C. E. Aubin?
@ceaubin
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Historian • Friendly neighborhood wizard • current project: THE HOMELAND @CambridgeUP • rep: @rebeccalitagent
Joined March 2016
THE HORSES SHOULD GET THE MEDALS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE MORE LIKE COACHES
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Deeply obsessed with this tiny Irish child’s trolley problem joke
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Regularly haunted by my own hubris - tried to set my bf up on a playdate with my coworkers husband because they both “really like bikes.” Anyways, it turns out her husband was in the Tour De France.
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We've gotta bring back this kind of propaganda if we're ever gonna stop climate change
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I should start a podcast called This Guy Sucks and all I do is invite all my historian friends on to talk about their most hated historical figure.
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I was just sitting in the sun reading The Odyssey because it’s all I had on hand and a woman came up to me and said “OH PLEASE you are NOT reading THAT.” What category of insult is this please.
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RIP to whoever is about to receive the literal wall of text currently being drafted by the person sitting in front of me on the train. It begins with “my feelings on our situation have not changed,” so godspeed.
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last night my best friend went on a first date so awful that she went to the bathroom in the middle of it to take notes on all the horrifying things he’d said, like a little anthropologist
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Living with a therapist has really opened my eyes to how many terrible therapists there are in the world. Just really bad at their job.
my therapist just told me, “if you’re always having to be the bigger person, maybe you shouldn’t be around so many little people.” wow.
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Truly do believe migraines are one of the stupidest possible illnesses to suffer from. What do you mean the weather is making me blind in one eye.
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I am not an expert on a lot of things, but I will say this, since I actually *am* very experienced in this arena:. Viewing videos/images of extremely graphic violence in large quantities can have a profoundly negative longterm impact on your wellbeing if unchecked.
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My ballot hasn’t arrived yet and I was feeling very confused about that but it turns out someone STOLE MY ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD’S BALLOTS FROM THE MAIL TRUCK.
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Really delighted to announce that I just defended my PhD dissertation on Holocaust perpetrators in the United States and passed with no corrections!
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Just btw the “sweet middle aged housewife couldn’t possibly have been a member of the far right” thing is actually a very common smokescreen for housewives who were/are, in fact, part of the far right
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There are a lot of very, very old people leading our country who care very little about what happens to the planet once they’re done sucking it dry of resources and reaping every personal benefit possible.
I'm honestly on the verge of tears. LA never had fires this frequently or this bad when I was growing up. With the state just getting hotter and drier by the year, how can you NOT think about our leaders failing to do more to mitigate the impact of climate change?.
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Yes, I’ve seen the Elon Musk sieg heil. My professional opinion is that you’re all right, you should believe your eyes, and you don’t need me to tell you all what you already know is true.
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Re: that whole Oxford situation, I also was an international student who did a PhD in the UK. If you make it to all the way to 4th year before finding out that your thesis isn’t viable, your supervisors have failed you, likely because the uni wanted to keep extracting £££.
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I’m loving the idea that she was insulting Homer when I actually think she meant that there was something wrong with *me* reading it.
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@Hope_iz_dead Okay, well neither my bf nor my coworker’s husband agree with you - they thought it was sweet of us since they’re both new to living in the area. But thank you for the unsolicited advice!.
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Can I just say that I’ve lived in four non-US countries as an adult and the closest I ever got to being able to stay in one long-term only came after doing a whole PhD program there, which would’ve bought me a couple extra years. This is so beyond delusional
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By the end of the Holocaust, the Nazis had murdered:.~90% of Lithuanian Jews.~75% of Latvian Jews.~80% of Czechoslovakian Jews.~80-90% of Belarusian Jews.1.5 million Ukrainian Jews. To imagine that this happened without enthusiastic local collaboration beggars belief.
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Another reason why the Postmaster General is my personal nemesis, because what do you mean all our mail got stolen weeks ago and you didn't bother to tell us.
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This is a *perfect* example of antisemitic Holocaust narrative appropriation/inversion, which I’ve been working on for a little while. It happens all the time in right wing rhetoric, esp. around contentious issues, so here’s a 🧵 that might help recognize it for yourself.1/
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Like, I am not a therapist but I can be fairly certain that my partner would respond to his client ‘always having to be the bigger person’ with a question about why they feel they need to do that, rather than telling them to remove people from their life lol.
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I just submitted my PhD dissertation and I feel very proud of myself!
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This tweet is threatening to do numbers so just in case it does, I wanna make sure everyone knows that my bf can also absolutely rip on a bike.
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POV you're about to grade a paper that definitely wasn't written by AI
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Just did a job app looking for an online US history curriculum designer, saying they exclusively want people with PhDs from top schools and then got auto-rejected because Edinburgh is not a top 15 US uni. Even though it's. top 20 in the world. The job market is hellllllllllllll.
