Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Psychologist. Sr Assoc Director Teaching & Learning @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social. Author of SPARK OF LEARNING, HIVEMIND, & MIND OVER MONSTERS
Writes about emotions, teaching, brains. Enjoys speculative fiction, Halloween, and the sea. sarahrosecav.com
- HigherEd, we're in a new comedy www.youtube.com/watch?v=L00r...
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- My Heated Rivalry obsession has gotten so bad that it has me using *THREADS.* (Intriguing posts with more text than Insta keep showing up in my 'gram and inadvertently click over and then get stuck there). This has got to stop.
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghA few years ago I wrote a piece about how Glen Powell actually likes women — and how you male movie stars can be clearly divided into two buckets (like women vs. 'secretly' don't) Mamdani likes *people.* Most politicians don't.
- Reposted by Sarah Rose Cavanaghcenturies pass and still it sings. what a gift it is, how time flattens under the weight of a practiced voice. how irreplaceable
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Long day of travel, got home and slammed a can of baby corn with balsamic and some Triscuits with salsa, reminded me of this gem by Deborah Madison www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...
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- Some fun personal news! Announcing my next book: Where Are All the Happy People? Gratitude to @beaconpress.bsky.social @jkpapin.bsky.social Read more: newsletter.sarahrosecav.com/announcing-m...
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghNew fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
- This fighting spirit is why I can't bear to eat crabs even though I'm pescatarian
- Are you talkin' to me? Are YOU talkin' to ME?!?!? Slender cancer crab (Cancer gracilis) ready to throw down. 🦑 #diving #scuba #NAUIdiver #crabs #crustaceans #oceanlife #oceans #PugetSound #pacificnorthwest #invertebrates
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghAre you talkin' to me? Are YOU talkin' to ME?!?!? Slender cancer crab (Cancer gracilis) ready to throw down. 🦑 #diving #scuba #NAUIdiver #crabs #crustaceans #oceanlife #oceans #PugetSound #pacificnorthwest #invertebrates
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghFederal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- January newsletter by me A new meta-analysis on faculty-student relationships & student success, critical analysis of motivational theories, a new essay on faculty renewal, & some thoughts on why my entire brain has been taken over by a television show. newsletter.sarahrosecav.com/a-few-warm-t...
- Another: "My mom has a a bush that smells like rotting flesh, so I'm not sure that plants are never gross"
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- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghIt's hard to grasp how large this grouper is until you see it in comparison to the ship's toilet on the left. This appears to be an Atlantic goliath grouper or 'itajara' (Epinephelus itajara). They can reach 800 lbs (350 kg) & 8 feet long (2.5 m) Let's talk about these gentle giants.
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- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghMinnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
- Sure is snowing. Tried to walk the pups but they kept having to stop and shake off every few feet because it was accumulating so quickly on their little backs.
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghMinnesota is the best of us.
- Gorgeous piece of writing and so spot-on @jenka.bsky.social jenka.substack.com/p/heated-riv...
- Really enjoyed this conversation with Christopher Richmann about supporting student motivation, learning, and well-being with both empathetic, relationship-focused compassion and intellectual challenge. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghMy local bookshop understands their audience.
- Reposted by Sarah Rose Cavanagh‘SINNERS’ has broken history as the MOST-NOMINATED FILM OF ALL TIME at the Oscars with 16 nominations See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
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- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghWalz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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- Double, double toil and trouble… what’s brewing here? Fun evening with @retrievelearn.bsky.social
- I wrote this guide to engaging teaching a few years ago but we spruce it up now and then - this edition has updated links to work of @sarahesilverman.bsky.social @drtolunoah.bsky.social & others and addressed what I felt was some ableist advice from 2019-Sarah! We, and the field, evolve.
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- What is even happening here www.vulture.com/article/just...
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghThis bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end! It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghStupid idea that has been plaguing me all weekend
- Reposted by Sarah Rose Cavanagh1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghRep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghMany of educational psychology's foundational theories were developed with homogeneous samples. What would a model of motivation look like if it was built specifically for Black girls? Find out in this podcast - available on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghA friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
- Things are going great out here dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
- New by me (and my boss Jennifer Herman!) in @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/feel...
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghHelp shape the look of SAS 2026! We’re inviting trainee members to submit original designs for our ✨first-ever✨ merch competition!! Designs may appear on conference materials and merch—with proceeds supporting trainee funding. Deadline: Jan 10, 2026. Submit using this form: bit.ly/4j6UVTT
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghI need a mood booster, let's talk about capybaras. Here's a capy demonstrating one of MANY ways they can move through the water: running along the bottom. They're 'semi-aquatic' mammals, just like hippos, seals & beavers. They LOVE water. (📷: Fernando Maidana)
- My top 3 favorite books of the year, for @shepherdbooks.bsky.social ! shepherd.com/bboy/2025/f/...
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghIn 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.
- Reposted by Sarah Rose Cavanaghi’d die for her
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghYou’re going to be okay. Someone will hate your book. You’re going to be okay. Someone will not get what you’re trying to do with your art and judge you. You’re going to be okay. You’re going to keep creating, in 2026, because you need it and because the world needs you to. Okay?
- Can’t believe I’m out here watching a show about sportsball
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghIt’s been a rough 2025. I had cancer, chemo, forced menopause, 2 books launched into the screaming void of a political regime.(feels like 25 years since inauguration?) We fight on through mutual aid, so today, I promote PBC. We support authors, readers, #science, social justice, #LGBTQ, each other.
- Out of pickle era, into the year of the cabbage. I'm here for cabbage too, though you can't take my pickles away. www.businessinsider.com/year-of-the-...
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghThis is New England's version of the Louvre heist. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- "none of these nature-based pagans are on BlueSky" - me, frustrated, somehow surprised
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghJust watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
- Reposted by Sarah Rose Cavanagh“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghRemember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
- oh also Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains
- Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains
- uhhh this doesn't seem good "found that an increased fMRI signal is associated with reduced brain activity in around 40 percent of cases. At the same time, they observed decreased fMRI signals in regions with elevated activity." www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
- 2025 had some challenges both personal and certainly global, but it also had graduations, college launches, lots of time near water, and so many warm moments with beloved people. Grateful, and energized for 2026.
- What I need most after extensive over-peopling is to get drunk on fiction, and @joe-hill.bsky.social really delivered today. Finished King Sorrow in a long (firey) gulp. harpercollins.com/products/king-sorrow-joe-hill
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- A few newsletter thoughts to close out 2025 newsletter.sarahrosecav.com/a-winters-mo...
- The era of the pickle is upon us, and I am here for it. www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-gr...
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- Reposted by Sarah Rose Cavanaghthis wall hanging my in-laws keep in their bathroom is technically quite beautiful except how in the middle of the night I’m convinced she’s going to turn around
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghThe whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.
- Every move he does is a boss move. Celebrating Hanukkah with Inigo Montoya, smh
- It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
- Reposted by Sarah Rose Cavanagh"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghBecome ungovernable
- Reposted by Sarah Rose Cavanaghwe can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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- Student paper just referred the "aged nature" of a written document .... from 2005. <expires>
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghCan't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
- Reposted by Sarah Rose CavanaghSKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
- Cracking my own self up re-reading some of these interviews. "I'm not a biologist, so I love hearing about all the different plants and animals people study. It's just cool to me because I just studied humans, mostly undergraduates. They're not as cool as lampreys."
- Cats aren’t great mixes with qualitative coding
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