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Brad Wuetherick @bwuetherick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So excited that this is on the near horizon! I have a contribution in this volume, and I cannot wait to read the others! Thanks to @drjessicariddell.bsky.social for both choreographing such an amazing ensemble, as well as inspiring us all with your work on Hope Circuits!

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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

@drjessicariddell.bsky.social goes from amazing to amaZINGER! Soon to be inducted into the Royal Society of Canada, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social is the publisher of her game-changing book. #EduSky, #AcademicSky, @ubishops.bsky.social

Cover image of Jessica Riddell's book, Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and Other Organizations for Human Flourishing. A blue spirograph background converges on the "O" of HOPE.

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Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Last week, with two extraordinary colleagues, Lisa Dickson and @drjessicariddell.bsky.social , we celebrated the power of theatre with our students for a week at @stratfest.bsky.social. We watched three tyrants rant and harm and fail: Leontes, Duke Frederick, and Macbeth. And we saw the reactions.

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 04/06/2025

“Our emerging generation are looking at the world and experiencing genocide and climate crisis and it’s disheartening. This new generation are our hope warriors, they hold us accountable for our actions. And if they’re full of sorrow, we are in trouble.” - @drjessicariddell.bsky.social #congressh

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 04/06/2025

“Very soon in my career I had to figure out how to move away from the podium and invite our learners to build something together.” - @drjessicariddell.bsky.social #congressh

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 04/06/2025

“We need to look around and recognize that this is unprecedented times and we need to figure out how to move together in a direction of purpose.” - @drjessicariddell.bsky.social #congressh

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 04/06/2025

“I don’t think a dystopian future is inevitable, I think a collaborative future is in reach.” - @drjessicariddell.bsky.social #congressh

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 04/06/2025

"What does it mean to re-pledge ourselves to education as a sector whose mandate is hope? Industry, government, now incentivized to do the kind of work we need to do to gather, to rumble, to reflect and to ask some really difficult questions of our time." - @drjessicariddell.bsky.social #congressh

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 04/06/2025

“I believe that the pedagogies that we know and use in our classrooms is the way forward, it’s the roadmap to a just and civil society.” - @drjessicariddell.bsky.social #congressh

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Dr Catherine O’Mahony (she/her) @catherineomahony.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The more intimate sessions broaden out to two large events. The first a keynote & workshop by Deanne Bell on the ruse of inclusivity in education discourse. The second a hope summit with @drjessicariddell.bsky.social featuring a range of perspectives on how to rewire higher Ed for human flourishing.

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 04/06/2025

[3/12] 💬 Don’t miss today’s final Big Thinking panel at 12:15 “Pedagogies of togetherness: Practices for inclusive learning” with @drjessicariddell.bsky.social, Paul Turcotte and Normand Labrie 👉 ow.ly/50I650VYPOr

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 04/06/2025

[9/12] 💬 Ne manquez pas la causerie Voir Grand d’aujourd’hui à 12h15 : « Les pédagogies du vivre-ensemble : au travers ds pratiques d’apprentissage inclusif » avec @drjessicariddell.bsky.social, Paul Turcotte et Normand Labrie 👉 ow.ly/YN5C50VYPOo

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Student Affairs Now @stuaffairsnow.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

In this week's snippet, @drjessicariddell.bsky.social challenges higher education to transform its systems for flourishing rather than relying on individual resilience to address unhealthy structures. youtu.be/zlgoMtTAmxc

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Student Affairs Now @stuaffairsnow.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

. @drjessicariddell.bsky.social discusses mindsets & 10 tools to rethink, reimagine, and rebuild institutions of higher ed from Hope Circuits. She offers a critique of the status quo and a call to “challenge the actual in the name of the possible." studentaffairsnow.com/hope-circuits/

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Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and Other Organizations for Human Flourishing

Dr. Jessica Riddell discusses mindsets and 10 tools to rethink, reimagine, and rebuild institutions of higher education from her research and book Hope Circuits. She offers a critique of the status qu...

