Also for (Illinois based) International Students, Faculty, and Researchers: I'll be running an online, confidential therapy support group from May 14. Sharing support and community in these frightening times.

#mentalhealth #academics #research

New mental health resource for academics! Many important intellectual/political resources are circulating about the attacks on higher ed. But less attention is being paid to the emotional toll paid by individual scholars and students. Take a moment for some self-compassion.

I just finished reading Heinrich Böll's "Group Portrait of a Lady", a 1977 novel about a cast of characters living in Cologne, Germany, before and after WW2. Then I saw this phrase quoted from the ICE officers who kidnapped Rümeysa Öztürk this month.

New workshop announcement!

"Managing Anxiety When Academia is in Crisis"

An Online Wellness Workshop for Academics

Saturday March 1st, 11am CST (1 hour). Join from anywhere. Register at: www.maryleighton.com/workshops

#HigherEd #therapistsky #Academia
#counseling #therapistsconnect #PhDLife

And *this* is the justification for losing all this money. This word salad. Seriously, there is no more reasoning behind it than this one paragraph from the Project 2025 manifesto.

By "Federal loans" I mean federal student loans. There is a lot in Project 2025 about privatizing student loans and getting rid of, for instance, loan forgiveness programs. The idea appears to be that we haven't enough incentive to pay them off currently, which is pure neoliberal logic.

Folks, I went looking in Project 2025 to find out if university funding was mention. To my surprise "Indirects" are directly mentioned, but with reasoning so bizarre and conspiracy theory like, you have to wonder where this is coming from. Remembering that the "indirect" or "overhead" percentage of

Here's the image on it's own, in case the link stops working...

Is it the damp? That this part of Scotland is officially a "temperate rainforest"? Or is it that British people are apparently deathly allergic to double glazing?

Introductions time! Hi, I'm Mary Leighton, a mental health therapist based in Chicago. I specialize in working with academics at every stage in their careers. Everyone from PhD students, tenured and non-tenure track professors, post-docs, up to deans and admins. #AcademicSky #TherapistsConnect

First time doing a 2 day stop-over in Dublin prior to the UK. Stepped outside the hotel on the first morning and stumbled upon a crowd of dachshunds in holiday outfits, meeting up in preparation for a sausage dog parade. Kiddo, immediately: "Can we move here?" #Dublin #dachshunds #cutenessoverload

oh ffs. I was literally just talking about this yesterday but thought "hey, why not prove myself wrong?" So I picked up a novel written by a dude for my airport reading.
NINE LINES into the FIRST PAGE: boobs. (Apparently these ones are "proud".) What is hell is wrong with male writers?? #fiction