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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I already ate my emergency cookie and class hasn’t even started yet. Send help.

Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The unglamorous side of teaching at one campus in the morning and taking classes at a separate campus in the evening. Hashtag Car Naps.

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Idk what I’d do without my dissertation committee and the grace and support they give me 😭

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Amazed that students don't think that I will search out the quotes they use. I will. And I do. And if it's not in the document...

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Elmoerc Elmo in Flames

Alt: Elmo in Flames

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Compared the modernist manifestos to a Facebook screed in class today then asked my students how they might quote tweet the manifestos if they were posts. AMA.

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Grateful for every Kagan opinion I read. The parentheticals are always *chef's kiss* (Reading Florida v. Harris 2013 for CrimPro, and I was wondering about how SCFL's rule would work for young dogs, and then bam, "(One wonders how the court would apply its test to a rookie dog)" and I'm 😆)

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The importance of commas: It’s raining, men. It’s raining men. Which do you say hallelujah (derogatory) to?

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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995) Episode 8 - The Treize Assassination 17:47.400

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Finally getting into modernism with my students, and I am so very excited. Take that 1800s: stay where you were. History began in 1900. (For legal purposes, this is a joke)

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Ron Swanson: History Began on July 4, 1776

ALT: Ron Swanson: History Began on July 4, 1776

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Always thinking about how my advisor is drilling into me archival choices is so important to a project (which I'm glad about!), and then reading how a published book/article's archive was chosen because the books were within reach / on the bookshelf.

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If I channeled Sophia every time I get called on to provide facts, do you think my professors would get annoyed? "Councilor McLain, please provide the facts of this case." "Picture it. California, 1971." It'd probably be better than the AI paragraphs others are reading...

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Sophia Petrillo: Picture It, Sicily 1912

ALT: Sophia Petrillo: Picture It, Sicily 1912

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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans (2015) Episode 11 - Human Debris 12:43.473

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oh boy, here I go [teaching] again.

Picture of Adam in a red shirt and maroon-ish suit coat

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nothing like a fully setup LMS to alleviate some of the stress.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I love a science fiction magazine banner! From the June 1957 issue of Infinity Science Fiction #scifi #sciencefiction

"Feedback." A cat alien-like creature hangs on a pen and points with one of its four two fingered-hands towards a planet.

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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007) Episode 23 - Flower of Life 22:13.246

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It’s Friyay girliepops. (Stare into the soul of the goddess & give her nose a boop)

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Powers restored; semester starts on Monday. Teaching: US Lit Since 1880 Feminism and Science Fiction Taking: Criminal Procedure Privacy Law Research on Mahmoud v Taylor Guided readings on originalism Drafting: Butler & Atwood chapters Sanderson essay Maybe a secret thing?

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That soft weeping in the bushes? It’s the elgeebeetees. It’s been a week.

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Happy PSL day to all who celebrate

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A dissertation is written one sentence at a time. 🥺 A dissertation is written one sentence at a time. 😍 A dissertation is written one sentence at a time. 😭 A dissertation is written one sentence at a time. 😱 A dissertation is written one sentence at a time. 🥹 A dissertation is written one sentence—🙂

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Asked yet again how many more years I will be school 😭😂😭😂😭😂

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Would find ”we should teach students about the Bible” a lot more convincing if we weren’t on a twenty-year run of closing down religious studies programs.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 18/08/2026

not every automated thing computers do is ai

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Today I'm grateful for working memory documents. Because I juggle a lot of different balls, I don't always remember where I was in a project when I sit down to work on it; working memory documents record what I've done and where I'm going (idea from Cal Newport).

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Working on a dissertation in American political behavior and need money for survey research? Apply for a grant worth up to $15,000 from the Rapoport Family Foundation. They’re planning on awarding up to 15 grants this cycle. Deadline Oct. 21. www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant

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Rapoport Doctoral Dissertation Grants

Supporting projects for PhD students doing political science research, democracy and social justice.

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In a world of Warts and Merlins, Kays and Ectors, always be an Archimedes: curmudgeonly, with a good heart, as a treat.

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Chess.com @chess.com · 17/08/2026

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My academic gratitude for today is for CTRL-F. I used it to discover a sentence on a page in Mendelsohn's Rhetorics of Fantasy (2008) that Sanchez-Taylor cited in Dispelling Fantasies (2025), which my weary eyes kept missing in the primary source.

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Did you know that you can just thaw fruit and eat it? You don't have to add it to a smoothie or anything... just nom nom nom. My world has changed.

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Is the future of political journalism just articles titled "Here's how the polls got it wrong" over and over again?

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today I took a look at James Gurney's second Dinotopia book, THE WORLD BENEATH (1995), a parable about the dangers of a society that overrelies on technology and turns its back on multispecies community. A beautiful book, but not nearly as powerful as DINOTOPIA (1992).

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Reading “The World Beneath” by James Gurney (Dinotopia 2)

On James Gurney’s The World Beneath (1995), the second Dinotopia illustrated novel and a parable about the dangers of overreliance on technology at the expense of community.

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I contain multitudes. (The caffeine free Mtn Dew was discovered at a vending machine at the BYU Salt Lake Center.)

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Person next to me in the movie theater kept checking her phone in her handbag. Like, ma'am, I'm a teacher. I know when you're looking at your phone. It's the mutation we develop from our prolonged exposure to the Classroom.

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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 01/08/2026

You should read Timothy Zahn for more than his Star Wars novels. May I suggest his Conqueror’s trilogy, which kicked off 30 years ago today? transfer-orbit.ghost.io/timothy-zahn...

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Timothy Zahn’s Conquerors’ trilogy is just as good as his Thrawn novels

You should read Timothy Zahn for more than his Star Wars novels

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Let me go find my emotional support twelve-new-daily-articles about the Odyssey war

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My picks were Jennifer Coolidge or Miss Piggy but I'm not mad about Samara Weaving as Emma Frost.

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 30/07/2026

Legendary Latter-day Saint poet, playwright and activist Carol Lynn Pearson has died at age 86. "The Mormon people were truly blessed to have her as a companion," a historian says, "and the institution would have done well to listen to her.”

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Legendary LDS writer and advocate Carol Lynn Pearson dies, leaves a final poem to her fans

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Kristine A @kristinea.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Rip Carol Lynn Pearson. Her work has gotten me through some pretty rough patches.

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Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Favorite knowledge gained of the week: Nancy Reagan had a personal astrologer, whom she used while Ronald was in office.

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The Wor$t Tall in America @talltbh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Baby just because it’s the first time YOU have thought about it, doesn’t mean it’s the first time anyone else has

Trixie Mattel drinking a bubly through a metal straw

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