📚Wrap Up de Febrero 📚

🧌Frankenstein, la versiĂłn original de 1818 en inglĂ©s, que podĂ©is conseguir en el Proyecto Gutenberg:
ÂżQuĂ© decir de una novela que conoce casi todo el mundo y trata tan diversos temas? La disfrutĂ© muchĂ­simo en su idioma original y al poder comentarla con mi novio mientras la Ă­bamos leyendo 💜, asĂ­ como con el Club de Lectura que dirige mi amiga @tineta13 đŸ–€ Añadir que admiro lo bien que escribĂ­a Mary siendo tan joven đŸ˜Č

đŸ§›đŸ» Muertos de Segunda, de @buehlmeister , publicado por @hermidaeditores : Reseña en mi perfil

đŸ˜ŒOdiolitos, webcĂłmic de @carloscdart : Divertido cĂłmic que narra las aventuras de Litos y sus dos gatas, Nina y Musi y ganĂł el premio Subcultura 2010 al mejor guiĂłn en un webcĂłmic de habla hispana.
A lo largo de las diferentes tiras podemos ver que el autor cambia el tipo de ilustración, pasando de viñetas en blanco y negro y mås sencillas a otras mås complejas y llenas de color.
Me ha encantado descubrir la historia oculta de estos tres personajes y acompañarles en sus peripecias 💜

💬 ÂżQuĂ© habĂ©is leĂ­do Ășltimamente?

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📚Wrap Up de Enero 📚

En enero no hubo temåtica para la iniciativa #leeIndieEnEspañol , creada por @scriptlibros , pero seguí leyendo a editoriales independientes:

đŸȘđŸš€Fuga en Luz Mayor, la Ășltima novela de @dalayn_sierpe , publicada en @cronocifi , me encantĂł, como todo lo que ella escribe y, cuando pueda, subo un post hablando con detalle. Si os gustan las historias con crĂ­tica social y religiosa, anticolonialismo, dramas familiares y relaciones sĂĄficas, es para vosotres 😉

📚TambiĂ©n he leĂ­do varios relatos, gracias a @asociacion_portico y su antologĂ­a Premio Domingo Santos y la antologĂ­a Visiones, a la web de Marcheto (Flores para Algernon), que tradujo un relato de Gemma Files, y a que aĂșn tengo algĂșn relato pendiente que descarguĂ© del desaparecido Lektu (Alambradas, de Santiago Eximeno me pareciĂł brutal đŸ–€).

💜Mi amiga @tineta13 ha montado un pequeño club de lectura de Literatura GĂłtica y, gracias a ello y a mi novio @carloscdart , estoy animĂĄndome a leerlos en inglĂ©s (aunque con mi Burnout vaya despacio y me cueste).

🏰El castillo de Otranto fue relectura (lo leĂ­ hace años en castellano) y lo mejor esta vez fue criticar a Manfred, entender que algunas mujeres preferĂ­an hacerse monjas o morirse, antes que casarse con semejantes gañanes del libro đŸ€Ł y criticar al autor đŸ€­

💬 ÂżQuĂ© habĂ©is leĂ­do Ășltimamente?
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*NEW BLOG POST*

Over on #damppebbles today, I'm sharing my February #wrapup post: #CaseClosed đŸ•”đŸ»

Find out what happened during February on the blog, along with my #BookoftheMonth!

Check out my post here...
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Newsletter 2026.09

A few days late just means there is more to cover, right? Programming and Scripting This week I worked on my homepage quite a bit. I added a ListenBrainz widget and fixed quite a few bugs that have been bugging me for a while. I also worked on Mattrix, but I’m thinking about scrapping it. Between Claude and me, we’re pretty stuck on the encryption thing. It either needs to be refactored or I’m just going to give up.

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Newsletter 2026.08

My sleeping habits are all over the place. This getting up early thing is going to take awhile to set in. Some days I do well, and I’m up and at ’em early. Other days, I still sleep until late morning and it feels like the day is over too early. But I’m working on it. Programming and Scripting I made a python script that adds metadata to the Manga I’ve been downloading, but the big thing I did this week was set up my own homeserver for Matrix and bridge my Matrix and Discord servers.

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Newsletter 2026.07

This has been a very odd week. I’ve long been a night owl. I go to sleep sometime in the 3-4AM range, and then sleep until around 11AM. I’ve been working this last week to be a little more normal. To sleep before 2AM and then up around 9AM. It has been easier than I thought it would be. Anyway, here’s this week’s newsletter. Programming and Scripting I worked on sonic-tui a bit yesterday. I fixed some lag and added the ability to shuffle through an entire artist’s discography.

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*NEW BLOG POST*

Over on #damppebbles today, I'm sharing my January #wrapup post: #CaseClosed đŸ•”đŸ»

Find out what happened during January on the blog, along with my #BookoftheMonth!

Check out my post here...
âžĄïž https://buff.ly/EOL1hBJ

#Booktoot #bookstodon #bookmastodon #bookish #books #bookrecommendations #booklovers #bookcommunity #readingcommunity #reading #book #bookblogger #bookblog

January was a great month! February is stacking up to be a good one too!

#bass #january #2026 #wrapup

Newsletter 202606

Okay, so I haven’t done one of these in almost two months. But it’s time to get back on the wagon. Work Yes. Work. I got a job. Well, I’m hired at least. I don’t actually start until this summer, but it’s a done deal. I start some online training in early March. What is the gig? I’m going to be a teacher? Yeah, it’s crazy. I’m going to be teaching two online courses at a local community college. One centering around Latin America during the Cold War and one general American History.

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What We Learned from Research in 2025

I haven’t written many posts in 2025; here are the measly few I’ve managed to squeak out:

While my bandwidth to peruse research has diminished this year (work has been busy, and I like spending time with my children) I have still encountered a fair number of compelling studies. In keeping with the tradition begun in 2023, and building on last year’s review, I am endeavoring to round up the research that has crossed my radar over the last 12 months.

This year presents a difficult juncture for research. Political aggression against academic institutions, the immigrants who power their PhD programs, and the federal contracts essential to their survival has disrupted research. Despite this, strong research continues to be published. Because research is a slow-moving endeavor, I suspect the full effects of these disruptions will manifest increasingly in future roundups; for now, the good work persists.

The research landscape of 2025 highlights a continued shift toward experience-dependent plasticity. This view treats the human mind as a dynamic ecosystem shaped by biological rhythms, cultural “software,” and technological catalysts. Learning is no longer seen as a linear accumulation of skills, but as a sophisticated orchestration of “statistical” internal models and external social and cultural and technological attunements.

Longtime readers will recognize this “ecosystem” view from my other blog on Schools as Ecosystems. It is validating to see the field increasingly adopting this ecological lens—viewing the learner not as an isolated machine, but as an organism deeply embedded in a biological and cultural context.

Our “big buckets” for this year have ended up mirroring the 2024 roundup, which means, methinks, that we have settled upon a perennial organizational structure:

  • The Science of Reading and Writing
  • Content Knowledge as an Anchor to Literacy
  • Studies on Language Development
  • Multilinguals and Multilingualism
  • Rhythm, Attention, and Memory
  • School, Social-Emotional, and Contextual Effects
  • The Frontier of Artificial Intelligence and Neural Modeling

Let’s jump in! [...]

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