Dr. Bridget Keown
@SevenPaperclips
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I'm so honored to share the Spring 2022 issue of Rejoinder, centered on trauma, and edited by yours truly. Grateful beyond words to
@IRWRutgers
, as well as to our contributors, whose stories, words, & insight made this issue what it is. Check it out here:
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I wrote the letter that Clifford reads starting at 0:56.
If you want the story about the letter, keep reading…
One of the most heartbreaking moments in Muppet history
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I worked next to the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013. We had comfort dogs hanging out w/ us, investigators, & 1st responders outside for the following week. I don't have words to describe the feeling of a dog hug, because it's beyond language, but I'll never forget it.
This is Tobias. He and his comfort dog friends visited Surfside, FL this week. They brought their “please pet me” vests and handed out mini stuffed comfort dogs, so first responders and families who lost loved ones can continue to receive hugs whenever they need. 15/10 for all
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This tweet is about fireworks, and I support that. However the message is applicable to so many things right now.
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Months later, some family friends mailed us a VHS of the show, having seen the letter.
…I still can’t watch the whole show, because I still can’t bear to see Kermit sad. But I hope my letter did make him feel better.
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So I used every marker I could find to write & decorate the letter—because bright colors couldn’t fail to make Kermit happy.
I think we called the library for the address for the Jim Henson Corporation & sent the letter off.
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I started crying, inconsolably. Kermit was my hero, and I couldn’t bear that he was sad. Desperate to calm me down, my mom and the lady at the checkout agreed that I could write Kermit a letter, and that would make him feel better.
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@clhubes
She remained unruffled by any event or circumstance, and could handle any problem with equanimity, except when she swooned on the shoulder of the manly hero on whom she relied for her food, water, and explanations on how to walk, dress, and speak.
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I was five years old when Jim Henson died. We were on our first family vacation at the time. When we got home, my mom and I went grocery shopping. At the checkout, I saw Life Magazine cover (below) featuring Kermit, sitting on Jim’s chair, looking sad.
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@StephenAtHome
I made my first loaf of bread in decades yesterday. Tomorrow, we tackle focaccia.
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To quote from one of the New School’s alumni, James Baldwin, “There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
This is despicable.
As announced on Monday, we have made the difficult decision to stop paying wages and premiums for healthcare benefits for employees who are striking. Up to this point, we have continued to compensate our faculty and staff who have chosen to exercise their right to strike.
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@adamdavidson
This isn’t about narrative vs citations. Many people have navigated both successfully. It’s about overlooking years of work, largely by marginalized scholars, and intentionally obscuring others’ labor to make oneself look more important. It’s about ethics & responsible reporting.
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@AlexJFinley
Wait, so they canceled the shark cage teaching challenge? That’s such a relief...
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Also, for the record, I don't want a "return to normal." I demand better.
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I am just going to assume that Jean and I share a birthday on Sept. 6, and that will fill me with utter joy.
I am not allowed to tell the internet what day is Jean’s birthday
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Cedric and Stinky Pete were at my (successful) defense, and are proud to announce I’m now Dr. Keown!!
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Since I’ve signed the forms, I guess it’s ok to state I’ve accepted a position in the GSWS Program at the U of Pittsburgh. I don’t have words to say how excited & grateful I am, & how much I’m looking forward to developing interdisciplinary courses & events on gender & science!
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Standing in solidarity with farm workers today and always.
Also, I demand the historic record recognize “a bajillion” as the official headcount for this rally.
I want to see everyone’s pictures and videos of how half of California joined the farm workers for the last day of their march. I like this video of a bajillion people yelling at
@GavinNewsom
to sign the bill (
#AB2183
)
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Today seems like quite the appropriate time to announce the
#CFP
for the upcoming virtual
#RethinkingWar
conference, dedicated to re-thinking the history of war with as diverse a range of scholars and artists as we can. Consider submitting a proposal, and please spread the word!
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Every semester, I begin my Intro to Feminist Theory class w/
@SaraNAhmed
's "Feminist Killjoys & Other Willful Subjects" & bell hook's "Theory as Liberatory Practice," which use an image of a family at a dining table to make discuss hierarchical, paternalistic societies. 1/-
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Dr. Fintan is happy to announce that we just got our contract renewed for three years at Pitt. I am beyond excited to keep building our Gender & Science curriculum, and learning from this humid, hilly city. Dr. Fintan is excited for the fancy salmon dinner he had for dinner.
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@DaniRabaiotti
As a first gen grad student, and a child who had to deal with the “threats” of “unconditional love” from people a lot, this hurts to read.
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@DoctorKevo
Coloring books. And CRAYONS. God, the smell of a new box of crayons still sends my heart pitter-pattering. My Dad got me a new box every year of school, including when I started teaching because I still associate new crayons with important occasions.
