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Jessamyn Neuhaus
@geekypedagogy.bsky.social
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Helping academics & introverts nerd out about teaching. SoTL author + editor, professor of history/education/pop culture & Syracuse University Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Director. #AcademicSky IDIC https://jessamynneuhaus.com
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Class plans unravel. Tech fails. Lectures flop. Students stumble. Join me for an Oct. 30 webinar exploring how to navigate missteps, mistakes, and professorial faceplants with calm, clarity, and resilience. RSVP now: bit.ly/3W6XV7Z
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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A fabulous dinner after my #SnafuEdu book talk at @olemiss.bsky.social! Huge thank you to the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, @josheyler.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social & @liznorell.bsky.social for inviting me & to everyone who attended the event.
Emily Donahoe, Liz Norell, and Jessamyn Neuhaus posing. We are three white ladies wearing darkish clothing. Emily is wearing a plaid skirt. Emily has short dark hair, Liz has long straight brown hair, and Jessamyn has wavy light brown hair.
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Autumn-themed decor (scored from the thrift store) at the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence.🍂 Coming up next: Getting Halloween-y. 🎃 👻🧟
A pumpkin shaped dish and two pumpkin shaped containers with assorted candy. Also a "Hello Fall" sign depicting fall leaves and a "Welcome" sign with a pumpkin design. Two dishes shaped like leaves holding gum, a pumpkin shaped container, and a sign saying "Happy Fall."
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Stack 'o reading! On my own, for informal book clubs & as part of CTLE programs. @kellyhogan.bsky.social @vijisathy.bsky.social @drkevinrmcclure.com @agilefacultyrpr.bsky.social @drtolunoah.bsky.social @oupress.bsky.social @katiepryal.bsky.social @cjdenial.bsky.social
A stack of books: Inclusive Teaching; The Caring University; Of Many Minds; The Opposite of Cheating; Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality
August 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Updated my @syracuseu.bsky.social Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence thrifted office decorations & snack dispensers with a back-to-school / apple-for-the-teacher theme. 🍎✏️🔔
Decorative items such as ceramic apples and a woven basket with school -themed pictures on it such as pencils and a chalkboard. A small metal container with school-related items on it, such as pencils and a calculator. A plastic apple with "#1 teacher" written on it.
August 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Hello beautiful. 👀 #SnafuEdu

@oupress.bsky.social
@derekkrissoff.bsky.social @michellemillerphd.bsky.social @jamesmlang.bsky.social @liznorell.bsky.social
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@profcannibal.bsky.social
Box of books, copies of Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom by Jessamyn Neuhaus. Cover is bright blue with an image of an inside out pink umbrella.
August 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Getting prepped for the very first Course Redesign Institute at the @syracuseu.bsky.social Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence! Orange folders for handouts, of course. 🍊 I'm leaning into the REdesign part of our work -- next week is all about reflecting, revising, and realigning.
A pile of orange folders, name tags, and Christine Harrington's book "Keeping Us Engaged."
August 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Today I'm prepping for the @syracuseu.bsky.social Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence August programs. I buy CTLE decorative items with my own $$ but only purchase secondhand stuff for budgetary & environmental reasons. Behold my summer thrift store scores!
A shelf in the Syracuse Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence featuring some summery decorative items, like flip flop and star fish candy dishes.
July 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Congratulations @drtolunoah.bsky.social on your new book! Looking forward to reading it & talking about it with my #FacDev colleagues.
3 copies of Designing and Facilitating Worshops with Intentionality by Tolulope Noah. Cover depicts colorful post-it notes.
July 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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It was a joy to visit Director @johnkane.bsky.social at the Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching, SUNY Oswego! John, the host of my fav podcast Tea For Teaching, provided very on-brand refreshments. #TeaBuffet
A large table filled with different boxes and canisters of tea Jessamyn and John smiling into the camera. We are white people in our fifties. John has grayish hair and a beard. I have wavy dark blondish hair.
