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Sarah Rose Cavanagh

@sarosecav.bsky.social

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Psychologist. Sr Assoc Director Teaching & Learning @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social. Author of SPARK OF LEARNING, HIVEMIND, & MIND OVER MONSTERS Writes about emotions, teaching, brains. Enjoys speculative fiction, Halloween, and the sea. sarahrosecav.com

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · Nov 10

Welcome new skeeters to the blue blue sky!

I'm a psychologist studying emotions, learning, equity, & mental health in higher education; a writer of creative nonfiction; a thespian (president of a high school drama society); and love brains, dogs, Halloween, and the natural world.

Smiling middle-aged blond woman in a car

Beach roses with a sunset sky in the background. Where my heart lives

Photo credit to Caleb BW on Gooseberry Island--Westport, MA

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 2h

New Mexico is pretty

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

This is just the plot of The Music Man

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2d

Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

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Karen (Cryin’) Yin 😢🎃 | Buy My BOOOOks @karenyin.bsky.social · 7d

it's october.

a black cat is laying on a shelf next to books including pet sematary

Alt: Animated clip of a black cat on a bookshelf, blinking and yawning. On the shelf, a skull; under the shelf, a cobweb.

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 7d

It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 10d

We have arrived

A butternut squash soup, silky smooth and yellow, garnished with pepitas, olive oil, and chives

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 12d

This only happens to you once

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · Aug 7

If I learned anything from the song Black Hole Sun it's that Chris Cornell didn't know shit about astrophysics

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 12d

Just a reminder that if you enjoy a book, please leave a quick review on Amazon or Bookshop dot org, or wherever. Even if it's only a sentence, it really, really helps get the word out to other readers.

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 12d

Next stop, The White House www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

‘This is the first time I’ve not thought about the box office’: Dwayne Johnson on wrestling, reinvention and the role that could redefine him

He became cinema’s most bankable strongman. But weary of his own persona, Johnson turned to indie director Benny Safdie – and delivered a bruising new role that rewrites his own rulebook

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ptklein @ptklein.com · 12d

The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 14d

Those are dissonant messages: “This thing threatens fundamental academic values, but you need to teach it to your students or they will suffer.”

👏 @thetattooedprof.bsky.social

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Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons

Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 14d

yes

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

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@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Andrew Perfors @andyperfors.bsky.social · 15d

I confess I'd probably agree to have Isaac Chotiner interview me, as long as it isn't published.

Think about what you could learn about yourself by having someone delicately but ruthlessly hone into the heart of all your hypocrisies and weaknesses and eviscerate you on that basis.

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks Rebekah - and my heart goes out to your heart.

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 16d

Reading this essay by @sarosecav.bsky.social on thriving in challenging times has given me some great, practical, & hopeful ideas to focus my academic energies on for the year ahead. Here’s hoping I can take them to heart before the system breaks my heart (again).

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Advice | How to Get Through The Year, and Maybe Even Thrive

Four ways to nurture academic well-being in these uniquely challenging times.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16d

you need to admit your crush before the rapture

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17d

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17d

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19d

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 20d

Timeline cleanse, featuring the majestic sea flap-flaps (aka mobula rays).

They're a migratory animal, moving from one part of the ocean to another in large groups called "fevers".

They migrate to follow upwellings that enrich for zooplankton food items & to visit their breeding grounds.

(📷:OCR)

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Shacknews @shacknews.com · 21d

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 22d

Ohhhh even better

Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 22d

I know! Just think, they could run dog boarding on the side, charge people to babysit their dogs and then charge a *different* set of people to do 1:1 babysitting!

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 22d

I got *really* excited about this hotel pre-check-in option but then realized that it meant you'd be bringing your own pet, not that you'd be temporarily assigned one for your room. Dammit.

Screenshot of a webpage - cute spotted dog with a bandana and an "add" option for Add A Pet - $30/night

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