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Accepted with minor revisions. My work is imaginative and original. Thank the Heavens for kind and insightful reviewers. I shall now open the celebratory cheese.
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@JortsTheCat
If Jort’s comrades are able to support striking members of the
@PGHGuild
, here is the link to their Striker Support Fund:
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@DigitalHistory_
I catalogued the diary of a WWI British soldier who was a violinist. In 1918, he lost his violin. Turns out, we also got the violin in the donation. It was sold for bread in postwar Germany, & remained in the bakers’ family for 50 years before they found the British owner again.
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@amydjohn
@AcademicChatter
Get a support network. Whether it’s your cohort, other grads students in your department, or friends of friends. Find fellow students who know what it’s like, who can keep you motivated, offer advice, & celebrate with you.
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@IBJIYONGI
Barista for 4 yrs, & you’re right. There’s nothing bourgeois about getting things throw at you when the water isn’t hot enough, putting up w/ patrons’ diminutive names, or $4/hr so you rely on tips. Equating the workers w/ the product is capitalist misdirection at its finest.
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@DigitalHistory_
Also, the diary of an Irish soldier who lived in California before WWI. He loved someone named Lois, & whenever he was in distress, he imagined walking through orange groves w/ Lois. I hope Lois knew she was loved. He died in 1916, and I don’t think his family knew to tell her.
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Good morning. Please remember: Punching down is reprehensible and toxic and incredibly dangerous. If you can’t use your influence to affect positive change, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
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On having to work multiple jobs as a PhD to survive: As someone who worked 3, I never got to learn professional boundaries, how to say "no," or how to protect my time. Granted, I have family dynamics that compounded this, but precarity directly contributes to job creep & burnout.
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@danielgilman
As a native Bostonian, let me tell you how the gentrification of "Boston’s ritzy Newbury Street" destroyed neighborhoods & closed local businesses (esp. bookshops). Pitting indie bookstores against each other is cruel, & shows how much Produce Terminal cares about the community.
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As my 2018 draws to a close, I’ve just heard those three little words I’ve always dreamed of: “Accepted without revisions”. 🤗
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@JortsTheCat
Fintan took care of me all through grad school, and now my students call him Dr. Fintan. I do the work, but he is in charge of making students smile, and he is really good at that.
Alt text: A burly brown tabby cat with a white mouth and green eyes lays in a gray blanket.
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Oh, no. As a historian of gender & science, let me tell you, this notion has caused a vast deal of harm & reinforced a number of unjust hierarchies of power. Those who get to declare “truth” have potentially deadly power. This is why STEM and the humanities MUST speak together.
The good thing about Science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.
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@evanthevoice
I know a hell of a lot more about a balloon over Canada than whether the water I use every day is going to kill me quickly, or if it will take ten years or so.
"Blackout" might not be the right word, but when the news doesn't give insight, perspective, or agency, it's useless.
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Friends, I need someone to give me permission to say “No” to something. Help me out?
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@jackiantonovich
I came from writing-intensive programs, & assumed my students were familiar with citations & constructing research papers. Turns out many hadn’t written long papers since grade school. 2nd time around, I built paper-writing into every aspect of my syllabus & it went much better.
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@underthenettle
1) Attend one of Mozart’s performances
2) 1892: Attend the premiere of Lady Windermere’s Fan
3) 1916-8 Find a way to casually meet some of the people I quoted in my dissertation
4) 1982: Attend a Queen concert.
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That
@WSJ
opinion (I'm not retweeting) isn't just appallingly misogynistic & patronizing. It's also advocating for abusive practices against grad students. Waxing wistfully about students fainting after their defenses is disgusting, really dangerous, & should never be normalized.
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Today, I presented the 2023 Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, supported by intellectual heroes, family, & students.
I hope I made them proud. I hope I did my subjects proud.
Thanks to
@FWWsoc
,
@thehistorygirl1
, and all those who listened & shared today.
#FWW
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Ok, so we've established it's important to support & respect women, people of color, and non-binary comrades w/ PhDs. Today, we can start defending academic labor, supporting & protecting contingent faculty, & fighting against the reduction of social sciences & humanities, right?
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My copy of Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media arrived last night & it’s lovely! If you’d like to read about my research on women’s expressions of trauma during WWI, or to savor the other amazing entires, here’s a link for you or your library:
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And to all a good night.
A burly brown tabby cat sits in front of a lit Christmas tree, looking very sparkly.
