If hummingbirds were insects instead of birds, they would be the most terrifying creatures of all time.

My research assistant this morning is being distinctly unhelpful. Demanding belly rubs nonstop. How am I supposed to get anything done?

If Wayne State hires me as it's next president, I promise to step down in half the time and for half the amount. Wayne State president leaves with ‘bargain’ settlement of $760K, plus health care - Bridge Michigan share.google/CyISqtT24qC8aI…

Tuesday I am starting a 90 day highly calorie restricted diet, so this weekend + Monday I am eating all the food I won't be able to eat then. It's glorious and sad.

Today at Grading For Growth, guest author Noel Warford discusses his exploration with collaborative grading as a new professor in Computer Science. gradingforgrowth.com/p/using-collab…

This survey was given by local AAUP chapters using "email and social media". Were the responses a representative sample? And, what is the baseline? I.e. how many faculty are considering leaving the south, for any reason not just politics? theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s…

New at Intentional Academia: I go into the weeds a bit on how I am using Scite, Todoist, and Zotero (feat. Google Sheets) to manage the research review I'm conducting on my sabbatical. Part 1 of 2. intentionalacademia.substack.com/p/how-i-am-usi…

I love it when in a research paper, the authors will add a citation to some obvious fact, like "The earth revolves around the Sun [Copernicus, 1543]."

MLAGA Make Liberal Arts Grate Again

Paper I'm reading right now makes this great point: Appropriate integration of AI in the classroom actually increases teacher agency. This sounds exactly like active learning, except aimed at instructors.

I can't believe I went to five guesses on this, or that there's actually three words that have those first four letters Wordle 1,561 5/6* ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Sheesh Wordle 1,562 6/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟨⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Sleep trackers that reset to zero when you get up in the night to pee are basically useless for men over 50.

This morning I'd rather be up in my studio making music than writing, so here is my Sadowsky Guitars MetroExpress vintage JJ fretless 5-string. Now back to work!

Dear NFL and NBC Entertainment: Both cover bands I play in are available during this time if you wanted to change your mind.

Ugh, a 5 today, 6 yesterday, 5 the day before that... need to up my game. Wordle 1,563 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Dreamt last night that I was out with my wife and saw David Allen David Allen. I went up to him, starstruck, to get a selfie. But then, my phone wouldn't work, I kept tapping on the wrong icon, etc and kept apologizing while he patiently stood there. I'm sure someone can interpret.

VoiceInk VoiceInk has been the MVP of my sabbatical so far. It's saved me hours of time, solved issues with repetitive stress on my wrists from typing so much, and made my writing freer and more conversational -- because I am just talking into my Mac.