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Dr Catherine O’Mahony (she/her) @catherineomahony.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Seeding hope in multiple spaces, @drjessicariddell.bsky.social joins us on June 13th for a collaborative event between @ucc.ie and MTU. The Hope Summit draws on key insights from her thought provoking book Hope Circuits. Register for campus-based event via www.eventbrite.ie/e/hope-summi... #EduSky

Hope Summit: Reimagining Higher Education

Focusing on discussions centred on emerging leadership challenges for future-ready institutions, the role of arts and culture in strategic visioning and systems transformation, and emancipatory integration of all key players in the ‘flourishing’ mission of universities, this event is designed to be both provocative and inclusive. Through panels sessions, lightning talks, and hands-on workshops the day will afford hope-informed, facilitated quality time to network across the sector while hearing from a range of voices and perspectives.

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Bryan Dewsbury @dewsbury.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Knowledge unbound welcomes @drjessicariddell.bsky.social to the studio. We talk hope, and journeys to hope a beautifully described in her book Hope Circuits. Catch this episode on Spotify, YouTube.com/@SEAS or at knowledge unbound.transistor.fm.

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Love being in conversation with @dewsbury.bsky.social about anything but especially delighted to talk about hope with this hope warrior 🫶🏼⭐️🫶🏼

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Current bedside table: Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit; Holding Change by adrienne maree brown; A Third University is Possible (la paperson); Faith, Hope and Carnage (Nick Cave) The creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin; The Service Berry,Robin Wall Kimmerer. What are y’all reading these days

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I’m writing an article for AAC&U magazine Liberal Education and I keep coming back to attentiveness. We must pay attention - and be intentional about where and how we focus our energy within systems designed to distract us. We REALLY need to pay attention to people as acts of radical humanization

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Had to send my parents my schedule so they could play “where in the world is our daughter” every day 🤣

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I was in Boston at the CASE conference w/ 420 advancement folks where I talked about the difference between patrons & donors. While donors give money, patrons spend political + social capital. Right now, we need both as higher ed comes under fire. Champions, advocates, sponsors, defenders: Let’s go

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Hope circuits was released a year ago today from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Happy book birthday!🎉

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

In a hilarious& entirely predictable twist, I’ve written 60,000 words of my new book before realizing what the book is actually about. There’s a pattern. My PhD dissertation. Shakespeare’s Guide. Hope Circuits was supposed to be about Hope University. Now I’ve accidentally written “Hope on the Move”

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 28/02/2025

Announcing our second Big Thinking panel at #congressh at @gbcollege.bsky.social: “Pedagogies of togetherness”. Join our panel as they explore pedagogies of togetherness, including student-centred teaching practices. 🔗 ow.ly/INx150V2T4x @drjessicariddell.bsky.social

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Rabbi Jill Zimmerman @rabbijill.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Morning poem by Lynn Unger. No matter how bad it is - there are still a multitude of blessings right around us. Don’t forget ❤️ #poetry

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Today I mailed a package, walked over to get ice cream-coffee, with tiny chocolate flakes— then came home to a kitchen scented with the gardenias my neighbor cut for me yesterday.
Here is the challenge: can you count the blessings contained within this ordinary tale?
Like the puzzle with all the triangles, the number you have chosen is almost certainly too low.
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Very excited to hear @drjessicariddell.bsky.social speak at the Western Deans conference about Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities for Human Flourishing #AcademicSky #HigherEd 🇨🇦

HOPE CIRCUITS:
REWIRING UNIVERSITIES FOR HUMAN FLOURISHING

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Un-ironic unicorn is almost a perfect anagram. In my Rhetoric of Hope course this week we launched a defence of earnestness. It’s time we rehabilitated the very concepts we need to rescue us. Joy. Love. Hope. Pleasure. Empathy. These terms have been bludgeoned by pale male stale for too long.

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My most recent article for Academica is out! In this article I share my experiences in DC on inauguration day as a Canadian, and make the case for “vigorous civility” in higher ed. forum.academica.ca/forum/hope-c...

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Hope Circuits: Vigorous Civility and Higher Education — Academica Forum

What we do now determines whether we build creative futures or succumb to dystopian despotism.