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I always start my Intro to Feminist Theory courses with
@SaraNAhmed
's "Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)". It's a powerful piece for students wrangling with their own desires to speak out in the world, but also to their families and kin. 1/4
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I wasn’t active online last evening, but I want to say now that if you are a physicist who works on equitable distribution of energy to Indigenous communities, the Gender & Science Initiative @ Pitt would LOVE to invite you to speak. You & your work deserve recognition & respect.
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My dissertation has typos, and I also neglected to remove some scaffolding, so there are two places where you can find "INSERT INTERESTING QUOTE HERE" in it. Just in case some pedantic misogynist w/ far too much time on their hands who never wrote a dissertation was interested.
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They are the Patriot Front, one of the most visible white supremacist groups in the US. They marched from Back Bay Station to the Boston Public Library. Massachusetts has a growing neo-Nazi movement. We cannot afford to be vague about these events in any way, shape, or form.
A large crowd of people wearing “Reclaim America” shirts gathering outside of Tasty Burger by Back Bay Station.
#wcvb
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Little did I think when I said to my students “I’m always here if you need support,” that I’d be asked to be the faculty advisor for the Pitt Women’s Water Polo Club. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to cut up some orange slices for the bestest team in all of PA.
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@ericneumannpsyc
When I interviewed for my current job, it was at work as a library assistant. The only quiet place I could find was a janitorial closet in a room where a Baby Yoga class was taking place. As I'm discussing my research, there were literally babies flying past the window behind me.
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“Hallo, I am your professor, Dr. Fintan MacBochra. I am very excited to be teaching you on Zoom this semester. My teaching assistant behind me will be doing most of the grading, however, because she has thumbs....”
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Oh hell’s bells, it says I’m faculty. I guess that makes it really real, right?
#academia
#isthisjustfantasy
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One of my first academic conferences, I was told my research was invalid because, essentially, I was talking about women. It’s a relief & a heartbreak to read this from
@ladyxscience
. For every scholar for whom the current conference doesn’t work, let’s work to make it better.
“We’ve had our subjects and approaches publicly, specifically dismissed in front of peers, and faced down genuine humiliation and hostility...We are tired.”
—
@AnnaNReser
, on why Lady Science is saying goodbye to academic conferences.
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@ellle_em
Fintan's very favorite thing is to sit on the sink or tub and have his human pour water into his mouth from a cup. He will yell very loudly until said human agrees to his demands.
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I use this episode as part of my teaching of the AIDS epidemic, and am so grateful to
@clairesayswhat
for this insightful & moving article on The Golden Girls and the “72 Hours” episode. via
@nursingclio
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Just found out that due to a glitch somewhere in the registration matrix, my 35 person LGBTQ history class is now…a 75 person class. And it’s overbooked.
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@jackiantonovich
I had my students count their pockets in class. There were 4 men in a class of 25, and they had 5 times more pockets. One student declared himself a "pocket feminist" on the spot.
#pocketfeminism
?
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Hey, to all those scholars who are rightfully full of rage over that SMH letter…watch this space. Plans are in progress.
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Hello. I teach college courses on gender and science. Let me tell you, this is not how DNA works.
DNA confirms Nashville bomber Anthony Warner was a lone wolf who died in the Christmas Day explosion
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So happy, so grateful to all my colleagues who voted to support the
@PittFacUnion
. This won't repair all the problems with higher ed, but it is a critically important first step, and I'm so excited to take it.
#pittunion
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@bunsenbernerbmd
Dr. Fintan is a retire boatyard cat who prefers his independence. However, he’d be very happy to correspond with a fellow lover of poetry and the Food Network. Recommendations for new fleecy blankies also appreciated.
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@Adam_Crymble
Look, it’s not that simple. If we think back to the 80’s, there are a lot of factors that combined to influence how I developed....
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I feel like this is a good time to observe that I would have to work for 96 years straight to make what my employer's football coach makes in 1 year. Over the past year, his pay increased 18%. Faculty salary increased by 1.3%.
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*Deep breath* I’ve struggled w/ disordered eating & body dysphoria most of my life. I don’t know what it means to be comfortable in my skin suit, but let me be clear: NO ONE gets to make you feel uncomfortable in yours, no matter what you are doing/wearing.
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According to the paperwork from his vet, today is Dr. Fintan Francis MacBochra’s 11th birthday. He will be celebrating with a hearty nap in the sunshine, a snuggle with his Beloved Shoe, & his favorite dinner…chicken tacos. Happy birthday, Buddy!
#CatsOfTwitter
#AcademicCats
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If anyone is teaching about the First World War, history of medicine, trauma, gender, or LGBTQ History & has to teach online, I'd be glad to talk to your class online or by chat, if that would be helpful.
#CovidCampus
#AcademicTwitter
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Housebound Patron (who calls in for help with crossword puzzles & trivia questions every day): I was feeling very alone today. Thank you for talking with me.
