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Jessamyn Neuhaus
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Helping academics & introverts nerd out about teaching. SoTL author + editor, professor of history/education/pop culture & Syracuse University Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Director. #AcademicSky IDIC https://jessamynneuhaus.com
Correction: The always awesome Reviews Editor of #THAJM is @drmendozan.bsky.social!
The 2025 issue of Teaching History: A Journal of Methods is available now! Includes some very cool articles, reviews & an interview w/the one & only @thetattooedprof.bsky.social. Huge thanks to Reviews Editor @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social.

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November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The 2025 issue of Teaching History: A Journal of Methods is available now! Includes some very cool articles, reviews & an interview w/the one & only @thetattooedprof.bsky.social. Huge thanks to Reviews Editor @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social.

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View of Vol. 50 No. 1
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November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Well, thanks a lot @drtink.bsky.social and @writandrhet.bsky.social. Your amazing #POD25 session, "Building Support for Negotiated Grading," has inspired me to completely rework my spring syllabus. Will be thinking of you both as I tear down & rebuild my Blackboard site!
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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the blank document heckling me
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The audience of educational developers at #POD25 cheered at @edufuturist.bsky.social ‘s comment that the only known solution to “the cheating problem” with AI is to “rethink assessment top to bottom.” Apparently, that’s not the usual response. 😂
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
#POD25 is mostly indoor conference meeting rooms but got a bit of San Diego sun today with fac dev friends @lindsaymasland.bsky.social & @drtnt3.bsky.social. 🌞
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I'm here #POD25!

And I'm going to bed.

West Coast time says 6 p.m. but it's 9:00 in Syracuse & that's long past robe & slippers time.

See you tomorrow, @claudiach.bsky.social, @thomasjtobin.bsky.social, @drtnt3.bsky.social, and @jamesmlang.bsky.social.
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Heading to #POD25 with epic eye bags but a happy ❤️, looking forward to seeing various peeps and pals.
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Listen In! This installment of Between the Lines, explores three teaching moves from @geekypedagogy.bsky.social's book "SNAFU Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom". www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLZT...
Between the Lines: SNAFU Edu by Jessamyn Neuhaus
YouTube video by Teaching in Higher Ed
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November 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Class plans unravel. Tech fails. Lectures flop. Students stumble. Join me for an Oct. 30 webinar exploring how to navigate missteps, mistakes, and professorial faceplants with calm, clarity, and resilience. RSVP now: bit.ly/3W6XV7Z
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A fabulous dinner after my #SnafuEdu book talk at @olemiss.bsky.social! Huge thank you to the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, @josheyler.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social & @liznorell.bsky.social for inviting me & to everyone who attended the event.
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Stiked to be visiting 'Ole Miss to give a talk on #SnafuEdu! @josheyler.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social & @liznorell.bsky.social are my awesome hosts.

But I already made a mistake: ordered toast instead of grits for breakfast this morning.

www.oupress.com/978080619546...
Snafu Edu - University of Oklahoma Press
No matter how skilled, thoughtful, and well prepared professors are—or how motivated and engaged their students might be—things sometimes go wrong. In th...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Listen in! OUP author @geekypedagogy.bsky.social
talks about her book "Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom" on the Top Hat's Higher Listenings Podcast. tophat.com/teaching-res...
Top Hat Podcast | Higher Listenings | Top Hat
Dive into the Top Hat higher education podcast, where thought leaders, authors, and educators shape the future of higher learning. Tune in now!
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October 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My interview w/the Top Hat podcast is out today! I ❤️ the title they chose, "Snafu Happens: A Love Letter to Imperfect Teaching." So cool to be in a lineup with @michellemillerphd.bsky.social, @toddzakrajsek.bsky.social, @derekbruff.bsky.social, @flowerdarby.bsky.social.
tophat.com/teaching-res...
Top Hat Podcast | Higher Listenings | Top Hat
Dive into the Top Hat higher education podcast, where thought leaders, authors, and educators shape the future of higher learning. Tune in now!
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October 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Autumn-themed decor (scored from the thrift store) at the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence.🍂 Coming up next: Getting Halloween-y. 🎃 👻🧟
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Super proud of our Center's very first Course Redesign Institute cohort! Thanks to everyone who helped make it a success & to @lindsaymasland.bsky.social for her words of wisdom during the planning stages.

news.syr.edu/blog/2025/08...
Course Redesign Institute Offers Tools, Tactics to Boost Student Outcomes
The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) recently hosted the Course Redesign Institute (CRI), guiding 20 faculty members in best practices to ...
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September 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I always appreciate @cjdenial.bsky.social's insights on editorials! I also noticed that the author describes talking *to* students about GenAI but not *with* students. No easy answers here obvi but a students-as-partners approach could yield strategies beyond "more blue book exams."
Blue books and oral exams etc are definitely one way to respond to GenAI. I find it telling, however, that the OP here does not address disability at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
August 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Join me tonight at 7pm CT as I guest host Historians at the Movies #HATM
We’re watching THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT on Prime. 🗃️
This week Historians At The Movies talks about trans rights, Australia, and the late, great Terence Stamp. Join us on Prime Video this Sunday, August 24 at 8pm eastern for THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT with guest host @phdrachel.bsky.social.

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August 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Updated my @syracuseu.bsky.social Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence thrifted office decorations & snack dispensers with a back-to-school / apple-for-the-teacher theme. 🍎✏️🔔
August 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A real hot teaching take in the NYT today by a professor who banned phones & laptops in class. He explained to students why phones are distracting, so of course everyone complied! They "loved it" & praised him to the skies in their evals! Just ban phones, why didn’t we think of that??
August 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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🗃️ Variation of this: I gave students one of my chapters w/no footnotes, asked where they thought footnotes should go: What type of source was used? What makes you think that? They have to consider how writing shows evidence vs. context vs. author’s voice. They liked it a lot and had great questions!
Just sharing the “Xtreme endnotes” assignment @parisnoire.bsky.social mentions here in case anyone else finds it helpful as we begin a new academic year.

FWIW, it’s a purely analog exercise in an AI-freaky world & my students have never not had fun doing it.✌🏽

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August 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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This could fix me.
August 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I'll be keynoting at SUNY Oswego's Academic Affairs Retreat tomorrow & excited to be talking about Snafu Edu
(@oupress.bsky.social). Plus celebrating my friend @johnkane.bsky.social's promotion to SUNY Distinguished Service Professor! 👏 🎉 🙌
August 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM