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This page is the home to both long(er)-form blog posts (which are collected separately here and have their own RSS feed) and to microposts (~280 characters) that get forwarded to my Twitter and Micro.blog accounts (and can also be read here or followed here). You can read more about the reasoning behind my web presence on my About page.
- June 21, 2019 My first rule as a low-budget Twitter researcher is to collect interesting data first, ask (research) questions later. I have a lot of data I’ve never used, but I’d rather deal with that than a missed opportunity.
- June 20, 2019 In jury-rigged standing desk news, I have replaced the MacBook box my monitor was teetering on with a Yeti microphone box, and I think I’ve got the monitor at the right height now.
- June 20, 2019 Bike commuting adventure of the day: Finding all the places in my office where I can discretely hang up wet clothes from a rainy commute (thank goodness for my closet full of dry work clothes).
- June 16, 2019 I tried to explain to my toddler the premise of “Guantánamo Kid” (a comic about the innocent 14-year old Mohamed Al-Gharani’s incarceration in Gitmo). Her response: “A little boy shouldn’t be in jail!”
- June 14, 2019 Just finished the 2006 “Life on Mars.” Fantastic premise, and some amazing individual scenes, but not quite enough connective tissue between the two.
- June 14, 2019 Does anyone know of research on social media surveillance by school districts? Some local news stories have me thinking of a potential future project...
- June 14, 2019 Just had a paper rejected from a special issue, but the journal has been such a pain to work with over the last 8(!) months that I’m frankly just glad it’s over.
- June 10, 2019 When Twitter first gut-punched third-party apps by limiting their API, I was afraid not being able to check “likes” through Tweetbot would make it unusable. Now, that’s actually the appeal.
- June 8, 2019 Central Kentucky libraries apparently have summer reading programs for *adults*, and I can’t remember the last time I was this excited.
- June 6, 2019 I got a reminder today that I do the kind of research where something as hilariously unintuitive as telling a program to treat long numbers as “words made up of 0-9” is actually a critical step to making sure you get the right results.
- June 5, 2019 I love learning more about regular expressions except the part where it’s always in response to some mistake I’ve made.
- June 4, 2019 The welcome surprise of finding that a book I checked out for personal reading will be helpful for research outweighs all the guilt I felt about using my university’s interlibrary loan to request books for personal reading.
- May 31, 2019 My kid can’t name our street and thinks our city is called “UK” but *does* know that we’re on Earth in the Milky Way galaxy.
- May 30, 2019 Nothing like the release of teacher course evaluations to remind me how much of my self-worth is still tied to what other people think. 😬😬😬
- May 29, 2019 Twitter and learning
- May 24, 2019 STEM Bus and Barbarians
- May 24, 2019 The fork as a socially-influenced technology
- May 22, 2019 Paying for my third year of Posteo tonight and not missing Gmail at all. (Still haven’t kicked the Drive/Docs habit, though).
- May 21, 2019 Today is the primary for the 2019 state elections here in KY, and I’m really missing Michigan’s open primaries. Not being able to vote today may be what finally pushes me to declare a party affiliation after more than a decade of not doing so.
- May 20, 2019 Learning that you can request article PDFs through UK’s interlibrary loan has been a GAMECHANGER.