Micaela Baranello
@micaelab.bsky.social
musicologist (asst prof, Temple University), Philadelphia’s 36th leading SEPTA Route 2 busfluencer. she/her.
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TIL that when people refer to the Chicken Man in a Philly context they don’t necessarily mean the guy who got blown up in the Springsteen song. Sometimes they’re referring to a guy in South Philly who is famous for eating 40 rotisserie chickens in 40 days.
Obviously a superior game (I won on my first try)
February 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Obviously a superior game (I won on my first try)
lol the Film Society is doing a BYOB boozy screening of the new Wuthering Heights
February 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
lol the Film Society is doing a BYOB boozy screening of the new Wuthering Heights
This is so smart; I wasn’t so aware but definitely benefitted from working at liberal arts colleges right after I finished my PhD
When I told my phd faculty at Vandy that I was uninterested in working at an R1 directly out of the program, because I thought the incentives would mean my pedagogy would suffer at too critical a point in my development, some of them made clear that it was R1 or bust in their mind
R1: No we're not hiring on the tenure track because our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
February 11, 2026 at 1:24 PM
This is so smart; I wasn’t so aware but definitely benefitted from working at liberal arts colleges right after I finished my PhD
Hi @septaphilly.bsky.social have you considered using your alert feature to alert riders to stations being out of service? Second time in a week that the BSL at Cecil has been closed with no notices posted
February 10, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Hi @septaphilly.bsky.social have you considered using your alert feature to alert riders to stations being out of service? Second time in a week that the BSL at Cecil has been closed with no notices posted
I disabled the Ring that came with my house but I would appreciate it if someone made a dumb doorbell that fits in the same bracket
Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I disabled the Ring that came with my house but I would appreciate it if someone made a dumb doorbell that fits in the same bracket
My office flooded 😭
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
My office flooded 😭
I think I could do Winter Olympics as one of the middle guys in the four-person bobsled. No steering, no braking, just some leaning and chilling.
February 8, 2026 at 6:01 PM
I think I could do Winter Olympics as one of the middle guys in the four-person bobsled. No steering, no braking, just some leaning and chilling.
I'm looking for a Mac copy/paste (clipboard) manager to streamline grading and none of the free ones seem very good; any recommendations for a reasonable paid one?
(no subscriptions. I'll pay once but not every month.)
(no subscriptions. I'll pay once but not every month.)
February 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I'm looking for a Mac copy/paste (clipboard) manager to streamline grading and none of the free ones seem very good; any recommendations for a reasonable paid one?
(no subscriptions. I'll pay once but not every month.)
(no subscriptions. I'll pay once but not every month.)
I'm a publisher and I have a great idea: make a style sheet that is based on a standard format but has at least two differences in each kind of citation entry, just enough to make it extremely annoying
February 7, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I'm a publisher and I have a great idea: make a style sheet that is based on a standard format but has at least two differences in each kind of citation entry, just enough to make it extremely annoying
SEPTA stations that would make good band names:
Ellsworth-Federal (my home station)
Ardmore Junction
Wyndmoor
Clifton-Aldan
Fortuna
Marcus Hook
Ellsworth-Federal (my home station)
Ardmore Junction
Wyndmoor
Clifton-Aldan
Fortuna
Marcus Hook
February 6, 2026 at 9:55 PM
SEPTA stations that would make good band names:
Ellsworth-Federal (my home station)
Ardmore Junction
Wyndmoor
Clifton-Aldan
Fortuna
Marcus Hook
Ellsworth-Federal (my home station)
Ardmore Junction
Wyndmoor
Clifton-Aldan
Fortuna
Marcus Hook
The Amish pretzel place now accepts crypto.
February 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
The Amish pretzel place now accepts crypto.
Hi @septaphilly.bsky.social is the B1 northbound running at all? Very long wait and no announcements or alerts at Ellsworth-Federal
February 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Hi @septaphilly.bsky.social is the B1 northbound running at all? Very long wait and no announcements or alerts at Ellsworth-Federal
I am engaging in self-care (bought an extravagantly expensive Tristan ticket)
February 5, 2026 at 10:35 PM
I am engaging in self-care (bought an extravagantly expensive Tristan ticket)
Very fun opening night crowd at Opera Philadelphia for Complications in Sue
February 5, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Very fun opening night crowd at Opera Philadelphia for Complications in Sue
RIP PhArt (2025-2026) www.inquirer.com/arts/philade...
Museum reverses course, and it’s the ‘Philadelphia Museum of Art’ once again
The name change announced in October has been changed back, but some elements of the rebrand will remain.
www.inquirer.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:35 PM
RIP PhArt (2025-2026) www.inquirer.com/arts/philade...
Which fallacy am I SEPTAsplaining here: “the express is on the local track but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the unmarked train on the express track is a local”
January 30, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Which fallacy am I SEPTAsplaining here: “the express is on the local track but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the unmarked train on the express track is a local”
What does The Pitt’s lady with the leg situation have that’s “worse than MRSA”?!?! (Something everyone in the ER is going to have by episode 10?)
January 30, 2026 at 3:33 AM
What does The Pitt’s lady with the leg situation have that’s “worse than MRSA”?!?! (Something everyone in the ER is going to have by episode 10?)
Weird time to be elected to AMS office but I’m the new vice president of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter, looking forward to working with the other officers, thanks for your votes (I ran unopposed but thanks anyways)
January 29, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Weird time to be elected to AMS office but I’m the new vice president of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter, looking forward to working with the other officers, thanks for your votes (I ran unopposed but thanks anyways)
“Man throws severed deer head out of pickup truck at protestors” is one of the more intensely upstate NY stories I’ve seen recently www.syracuse.com/crime/2026/0...
Man arrested after throwing severed deer head at anti-Trump protesters in LaFayette, police say
The president's immigration crackdown has led to a wave of protests in Central New York and around the country.
www.syracuse.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:27 AM
“Man throws severed deer head out of pickup truck at protestors” is one of the more intensely upstate NY stories I’ve seen recently www.syracuse.com/crime/2026/0...
Very happy to be presenting at the revived 19th-Century Music conference this summer. Also, maybe I’ll just go to Toronto and not come back.
January 28, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Very happy to be presenting at the revived 19th-Century Music conference this summer. Also, maybe I’ll just go to Toronto and not come back.
Lower on the priority list but I hope some day a reborn NEA will give them a grant for a rebrand
January 27, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Lower on the priority list but I hope some day a reborn NEA will give them a grant for a rebrand
Walkable neighborhood means you don’t need to dig out your car, just take the bus until the snow melts
January 26, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Walkable neighborhood means you don’t need to dig out your car, just take the bus until the snow melts
I have heard tales of grocery bedlam but the Giant on South Broad is mostly stocked and not mobbed
January 24, 2026 at 1:11 PM
I have heard tales of grocery bedlam but the Giant on South Broad is mostly stocked and not mobbed
variation on the "just walk out/hit da bricks" meme but it's "you can skip Sammartini"
January 23, 2026 at 2:12 PM
variation on the "just walk out/hit da bricks" meme but it's "you can skip Sammartini"