Really enjoyed my time at UC-Davis’s Emerging Scholars Panel with other amazing junior scholars (and exploring Davis’ beautiful campus)!

Super thought-provoking discussions about how we can use critical perspectives to meet the current moment at both the classroom and policy/system level.

Running my robustness checks and sorting through all the .tex output to see if they pass like

Displeased about moving; too sleepy to do anything about it

Need your Letterboxd reviews on all of these!

Mine:

She is! Mostly because of the green eyes

Came across one of my favorite personal examples of potentially misleading data visualization-- two data points and the y-axis truncated between 10.5 and 11.2 so the vet could really highlight my cat's seemingly rapid path toward feline obesity (she is perfectly healthy)

Officially PhinisheD 🤯 this weekend with the best grad companion I could ask for 🫶🏻 @sarahstrochak.bsky.social

4 years of PhD-ing flies by when you have cohort-mates who make it immensely fun 🥹

Finally have that gender neutral title: Dr. King!

Shoutout to my dissertation chair! We did it, Joe (Cimpian) @joecimpian.bsky.social

This morning I have:
1. Sobbed while writing my dissertation acknowledgements,
2. Sent my dissertation to my committee 🥳

baking skills + general *gestures vaguely at everything* stress = Basque cheesecake

Heading back from a successful #2024APPAM! So good to see such exciting research and scholars 🫶🏻

If it’s any indication as to how much I love this conference, this is what I leave behind (and get to go back to 🥰):