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Music therapist, academic, legislative advocate, lifelong learner, Mom.
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Sad (but unsurprising) news indeed… I have long admired and been grateful for the support @actualbenfolds.bsky.social has provided for the arts in general, and music therapy specifically. #musictherapy

Difficult days are made better when you get to snuggle this doofus 🐶

I’ve always preferred Apple Maps to Google maps…

*giggle*

Despite the regressive policies coming from the government (and with some larger corporations following suit), there is still good we can each do within our circle of influence and control. Here are some examples… #scholarlypublishing #academicsky

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

I so appreciate when researchers share study findings indicating there were no differences between conditions/groups. It’s still good data. And important information to know. #musicscience #researchsky

Update: Given recent executive orders and the unknowns surrounding what they means, these speakers from the NEA had to pull out of the conference. Sad…and understandable. #musicscience #academicsky

Excited to present this new intervention theory project at the Suncoast Music Ed Research Symposium XV at USF this week! Title: A Theory of Intervention Model to Define Essential Characteristics of Music to Support Emotion Regulation Development in Early Childhood #musicscience #academicsky

New office sign courtesy of one of my students! ALL are welcome…🌈 (I’m hoping the message is clear enough? Not too subtle?) #academicsky

THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER. He’s a pantless thundergoose…hee hee

“Pantless thundergoose” sounds like an amazing concept for a Halloween costume 🙃

I am a seatbelt wearer. And yet I get absurdly annoyed when the loaner EV I’m driving makes me put my seatbelt on before I shift. Which happens Every. Single. Time. (I get, like, REALLY annoyed.)

Happy International Zebra Day, to all who celebrate. My second favourite word for a zebra is the Mandarin 斑馬, which means “stripey horse.” And my number one favourite word for a zebra is the Arabic حمار وحشي. It essentially means “monstrous donkey”

Attending a conference next week and I already know who is going to have the most difficult talk… #musicscience #musictherapy #researchsky #academicsky

Manuscript submitted! It never ceases to amaze me how LONG it takes to prep & submit a manuscript. Esp when submitting to different journals as each have their own guidelines. (Also as a journal editor I totally get the need for said guidelines.) #musicscience #academicsky #scientificpublishing

Pretty sunrise colors. Just because…

“Thoughts and prayers” will solve all the problems. 😢

In 2007, a clip went viral of a man being stopped on the street by a Guangzhou TV reporter. The man was asked about a sex scandal that was all over the news at the time and his reply has been a popular Chinese slang phrase for not getting involved ever since. He said “I’m just here to buy soy sauce”

My legal adult-aged son started his first social media account this weekend and he dm’d me a reel last night and I feel like I’ve unlocked a parenting level 💪🏻

At 18 years and 2.5 months of age my son finally opened his first social media account…😏

Just filled in as church pianist for my FIL and this isn’t at all the same thing but the closest I think I’ll come to understanding what masking feels like is when I actively work to control my facial affect and body language during a church service.

Introvert me is wondering why past Kimberly thought it’d be a super fun idea to go to a neighbor’s wine tasting party where I’d not know a single person…

I may be late to the party but Dropbox just invited me to create a view only QR code for the reference list that I can incorporate in the research poster I’m creating. YES PLEASE! #academicsky

Filling in as church pianist for my FIL Sunday and omg this old hymnal from Tennessee uses SHAPE NOTES which I’ve heard of but have never seen. Also found it surprisingly difficult for my standard notation-trained eyes to read 😅

While one country regresses 🇺🇸 another progresses 🇹🇭 This is a beautiful thing! 🌈

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An Irish proverb about groupthink is nuair a chacann gé, cacann siad go léir. It means “when one goose shits, they all do”

The first known use of 'oink' was 87 years ago. The first known use of 'moo' was 476 years ago. EE I EE I OH?

This week I’m especially grateful to be working on plans and projects that bring me joy. Preparing a research poster. Planning for this summer’s study abroad trip to Thailand. Being thiiiis close to submitting a manuscript. These bring me something positive to focus on. Which is much needed.

It’s heartbreaking when decisions are made without any awareness, acknowledgement, or recognition of the human impact it has. It’s even worse when these are rash, snap decisions. This will impact #musicscience research as well…

I pretty much ignored most of what happened Monday. THIS though is the one good thing that’s worth paying attention to. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde 🙏🏻 www.npr.org/2025/01/21/n...

The autistic experience of wishing the world could see inside your head just so they see the full of love you actually are rather than what they see on the outside.

In the spirit of transparency I’d like to point out that my daughter is, in fact, 16 years old. 6:22 am Kimberly hadn’t had her coffee yet…

At 10 pm last night my 15yo daughter had the presence of mind to recognize that the soft crackling and light red glow from the charger plugged in the wall outlet was not normal. She got help & her quick thinking likely prevented a house fire. Feeling extra #grateful to my daughter this morning.

Distracting myself today by finishing minor tweaks on a manuscript, drafting a research poster, and giving remote testimony for a committee hearing in Wyoming. #academicchatter

It never occurred to me that Winnie the Pooh would have different names! 🤯 Also…Ursinho Puff 🥰

I chuckled 😅