition ball! Aggies up 3-0 over TCU
As Texas A&M prepares to lay our Reveille IX to rest today, here are some words written about the first Reveille after she passed away in 1944, as the cadets training to go to war stopped to grieve for their little black-and-white mutt:
October 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
As Texas A&M prepares to lay our Reveille IX to rest today, here are some words written about the first Reveille after she passed away in 1944, as the cadets training to go to war stopped to grieve for their little black-and-white mutt:
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Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
I made a guide to Texas A&M Corps uniforms! tx.ag/CorpsGuide Get ready for gameday 👍
#tamu #gigem #corps #texasaggies
#tamu #gigem #corps #texasaggies
September 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I made a guide to Texas A&M Corps uniforms! tx.ag/CorpsGuide Get ready for gameday 👍
#tamu #gigem #corps #texasaggies
#tamu #gigem #corps #texasaggies
Lo, the tailgate tents are beginning to sprout
August 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Lo, the tailgate tents are beginning to sprout
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This is the way we should be teaching math in Texas. This need to be in the Governor’s next call-Hullabaloo rumble strips from PreK to 16 #txlege
The math for Hullabaloo rumble strips works on ANY size vehicle! tx.ag/RumbleStripMath
August 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This is the way we should be teaching math in Texas. This need to be in the Governor’s next call-Hullabaloo rumble strips from PreK to 16 #txlege
The math for Hullabaloo rumble strips works on ANY size vehicle! tx.ag/RumbleStripMath
August 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The math for Hullabaloo rumble strips works on ANY size vehicle! tx.ag/RumbleStripMath
Northgate's looking a little different, if you've been gone over the summer
(the short building in the middle is Chimy's)
(the short building in the middle is Chimy's)
August 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Northgate's looking a little different, if you've been gone over the summer
(the short building in the middle is Chimy's)
(the short building in the middle is Chimy's)
"If Aggies do it twice, it's a tradition" is a much older sentiment than I realized! This is 1947 😊
(specifically, Feb. 7, 1947, in the Battalion. howdy from the archives!)
(specifically, Feb. 7, 1947, in the Battalion. howdy from the archives!)
August 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"If Aggies do it twice, it's a tradition" is a much older sentiment than I realized! This is 1947 😊
(specifically, Feb. 7, 1947, in the Battalion. howdy from the archives!)
(specifically, Feb. 7, 1947, in the Battalion. howdy from the archives!)
Traffic is rising in College Station... the students are returning and it's all coming back!
July 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Traffic is rising in College Station... the students are returning and it's all coming back!
algorithm please bring me more video of happy otters
July 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
algorithm please bring me more video of happy otters
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Texas A&M slugger Jace LaViolette selected by Cleveland Guardians in first round of MLB Draft www.kbtx.com/2025/07/14/t...
Texas A&M slugger Jace LaViolette selected by Cleveland Guardians in first round of MLB Draft
Outfielder Jace LaViolette was selected XX overall as the first-round pick of the XXXX
www.kbtx.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Texas A&M slugger Jace LaViolette selected by Cleveland Guardians in first round of MLB Draft www.kbtx.com/2025/07/14/t...
"Murderbot" was written by an Aggie! 🤯 www.kbtx.com/2025/05/21/t...
Texas A&M grad’s sci-fi series ‘Murderbot’ adapted for TV
Focus at Four: Aggie author’s series hits the small screen
www.kbtx.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"Murderbot" was written by an Aggie! 🤯 www.kbtx.com/2025/05/21/t...
Sleepy summer at Texas A&M will be over before we know it! 😊
🐟 Fish Camp: July 21-Aug 10
🛋️ Apartment leases turn over (“sofas on the curb” season): Late July-early Aug
📦 Dorm move-in: Aug 19-23
👍 Howdy Week: Aug 20-26
📚 1st class day: Aug 25
🗣️ Midnight Yell: Aug 29
🏈 1st home game: Aug 30 vs. UTSA
🐟 Fish Camp: July 21-Aug 10
🛋️ Apartment leases turn over (“sofas on the curb” season): Late July-early Aug
📦 Dorm move-in: Aug 19-23
👍 Howdy Week: Aug 20-26
📚 1st class day: Aug 25
🗣️ Midnight Yell: Aug 29
🏈 1st home game: Aug 30 vs. UTSA
June 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Sleepy summer at Texas A&M will be over before we know it! 😊
🐟 Fish Camp: July 21-Aug 10
🛋️ Apartment leases turn over (“sofas on the curb” season): Late July-early Aug
📦 Dorm move-in: Aug 19-23
👍 Howdy Week: Aug 20-26
📚 1st class day: Aug 25
🗣️ Midnight Yell: Aug 29
🏈 1st home game: Aug 30 vs. UTSA
🐟 Fish Camp: July 21-Aug 10
🛋️ Apartment leases turn over (“sofas on the curb” season): Late July-early Aug
📦 Dorm move-in: Aug 19-23
👍 Howdy Week: Aug 20-26
📚 1st class day: Aug 25
🗣️ Midnight Yell: Aug 29
🏈 1st home game: Aug 30 vs. UTSA
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overheard in a discussion with other faculty: "since Roe v Wade was overturned, 80% of the faculty Texas A&M has hired have been male."
