I’m taking a break from most feeds and timelines, disconnecting auto-posting from my blog to curb the desire to check for notifications. If you want all the news from me, you can sign up for an email that will send you a weekly message with everything I’ve posted on my website that week.

I am a grown human (a woman, specifically) and so I am having cookies as part of my breakfast today.

I had a rough night.

I thought you should know that this Jean-Luc Picard cover of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (feat. Q) is my new Christmas bop. 🖖🏻🎄

What WOULD Christmas be without historically low mountain snow causing staggering drought?

How much do we know about the instructors at Starfleet Academy and their pedagogy? 🖖🏻📺

I’m excited to share that I’ve accepted an offer to start in January as a (remote) Postdoctoral Scholar with the Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine. I’ll be doing exactly what I set out to do at the start of my PhD: researching connected learning in libraries.

I spent about an hour tonight playing the 1980 Commodore 64 port of Super Star Trek and I have no regrets. 🎮💻

Want to read: The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling 📚

Me: *finds one footnote in article I’m revising, figures out what needs to change about the part that references it, stars those readings in Paperpile* Wow. That was hard work. Time for some Trek Twitter! (This was actually a time-consuming task.)

Want to read: The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People by Rachel Miller 📚