having a writing day where 50% of my time is looking at the sentence I just wrote and cursing myself for being obnoxious... but the positive is that I'm actually writing down the chaotic ideas in my head

Twitter hive-mind: I need a few paragraphs from a German-language book translated. I'm Googling "academic translating services" but I'm a bit out of my depth. Do you have any recommendations for translation services that have worked well for you?

Last week, Cornell announced "Additional Financial Supports'' from the Graduate School. Five months from now, we will see a 5% stipend increase—an increase that has already been dwarfed by rising inflation and ballooning rent (average apartment rent increased by 15.3% in Ithaca)

grading on a Saturday with very nice weather here in Ithaca, but my students have written such masterful essays that my major challenge is not to comment "BEAUTIFUL" on every sentence. We love a well-reasoned argument 😍

So are all 85 million modern-day starlings the result of Schieffelin's releases, as is often parroted? “I will say that from the perspective of an invasion biologist, most invasions come from multiple introductions,” says Dr. Natalie Hofmeister, a biologist & PhD candidate at Cornell University 🧵/?

Very excited to see this story is out, and highly recommend a look at @Snarls_Dickens and Lauren Fugate’s literary history described within!

If you enjoyed the NYT article about the origin of starlings in the US - you should check out the Julia Zichello, PhD Scientific American article from last year. scientificamerican.com/article/the-de…

I finally had an opportunity to bring up this essay from Jenny Liou on COVID, murder hornets, and anti-Asian racism with a student, and I don't want to pass up sharing it here either. Well worth the read if you have the time! hcn.org/issues/52.8/no…

Hard to contain my excitement for this plenary!!!! Stepfanie is not only a brilliant, conscientious scholar, but a dear friend without whom I wouldn’t know how to do this whole academia thing. Congrats also to Allison Shultz *ajshultz622.bsky.social* and Ben Freeman–I admire each of you! Well deserved!

📢🌄🎉**PLEASE RETWEET**: Smith College is hiring a tenure-track asst. professor in genomics!!! check out the info and apply here -> apply.interfolio.com/113025

"Shakespeare's Starlings: Literary History and the Fictions of Invasiveness," by Lauren Fugate and John MacNeill Miller has been selected as the 2022 winner of the "Environmental Humanities Best Article Prize." Read it here: ow.ly/GZVX50LP0fv Enviro Humanities @Snarls_Dickens

one thing I'm trying to get better about from here on out is writing and thinking even less defensively. trying to craft sentences into fortresses is a waste of valuable time and effort. what would you say if you were speaking to someone who's trying to understand you? say that.