June 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
overheard in a discussion with other faculty: "since Roe v Wade was overturned, 80% of the faculty Texas A&M has hired have been male."
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The first and maybe last thing to read about D-Day, the brutal, short life of the men of Able Company.
Published in 1960 by a WWI & II combat vet-turned-writer. It was the first 'real' account of D-Day amid post-war John Wayne-ism, the 'first' Private Ryan.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Published in 1960 by a WWI & II combat vet-turned-writer. It was the first 'real' account of D-Day amid post-war John Wayne-ism, the 'first' Private Ryan.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
First Wave at Omaha Beach
An account of the “epic human tragedy” that unfolded when Allied troops landed on the shores of Normandy on D-Day
www.theatlantic.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The first and maybe last thing to read about D-Day, the brutal, short life of the men of Able Company.
Published in 1960 by a WWI & II combat vet-turned-writer. It was the first 'real' account of D-Day amid post-war John Wayne-ism, the 'first' Private Ryan.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Published in 1960 by a WWI & II combat vet-turned-writer. It was the first 'real' account of D-Day amid post-war John Wayne-ism, the 'first' Private Ryan.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
So happy that I'm getting Miss Reveille's raincoat into the July issue of Texas Aggie magazine 🥰🐾 Keep your eyes peeled in July for our "Guide to Corps Uniforms"!
June 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So happy that I'm getting Miss Reveille's raincoat into the July issue of Texas Aggie magazine 🥰🐾 Keep your eyes peeled in July for our "Guide to Corps Uniforms"!
Aggie-owned Schoepf's BBQ expanding to Georgetown 😊👍 www.chron.com/food/article...
Another barbecue restaurant makes moves with upcoming expansion
It's a good time for Texas-style smokehouses, and Schoepf's BBQ in Belton is taking advantage with the announcement of a new spot in the Lone Star State.
www.chron.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Aggie-owned Schoepf's BBQ expanding to Georgetown 😊👍 www.chron.com/food/article...
Howdy from the archives, Aggies! Love this fall 1949 ad in the Batt 😍
Top "hillbilly" records in 1949 would have included Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold and Ernest Tubb 🤠
Conveniently located at the "North Gate"!
Top "hillbilly" records in 1949 would have included Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold and Ernest Tubb 🤠
Conveniently located at the "North Gate"!
June 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Howdy from the archives, Aggies! Love this fall 1949 ad in the Batt 😍
Top "hillbilly" records in 1949 would have included Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold and Ernest Tubb 🤠
Conveniently located at the "North Gate"!
Top "hillbilly" records in 1949 would have included Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold and Ernest Tubb 🤠
Conveniently located at the "North Gate"!
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I’m excited to announce that my new Great Courses lecture series—“Understanding the Marvels of Medieval Technology”—has just been released. In this course, you’ll learn about castles, cathedrals, catapults, carracks, clocks, cannons, and more—all from an engineering perspective. Link below.
February 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I’m excited to announce that my new Great Courses lecture series—“Understanding the Marvels of Medieval Technology”—has just been released. In this course, you’ll learn about castles, cathedrals, catapults, carracks, clocks, cannons, and more—all from an engineering perspective. Link below.
Congratulations to Aggie-owned/operated Truth BBQ, LJ's, Stiles Switch and Teddy's for again making the @texasmonthly.bsky.social Top 50 BBQ Joints list!
Below is our 2022 list of Aggie BBQ joints; LMK if any of the new BBQ places in TxMo's list are Aggie-owned!
Below is our 2022 list of Aggie BBQ joints; LMK if any of the new BBQ places in TxMo's list are Aggie-owned!
May 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Congratulations to Aggie-owned/operated Truth BBQ, LJ's, Stiles Switch and Teddy's for again making the @texasmonthly.bsky.social Top 50 BBQ Joints list!
Below is our 2022 list of Aggie BBQ joints; LMK if any of the new BBQ places in TxMo's list are Aggie-owned!
Below is our 2022 list of Aggie BBQ joints; LMK if any of the new BBQ places in TxMo's list are Aggie-owned!