Dr. Clare Brock
@Clare_Brock
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Assistant Prof in poli sci. American Politics, Lobbying, and Public Policy, focused on agricultural and food policy. Queso enthusiast (Dr./she/her)
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I don’t believe for a second that it’s the phones. There are almost zero free spaces that actually welcome teenagers. They get ugly looks from parents at the park. They’re prohibited from loitering in shopping spaces. They don’t have money to eat out. Too loud for libraries.
People are so unwilling to blame iPhones as one of the main culprits in a variety of social ills but graphs like are revealing. It’s obviously the phones.
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Women shouldn't have to relive their trauma and tell their birth stories and near death terrors over and over to convince society that they are deserving of human rights.
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Literally every academic I know is doing the same thing this week: going to the dentist / doctor/ hair salon / whatever appointment they’ve put off. As a group, we are very predictable.
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Y’all. I love academic twitter. Maybe I just follow / interact with great people. But I’ve gained coauthors, borrowed assignments and syllabi, gotten great advice, and more, from this space.
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Wow. Unbelievably sexist and dated policy from
@budget
Way to guarantee I won’t use them since I don’t share a last name with my spouse.
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Let’s talk about the relationship between food, parenting, and politics. 🧵
If your kid will only eat chicken nuggets and pizza, it's not a sensory issue. It's a parenting issue.
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Okay academic women of twitter: what are your favorite clothing stores beyond the standards (eg jcrew, madewell, Ann Taylor, Everlane)?
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Both my employer and my husbands are considering how to move work to online and remote in case of a genuine outbreak. This seems sensible. But it also seems like no employers are considering the possibility that if they are closed, daycares will also be closed.
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The lack of public spaces for people who don’t have $$ to spend is, arguably, one of the major failings of our current society.
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In case anyone needed a reminder of how this pandemic is harming women scholars in particular, I just had to turn down a professional development opportunity I was really excited about due to lack of childcare.
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Today during nap time I successfully wrote.... one sentence. Yes, you read that correctly.
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They still have to pay faculty and staff their full salaries. Teaching online is often MORE labor intensive than teaching in person. More hours grading, recording and editing content, etc.
how are universities justifying full tuition for remote learning
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Did you know that checking your email every 30 seconds does not magically produce the emails you want to see?
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At this point I’m really just paying the daycare $1500/ month for the privilege of keeping my sick kid at home with me.
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(Probably) Popular Opinion: I love teaching, but I hate assessing and grading.
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I let my students do tiktoks and draw cartoons explaining what they learned in class for extra credit. Absolutely the best grading I have done in the full decade that I've been grading.
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My kids are playing a game where they yell. That’s it. That’s the game.
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The best thing I did during grad school was create excel spread sheets of all my readings. Author, date, title, literature category, 2-3 sentence summary, and 2-3 sentence critique. Invaluable for comps, and still useful to this day.
#HiddenCurriculum
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I fed my kids oatmeal, fruit, and milk for breakfast. Then when they were busy playing I snuck back in the kitchen to “empty the dishwasher” and eat leftover cake for my own breakfast.
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I'm late to the "pleased to announce" season due to being nervous about announcing things. But this fall I'll be moving to the CSU Political Science Department and I can't wait!
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An executive at my husband’s workplace just stated that employees were expected to continue their normal productivity regardless of if they had young children at home, working spouses, etc. I’m livid for him, exhausted & frustrated for myself (childcare has been falling on me)
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To those asking “but what changed in 2010?” The graduated drivers license and the death of the mall both started around then, so that’s my guess.
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Yes, I did submit an R&R earlier today. But now my kids are going on hour 3 of watching TV and systematically destroying the living room.
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@rsen01
@davenewworld_2
Yes, she pays extra for massages which are more expensive when prenatal. And children under 2 are free most places like ballparks/ theaters. But she won’t enjoy those activities anyway because she has to get up and pee every 15 minutes and strangers constantly comment on her body
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Every morning when I manage to:
Shower, feed, & dress myself
Feed and dress both kids
Gather lunches, bottles, snacks
Remember pumping supplies
Load everyone in the car
Make two different daycare drop offs in opposite directions
All on time. I basically feel like Wonder Woman
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Is it weird to buy my 5yo a first day of school outfit when he's doing online learning from our living room?
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When I memorized the lyrics to
@smashmouth
All Star back in 1999, I had no idea that 20 years later it would earn me mad respect from my 4 year old.
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The apartment we rented in Austin while I was in grad school was $850/mo in 2010 when we moved in. By the time we moved out in 2016 it was around $1350/mo. The rent for that apartment is now $2050/mo.
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Sure. I’ll definitely transform my office. Oh wait, I don’t have an office. Okay I’ll just fancy up my desk. Wait no, I don’t have a desk. So I just need to make sitting on the bed in the guest room look really professional. Cool cool cool cool.
When students see you on screen this fall, they need to see someone professorial, someone who has created a classroom space that feels organized and free of distractions.
