Beth Salyers, Ph.D.

Damn I feel this.

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

Rural juror 🤣 such a cruel phrase

Love this. Seems that folks are conflating “learning” for all sorts of tips, tricks, tools, and data points. It’s dangerous oversimplification. @adamgrant.bsky.social gets it right by describing learning as an always dynamic process with only dependent variables.
#learning #curious #courage

Okay yall, week 2 of #curiositytour2025

What are you noticing these days about your daily lived experience?

Let me know in the comments or DM. I’ll report out in a Friday follow up.

#weeklywonders #staycurious

Vote with your dollars, too. Let’s be honest, your money will do more in the next few years than your vote did. (I’m making the leap here that y’all didn’t vote for the felon).

Like our state governor. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Facts!!! Especially when they hate my city of New Orleans.

We all agree that part of the tactics for this first week of the First Felon was to exhaust us and make us question our own agency, right?

I beg of you, fellow empathetic humans, please notice what brings you back into your own power and do more of that.

#staycurious

I wish people on the left would stop using “diversity hire” or “affirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.

A functioning opposition party would already be making ads arguing that Trump and his minions are pro-cancer.

Instead, we get conciliatory moves towards cooperation with evil.

I’d like to see a little less focus on the future of work, and a little more on the future of life. Are they entangled? Absolutely. But I think we’re confusing means and ends.

Let’s keep connected to our curiosity.
1. Where are you finding catharsis?
2. Where are you finding motivation?
3. Where are you finding direction?

Let me know in comments or DM, and I’ll share out responses from across socials this coming Friday.

#weeklywonder #curiositytour2025

Got a beach scene from YouTube on my tv screen, jazz playing, eating mint gelato in an attempt to find small pleasures in this raging shitstorm of #2025

Solid apology. Pizza Dominica ain’t cheap.
#nola

Anyone else feeling exceptionally lazy today and can’t get the potential movie title “Buffalo Noon” out of their head?
Dragging myself to the grocery to do adulting things 🙄

I want to connect with more folks who are seeking personal power (agency), creativity, and healthy engagement this year.
#2025

I’m curious, how are yall working through grief these days?

Anyone else feel like a pendulum swinging?
Anyone else trying different approaches just to see which moves us a little bit further along?
Anyone else feel iterative exhaustion?

#2025

Im currently between jobs, feeling a bit lost, wishing for more #art, and I like to write, learn, and create.

You can sign up for bi-weekly updates and come along for the ride at my site.
www.bethsalyers.com

Thank you for any support

Hey yall. 2024 was tough. 2025 feels scary. Let’s admit that it’s already been a rough start.

In an effort to remain sane, healthy as possible, engaged but not despaired, I’ve decided to go on a Curiosity Tour for 2025.

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Yes to slo-mo travel (and living). The pace is a distraction.

Hopefully this signals a shift from thinking AI is a solution and to AI being a tool.

Thank you for reporting on this topic @wired.com

@catbarnard.bsky.social have you journaled on this? I’d be curious as to what comes up.

Oooh, my “what ifs” often relate to travel and being abroad.

I’m curious, what is your lingering, “what if…” that you have about your life?

#joyofcuriosity #lifelonglearning #2025

The language we choose to use designs how we related to something… and how others relate to it.

Call it what it is.

Shoutout to @victorerikray.bsky.social for providing the language of “the company capitulated to a segregationist movement”

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

We know how it started and why it’s upheld.
#whitesupremacy #neoliberalcapitalism #patriarchy

Would yall dig a story about a middle aged empathic woman who discovers how to be more artist and less consumer in her own life?
#becurious #joyofcuriosity #youragency #logline #tagline #story

Most of the work that happens in the world is unpaid