Sarah Gunning, Ph.D.
@sgunning.bsky.social
Associate Professor of #techcomm and Director of M.S. Professional Writing & the Communicating Complex Information certificate @ Towson University, MD.
Loves: outside, plaid, wool, weird perfumes, gardening all the things, seeing new places, reggaeton
Loves: outside, plaid, wool, weird perfumes, gardening all the things, seeing new places, reggaeton
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mentally thanking authors Sarah Perry & Michelle Orange from the Baltimore Writers' Conference for saying "What is this paragraph doing?" while I revise my work 📖
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
mentally thanking authors Sarah Perry & Michelle Orange from the Baltimore Writers' Conference for saying "What is this paragraph doing?" while I revise my work 📖
Books I would love in my advent 2025 calendar:
📖all the Rachel Cusks (!) <--I've finally libraried-them out
📖Anne Truitt: Daybook, Turn, & Prospect
📖Joan Didion: Notes to John
📖The assassin's cloak: Diarists
📖Virginia Woolf: A writer's diary
📖all the Rachel Cusks (!) <--I've finally libraried-them out
📖Anne Truitt: Daybook, Turn, & Prospect
📖Joan Didion: Notes to John
📖The assassin's cloak: Diarists
📖Virginia Woolf: A writer's diary
Bertvent is a countdown of my favourite books of the year.
Every day until Christmas Eve, the first customer to spend £20 on books will get the chance to unwrap that day’s title and keep it for themselves at no extra cost.
Every day until Christmas Eve, the first customer to spend £20 on books will get the chance to unwrap that day’s title and keep it for themselves at no extra cost.
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Books I would love in my advent 2025 calendar:
📖all the Rachel Cusks (!) <--I've finally libraried-them out
📖Anne Truitt: Daybook, Turn, & Prospect
📖Joan Didion: Notes to John
📖The assassin's cloak: Diarists
📖Virginia Woolf: A writer's diary
📖all the Rachel Cusks (!) <--I've finally libraried-them out
📖Anne Truitt: Daybook, Turn, & Prospect
📖Joan Didion: Notes to John
📖The assassin's cloak: Diarists
📖Virginia Woolf: A writer's diary
who knew I am a maxi dress person? I had no idea. I just bought a cute one on ebay (again). Thanks, India, for opening this whole new world for me.
December 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
who knew I am a maxi dress person? I had no idea. I just bought a cute one on ebay (again). Thanks, India, for opening this whole new world for me.
the idea of wanting to bring, like, a cake & clementines to celebrate a big thing for someone, and recognize the event, but I also remember doing that recently and how so many people present were weirded out by that/didn't partake.
Sometimes I am on the wrong planet. 🫠
Sometimes I am on the wrong planet. 🫠
December 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
the idea of wanting to bring, like, a cake & clementines to celebrate a big thing for someone, and recognize the event, but I also remember doing that recently and how so many people present were weirded out by that/didn't partake.
Sometimes I am on the wrong planet. 🫠
Sometimes I am on the wrong planet. 🫠
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Someone sent this to me as proof that *i* am wrong about my own self.
Anyway, all of this fabricated. Just untrue and not even close to the direction of truth.
Anyway, all of this fabricated. Just untrue and not even close to the direction of truth.
December 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Someone sent this to me as proof that *i* am wrong about my own self.
Anyway, all of this fabricated. Just untrue and not even close to the direction of truth.
Anyway, all of this fabricated. Just untrue and not even close to the direction of truth.
of course they can't recall what they had "written," because they don't even read the output before submitting their "work." They are just ticking off a task. ✅
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
of course they can't recall what they had "written," because they don't even read the output before submitting their "work." They are just ticking off a task. ✅
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This is just sad.
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is just sad.
sinus headaches! Why.🤕
JK I know why... drastic weather changes
JK I know why... drastic weather changes
December 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
sinus headaches! Why.🤕
JK I know why... drastic weather changes
JK I know why... drastic weather changes
Ooh definitely using this in my rhetoric & science course
"Cosmic filaments are the largest known structures in the universe: vast, thread-like formations of galaxies and dark matter that form a cosmic scaffolding. They also act as "highways" along which matter and momentum flow into galaxies."
