One hour on campus and I spotted my first roadrunner! Welcome to New Mexico!

This is the slide that stood out to me. The # of faculty is stable, with a shift to more continuing and fewer fixed term, which is good! The big growth is in professional staff (most in central divisions, not Colleges), but it's two Colleges, faculty and academic support staff shouldering the cuts.

Anne Enright on Australian birds, aka, why fifty percent of my social media posts are bird photos.

Watching a robot paint lines on the cricket pitch while wondering just which 10% of the CASS faculty are getting laid off in the coming weeks. Glad to see ANU has its financial priorities in order, at least.

Today in "millennials texting their parents to figure out if they are fully vaccinated against measles." Thanks, mom and dad!

Subtle, CASS Staff mailing list. Very subtle...

#LifeinAustralia questions this morning: do I have to report venomous spiders as a WHS hazard? What about if they're already dead?

I'll be giving a keynote speech at the 3rd Annual International Gender-Inclusive Language Instruction Conference on Friday, April 4 at 2:30 p.m. Pacific. Here's a preview of my slides to whet your appetite. Register at the link:
dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-l... #academicsky

Coping with job stress and dissatisfaction with terrible university leadership by making memes. What other outlets do we have?

You know things are going just great at your university when they start sending the vaguely threatening emails warning you not to speak to reporters!

I'm very thrilled to have been awarded the CASS Education Award for Commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA)!
cass.anu.edu.au/news/2024-ca...

Me trying to follow the grocery store’s banana buying guide.

Just under the wire in 2023: this new publication on teaching grammar in the German classroom beyond the gender binary, with my wonderful Grenzenlos Deutsch collaborators. www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

I got a new hat and think I have finally perfected the “please don’t talk to me on public transit” look.

A British tragedy in one photo: a sausage roll minus one bite on the ground outside Greggs.

Submission cupcake and coffee to celebrate hitting “send” on these article proofs. Feels especially good since this article was first submitted last year right after a serious health crisis and several weeks of sick leave.

At the GSA, on sabbatical, drinking a cocktail called “the sabbatical.”

Nom nom. Kicking off GSA 2023 in the best way possible.