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gay and tired. nobody can judge me but me, i was born free. consultant @mndeed . patrice’s theysband. they/them.
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I successfully defended my dissertation today. I’m Dr. Hamilton now!
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We basically never hear about his victims being white because they symbolically lost their whiteness by stepping out of racial order to side with us. That’s fucking something.
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Instead of a photo booth, we hired a live illustrator for our wedding to draw us and our guests as a fun activity and holy shit she ATE
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I really met and then got to marry her holy shit I am so fucking lucky
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I’m marrying my best friend so we took some pictures to celebrate.
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I'm willing to do anything to finish my dissertation except sit down everyday and write my dissertation.
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Did I just win my university's most competitive dissertation completion fellowship that I spent 6 months working on? FUCK YES I DID.
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“Don’t ask about salary before getting a verbal offer”
Expecting academic job candidates to wait for months of applying and interviewing to find out the salary for the role they’ve invested so much time is in absolutely wild and incredibly toxic.
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I’ve backed out of an academic job offer that I’d accepted.
I’m pursuing research jobs in tech/industry instead. I don’t know what’s next and I don’t have another job offer yet. I just know that being in academia isn’t for me anymore and that I feel so much better.
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I’m not going to Cornell. I thought I could go back to academia, but I just really like UX, I make a lot more money, I don't have to leave my house to go to work, and I like where I live. Most importantly, work is just work now, not my identity. I just can’t give any of that up.
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White supremacist deify him because they like that he actively policed the racial boundary to eliminate other white people who dared to cross the line.
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I officially did not mess up any of the 10 very complicated steps to defending my dissertation. I’m an official PhD!
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A week and a half into my UX job and it’s so interesting and I work remotely and get paid really good money and my manager is so supportive and my work is flexible and I’m done with work at exactly 5pm and no one emails me on the weekend. It’s so great.
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“I could never work in industry! Sorry, I just have zero interest in making CEOs richer or working to trick people into buying something.”
Your university’s President makes $3 million/year and your undergrads pay 40k in tuition. Please stop.
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Woke up to an offer letter for a tech PhD internship during Summer 2021. It's truly a Merry Christmas.
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In my new piece for
@Slate
, I wrote about why we should see algorithmic bias as a feature of technology, not a bug.
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I recently accepted a position as a qualitative user experience researcher
@Pinterest
! I’ll be doing research to improve products and experiences for Creators on the platform.
I’m really excited to defend my dissertation and start on this new career path next month.
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Lots of things went into the decision, but the short version is that I want to live in Minneapolis, I want to work remotely, I don’t want to teach, and I want a salary commensurate with my worth and experience.
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This paper is so special to me. It’s my first that centrally focuses on my interest in the structure of race and racism and I’ve been working on since my first semester of grad school. So excited for this to be out soon.
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There is an entire story to be told about race in America through the demographics of the attendees of the Renaissance Tour vs. the Eras tour and it would be such a fun read
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Today marks 10 years of sobriety for me. Incredibly grateful for this time.
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32 today. Fiancée made me French toast. Life’s good. 🎈
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I got a call unexpected call tonight offering me — as an educator — a leftover dose of vaccine. I got my first shot today and I’m scheduled for my second dose in couple of weeks. Feeling lots of gratitude tonight.
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They sent me a mug so it’s official — I’ll be joining
@IBMResearch
in Summer 2021 to work on the Tech for Racial and Social Justice Initiative.
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I got my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine today. Looking forward to changing absolutely nothing about my strict masking or social distancing behavior as a result.
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I started working on this project with
@MichelleSPhelps
in 2018. I can't describe how thrilled I am to finally see this paper published today.
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There’s so much opacity around $ + academic & non-ac jobs so here are some numbers from my experiences.
- Offered 96k + 150k startup for an R1 TT job
- Offered $70k + 20k startup for an R2 TT job
- Offered 75k for an R1 postdoc.
- I make 180k in my current role
@KoreyTillman_
Ask about salary + startup during the first interview. They will never tell you otherwise and it can feel scary to ask, but do it anyway so that you can figure out early in the process if that pay range is acceptable to you.
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I'll take any opportunity to criticize my university but you'll never hear me speak ill of our librarians or research support staff because those people are god-like.
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My girlfriend and I made homemade mousse, put it in jars with custom labels, then drove around Minneapolis doing contactless V-day deliveries to our friends in -13 degree weather. Very wholesome and very gay.
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I've just started joining the Zoom meeting without my camera on, offering no explanation why, and just proceeding with whatever the meeting is about. I'm finally free.
