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Mike Zickar
@mzickar.bsky.social
Industrial-Organizational Psychology at BGSU, Art Nerd, co-founder of @ashcan_daily on IG. Proud union member
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What would Gouldner say in 2025?!?

#AcademicSky #SociologySky #SocialscienceSky
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
More fiction related to work. Kikuko Tsumara's There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job explores social interactions at work, turnover, and newcomer socialization in an enjoyable novel that incorporates elements of magical realism.

#booksky #workfiction #storygraph
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Several People Are Typing (2021) by @kasulke.co is a fascinating novel written to mimic Slack interactions. A strong theme is remote work and the challenges of maintaining a workplace culture when most people are WFH.

#booksky #iopsych #workfiction #remotework
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A hearty October of reading, with lots of work-related stuff, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's On Death and Dying, and my favorite of the month David Halberstam's The Next Century. He anticipated much of the shit we're going through now.

#storygraph #booksky
November 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
October 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Toledo Ohio!

#nokings
October 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You know the answer, just commit to it.

~Robbie Williams
October 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Sidewalk chalking is alive and well at BGSU. Sadly, Ohio State has banned the practice.
October 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
September wrapup. Sums up my varied reading life: 1 short story, 1 feminism, 1 history, 1 politics, 1 art, 1 novel

#storygraph #booksky
October 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Harry Gottlieb (1895-1992), The Strike Is Won, 1946, serigraph at the Wichita Art Museum

#laborsky #artsky
September 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Forgot to post my August reads.. some great ones including a collection of MLK sermons, essays by Audre Lorde and Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, each a revelation in their own way.

#storygraph
#booksky
September 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Friday night high school football

Perrysburg Ohio
September 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Chalking seen on campus at BGSU. OSU and DeSantis are fragile snowflakes
August 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Paul Sample (1896 - 1974), Miners Resting, 1935, oil painting at the Sheldon Museum

#artsky
#laborsky
August 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Ohio State prohibits sidewalk chalking.

Come to BGSU where sidewalk chalking is alive and well!
August 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
On campus this afternoon
August 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Less reading this month due to travel and getting lost in Dickens's Chuzzlewit (ongoing). I finished a book started a year ago though (Pedagogy of Care) and that felt good!

#StoryGraph #Booksky

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August 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Labor art for you to start the work week. Charles Turzak's Workers #1, c. 1930, a woodblock print at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art.

#artsky
#laborsky

Posted this morning at @ashcan_daily on IG
July 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Some fun reading in June, some work reading in June. Highest rated was David Rynick's Wandering Close to Home, an insightful Zen book about living & practicing in the pandemic.

#booksky
#storygraph
July 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/shelves, list, stack, e-list, library hold—wherever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers
20/20
#BookSky #bookchallenge #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚
June 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/shelves, list, stack, e-list, library hold—wherever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers
19/20
#BookSky #bookchallenge #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚
June 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/shelves, list, stack, e-list, library hold—wherever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers
18/20
#BookSky #bookchallenge #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚
June 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf/shelves, list, stack, e-list, library hold—wherever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers
16/20
#BookSky #bookchallenge #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚
June 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Louis Lozowick (1892-1973), Derricks and Men, 1945, oil on canvas at the Whitney

A great painting illustrating the importance of trust and safety.

#artsky
June 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM