I wish immigration judges would have immediately required video conferencing.
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I wish immigration judges would have immediately required video conferencing.
Working on something scholarly for the first time in nearly two years feels especially good rn bc the school that laid me off also cut funding for conferencing, and—big and—I had no idea whether I'd be able to work in academia again. Wasn't sure I still had these muscles. Big feelings, guys.
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Working on something scholarly for the first time in nearly two years feels especially good rn bc the school that laid me off also cut funding for conferencing, and—big and—I had no idea whether I'd be able to work in academia again. Wasn't sure I still had these muscles. Big feelings, guys.
There were some stories last week about how Senate democrats were conferencing with Schiff about how to shield themselves from potential Trump prosecutions, and anyway...makes you think.
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
There were some stories last week about how Senate democrats were conferencing with Schiff about how to shield themselves from potential Trump prosecutions, and anyway...makes you think.
I won’t be at either this year. I’m taking a conferencing break, but I’ll be at AERA in the spring 😊
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I won’t be at either this year. I’m taking a conferencing break, but I’ll be at AERA in the spring 😊
Infomaniak has a full suite of tools that replace Google workspace. It includes a video conferencing tool built on Jitsi. It costs about the same as Google. It’s a little clunky and we haven’t mastered it, but these are just growing pains 💪🏻
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Infomaniak has a full suite of tools that replace Google workspace. It includes a video conferencing tool built on Jitsi. It costs about the same as Google. It’s a little clunky and we haven’t mastered it, but these are just growing pains 💪🏻
Blargle! Let me know who drags me in Detroit and I'll make sure to engage in petty discursive footnoting in the book manuscript.
:) Happy conferencing! Say hi to everyone for me.
:) Happy conferencing! Say hi to everyone for me.
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Blargle! Let me know who drags me in Detroit and I'll make sure to engage in petty discursive footnoting in the book manuscript.
:) Happy conferencing! Say hi to everyone for me.
:) Happy conferencing! Say hi to everyone for me.
At the same time we claim that to get into the "top" conferences you must be a "top" scholar. Idk how we pretend that conferencing is a meritocracy and only the best proposals are chosen. Its just a question of who can pay. Ultimately the org has to fill a hotel. Yet we pretend its about skill.
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
At the same time we claim that to get into the "top" conferences you must be a "top" scholar. Idk how we pretend that conferencing is a meritocracy and only the best proposals are chosen. Its just a question of who can pay. Ultimately the org has to fill a hotel. Yet we pretend its about skill.
Binge watching One Piece with my daughter, how delighted she was to be given some dressing up rings by the lady we buy breakfast for on the way to school, getting a lovely card (pictured) from my sister, and making plans with Ros for what I'll be doing whilst she's off conferencing this weekend.
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Binge watching One Piece with my daughter, how delighted she was to be given some dressing up rings by the lady we buy breakfast for on the way to school, getting a lovely card (pictured) from my sister, and making plans with Ros for what I'll be doing whilst she's off conferencing this weekend.
People really shat on the Jan 6th commission, but the video of Pelosi taking control and conferencing multiple people on cell phones, dead set on resuming the peaceful transfer of power, was a powerful one.
Can you imagine if Trump's coup had succeeded in delaying the certification for *days*?
Can you imagine if Trump's coup had succeeded in delaying the certification for *days*?
So many iconic Pelosi moments- ACA, IRA, ARRA, the '06 and '18 midterms... but for me it's the night of 1/6/21.
We were waiting to see how many days until they could return to the Capitol to finish certifying the election.
She told us, "tonight." I still tear up thinking about how that felt.
We were waiting to see how many days until they could return to the Capitol to finish certifying the election.
She told us, "tonight." I still tear up thinking about how that felt.
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
People really shat on the Jan 6th commission, but the video of Pelosi taking control and conferencing multiple people on cell phones, dead set on resuming the peaceful transfer of power, was a powerful one.
Can you imagine if Trump's coup had succeeded in delaying the certification for *days*?
Can you imagine if Trump's coup had succeeded in delaying the certification for *days*?
🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court is conferencing today on Kim Davis’s petition asking them to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges and revisit nationwide marriage equality. If the justices take it, arguments would come later; if they deny, we could hear as soon as Mon, Nov 10.
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court is conferencing today on Kim Davis’s petition asking them to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges and revisit nationwide marriage equality. If the justices take it, arguments would come later; if they deny, we could hear as soon as Mon, Nov 10.
Stoicism and Little House at Society for the Study of American Women Writers: done and joyfully so. Loved debriefing with my co-writer Gregory Eiselein afterward. Can’t wait to keep thinking about Stoic joy in American lit…and to do even more conferencing tomorrow!
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Stoicism and Little House at Society for the Study of American Women Writers: done and joyfully so. Loved debriefing with my co-writer Gregory Eiselein afterward. Can’t wait to keep thinking about Stoic joy in American lit…and to do even more conferencing tomorrow!
Thanks to @philsci.bsky.social for supporting online conferencing and its sustainability and accessibility benefits.
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Thanks to @philsci.bsky.social for supporting online conferencing and its sustainability and accessibility benefits.
On an early online conferencing platform in 1995.