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Today I wrote 350 words (better than nothing) while holding a baby. Then made dinner (steak & roasted veggies), packed a school lunch, cleaned up, read bed time stories, and got both kids to sleep - all without sick husband’s help. I want a gold medal or something.
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I need more tenured, mid and late career academic friends who I can just call out of the blue any time I have a question.
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If we wanted parents and children to eat more healthily, we would need to policy address multiple factors here. 1) minimum wage would need to be enough to not only live on, but to buy more expensive fresh food. 2) parents would need time to cook, that might mean a 35/hr work week
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I don't know why y'all keep following me. I used to tweet about research & academics but then we entered a global pandemic. Now I pretty much just tweet about my kids.
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This morning I caught my 3 year old using his bacon like a spoon to eat powdered sugar.
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“Farmed Out: Agricultural Lobbying in a Polarized Congress,” has a cover!
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If you don’t let your kid play PBS games on his kindle so you can cry and stress eat candy in the other room, are you even pandemic parenting?
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It’s really easy to blame bad parenting for picky children, and of course, parenting matters some. But parents are much less responsible than our government, food manufactures, and American food environment.
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Seems like people have mixed feelings about co-authoring, but I really love it. 1) find someone who has different strengths than you. 2) find someone who is responsive. 3) take on a project that’s bigger - something you might not tackle alone.
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Today I nominated someone for an award. It was easy and awesome and I'm going to make this a regular part of my academic work. I highly recommend it.
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Conferences really need quiet nap rooms so people who aren’t staying in the conference hotel have somewhere to go take a break during down time.
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Suggestion to professors: If you're teaching online, shoot your students an email outlining what type of class to expect. Will it be synchronous? Asynchronous? Will there be specific days and times they need to log on? Students need this info to plan work schedules, etc.
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Years ago, I miscarried at 7 weeks. I cannot imagine being interrogated and facing the possibility of prosecution/ imprisonment while in pain and grieving. The cruelty of laws like this one is stunning.
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A couple weeks ago, I had a convo w/ another professor about how few students are visiting office hours. We've rebranded as "student hours," held on zoom and in person, etc. So I sent my students a list of actual reasons why they should come. Here it is:
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Parents of picky children often have to choose between being judged versus harming their child. Forcing children to eat can damage your child’s relationship to food, and worse, their relationship to their parents. Basically, quit judging parents. We are doing our best.
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Children (and all people) are genetically wired to prefer foods high in sugar, fat, and salt. And these foods are also the cheapest in terms of cost per calorie. That means ultra processed foods are simultaneously extremely appealing and very affordable.
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Silver lining: While home with me, my baby has taken his first steps and started talking so much more. Yesterday he added "light" to his vocabulary, and today "book."
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I often see tweets about how excited and proud people are of getting in to phd programs. And they absolutely should be. But I can’t stop myself from thinking - Do they know the attrition rate? Do they know what the job market really looks like? Do they know...?
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4) And, if we were really, really serious about this, processed food could be regulated to cap sodium and sugar per serving. In short, quit guilting parents.
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Additionally, in our extremely individuated society where parents are often without robust support networks, processed foods are easy and fast, requiring little to no preparation. Chicken nuggets are easy and your kids are guaranteed to eat them without complaint, that’s a win.
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During parent teacher conferences, I leaned that my kid is “inclusive and kind” at school; a few days later I heard through the grapevine that he’s been a good friend to an unknown (to me) child who is being bullied. There are no words for how proud I am of this kid.
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A co-author and I just got an email that our textbook chapter has been accepted for publication. It's a small win, but a win nonetheless!
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3) food advertising to children would need to be curtailed, if not eliminated. No more bunnies and cartoons on cereal boxes, no more food advertisements on children’s tv programming or in schools.
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Had a phone conference, wrote two letters of recommendation for students, wrote 500 words of a book chapter, and played several games of candy crush. It's amazing what a person can accomplish with a few hours of childcare.
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“Farmed Out” is finally here! Huge thanks to everyone who read chapters, provided feedback, encouraged, and supported me. Life dream realized!
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Want to know something? Diet culture is bad.
1. It lies: weight loss recommendations are generally not supported by research.
2. It’s anti-Black: diet culture is based on white-centric norms about bodies
3. It’s capitalist BS
4. It’s okay to enjoy food & be comforted by food
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And at the end of the day - blaming parents for everything is lazy. Parents face constant criticism. And you’ll never understand the kinds of decisions and trade offs involved until you’re parenting. Maybe a kid has low weight, ARFID, or SPD. Maybe you just want a pleasant dinner
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I never want to see another article about shrinking family size again unless that article is all about maternal mortality rates, parental leave, daycare costs, and the cost of healthcare. NEVER. Don’t tell me about the lack of cousins or how only children are lonely or whatever.
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Parents get criticized if they work and send their kids to daycare, if they don’t make enough $ and need government assistance, if they feed too obsessively healthfully and fall into diet culture traps, and if they buy processed food. And kids just have tastes too.