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A recruiter was in my LinkedIn DMs just yesterday. The first message they sent to me told me was how much the role pays. It’s just standard, common practice because…everyone works money.
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I went back to read the cover letter i wrote for academic jobs and I was telling these people I was going to write a book for NYU Press, publish hella articles, teach, and apply for a bunch of fellowships all before tenure. I was just straight up writing speculative fiction 💀
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When Beyonce said "Flip-flop, flippy, flip-flop ass bitch," she was talking about me.
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.
@CelisiaStanton
so perfectly captured by the
"I'm ready for your Fall 2022 tenure-track job in communication, sociology, and Black studies" look that I wanted.
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What a difference a few days (+ a little plastic surgery) makes.
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He’s too dangerous for Twitter but just fine to stay in the White House. Make it make sense.
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Y’all are gonna turn me into Sally the Salary Crusader with this bullshit.
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This tweet is for ABDs on the job market who still don’t have offers yet. This time last year, I’d had a bunch of interviews but no offers and seeing other people’s announcements was fucking horrible and all I did was cry all the time. It sucks and I’m really sorry.
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@tressiemcphd
She is my favorite white woman of color and I can’t explain what this word means but she is it.
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I got to select "Doctor" from a dropdown menu for the first time today. I've been waiting for this moment for a long time.
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I started at Pinterest a few weeks ago and I love it. I also recently accepted an offer to join the Department of Communication
@Cornell
in Fall 2023, first as a postdoc then as an assistant professor. Patrice and I are so excited to move to Ithaca next year.
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@dunksothersista
The mortgage, yes. But the property taxes, HOA fees, insurance? Absolutely not.
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I got an R&R this morning on a first-author paper I started in my first year of grad school. The idea of getting this published during my final year is just too perfect.
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Artist is Jennifer Marlin, a Minneapolis based fashion illustrator!
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@WeedenKim
I’ve see other faculty say this but (1) this still isn’t a good reason to keep salary info hidden and (2) it doesn’t have to be this way and faculty have power to change it.
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So much (straight) relationship discourse is about equality rather than equity.
In my relationship, I pay 75% of things, she pays 25%. I made nearly double the amount that she does so while it would be *equal* to split things 50/50, it would not be *equitable*.
Dwyane Wade explains how 50/50 works in his marriage with Gabrielle Union 💍
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We demanded systemic change and they gave us a gentrified version of our own holiday (and gave themselves a day off for it!) instead.
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My fiancee came into our shared office to say good morning to me and we kissed and had a laugh and then I had a very clear moment where I realized that I am living the exact gay life I had hoped was possible when I was 15. It's so annoying but it really does get better.
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I thought I hated research talks, but the pandemic has taught me that that the in-person style just doesn’t work for me. Being able to play video games or wash dishes while listening to folks talk on Zoom is 100000x better.
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We put down all the deposits on our wedding venue and vendors and I completed a full draft of my dissertation. WHAT A DAY.
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I bought an engagement ring and biked 4.5 miles today. The heartbeat readings on my Apple Watch are through the roof.
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I do not work on the weekends but I made an exception this morning to complete the last edits of my dissertation and send it to my editor for final formatting and spell-checking. Ahhhhhh!
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So much of the violence that Black people face is because white people simply never learned how to mind their own business. They think and act like they’re the police of the entire world and we suffer for it.
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I mean I literally just get to close my laptop at 5 and immediately stop thinking about work and go do whatever I want. It’s amazing.
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One day I will tire of posting about our beautiful Black gay ass wedding but that’s not today!
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I’ve debated on how out I’d be on the academic job market this year.
I’ve decided to lean all the way in by “looking” gay in headshots and stating it explicitly in my materials because I don’t want anything I have to hide for.
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I got laid off as part of a mass layoff this morning and I think I’m supposed to feel sad but mostly what I feel it excitement about the fact that that I’ve got the resources to allow myself to be unemployed and unencumbered by work for at least a few months.
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Why do I also have a ring? Because she knew it was coming so she bought me a ring too. We are incredibly gay.
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I’ve curated the most perfect bookshelf section in my new home and it’s brings me so much joy.
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I went to the newly remodeled Target that’s across from the burned out MPD 3rd precinct. The store was remodeled by local Black/PoC businesses and there were various goods from Black/PoC businesses being featured in store. The people of Minneapolis made that happen.