November 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
On an early online conferencing platform in 1995.
and all hotels are 4/5 star with those sort of prices, gone are the 3 star hotels with conferencing, it's all the chains of 'inns'. Those sort of hotels were the back bone for community events.
November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
and all hotels are 4/5 star with those sort of prices, gone are the 3 star hotels with conferencing, it's all the chains of 'inns'. Those sort of hotels were the back bone for community events.
Two new additions to my G1 collection were waiting for me after my week sales conferencing.
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Two new additions to my G1 collection were waiting for me after my week sales conferencing.
Absolutely! I also had a manager that "created" reasons for our team to travel. It was ridiculous. I worked for this person during 911 and I dreaded the "we're going to fly you to..." We had access to video conferencing back then. But he was fly happy.
November 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Absolutely! I also had a manager that "created" reasons for our team to travel. It was ridiculous. I worked for this person during 911 and I dreaded the "we're going to fly you to..." We had access to video conferencing back then. But he was fly happy.
Before Zoom or FaceTime, there was the 𝗔𝗧&𝗧 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲 (1969). $160/month for a black-and-white video call that worked, but only just. 😅 Basically the “vintage filter” version of modern conferencing. #FunFactFriday #RetroTech #TechHistory
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Before Zoom or FaceTime, there was the 𝗔𝗧&𝗧 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲 (1969). $160/month for a black-and-white video call that worked, but only just. 😅 Basically the “vintage filter” version of modern conferencing. #FunFactFriday #RetroTech #TechHistory
My JBL live free 2 TWS have been solid. They do fall out with a lot of jaw movement and aren’t great for video conferencing if you’ll be speaking a lot due to randomly dropping out of your ear.
October 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My JBL live free 2 TWS have been solid. They do fall out with a lot of jaw movement and aren’t great for video conferencing if you’ll be speaking a lot due to randomly dropping out of your ear.
Zoom is not owned by Amazon. It is a separate company. The founders mostly came from Cisco's WebEx, which used to be the corporate standard for web conferencing. (I implemented WebEx at my old job pre-2020), but the code was old and bloated. Zoom started from scratch so it worked better.
October 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Zoom is not owned by Amazon. It is a separate company. The founders mostly came from Cisco's WebEx, which used to be the corporate standard for web conferencing. (I implemented WebEx at my old job pre-2020), but the code was old and bloated. Zoom started from scratch so it worked better.
I mentioned there were lots of memes on conferencing (perhaps second only to Reviewer 2 content). But there are also quite a lot of procrastination-themed memes in my research / writing / academia-ish meme stash. And sometimes I feel personally attacked by them. #highered #academicsky #resdev
October 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I mentioned there were lots of memes on conferencing (perhaps second only to Reviewer 2 content). But there are also quite a lot of procrastination-themed memes in my research / writing / academia-ish meme stash. And sometimes I feel personally attacked by them. #highered #academicsky #resdev
try out meet.jit.si if you're looking for an open source video conferencing service. it actually works pretty well, i had some issues with share screen on firefox but most meetings are just talking faces.
October 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
try out meet.jit.si if you're looking for an open source video conferencing service. it actually works pretty well, i had some issues with share screen on firefox but most meetings are just talking faces.
How is it going? New research has explored the use of Social VR for student counselling. Qualitative findings indicate that students preferred VR over video conferencing for the feeling of presence, but counsellors missed eye contact.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
October 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
How is it going? New research has explored the use of Social VR for student counselling. Qualitative findings indicate that students preferred VR over video conferencing for the feeling of presence, but counsellors missed eye contact.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Good God, federal courts have terrible conferencing tech/skills
October 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Good God, federal courts have terrible conferencing tech/skills
Still conferencing but here is a peek at the slides for "The Call Is Coming From Inside the House: How White Librarianship Protects Itself and Hinders Belonging"
Images are linked and there is a full resource sheet at the end.
Full blog post with more on Friday.
drive.google.com/file/d/1b3Fg...
Images are linked and there is a full resource sheet at the end.
Full blog post with more on Friday.
drive.google.com/file/d/1b3Fg...
The Call is Coming From Inside The House.pdf
drive.google.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Still conferencing but here is a peek at the slides for "The Call Is Coming From Inside the House: How White Librarianship Protects Itself and Hinders Belonging"
Images are linked and there is a full resource sheet at the end.
Full blog post with more on Friday.
drive.google.com/file/d/1b3Fg...
Images are linked and there is a full resource sheet at the end.
Full blog post with more on Friday.
drive.google.com/file/d/1b3Fg...
Delighted that Rice University's Elizabeth Petrick will be joining us at University of Minnesota for the HSTM Colloquium Talk: "Embodiment and Mobility in Online Technologies: From Computerized Conferencing to Tablets" October 24th
216 Pillsbury Drive, Room 125 (3:35 pm), Minneapolis, MN #histsci
216 Pillsbury Drive, Room 125 (3:35 pm), Minneapolis, MN #histsci
October 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Delighted that Rice University's Elizabeth Petrick will be joining us at University of Minnesota for the HSTM Colloquium Talk: "Embodiment and Mobility in Online Technologies: From Computerized Conferencing to Tablets" October 24th
216 Pillsbury Drive, Room 125 (3:35 pm), Minneapolis, MN #histsci
216 Pillsbury Drive, Room 125 (3:35 pm), Minneapolis, MN #histsci