What I found cleaning classroom today:

⓵ frustrated sophomore behind on their research project apparently left their checklist on their desk

⓶ junior (who had the class last year) found it, immediately wrote an encouraging note, tucked it in same spot for sophomore to find tomorrow

me: 🥲

A pysanka is a Polish-Ukrainian #Easter egg, decorated with traditional folk designs using a wax-resist method #WomensArt

Indigenous Australian artists Lynette Lewis, Alison Milyika Carroll, Tjunkaya Tapaya and Atipalku Intjalki #womensart

Around a third of primary teachers say they have 'little or no influence at all' over the content of individual lessons, according to @neunion.bsky.social research into the impact of standardised curriculum packages

Seriously, this is just from one class period:

Preparing my keynote lecture for APEAC2025 in Singapore www.apeac.academy Honoured to have been invited to talk and teach with other leading assessment experts.

Excited to see Singapore, especially the botanical gardens. #WeAreIOE @ioe.bsky.social Great to fly the flag for @cpaucl.bsky.social

Mary Cassatt, Breakfast in Bed, 1897 #womensart

asking students to reflect on what they wrote before they submit a formal piece of writing?

something I used to never do, and now something I pretty much always do:

Wounaan Baskets from the Rainforest of Panama, created by master weavers such as Miriam Negria #WomensArt

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), abolitionist, women's rights advocate, who chose to be photographed with her knitting. As an enslaved person, she had knitted/spun endlessly and when free later in life, she taught knitting to former enslaved women aiding self-sufficiency #womensart

This is good. Keep moving.

People who are signing have a lot of smart things to say about why this is important. This will be a thread with some of them. Please sign & share with your networks.

bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd

"Because I am appalled by the current regime’s attack of education, academic freedom and free speech."

Shepherds on Their Way to the Nativity from a Book of Hours
c. 1495
Possibly by a follower of Jean Poyet (French, c. 1483-1497)

Art Institute Chicago

"Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang discusses what the science of learning is and why learning is social, emotional, and cognitive all at once."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddWh...

If you'd like to be more thoughtful about your academic work hours in 2025, @markdalgleish.com has a great blog post for responding to review requests from Elsevier. A reminder that while academia has made itself beholden to corporate journals you don't have to. ideophone.org/how-i-reject...

Applies to PhD statements of purpose

It's that time of year again. The extended anticipation of knowing exactly what you want but wondering if you'll get it. 🎁

#AcademicSky #postdoc #PhDsky

[Comic by The Upturned Microscope]