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🙋🏿
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the 2021-2022 Doctoral Dissertation Fellows Recipients! Congratulations to all of the recipients, detailed here: ✍️
#UMNproud
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My experiences on the academic job market will be the basis of my villain origin story.
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I've been sitting in lots of fear about a challenge related to my dissertation data and I've been stuck for a while. Decided to push through it today and I figured out a solution and an actionable plan for analysis within 20 minutes ✨🎉
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I’d like to help demystify how drastically compensation differs in corporate jobs outside of academia esp. for PhD students but I don’t know how to do that without being annoying so I just keep quiet. But know that it’s SO DIFFERENT
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I bought a cordless Dyson with my first Pinterest check last week and it showed today so I’ve gained a PhD and vacuum I can take anywhere in less than 24 hours so I feel UNSTOPPABLE.
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Patrice — Loving you is the greatest joy of my life. Through you, I know what it means to truly be loved, seen, and cared for. Thank you for supporting me in this journey. I can't wait to marry you.
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I actually really love living in Minneapolis but being a Black person trying to live and thrive here has been really hard this past year.
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My partner often interrupts my flights of fancy with “...but will that help you finish your dissertation?”
The answer is always no.
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“But the university says we can’t talk about salary!”
YOU HAVE TENURE.
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The governor just announced a curfew in the Cities.
The police killed somebody but we’re the ones on punishment. Okay.
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Forcing us to have children that they won’t supply us with enough formula to feed or make laws to protect. This can’t be all there is.
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I am frequently misgendered in public spaces (I think shaved head = man for people). It doesn’t bother me but simply avoiding using gendered language with strangers is such an easy correction.
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I defend on the 17th, but I got to have an important moment of celebration today.
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My partner and I are in the “dating, but shopping for rings” place and, as two women who both love planning and doing the most at all times, our wedding planning is already absurd but also so great.
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We have this monthly meeting at work and there’s a whole section called “Love Notes” where we just publicly thank others for the ways they’ve supported us over the past month. It is my favorite thing in the whole world.
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I am writing and listening to ASA sessions. I'm eating and listening to ASA sessions. I am laying on the couch and listening to ASA sessions. We never need to do this in person again tbqh.
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The Black TikTok strike is a glorious mix of social movement, digital protest, collective action, and Black digital culture and not one of these popular Internet culture writers at a mainstream outlet has the range to capture all the nuances.
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Being a lesbian is one of the best things about my life and I’m engaged to the best woman in the world. Looking forward to celebrating my homosexual lifestyle all month.
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My partner comes to all my public Zoom talks and it's so great. But what's even better is that she always stays to watch the other people's presentations too so that she can understand me and my field.
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I might be moving into “they/them” territory soon and I feel like I need to develop a PR plan for work and life in anticipation.
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@ProfessorCrunk
I think the problem is that you’re making a thinly veiled threat aimed at (Black) people who you deem to be behaving in ways that are disrespectful, reinforcing the same white supremacist notions that you’ve written against.
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@MelisandeMarie
UX stands for User Experience. Basically, I do qualitative research to understand and improve user’s experiences with digital services (specifically on Pinterest because that’s where I work). Happy to answer any other questions!
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I love working remotely, but I thoroughly enjoyed going to California and hanging out with all the cool people I work with this week. Plus I got to take a picture with a giant Pin made of Legos.
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Instagram reminded me that 6 years ago today I was at my grad school orientation. I barely knew what a PhD was in 2016 the and now I’m a whole ass Dr. in 2022.
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And grad school wasn’t a traumatic experience for me. It’s just that working on a document on which your entire personal and professional identity is based for multiple years in isolation with very little direction and no definitive end date probably isn’t great for you!
Finishing my dissertation has done wonders for my mental health.
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It’s above 50 degrees today for the first time all year in Minneapolis. I got an iced coffee. I got my car washed. I rode a bike. I suddenly can’t remember what SAD is.
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I didn’t allow myself to believe that Warnock and Ossoff would win because I knew I couldn’t handle the disappointment of a GOP win. So I’m feeling all the joy I held in for months today and it’s SO GOOD!
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I’ve been working through this limitation for 3 years and they just....tweeted it out.
Academics are one of the biggest groups using the
#TwitterAPI
to research what’s happening. Their work helps make the world (& Twitter) a better place, and now more than ever, we must enable more of it.
Introducing 🥁 the Academic Research product track!
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Just had a paper on race, police violence, and media imagery with
@MichelleSPhelps
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Returned home from vacation today and I had some cool stuff waiting for me in the mail.
(Nameplate was hand-made for me by
@CaitlinEGunn
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