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In my Rhetoric of Hope class today we did a hive mind exercise where we shared instances of joy and then took those data points and built a framework for what it is, what it looks like, its relationship to time, and how it ties to hope and purpose. I can’t believe this gets to be my job ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Holy smokes Batman: did you know that “encouraged” means to instill courage? We are witnessing moral courage in the face of moral + actual injury. Courage - from French medieval root coeur or HEART- comes from our full being (cognitive, affective, embodied, spirit). Higher ed: let’s go! We know how

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Found a cartoon illustrating David Foster Wallace’s parable “this is water.” I wonder: do students need to see the water (systems, structures, operations of a university?). I think student leaders as change agents do. But the student body at large? Should we aim for seamless? Holding this lightly

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Today is PJ-stay home-and-write day, a rare indulgence. But I’ve been bombarded with admin things all day (and I’m easily distracted when I’m just sitting down to write) so my day so far has been Sisyphus rolling that stone up that mountain (mostly to be fair a mountain of my own making). Send help!

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Are we suffering from collective nervous system dysregulation triggered by predictions of dystopian futures? How is dysregulation showing up in our everyday encounters & empathy levels? 1 symptom=deterioration of civility. Creative futures are possible if we self regulate & collectively heal, yes?

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

My recent keynote for a women’s leadership institute was about the power of wyrd sisters from Macbeth: 3 women who live on edges& margins without resources or positional power manage to dismantle militarized violent, broken patriarchal centres through language & community. Book your wyrd sisters ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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MeMargrit @memargrit.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Looking forward to listening! We need ALL the hope right now.

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It’s AUDIO BOOK day! The idea for recording an audio book came in May, the week Hope Circuits was released into the world: my friend Cynthia Bruce, a disability scholar advocate who is herself blind, asked where and how could she engage with Hope circuits. 1/3

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Today is MLK day. What better reminder:

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I’m in Washington, DC this week attending the @aacu.org annual conference. The theme is “Re-affirming higher education’s public purpose”: it feels both timely and urgent. As a board member (the only Canadian), I’ll attend Board meetings and events all week and also give a keynote and listen intently

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Feeling this keenly. From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social a timely reminder that the work remains the same. As I finish writing Hope Circuits 2.0 I am convinced that when despair feels monolithic, hope gets proximate. Daily and granular, hope happens in the mundane encounters now. Today. This week.

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Dr Catherine O’Mahony (she/her) @catherineomahony.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

This weekend’s pool side reading. Hope Circuits by @drjessicariddell.bsky.social. #EduSky

Book held in hand showing title ‘Hope Circuits’. The blue water of a swimming pool can be seen in the distance.

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STLHESAPES @stlhesapes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Applications are now open for the Mohammad Asadi Lari scholarship honouring an extraordinary legacy. This scholarship continues to support the next generation of 3M Student Fellows. Learn more and apply: www.stlhe.ca/deadlines/20...

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2025 Mohammad Asadi Lari Scholarship | Call for Applications – STLHE

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

As academics, we don’t often get to choose where we live (the job market for Shakespeareans is 🫣) so my family is far away. Our friends are crucial supports, critical lifelines & chosen family as we raise kids. Grateful to ring in 2025 w/cherished community. Happy new year grounded in love& light

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Wishing you all a festive season of hot coffee, dog cuddles, laughter at a kitchen table, day time pyjamas, full hearts, plain faces, open souls. We need replenishment & renewal going into 2025: we can only build creative futures with joy, pleasure, irreverence, play, love, warmth, gentleness.

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

As we wrap up 2024, I’m grateful to have the chance to continue the conversations into 2025. Here’s a peek at January to June next year. I’m now booking into August and Fall 2025 for Hope circuits keynotes, retreats, visioning, policy consults, QA projects & more! It is a privilege to do this work

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Dr. Jessica Riddell @drjessicariddell.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Working with postgraduate fellows is one of my favourite things. Truth tellers, blind spot checkers, mentors - these humans are the best way for us to check our privilege, decentre authority, and co-create in powerful ways for meaningful systems change. Grateful for folks like Sufia 🫶🏼

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