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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are few days of the year that are as glorious as this. Tonight is opening nights for college hockey! I still get to say, this is our year! GO BG!!!!!!

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our book arrived today. Thank you @drtink.bsky.social for being the most amazing partner and co-author. Thank you @routledgebooks.bsky.social for the opportunity to send this out to the world. Thank you to ALL the people that agreed to share their stories. It turns out we can do better.

Copies of Transdisciplinary Approaches to Problems in Higher Education on the bookshelf. Available through Routledge.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I've been going bald since my early 20s. (I'm now 50+.) For the last 16 years I have spent a lot of time with a shaved head. Yet, whenever I emerge from the shower, pool, lake, ocean, etc., I brush my hands over my scalp. Self -- just stop it! There's no water trapped up there.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I propose using two different terms from here on out. AI (artificial intelligence) was used to design this process or AcI (actual intelligence) was used to design this process

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ran across my first automated/driverless semi today and by "ran across" I mean it almost ran us off the road. This has gone too far. A car is a one-ton machine that can cause problems at low speeds. A semi is a 40-ton machine at high speed. This is not ok.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It was amazing. The students really spoke the truth. (Hmmmm. . . I wonder where they learned that, Dr. Neuhaus).

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

SO, basically, I am trying to get the AI machine to do what the people I work with do well. I have added work by providing rounds of feedback to a computer. I am training someone else's product to "do better" without being compensated. All this for a text that is boring as can be and not my voice.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I am being asked to provide feedback to AI as if it were a student. I am trying to get AI to do what my students do in peer review. I am trying to get AI to do what I trust my colleagues to do except they do it WAY better since they bring their own ideas and experiences and even others experiences.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

As we read about "fine-tuning" an AI prompt it became clear that I could use those comments (but hopefully better). How might this be more engaging? Considering the audience, how might this be more fitting to their needs? How might the clarity of this piece be enhanced based on the reader?

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I have taught writing for 26 years and I will admit I keep a comment bank connected with assignments. I copy, paste, and adapt for the big issues that I have a good sense are coming. I also respond as a reader to the specific ideas that excite me and get me thinking.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm taking a 4 week professional development course on the use of AI in the classroom. I'm halfway through and my frustration is growing.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

@drtink.bsky.social and I got our page proofs today. Getting close now!

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My favorite possession in the world is a chalkboard. Why? It has many of the songs we dance to in the kitchen while making dinner. It also has the menu and scores from when our daughters demolished us at family games. I know how lucky I am.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

i thought frscture measnt a little crack. nope. it means broken

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Today is World Naked Gardening Day! I hope the neighbors don't look over the fence.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I had a great time working with folx at Newman University on their emerging WAC/WiD program! I can't wait to back back in May to continue the work.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

TWO third period goals. Dang! That was a game. Congrats DU!

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Big game today! Since it's not going to be BG (obviously), Go DU!

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Never forget-- the institution will never love you back

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Our @drtink.bsky.social Tucson garden experiment is coming along. This year the tomatoes are doing better, but we have added roses, rosemary, plums, figs, meyer lemons, and beds for herbs and other yumminess. I'm also in PCC's Garden to Table class. Wish us luck. Also fun bougainvillea. Yay plants!

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The NCAA DIV I Men's Hockey Tourney starts TODAY!!!!!!! WHOOT!

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It's a major sports day! Wisc v OSU for the National Championship and we get to set our brackets for the start of the other tournament.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Next year, when Spring Break arrives, I am going to create a bracket for the things I think I will accomplish. There will be cleaning, reading, catching up on various things, and getting sick. The number one seed will be napping. That is a the safest bet there is as everything else gets left undone.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

@drtink.bsky.social made chicken meatballs great for soup or to go with the sauce we are woking on. Our house smells so good!

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

@drtink.bsky.social is making a double ground chicken mix to get the herbs fully incorporated for chicken meatballs. This is gonna be good. Spring Break has been great so far!

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I have learned so many amazing things in culinary school. Lamb dishes, sauces, and much more. Right now, though, being able to buy four whole chickens for $20 and knowing how to break them down into wings, tenders, quarters, breasts, legs, thighs, grinding meat, and chicken stock means a ton.

Stock pot full of vegie leftovers, and chickens bones.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Here's what was for dinner with the quick sauce. Egg-plant parm.

Egg plant parmesan on a bed of spaghetti.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A tale of two sauces. The bottom sauce is quick. Takes about 1.5 hours and is built with powders and cans. It works, but it's quick. The top sauce needs at least one more day to simmer and feel the love. The quick sauce is for dinner and the long sauce is for everything else. Yay everything else!

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Spring Break is starting and my favorite pro hockey team signed a player from my favorite college hockey team. Whoot! SB is looking good so far.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It was the final for the Savory Cuisine class today. I present to you, Red Snapper En Papillote with asparagus and roasted veggies and stuffed pork chop in a demi glace with béchamel potatoes, topped, again, with asparagus. Also, New England Clam Chowder. Definitely a fun way to end the class.

Golden brown stuffed pork chop topped with asparagus accompanied by colorful veggies and potatoes.

Redd Snapper, colorful veggies, and clam chowder topped with pancetta.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

This year we took trimmings and are working on Draco 2.0. If it works, watch for a post next year offering up new plants for other folx as we prune and shape.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

This March we have an honest-to-goodness dragon fruit. We even had to buy a trellis. For scale, Draco (that's their name) would have just hit the bottom rung.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Last March we planed a dragon fruit cacti thinking what the heck.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

As for all, it's been a rough few weeks. However, I just got to spend a solid 20 minutes (probably more) watching butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds dance around our young Meyer lemon tree. I chatted with the neighbors and enjoyed it with my partner @drtink.bsky.social. That was so restorative.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

For the second time, OT in the big hockey game. Hoping for a similar result.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

There's a real benefit to culinary school, particularly when you grow up in a household that wasn't well off. I look in the fridge and say, "What leftovers do I want for lunch? Duck, osso bucco, braised ribs, or perhaps turkey scallopini?" The answer was duck with an apricot compote.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I urge people to also remeber the amount of classes that are taught by hard working folx on one, two, or three-year contracts. Likewise, consider what it means to teach on a semester-by-semester basis. Threatening someone's livelihood has classroom consequences. Those proportions matter as well.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Just like last year, now that the other tournament is done with its most recent attention grab, we can turn to an important one. US v Finland in the quarters. Goin' for the three-peat!

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Whoot for the US Selects in the Spengler Cup. Losing in the finals to the host team when you supposed to be happy with a participation trophy is amazing. Especially when the game is tied with just over 4:30 left in regulations. Now focusing on the World Junior Championships (and BG hockey of course)

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

One of my favorite things in the world is taking three trips to carry scratch made food into a classroom for students and only needing a single trip to carry everything out after they have eaten it all.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

It was great to see you and sorry, not sorry. :-)

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

It is clear that Micheal Meyers never went to culinary school. If he had, he would have announced loudly that he was behind Kara Strode (and his other victims) with a knife by practically yelling "behind knife." Kinda loses something that way.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Yesterday we worked on espagnole sauce on steak. I made mine with asparagus. Not gonna lie. It was really good. Today, though, that turned into a steak, asparagus, potato hash cooked in clarified butter. Not gonna lie. It was even better. Nothing like a flavorful, crispy (yet fluffy) potatoes.

Steak, asparagus, potato hash topped with a sunny-side up egg.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Working on my trifold omelette. Spinach and cheese.

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Jeremy Schnieder @writandrhet.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I guess, though, that is why we need to do it.

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