#librarylife
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Dr. Fintan to go to the vet to get his nails trimmed today. He is 100% fine. However, he has placed a curse on me & the vet, the parameters of which are not clear, but he says it’s bad.
#AcademicCats
#CatsOfTwitter
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Happy Adoptiversary to Dr. Fintan Francis MacBochra, the terror of East Boston, scholar extraordinaire, and my favorite Zoom co-teacher. Thanks for choosing me.
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Today marks the second time in as many weeks I’ve heard something along the lines of: “If I’m paying tuition, I expect a quality product” and I am so sincerely over the capitalization/commodification of education.
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The face of a historian who just taught her first face to face class since February 2019…Thank God for actively listening students.
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When I adopted him, I told Fintan that we would get our PhDs together, so he's now Dr. Fintan.
#catstorians
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You know those emails from students that make every sleepless night worth it, and reminds you that you are actually doing something worthwhile with your life? I just got one of those.
#Teaching
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@johnpiano
@melissalreed
Are women not people?
In a crisis, we triage. We address the issues that require the most critical care first. In this case, it is protecting reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. After that, I would be happy to explain why "pregnant people" is a valid and necessary term.
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As a historian, the looming loss of this utterly chaotic archive terrifies me.
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One year ago today, I defended my dissertation. It still hasn’t sunk in fully yet. But the comradeship and support I got that day remains overwhelming. Also, trying to think about how I’d explain this year to 2019 Me is...bizarre.
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One review says "Academic page turner"! I know there are much bigger things on which to focus right now, but as someone whose always been a bit insecure about not writing like an academic, this means so much. *More cheese*
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When there’s a thunderstorm, it’s important to make sure the Tupperware is safe.
#CatsOfTwitter
#AcademicCats
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How it started (2016); How it’s going (2022).
May your Yule time be as contented and peaceful as a former Boatyard Cat, napping under a Christmas tree.
#CatsOfTwitter
#AcademicCats
#MeowyChristmas
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Fintan has adopted a potato. This is not the first time he has adopted a potato. 🥔
#FintanFeline
#CatsOfTwitter
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I'd weigh in on the "historians retreating from public" thing, but after drafting a talk for young women on the historian's craft, teaching @ my local library on
#WW1
, recording w/
@BreakingHistPod
on indigenous history, & editing a piece for
@nursingclio
, I just don't have time.
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Who has two thumbs, a PhD, and now a second COVID booster? Me!
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The world is an infectious hellscape. HOWEVER, my LGBTQ in the USA students approved a five minute "pet show-and-tell" session today. Dr. Fintan and I got to meet a cat & a dog named Luna, a cat who could wave, and sibling nonbinary fish. We all agreed this was the best class.
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There was a lot that 1917 did well. But pretending this is a story that is comfortably in the past is inaccurate and dangerous. I'm so grateful to
@nursingclio
for giving me a space to talk about this
@Oscars2020_
winning film!
One of our resident
#WW1
historians,
@SevenPaperclips
, here with the 1917 review you’ve been waiting for.
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@JortsTheCat
If you are in any way like Oscar Wilde the Cat, it could also be because you were sitting on the railing and got tired of waiting for someone to let you in, so you just...fell off.
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@weirdlilguys
@mushroomlady_
Dr. Fintan is more of a scholar than a fighter now, but he is still proud and willing to defend his clowder.
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My contract at Pitt has been renewed. Apparently, you are all stuck with my unique brand of madness for a little longer.
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This was one of the hardest things I’ve written—like Waugh’s “blow upon a bruise.” But if we don’t talk about it, if we don’t listen to each other’s stories, we can’t make it better.
In 2018
@SevenPaperclips
wrote about her experience working under an abusive prof. Turns out other faculty knew about his behavior but failed (refused) to protect students. Bridget reflects on abuses of power in light of the
#harvard38
letter.
@nursingclio
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Good Morning. Please don't poke fun at students who are struggling. Especially on social media.
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As another brilliant day at
#ACIS2021
comes to a close, I find myself missing all the wonderful people at the receptions who would help monopolize the corner of the table with the cheese so we could fill our pockets when no one was looking.
@ACIrishStudies
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I am literally working on THREE pieces on why comparing pandemics to wars are such a phenomenally bad idea. I appreciate the citations, but please stop.
"A 24-hour lifting of restrictions on gatherings and celebrations, a break in the war on Covid, just like the pause in the First World War on the Western Front in 1914."
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I should have checked the weather. If I had known the misogyny was going to be so high today, I'd have shown up prepared. With a flame-thrower.
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“You’re still posting silly pictures of me on that bird site, aren’t you?”
—Dr. Fintan.
#AcademicCats
#CatsOfTwitter
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