May 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Thank you, @liznorell.bsky.social for visiting us today at the Syracuse University Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence! So grateful for your insightful, inspiring coversation about #ThePresentProfessor @oupress.bsky.social.
A small group of people gathered around Liz Norell, many of whom holding a copy of her book The Present Professor.
April 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Talking about teaching with other college educators who care about teaching is the best part of my job! The Wisconsin Universities OPID teaching conference was 🔥🔥🔥. Thank you @cyndik.bsky.social for the invite.
Jessamyn and Cyndi standing in the conference ballroom. They are middle aged white women. Cyndi has glasses and short blonde hair. Jessamyn is wearing a black sweater and dark blue suit. She has wavy dark blonde medium length hair.
April 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Decorative pillow in my Wisconsin hotel room. I like this place! 🧀
Throw pillow with "curd" embroidered on it in black and red letters.
April 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Huge shoutout to @liznorell.bsky.social whose feedback on an early draft of my forthcoming book greatly helped me articulate these 3 things we need to discuss more in SoTL & teaching advice: humans mess up; higher ed inequities exist; the Super Teacher is a harmful myth.
Title slide for Jessamyn's keynote: "A SoTL Reality Check: Three Underrecognized, Underexamined, and Underestimated Truths about Teaching and Learning." It is white with black letters. Pictured is white puzzle with missing pieces.
April 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I'm really looking forward to facilitating a workshop at
@boisestate.bsky.social Great Ideas for Teaching & Learning Summit this week!
www.boisestate.edu/ctl/eventsan...
Title slide for Jessamyn's workshop, "Supporting Student Success with Productive Error Course Design." Pictured: a target with numerous arrows, most outside the bull's eye.
March 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Heading to Boise for the @boisestate.bsky.social Great Ideas for Teaching & Learning Summit! Looking forward to keynoting about the many, many, oh so many mistakes we make as a normal part of our effective teaching.
www.boisestate.edu/ctl/eventsan...
Title slide for Jessamyn's keynote "Real Talk about Teaching: Normalizing Educators' Setbacks, Struggles, and Snafus." Pictured: a plate of very burned toast.
March 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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"When you're facing your own burnout or overwhelm or trauma, you don't have the bandwidth to help your students' de-escalate theirs." ~@liznorell.bsky.social #ThePresentProfessor

"Truth bomb" is overused, but I mean...
Cover of the book The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching by Elizabeth A. Norell. It depicts a lighthouse on a cliff shining a light in a starry sky.
February 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Map background of Cambridge industries! #AHA25 poster Session, "Creating & Sustaining Community Partnership in Public History: The Neighborhood History Center Model"
Poster for AHA
January 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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#AHA25 Poster Session in full swing! Beautiful visuals for "Kenet's Path to Freedom: Mapping an Enslaved Woman's Journey Towards Self-Liberation," Kalie Dutra. @historians.org
Poster for AHA
January 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Such cool visual aids for this poster, "Threads of Empowerment: The Network of Keister Ladies Tailoring System," Constance Spotts! #AHA25 @historians.org
AHA poster with muslin mockups of bodices
January 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Poster Session at #AHA25! "Mapping and Analyzing the Nomadism of the Gollmar Brothers Circus, 1891-1916" Devin Jernigan
Poster at AHA
January 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Poster Session time at #AHA25! "Photographic Practices in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Mauritius," by Yoshina Hurgobin. @historians.org
AHA poster by Yoshina Hurgobin
January 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Poster Session time at #AHA25! "Promiscuity in Trial: Texas Reclamation Centers in World War I" by Jennifer Bridges
Poster by Jennifer Bridges at the AHA
January 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Here's the promt @thetattooedprof.bsky.social gives them #AHA25:
Write a history of your day. You may consider any material that comes from your experiences and activities from when you first gained consciousness this morning until this moment right now.
January 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Very cool First Day of History Class activity from @thetattooedprof.bsky.social: having students do a history of their day! Increasing agency, helping them unlearn misconceptions about hisory.
#AHA25
Title slide for Kevin Gannon's presentation "A History of Your Day"
January 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM