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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I know academics get it, but sometimes I just miss "home." I don't even know where it is anymore. What weird jobs we have, that force us away from our communities and families.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

We so rarely see literary scholarship that brings in scholars of education, including Applebee and Rosenblatt, as this piece does. This article is really interesting to me--still thinking it through. There's a lot going on. Somehow, it still leads with Holden Caufield. 😜😭

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 19/02/2026

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I have never been great at being crafty or creating an atmosphere as a host but suddenly my son (almost 8) wants to have a birthday party (1st time he has wanted one) with a space theme and I'm obsessed with plates that look like planets and astronaut balloons.

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Aimee Middlemiss @almiddlemiss.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Despite the limitations of the term 'bereavement leave', I'm so pleased the #EmploymentRightsAct at the very end of 2025 means #pregnancy ending before 24-week viability for any reason now entitles people to leave from work. #pregnancyloss #miscarriage #abortion #TOPFA #TFMR

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Bereavement leave acknowledges someone’s loss of a baby. When only sick leave is accessible, we ignore the grief people experience. Glad to see some local change.

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Journal of Language and Literacy Education @jolleuga.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

JoLLE calls are still open for one more month! Submit your work today and add to the conversation. 🤝❤️🖤

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We have to do a better job supporting teachers at work following a miscarriage. For more on the layered pressures they face, see this article in AERA Open, "The Influence of Policies and Professional Expectations on Teachers' Leave Decisions and Well-Being ..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This semester has been 🗑️ at work and really stressful for me personally bc I am worried about my kid. But you know what? One thing that always makes me feel good is receiving and giving updates back and forth with teachers I've interviewed. No matter what the future holds, I'm so grateful for it. 🌻

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Just starting to orient myself toward #NCTE25 and suddenly remembered how last year I got to sit about 10 feet from Ada Limon while she read poems to me. 🤓🌻

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

So much gratitude to the GSB Homecoming Planning Committee for inviting us back to guest host tonight. Let us know how else we can support the efforts chatted about tonight. As you could see, there’s lots of love for #literacies chat! We’re here to support the team!

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

THANK YOU to Drs. @anna-phd.bsky.social , @esp-phd.bsky.social , and the entire #Literacies chat 'class of 2012' for creating this space built on community, connection, scholarship, practice, and all things #literacies !

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Do any of my academic friends have suggestions for resources about supporting an autistic child in the first years of school? (hyper verbal, high IQ, serious obstacles in building social relationships). When I search I get a zillion resources about identifying autism... I want to know what to do!

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Hochschild is brilliant!! It’s a shame that so many people misuse concepts from her studies, which are fantastic and framed through the lens of labor. Her concepts are about WORK. She just so happened to include women’s uncompensated work in domestic spheres.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

What Arlie Hoschild found was that when women entered the workforce en masse in the 20th century, men functionally went on strike from domestic labor—forcing women to take on a double day of wages and caretaking work.

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Friends! I wanted to make sure you saw that @writinglit.bsky.social is having a #Literacies Chat Homecoming on 10/28 at 7PM ET. I hope you can come! *Black tie optional @deroomat.bsky.social @brownellcassie.bsky.social @mandiedunn.bsky.social @gemmasupernova.bsky.social @nicole-mirra.bsky.social

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I set ONE work boundary after 6 years of constantly being overly nice and accommodating. And I got email screamed at by a man who I have worked closely with for 6 years, for whom I have always been covering for when he needed it. #academia

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sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🔵 FACULTY POSITION 🔵 U of Illinois is hiring a Secondary Literacy professor (open rank, tenure-track)! 💰 $78K-$130K (rank dependent) 📅 Start 9/2026 ⏰ Deadline: 10/20/25 For more info: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #AcademicJobs #LiteracyEducation #HigherEd #Literacies Please boost! 🚀

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College of Education: Professor (Open-Rank) – Secondary Literacy

Duties and Responsibilities

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Look, I get everyone is really excited to post that they took Tylenol during pregnancy and YAY their child is completely healthy and definitely not autistic .... but some of us DO have autistic children so please stop.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Planning for next weeks' classes and looking back at last year's materials for one of them and ... it was when Hurricane Helene hit.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Hey, that’s me, going to do a thing. Join me on 9/25! To say that the world was a bit different when I offered to host the #literacies chat back in March is an understatement. But we’ve got to talk about how censorship impacts teaching and learning.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

One thing I share with my students, who are learning to be teachers, is that young people in schools often encounter many teachers, all with different policies and personalities across a day. It may not be that they didn't read your policy. They may be trying to navigate nuances across classes.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I want to move back to Michigan. Just putting it out into the universe. No I am not from there. I just like it.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Honestly it would be great if USF could upset Florida in football bc then maybe some more ppl would figure out it’s in Tampa and a major university. The name is misleading and I would like people to have some idea of where I live and work!

