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Megan S.

@allgreek2me.bsky.social
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Devourer of SF/F. I knit, spin, sometimes weave. I crochet (badly). Slogging through a Ph.D. (don’t go to grad school, kids) Lifetime higher ed staffer: here be OPINIONS. Two things: 1.) Be nice or leave. 2.) The institution will never love you back.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Object Permanence cannot be taken for granted in the electorate.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
IDK if public universities count but this is palpably true in this state
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can understand the angst about bloat if you're coming from an institution that has more money than god. But it is interesting to note that there are things that *have* to be done for advising, accreditation, and compliance that faculty absolutely do NOT want to do.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/09/2026
One of the most harrowing things about academia, when you're a grad student, is how vulnerable you are to how you're perceived by more senior researchers. Your career advancement depends on confidential letters of reference & private discussions amongst faculty. You have no information or control.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
While jotting notes in a meeting today I noticed a faculty member’s socks. Star Trek TOS gold with the correct insignia. Cue me telling him I loved them (via email as I was stuck with someone else when he left) and sharing my LCARS lock screen- lo, a beautiful friendship hath formed.
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Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nobody believes that "writing IS thinking". People do (correctly) believe that writing is a critical *form* of thinking, one that is cognitively useful, aesthetically powerful, and that cannot simply be substituted or abandoned without serious consequence.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026
the history of the Roman Empire basically *is* studying engineering like
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’M GONNA TAPE FLYERS OF THIS EVERYWHERE I GO.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Holy shit. I think I just finished the revisions my chair wanted on my lit review. This has taken weeks (I have so little uninterrupted time, it’s stupid). One more chapter to revise and then maybe I can defend my proposal, get through IRB, and start interviewing.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seeing so many fall posts and this is what the next few days are gonna be. It hasn’t rained meaningful amounts for weeks. It’s like SAD up in here but with summer weather instead of winter
Forecast for my area for the next four days. Highs in the nineties with maybe rain on Wednesday, but I won’t be holding my breath
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
RAIN!!! IT RAINED FINALLY OMG!
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I got an everything bagel kolache for breakfast and it is SO GOOD. I'm going to have to fight not to get one every day now.
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the thing they don't tell you about being this age is my god what a fucking relief
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My parents took a trip to see their friends up north and keep texting me with their weather. Currently 65 and cloudy. The lowest it's going to be in aggieland is 89, and that's something like 10 days out.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pretty sure she would be confused that I’m still in school and not the Indiana Jones of nautical archaeology. She would probably like that I don’t hate myself every minute of every day and I have addressed the crippling depression as best I can and have a friend group though.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I know I should just get over it, but I don't hate that blue staters have to walk a mile in our shoes. It is frustrating to be a blue person in a red state.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Blah,” said Toad.
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Miniature birds 58 - Greater Roadrunner
A thin spotted brown and white bird with tufted crest and a pointy tail
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As I edit this stupid proposal I have been thinking a lot about the lexicon of professional language and how it will shift in the next 3-5 years. Like I will never ever use “thank you for your attention to this matter” ever again. Ever. I wonder if that will be common?
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reading cozy magic postal delivery books where everyone writes with fountain pens and uses specifically-shaded inks for everything (all of which are lovingly described) is SO BAD for my wallet.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ok, this took my breath away, and makes a lot of my life make sense.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
EXCELLENT niche nerdery here!
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As a Texan, my assumption is that every rain storm is a thunderstorm with lightning. Unfortunately. 😵‍💫🙃
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My brain has been utterly convinced that today is Thursday since I woke up. It is not. It is Tuesday, and yet.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: The Search for Speck
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: The Birdbath
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
FRIDAY-MORNING CREW These two properly seasoned and mildly weird (i.e., cats) cats STILL don't have a forever home. You—yes, YOU—need two perfectly affectionate cats to spoil. (Please reshare wherever decent humans may be. Office, neighborhood, libraries, EVERYWHERE.)
Torbie cat standing on bed, looking up.Gloriously dim gray cat with white flash on throat, sitting on bed, looking up, trying to spot his fleeing brain cell.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There was a huge difference between knowing something happened and seeing the reality of it.
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I can’t guarantee earth will be consumed in 🔥 ☢️ CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE☢️ 🔥 if someone, maybe moved by the Goodness of Dolly Parton, doesn’t adopt these kitties ASAP. But it seems a lot more likely & we’d deserve it all the more 🚨CATS NEED HELP🚨 In NE but plz rpst no matter where you are
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
ORPHANED CATS NEED FOREVER HOME IN NORTHEAST (PLEASE READ *ENTIRE* THREAD) My wife's childhood friend died Thursday, leaving his two *mildly* special-needs cats. The elder, Wally, is about 13. ABSOLUTELY affectionate cat; GLORIOUSLY dim. His only issue is that he poops in bathtubs if given a chance
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026
Every single post on my timeline--literally every one--is screaming grief
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Prayer candle with dolly Parton on it.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh, this one hurts. Dolly, you legend.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty @tkingfisher.com if that cup is made of antimony you’re in for an explosive evening.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Hey @kbspangler.com I think you recommended the Green Man books by @julietmckenna.bsky.social a little while ago? I just finished the most recent ones and they were SO great, I really appreciate the recommendation.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20/08/2026
Watching everyone talk past each other as if the first thing these companies did wasn't to destroy the publicly understood communal definitions of literally every word we need to use to have these conversations.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Some days, you just wake up with "Iko Iko" stuck in your head.
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Cranky Professional Organizer Bitch @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 14/08/2026
Hello, I'm childbirth.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
How can I drill this into people’s bones? So much avoidable jackassery in the world (which is not to say I don’t need this lesson drilled into me periodically.)
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/08/2026
you can build an overqualified faculty or admissions class out of basically any demographic you want so it’s important to have guidelines that don’t just perpetuate the existing overrepresented groups indefinitely because that’s the way it’s always been done
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
HAHAHAAAAAAHAHA!!
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Universities are not corporations. They actually predate them as a substantive matter. The modern corporate form is a late 19th century invention; indeed, modern corporations should be more like universities.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
What I need male academics to understand is that you, YES YOU, still benefit from a system where you are seen as superior to the women students and staff around you. You don't have to lift a finger. You are not exempt because you're nice or a feminist. YES YOU. #AcademicSky
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
No cheating post your lock screen
Lock screen of my phone displaying the LCARS (fictional computer interface) user interface from Star Trek the Next Generation
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
There is no misery quite like that of trying to sleep in a house whose owners keep their thermostat 10+ degrees higher than yours while you are going through perimenopause
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Niche nerd territory but if you like boat stuff, excellent nerd joke.
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
You ever sit and read an article and then get really mad that you didn’t write it first? #dissertating
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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
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