🔖 I’m always looking for Leonie Dawson’s post about heroic self-gentleness and struggling to track it down in searches so now that I’ve succeeded once, I’m dropping the link here so I can just search my own website for it next time.

🔖 Read Academic Waste. 🎓

🔖 Read Storytelling and the Craft of Quiltmaking. 🧵

🔖 Read It’s Called Acting: Learning to Fight for the Stage. 🎭

🔖 Read Network sitcoms are actually good again. 📺

🔖 Read Is it time to live with COVID-19? Some scientists warn of ‘endemic delusion’

“I don’t particularly want to be in a future where I get COVID twice a year,” Pagel adds.

Me either, Professor Pagel. Me either.

🔖 Loved reading what Kathy Tabbutt had to say about Social Science Communication in the January 23 Fancy Comma newsletter. I’ve been thinking through what #socscicomm can be for a few years and am still in process. If you’re interested in this, too, let’s connect!

🔖 Read Curing Coronavirus Isn’t a Job for Social Scientists. (This article is from May 2020, which is probably why it has the word “curing” in the title when that seems like, you know, not a thing that is possible.)

🔖 Read Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself?.

🔖 Read More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries.

This. The lifting of mask mandates. The expansion of what counts as high-risk.

Sigh.