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@decustecu
Agree completely. I think it’s the worst for teens. Small children can go to playgrounds and library story time. Adults can (often) afford to go to coffee shops or bars /restaurants. But teens don’t have money, they’re often loud and vulgar and therefore unwelcome in parks, etc
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@MikeFromCo
Maybe. But libraries aren’t really teen friendly spaces typically. Teens are loud, they can be wild, they are often physically active. They’re simply not made to be social places for teens outside of specific and limited programming.
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@sergiotpinto
@ThatSaraGoodman
@NickWolfinger
Wow, it is spectacularly unprofessional and unkind for a tenured professor to wield their power this way against a graduate student.
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Political Science Professors: Do you consider staying up to date on politics (for instance, watching hearings like the one today) to be part of your work responsibilities, or do you consider things like this to be a distraction from work?
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This is where we are at in the pandemic. I’ve given up on the reading lessons and now I just let my kid wear a box around the house.
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I know every job has ups and downs. But I think teaching probably has higher highs and lower lows than most.
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I keep trying to finish my grading, but sniffing my newborn baby’s head and cuddling him keeps getting in the way.
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Hey Twitter. I had a baby last week, so I’ll probably be pretty quiet here for awhile. I haven’t gone away, just taking some time off.
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The best feature of academia is the students. The worst feature of academia is not getting to live where you choose.
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@_beccaharrison
It's a very online response to take umbrage with a tweet that was meant to be a bit silly. But actually, some of my immunocompromised and disabled friends do put off their dental appointments or other types of appointments as well. Not everything has to be a personal slight
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Many undergrads, especially first gen, don't fully understand the term "office hours" or know what to do with that time. Here's a short post to help explain it:
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I’m going to come out of quarantine way less “productive” than I would like. But I’m doing my best for my students, I’m spending time with my kids, and I’m (mostly) hanging on to my sanity. I’m pretty okay with that.
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hot take: yes, by and large, academics have great jobs. But no one needs to win the “hard job olympics” to deserve sympathy when they have a rough day, bad month, or difficult year. There are aspects of academia that are very difficult and if you need to complain that’s ok.
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In late July I got Covid and tiktok, so overall last month was pretty on brand for 2020.
(Yes, I am totally fine; and no, I’m not making tiktoks now)
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And fast food advertising is targeted particularly heavily in low income and minority communities, where children are exposed to several times more fast food advertising than their wealthier, whiter counterparts.
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I’m at a loss for anything fun I can do in 100° heat that will entertain both an 18month old and a 5yo, and won’t be miserable for me. Help me out here twitter.
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Processed foods are also deeply embedded in American culture. During the Cold War, government propaganda advertised the importance of a stocked pantry full of canned goods in case of nuclear attack.
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If you are a
@TWUHistPoliSci
who needs a face to face class to remain in the country, please contact me to discuss an in person independent study.
This is bad. ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester.
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Academic twitter is such an accessible resource and network for those of us who aren’t at R1s. We get to see new research in the absence of a department lecture series and make connections we’d probably otherwise miss out on.
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What counts as a "productive" writing day for you right now? Is it 200 words? 1000 words? 5 pages?
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I should be finalizing syllabi, but my 4 year old asked me to make him this rainbow friendship bracelet. Priorities.
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Parenting tip: when your child is really looking forward to something that happens later in the day, set an Alexa timer. Your child can ask Alexa endlessly how much longer, and you don’t have to answer it.
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American government also does little to reign in food advertising, even to children. Most children can identify a variety of fast food mascots before age 5.
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Something I'm working hard on this semester is incorporating more graphics / data / visuals into my Intro American politics course. It's important to SHOW students (not just tell them) what political science is finding.
@pewresearch
never lets me down!
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Hot take: Finding quality childcare for infants is incredibly stressful, especially in a small town
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@kristinerudolph
Right? The homework demands from schools (especially high schools) infuriate me. I remember when I was a teen and we switched from block scheduling. 7 classes a day and each assigned “just” an hour of homework. I used to do homework from 5pm - midnight regularly.
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On maternity leave, I’ve been watching a lot of Food Network TV. And I have to say, hands down, my favorite person on the entire network is Alex Guarnaschelli. She’s a stone cold boss and does not tolerate BS.
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Update: both kids are going as pizza for Halloween. Spouse and I are going as pizza delivery people. Pretty sure we will never top this one.
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It’s 7:30 on a Sunday evening. My house is (sort of) clean, fridge is stocked, laundry is folded, kids are sleeping. This is peace.
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This is wild but my family (and myself) is stuck at a beautiful resort in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest.
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I suspect that people saying how terrible academic twitter is are either following the wrong crowd, or already have a wealth of resources that many of us do not have at our fingertips.
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Never get in a twitter fight with someone whose expertise is strategic communications.
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We hired a cleaning service to come and deep clean our house today and it is literally one of the best decisions I've ever made. I'm grading, and my house progressively looking more and more amazing.
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Based on this, I should do -1 pomodoros each day. Which explains exactly why my doing my job feels so overwhelming right now.
Best advice I've heard today:
Youngest child's age = max # of pomodoros you could aim for daily
Subtract 1 for every additional child.
Hope that puts your workload in perspective.
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