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Claire Major

@clairemajor.bsky.social
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Work: Professor. Director. Editor. Author. Presenter. Fun: Scifi novels. Comics. Food. I love all the cats and dogs. Out here trying to find my people.

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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Most interesting cat in the world. #Caturday
Orange and white cat with crossed front paws
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Sorry for the delayed response" is the first line of every email I send these days. It's implied, isn't it? I could just leave it off and do just as well?
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This is me trying to clear out my email inbox before the long weekend. Inbox Zero is a lie.
Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the mountain.
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Does anyone remember when it was still fun to get an email? It used to be, right? Am I making that up?
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm writing about memory while seeing memory unwind in real time while caregiving for someone with dementia. It's something else, I'll tell you what.
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
As an academic journal editor, I find this great. Really just great, great, great, great...😒 www.copaper.ai/landing#how-...
copaper.ai
CoPaper.AI — Your AI Research Co-Author
From data to empirical paper, together. AI-powered academic paper writing assistant.
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
But I don't want to "meet my new AI teammate." (and ftr AI cannot be a teammate).
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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
paragraphs are just insane little idea bags & they don't make any sense until they do
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
#Caturday (also pictured: a full sized golden retriever)
Large cat lying beside a golden retriever.
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Not a fan of AI scheduling assistants.
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I have to start every email now with "sorry I've been so slow to respond..."
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
So many automated "out of the office" emails. Love to see it!
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Really not looking for "smarter meetings," (although I would not mind _fewer_ meetings), but thanks anyway big ai.
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Is the plane even big enough to have group 8 boarding group?
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The same thing we do every Friday...survive until 5:00.
Image from Pinky and the Brain
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Currently playing the 'is it allergies or am I sick' waiting game. Send good vibes, yall! I don't have time to be sick right now!
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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
JOB: Professor, Culture, Social Interaction, and Qualitative Methods, University of Toronto universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The bigger the hurry I'm in, the slower my doggo takes the morning walk. #slowitdown
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Just finished watching #HowToGetToHeavenFromBelfast It's craic, y'all!
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
My doggo basking the sun.
Golden retriever out in the sun
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Got my "sticky emails" down from somewhere in the 80s to somewhere in the 50s today, so I got that going for me, which is nice.
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I'm celebrating another trip around the sun today!
media.tenor.com
a drawing of the sun with the words another spin around the sun written on it
ALT: a drawing of the sun with the words another spin around the sun written on it
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
You shall not pass. #caturday
Small cat blocking large dog from going up the steps
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils."
Stand of daffodils
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University of Alabama Higher Education Administration Program @uahied.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🚨 New Research Publication alert: Dr. @clairemajor.bsky.social and Dr. Jillian Kinzie examine the institutional levers that drive systemic, sustainable change in teaching and learning on college campuses. #UAHIED #RollResearch #RollHIED #RollTide #WhereLegendsAreMade
Dr. Claire Major with title of published research: Leveraging Change: Institutional Strategies for Teaching and Learning Transformation in Higher Education
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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
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~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music? ~ Gregory Orr Excerpted -To Be Alive
If we're not supposed to dance, 
Why all this music?

~  Gregory Orr 
Excerpted -To Be Alive 


Woman dancing in the ocean light.
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~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
—Kendall Kirk
Kendall Kirk - Art 
Peonies
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Em @throughthelensbe.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Saturday #BlueSkyArtShow is #Sunlight ☀️ #potd
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Craig Teague @cmteague.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Arrived yesterday! #chemsky #chemchat
The book "Engaging Students in Physical Chemistry, Volume 2" edited by Gardner, Stokes, Ringer McDonald, Teague (that's me!), and Thrall.
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Just saw Don Was & The Pan-Detroit Ensemble. Such a great show!
Photo of Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Email: one out, three in. I've fallen, and I can't get up.
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The hot brown morning liquid is my entire energy store at the moment.
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Went to PT today. I asked how many follow-ups I need. Therapist: "let me check how many visits your insurance allows per year." Should that really be the deciding factor?
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Oh no, what? www.chronicle.com/article/ut-a...
chronicle.com
UT-Austin Is Closing Its Teaching Center. Faculty Members Ask: Why?
A series of shutdowns announced by the provost are short on detail. Professors say they make little sense.
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Maybe it's nostalgia, but I'm thinking about James Garfield's comment that the ideal education was "Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student at the other." Does sound nice...
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Watching The Night Manager. Good so far!
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Isaac Asimov wrote “The Fun They Had” decades ago, but it still hits home today. A 5-minute read that raises big questions about learning, technology, and what we lose along the way.
johnspence.org.uk
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
ok, I've clearly committed to spending way too much time on drawing a syllabus as 8-page semi-mini-comic. But it's still fun. Not all pages will be as dense as this is on its way to being...
a part of a comics page, drawings in black and white featuring upper left, the scarlet pimpernel, doc savage, the shadow, and the Phantom, then in a circle, superman from his first appearance in Action comics 1 and then to his left, drawing and dreaming him up, Siegel and Shuster...
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Prepping a talk on AI and teaching and learning for tomorrow. But what I'm really talking about is cognition and who needs to be doing it.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
insidehighered.com
Censorship Arrives on Campus
In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It's Tuesday. Tacos will definitely be happening. I contain multitudes. #TacoTuesday
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I am a dog butler, and this is my boss.
Golden retriever sitting on a rug.
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
When I was teaching about 6 sections of freshman comp years ago, a mentor said "you can do anything for a semester." It was meant kindly, as encouragement. At the time, I believed it. I thought it was brilliant, even. Now I see it as normalizing burnout. Be kind to yourselves!
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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
JOB: TT Assistant Professor, History, UT Dallas History of Science and/or Technology www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Oh the emails.
Phineas and Ferb with caption "I know what we're gonna do today!"
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
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Claire Major @clairemajor.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Academics, we've almost made it to the end of term! Hang in there!
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