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It is SHAMEFUL. It makes me feel so sick that we are doing this to people.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

In other words, when Kentucky police say they found an "infant" in a college student's closet, they could very well mean they're investigating her miscarriage remains. Just like I warned. How did I know? Because it KEEPS HAPPENING THAT WAY

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

These headlines are disgusting. Content warning for my next post (skip if needed)

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

PSA: Acknowledging that it's a busy time of year and people have too much on their plate does not lessen the panic I feel when you request yet more labor from me for which I am not compensated, acknowledged, or evaluated.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I don't know about anyone else but when I see all those reviews are in I can real quick get about 50 things done because I know I'm about to need a day to be down. 🙃

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Tomorrow’s #literacies chat on “Let’s Talk about Interdisciplinary #literacies” will take place at 5pm/8pm. Join us!

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Nicole R. Misra she/her @nicolermisra.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Let's discuss interdisciplinary #literacies on Tuesday! See you soon!

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National Council of Teachers of English @ncte.org · 21/08/2025

Join #NCTE for a conversation centered on our recent study, "The State of Literature Use in the US Secondary English Classroom.” Researcher Ricki Ginsberg and NCTE President Dr. Tonya B. Perry will highlight crucial findings. Register by 9/10: ncte.org/state-of-lit

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"Unconditional positive regard means I care about you, you have value, you don’t have to do anything to prove it to me, and nothing will change my mind" - @asv.bsky.social If nothing else, this. For our classrooms. For our schools. www.cultofpedagogy.com/unconditiona...

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Nothing’s Going to Change My Mind: How Unconditional Positive Regard Transforms Classrooms

What if students didn't have to do anything to earn our care?

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"Return to work" mandate (as if we weren't working?!), three Sep 1 deadlines, one new class, another class, and an avalanche of meetings longer than three hours. Idk. I feel stressed.

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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I want to reiterate- Nowhere is prepared for this type of rain. Nowhere can handle it.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Last fall I lived through three hurricanes in a row while most (not all) of my liberal progressive colleagues made jokes about how it wouldn’t be so bad if Florida were just blasted off the map. It changed me.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This chat will be excellent. @sashelton.bsky.social is the absolute best! I learn something from her every time she presents and she has given me a lot of ideas for how to navigate a southern, red context. 🌻

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Keelin O’Donoghue @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

More recognition & support required for people experiencing pregnancy loss Need for cross-party and cross-departmental action 👏🏻 Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire TD @oireachtasnews.bsky.social @echolive.bsky.social #PLRG_PLACESproject #ReCurrentStudy 🔗https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41651462.html

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Cork TD highlights urgent need for increased pregnancy loss supports

Sinn Féin Cork South Central TD, Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire said there is need for cross-party and cross-departmental action on the sensitive issue.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I wonder: how do we distinguish between human error and what we now think of as people's laziness or unethical engagement with research? A reviewer thinks I used AI in a manuscript because of human errors I made in the year of citation in a real source that I read and consulted.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

A Pell Grant made my academic life possible.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Denver was so much fun for AERA. I can't wait to go back for NCTE. 😊

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

My son's favorite part of our recent vacation was convincing me to touch this wall of ice and then maniacally giggling 😊. My favorite part was that while I was away I got official notice that I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the USF College of Education.🌻🥂

I am standing in a tunnel where the walls are made of ice. My son is standing in from of me. We are both touching the ice with bare hands and smiling. I put an emoji over my son's face.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This is random but there is an author who shares lists of idioms in different languages on here and now I can't find it/him/his book and would like to buy his book! LMK if you happen to know what I'm talking about. The book has an idiomatic name that I can't remember. 🫠

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