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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 6h

FB reminded me today that 9 years ago I found a bunch of files on my computer that included poetry I wrote in 1999. Please enjoy the only sonnet I've ever written, the most emo dramatic thing you'll read today:

A Sonnet
Give me your grace in exchange for my tears
Your hot, roaring flame for all my years
In darkness alone rest all my fears
Be yet as now the flame that sears
Blind may I be, but no tears in my eye
Time cannot tell, the truth cannot lie
Life may be fleeting, a lost child's cry
Death when it comes, it cannot hide
And here now you stand, here at my side
My pain and my woe you cannot deride
No longer with hope can you ever abide
The dark hunter sweeps in on his final ride

Do not weep for the last good-bye:
One day all living must die.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 14h

Hello, NCL, my old friend, I've come to fly from you again Because a conference sweetly speaking with an invite my interest was peaking by the temptation of a few days Italian, I'm here again within the airport waiting...

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Lorijn Zaadnoordijk @lorijn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My first PhD student started today. I'm both excited and nervous! If anyone has any tips for me as fresh Doktormutter, I'd be happy to hear them...

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ahhh, it must be induction week, there's been a steady stream of lost students poking their heads into my office (I keep my door open unless I'm in a meeting) asking for directions!

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First day in the office after two weeks away. I'm sure you can imagine what my inbox looks like. (This is taking into account the roughly 400 emails my support worker dealt with in my absence...)

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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(for you pedants out there, all pokemon are hausdorff)

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's matriculation day @durham.ac.uk, when I run my annual College Queueing Competition as I marshall colleges through the Galilee Chapel. This year, however, I marshalled just one day, not both, so I only have four colleges to consider. Rather than ranking them, I've given individual awards.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Day 1 of our strike at the University of Edinburgh while senior management shrugs and says 'crisis, what crisis?' at the complaints about the inevitable falling educational standards and job losses.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just under 25 hours after I was last here, I'm back at Newcastle airport...

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Whalen @timeformoretea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Studying history is like learning why some choices are baked in and knowing which you can change. My dad was a systems engineer, who did a job at a fire station. The fire station was still recording blocks traveled--and my dad found out it was to keep track of the tiredness of the horses!

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bet this dude also wouldn't bring his baby to a job interview. I did -- albeit I was on the interviewer side of the table, not the interviewee side. It was a video-interview (long before the days of zoom), and she slept on my lap the whole time. Candidate on the other end never even knew.

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Goooooood morning, pika fans It's September, and you know what that means! That's right, we are Making Hay, we are Perching On Rocks, we are Squeaking

An American Pika carrying a branch across rocky terrain

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

Am American Pika crouched on a rock at a 3/4 view towards the camera

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

An American Pika with a mouth full of dried vegetation sitting on a rock

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

An American Pika perched on a rock and calling

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Engineering ethics are complicated and imperfect, but I will always vividly remember how my Materials Science professor opened the course by showing us pictures of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse and then walking through the free body diagram diagramming the exact mistake that caused the disaster

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The poet is like a mouse in an enormous cheese, excited by how much cheese there is to eat." -- Czesław Miłosz

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've been visiting family in the US for the last week. When I turn up, my sister defaults to calling me "L" (one of her elder daughters), my mom to "G" (*my* daughter), and my dad to "C" (my mom). I apparently have no independent identity of my own...

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Saying farewell to Wisconsin by buying $20 worth of cheese seems fitting!

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May Barros 🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open! @maybarros.com.br · 24/09/2026

I made a starter pack of queer Brazilian artists you can follow and maybe support.

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Queer Brazilian Artists

Join the conversation

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When G was at her cousins this summer, they read the Hunger Games together -- her first time. She loved the books so much, when she came home she insisted we buy them so she could read them to me (I have not yet read them either!)

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well, I'm in the US, but my luggage is not. If I am lucky, I will be reunited with it on Sunday. If I'm not lucky... hopefully Monday.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If there's one thing that I have fought for, very hard over the last couple of years, it's keeping my intro logic class from being team-lectured. I have put so much effort into crafting a narrative for this class. It just doesn't work to drop someone in for a few weeks to tell the same story.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The free wifi on this flight is quite great, except that it wouldn't allow me to listen to BTS's "Normal" when we came to it in my playlist, and since it DID let me listen to "Like Animals," the next on in the playlist, the only explanation I can think of is censoring the swearing! 😂

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My Aer Lingus flight has free wifi. I am resisting the urge to actually do work, and am instead pottering around my tabs and actually _reading_ things that I've saved "for later". Lookit me, all smug and virtuous for closing tabs!

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm in the final volume of a 9 volume series, neatly 3500 pages in -- and something just happened that I could never have predicted that took my breath away. Story-telling is amazing.

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are taking 25 days of strike action starting on Monday. We want the University of Executive Group rule out compulsory redundancies. To our students - this is a last resort to retain jobs that are essential for your education during your degree at the University of Dundee. Support the strike!

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 17/09/2026

Cholera, it‘s here now, so everyone must catch it and spread it. But responsibly, you understand. And, with the help of the Cholera Marketing Board, whom we‘ve given vast sums of money to for their assistance in infecting us. Cholera is the future.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Someone in the audience that day liked my talk so much, he asked me to come and give it to the Prolog Education Group -- where it was recorded, and it can now be watched at www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQny... !

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Logic and the World: Some Reflections on the Relationship Between the Two by Sara L. Uckelman

YouTube video by Logic Programming Education

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ahhh, Firewater is back and producing music again! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnTg... Super excited about this.

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Life During Wartime

YouTube video by Firewater - Topic

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I just ran into one of the first students I ever had at Bonn. He told me about what he's doing outside his day job: organizing anti-fascist Goth concerts and parties. It's apparently not an entirely uncomplicated endeavour. And it made me very happy.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Max on AI slop: 'everything solid melts into air.'

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Research serendipity is my favorite serendipity. In spring, the DU student TV channel interviewed me in my capacity as Durham UCU co-president. A whole crew showed up in my office for it -- cameras, lights, director, like 5-6 people!

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A father and son: the father founded the first English colony in the Caribbean and the first slave plantations, the son - a half-English, half-Indigenous man - waged war against it, raiding plantations & liberating slaves. It's about the idea of savagery and Nietzsche's 'becoming a monster' theme.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of my most powerful memories of the week following 9/11 was an ABC News roundtable with people from "the heartland" and one woman said begrudgingly of New Yorkers rallying together in their trauma, "Well I guess they're people too." It completely rewrote my understanding of this country

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Well, that's my "what do I read next time I go camping?" issue sorted!

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Idk. Adorno might have seen something in RM and G-Dragon.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

This is why I do not and will not subscribe to your Substack.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's only 10:30 am and I have already had three meetings...

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