Astronomers find vast spinning filament of galaxies 140 million light-years away
An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a "razor-thin" string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic filamen...
phys.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ooh definitely using this in my rhetoric & science course
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This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
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Me, in my 40s, still: oh that’s the rich people mustard
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Me, in my 40s, still: oh that’s the rich people mustard
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it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
Bring back residential-use lead paint, you cowards.
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
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Doesn’t seem great that all the animals are turning to booze.
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Doesn’t seem great that all the animals are turning to booze.
George Michael was so iconic.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
George Michael was so iconic.
I need to go to a Roz Chast show so badly. Bring some of her work to my house.
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I need to go to a Roz Chast show so badly. Bring some of her work to my house.
ohh Justine has gotten me on Marco Polo and I can just see where this is gonna go. Nice to see this girl's face tho; I don't see her enough 📹
December 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
ohh Justine has gotten me on Marco Polo and I can just see where this is gonna go. Nice to see this girl's face tho; I don't see her enough 📹
OOooo 🥬
While writing her cookbook, Khushbu Shah became convinced that a spinach lasagna could be greatly improved by swapping in the flavors of saag paneer for the filling. It’s a dish she jokingly refers to as “lasaagna.” nyti.ms/4ixPNHR
December 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
OOooo 🥬
I want to take a break, but if I do, I may not start/finish grading again
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I want to take a break, but if I do, I may not start/finish grading again
mood 🥧
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
December 03,1949
December 03,1949
December 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
mood 🥧
grad folks from all over the university want to take PRWR 731 Science and Its Public Audience next semester 😄
December 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
grad folks from all over the university want to take PRWR 731 Science and Its Public Audience next semester 😄
the syllabi Ss designed for tech writing courses are so creative. One is based around writing for TTRPGs, another on grant writing, and variations on the service courses
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
the syllabi Ss designed for tech writing courses are so creative. One is based around writing for TTRPGs, another on grant writing, and variations on the service courses
if I can't grade: write
If I can't write: grade
going to work on this chapter for a bit. At the point where I am asking: "what exactly is this paragraph doing?" for each paragraph, so, pretty far along. 6500 words.
If I can't write: grade
going to work on this chapter for a bit. At the point where I am asking: "what exactly is this paragraph doing?" for each paragraph, so, pretty far along. 6500 words.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
if I can't grade: write
If I can't write: grade
going to work on this chapter for a bit. At the point where I am asking: "what exactly is this paragraph doing?" for each paragraph, so, pretty far along. 6500 words.
If I can't write: grade
going to work on this chapter for a bit. At the point where I am asking: "what exactly is this paragraph doing?" for each paragraph, so, pretty far along. 6500 words.
soo many deadlines in December
☕ a marketing grant
☕a GA proposal
✅Honors college applications
☕CURE fellow app
☕1 chapter
☕a different chapter
☕bluelines for a third chapter
☕F25 final grades
☕PRWR applications
☕ a marketing grant
☕a GA proposal
✅Honors college applications
☕CURE fellow app
☕1 chapter
☕a different chapter
☕bluelines for a third chapter
☕F25 final grades
☕PRWR applications
December 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
soo many deadlines in December
☕ a marketing grant
☕a GA proposal
✅Honors college applications
☕CURE fellow app
☕1 chapter
☕a different chapter
☕bluelines for a third chapter
☕F25 final grades
☕PRWR applications
☕ a marketing grant
☕a GA proposal
✅Honors college applications
☕CURE fellow app
☕1 chapter
☕a different chapter
☕bluelines for a third chapter
☕F25 final grades
☕PRWR applications
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What is the farthest you’ve travelled to see a concert and who did you see?
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
What is the farthest you’ve travelled to see a concert and who did you see?