Jennie
@unabridgedopinions.com
Student success w/ a HigherEd perspective. Head of Teaching & Learning Development at UoM Library & Academic Lead for Student Success. Constantly tilting at windmills. Often seen reading, riding & running about. NTF/CATE/PFHEA, data and pedagogy obsessed
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DECEMBER 6
happy Feast of St. Nicholas to all whose moms put out wooden shoes for them as kids as like a small-scale early Christmas, a tradition that always made the last few weeks of school before break go a little faster. a Santa song felt right for today and this one is so fun
happy Feast of St. Nicholas to all whose moms put out wooden shoes for them as kids as like a small-scale early Christmas, a tradition that always made the last few weeks of school before break go a little faster. a Santa song felt right for today and this one is so fun
I've Been Bad, Santa
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December 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
DECEMBER 6
happy Feast of St. Nicholas to all whose moms put out wooden shoes for them as kids as like a small-scale early Christmas, a tradition that always made the last few weeks of school before break go a little faster. a Santa song felt right for today and this one is so fun
happy Feast of St. Nicholas to all whose moms put out wooden shoes for them as kids as like a small-scale early Christmas, a tradition that always made the last few weeks of school before break go a little faster. a Santa song felt right for today and this one is so fun
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DECEMBER 5
I am a Kate Rusby girlie til I die, and this wildly catchy punch-up of "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night" is an all-timer. I have probably listened to it twelve times a day every day this week. I adore her voice, but those horns steal the show. BRASS BAND = CHRISTMAS AS FUCK
I am a Kate Rusby girlie til I die, and this wildly catchy punch-up of "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night" is an all-timer. I have probably listened to it twelve times a day every day this week. I adore her voice, but those horns steal the show. BRASS BAND = CHRISTMAS AS FUCK
Sweet Chiming Bells
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December 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
DECEMBER 5
I am a Kate Rusby girlie til I die, and this wildly catchy punch-up of "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night" is an all-timer. I have probably listened to it twelve times a day every day this week. I adore her voice, but those horns steal the show. BRASS BAND = CHRISTMAS AS FUCK
I am a Kate Rusby girlie til I die, and this wildly catchy punch-up of "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night" is an all-timer. I have probably listened to it twelve times a day every day this week. I adore her voice, but those horns steal the show. BRASS BAND = CHRISTMAS AS FUCK
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DECEMBER 2
there are so many great covers of this song, but Robert Downey Jr.’s is my forever fave; I’ve been putting it on holiday mixes since I had to burn them off of Napster. I remember watching this scene on TV with my mom and we both simply lost our minds. we loved him so much on that show
there are so many great covers of this song, but Robert Downey Jr.’s is my forever fave; I’ve been putting it on holiday mixes since I had to burn them off of Napster. I remember watching this scene on TV with my mom and we both simply lost our minds. we loved him so much on that show
River
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December 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
DECEMBER 2
there are so many great covers of this song, but Robert Downey Jr.’s is my forever fave; I’ve been putting it on holiday mixes since I had to burn them off of Napster. I remember watching this scene on TV with my mom and we both simply lost our minds. we loved him so much on that show
there are so many great covers of this song, but Robert Downey Jr.’s is my forever fave; I’ve been putting it on holiday mixes since I had to burn them off of Napster. I remember watching this scene on TV with my mom and we both simply lost our minds. we loved him so much on that show
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DECEMBER 1
this one goes out to all the theatre gays: Idina Menzel and Billy Porter putting their whole diva asses into a big band “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” that will instantly flood your brain with serotonin when they hit those high notes
this one goes out to all the theatre gays: Idina Menzel and Billy Porter putting their whole diva asses into a big band “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” that will instantly flood your brain with serotonin when they hit those high notes
I Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
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December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
DECEMBER 1
this one goes out to all the theatre gays: Idina Menzel and Billy Porter putting their whole diva asses into a big band “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” that will instantly flood your brain with serotonin when they hit those high notes
this one goes out to all the theatre gays: Idina Menzel and Billy Porter putting their whole diva asses into a big band “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” that will instantly flood your brain with serotonin when they hit those high notes
In case your sunday is a bit tough, reposting this.
December 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In case your sunday is a bit tough, reposting this.
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Ok wait I have a subversively optimistic frame on this though
Think about how easy it is to smuggle human-centered measurement into this when no one's looking and you have this expansive tool budget 😎 technical people have cultural and organizational power to shape what's seen in technical work
Think about how easy it is to smuggle human-centered measurement into this when no one's looking and you have this expansive tool budget 😎 technical people have cultural and organizational power to shape what's seen in technical work
It's frankly astonishing the billions of dollars wasted in on new software and tools in service of various initiatives, without first ensuring the organization can accept and handle change.
Especially because making change is literally what goes into working on software.
Especially because making change is literally what goes into working on software.
Learning culture moderates how software organizations adopt tools and the implicit rules we're giving developers want what they can do, experiment with, push back on, and share.
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
December 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Ok wait I have a subversively optimistic frame on this though
Think about how easy it is to smuggle human-centered measurement into this when no one's looking and you have this expansive tool budget 😎 technical people have cultural and organizational power to shape what's seen in technical work
Think about how easy it is to smuggle human-centered measurement into this when no one's looking and you have this expansive tool budget 😎 technical people have cultural and organizational power to shape what's seen in technical work
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May seem mad to a lot of people but if we keep voting for the lesser evil in perpetuity, evil still wins and things will only keep getting worse.
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
May seem mad to a lot of people but if we keep voting for the lesser evil in perpetuity, evil still wins and things will only keep getting worse.
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One of the early lessons in witness investigation and understanding how witnesses can miss things, we had an assignment to watch a video and pay attention to this folder being passed among these office workers, and we'd be quizzed on our observations afterward.
December 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
One of the early lessons in witness investigation and understanding how witnesses can miss things, we had an assignment to watch a video and pay attention to this folder being passed among these office workers, and we'd be quizzed on our observations afterward.
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It's day TWENTY-FIVE of our national ULP strike.
You know our baristas are dedicated when they're running picket lines in these freezing temps. ⛄️ We're ready to keep fighting until Starbucks stops union busting and delivers a fair contract! #NoContractNoCoffee
You know our baristas are dedicated when they're running picket lines in these freezing temps. ⛄️ We're ready to keep fighting until Starbucks stops union busting and delivers a fair contract! #NoContractNoCoffee
December 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It's day TWENTY-FIVE of our national ULP strike.
You know our baristas are dedicated when they're running picket lines in these freezing temps. ⛄️ We're ready to keep fighting until Starbucks stops union busting and delivers a fair contract! #NoContractNoCoffee
You know our baristas are dedicated when they're running picket lines in these freezing temps. ⛄️ We're ready to keep fighting until Starbucks stops union busting and delivers a fair contract! #NoContractNoCoffee
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
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What’s your favourite movie that YOU KNOW is fantastic, and you couldn’t care less if movie snobs would say it “isn’t real cinema?”
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
What’s your favourite movie that YOU KNOW is fantastic, and you couldn’t care less if movie snobs would say it “isn’t real cinema?”
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GIDDY UP JINGLE HORSES
Claire’s 2025 Bluesky Holiday Playlist BEGINS HERE
🎄☃️ 🎄☃️ 🎄☃️
here’s last year’s for anyone who missed it!
Claire’s 2025 Bluesky Holiday Playlist BEGINS HERE
🎄☃️ 🎄☃️ 🎄☃️
here’s last year’s for anyone who missed it!
Spotify – Web Player
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December 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
GIDDY UP JINGLE HORSES
Claire’s 2025 Bluesky Holiday Playlist BEGINS HERE
🎄☃️ 🎄☃️ 🎄☃️
here’s last year’s for anyone who missed it!
Claire’s 2025 Bluesky Holiday Playlist BEGINS HERE
🎄☃️ 🎄☃️ 🎄☃️
here’s last year’s for anyone who missed it!
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if only the cabal of shadowy billionaires running the world from their supervillain lairs financially supported goofy fun shitposters instead of racist dudes so worked up about Great Replacement Theory they look like Violet Beauregard after she chews the Forbidden Gum
You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems
December 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
if only the cabal of shadowy billionaires running the world from their supervillain lairs financially supported goofy fun shitposters instead of racist dudes so worked up about Great Replacement Theory they look like Violet Beauregard after she chews the Forbidden Gum
Always feel free to ask your library how it deals with data! As an academic library, we also run skills and learning support. We don’t tell anyone what you book on to! We DO look at trends and cohort-level data to make sure we are delivering what our communities need.
we try very hard to protect your privacy. but our books, on the other hand, live inside a TOTAL SURVEILLANCE regime, and as a collection-development librarian i am head of Central Intelligence.
December 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Always feel free to ask your library how it deals with data! As an academic library, we also run skills and learning support. We don’t tell anyone what you book on to! We DO look at trends and cohort-level data to make sure we are delivering what our communities need.
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As stated, this is a translation of my Dutch colleagues’ letter- so if you need an English version, follow the link and you can still sign theirs, too. Thx again to @olivia.science for letting me use their words & for everyone’s efforts! @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
As stated, this is a translation of my Dutch colleagues’ letter- so if you need an English version, follow the link and you can still sign theirs, too. Thx again to @olivia.science for letting me use their words & for everyone’s efforts! @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science.
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
December 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science.
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
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I encounter people who seem to have lost touch with the concept of being a physical presence in a three dimensional space. Their body being present in, say, a doorway, while they stare at their phone cannot occur to them. Everyone is now the only human who exists. Seems bad.
Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I encounter people who seem to have lost touch with the concept of being a physical presence in a three dimensional space. Their body being present in, say, a doorway, while they stare at their phone cannot occur to them. Everyone is now the only human who exists. Seems bad.
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as usual this did not work, nor did "do something you want to do only slightly less than you don't want to do the thing", but "take your ADHD meds and finish the five-minute task you've been procrastinating on all day" remains undefeated as a tactic
Unsurprisingly, procrastinating all day has not made the thing I need to do spontaneously resolve itself. Maybe if I procrastinate another half hour it will?
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
as usual this did not work, nor did "do something you want to do only slightly less than you don't want to do the thing", but "take your ADHD meds and finish the five-minute task you've been procrastinating on all day" remains undefeated as a tactic
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You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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Robin of the Day:
Red-capped Robin
📷 Scott Eaton
Red-capped Robin
📷 Scott Eaton
December 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Robin of the Day:
Red-capped Robin
📷 Scott Eaton
Red-capped Robin
📷 Scott Eaton
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The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
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If you read LOTR when young I think you miss how much the hobbits represent, not “children” exactly but the rising generation. Incredibly annoying, foolish, don’t listen, but somehow—though this is obviously insane—they’re the only ones in a position to save us all. 100% about Christopher in RAF.
December 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you read LOTR when young I think you miss how much the hobbits represent, not “children” exactly but the rising generation. Incredibly annoying, foolish, don’t listen, but somehow—though this is obviously insane—they’re the only ones in a position to save us all. 100% about Christopher in RAF.