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What people What we.think historians actually.look like: look like: 🤠
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There's something v funny about being a PhD student at a uni that Dark Academia People romanticize, as if our library is still lit by oil lamps and we don't spend all day deleting emails about events called 'AI as queer masculinity: digital humanism in the post-AIDS generation'.
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A fun thing about living in the Bay Area and attending ~events for intellectuals~ is learning that a lot of twitter’s favorite praxis-posters are ginormous douchebags in person.
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I would like to take a moment to remind those of you unfamiliar with my lore that 1) I met my bf on this very website and 2) he can read this tweet and all of your weird tweets underneath it, so please be normal.
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To be clear, I highly doubt it was someone trying to steal ballots to commit election fraud - most likely it was just some person stealing a bunch of mail in order to do *credit card* fraud. They just happened to also get all our dang ballots in there.
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Matter of fact, why would your therapist be “telling” you to do anything.
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Academic reimbursement culture is the actual bane of my existence. It is truly one of the worst things about academia, which is really saying something.
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I would just like to say that I don’t make a habit of reading other peoples phones but the lady had her font quite large and I glimpsed the first sentence, my sincerest apologies for being literate.
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@formaformarum Rocking up and being like “isn’t that thing you’re enjoying bad” is such a bold move.
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she neglected to include the part where he’s worried about the presence of heavy metals in our bodies and also how drinking filtered water cured his friends cancer.
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Is it time for me to remind you all once again of the evil that is HOAs.
What’s something that’s fascist-coded in a way you can’t explain, and not at all political?.
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Please consider how my use of the word “playdate” might be a silly little joke and not like… an actual indicator of my role in my fully grown, independent, socially capable, adult partner’s life! I asked you to be normal and you couldn’t do it so it’s time to mute this!.
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also the exact quote on Andrew Tate was “he’s too extreme for me, but overall I think he’s harmless”.
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she wants everyone to know that she very politely turned him down for a second date this morning and in response he sent her a tarot card reading video that accused her of being a “karmic narcissist”.
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Do you know what it’s like to have the horse girls mad at you
what's your least liked tweet?.
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Genuinely, my main dissertation writing tip for PhD students (or anyone!) is to make an additional document for each of your chapters, and then paste everything you cut out into it. Cannot describe how many times I went back and retrieved things I thought I’d never use.
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Wait I just want to say my bf is a good therapist! not a bad one! I’ve just learned what therapists are *supposed* to be doing vs. what the ones on Instagram are doing.
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You aren’t owed a PhD because you spent money for it, but an honest supervision arrangement should be a minimum expectation for all PhD candidates. I saw way too many intl students kept in my program far past the point that it became clear their projects weren’t viable.
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should I wear the dress that made several thousand incels go absolutely feral at me because they didn’t believe I could Look Like That and Be A Historian to my PhD graduation.
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Trying to do a PhD in a pandemic fucking sucks. I tried to think of a better way to phrase it, but there literally isn't one. It fucking sucks.
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Bearing witness to instances of atrocity/violence is an enormously important and worthwhile endeavor, but it cannot happen if you are so internally demolished by it that you cease being able to function. You cannot assist in anyone's cause if you are incapacitated by despair.
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The DNC’s ongoing strategy of “you should probably vote for our guy because at least he’s not the other guy” is genuinely the most pathetic, laziest politics I can possibly imagine.
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one time I wrote a tweet that a (very) senior historian didn’t like and he tried to get me kicked out of my PhD. watching his professional reputation utterly collapse in the ensuing years as a result of his other bizarre/hateful campaigns has brought me nothing but joy 😌.
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also, the people saying she should’ve somehow known this guy was gonna talk about this stuff before the date started can go straight to hell :).
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Gorgeous gorgeous girls end every sentence with "does that make sense?" while teaching.
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Can’t wait til someone says “is there a Doctor of Philosophy on board this plane? We’ve got an urgent historiographic problem!”
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I can’t even imagine a scenario in which these medical details would be pertinent to a professor. I hope none of their colleagues ever look them in the eye again, the shame of it.
Two professors at @UTAustin, John Hatfield and @DanielBonevac, are suing for the right to penalize their students who miss class because they are obtaining an abortion out-of-state.
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If I get my dog to do a trick that I taught him to do, he still deserves the majority of the praise, not me !!!.
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I mean, do it if you can but unless you have ancestral citizenship, a partner from that country, or a visa-eligible job set up and waiting for you (and even then) it’s going to be a very hard road to tread. Most Americans will not have this option.
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sorry to be sappy but I do think the best thing on the planet is having a partner you can engage with on a deep intellectual level. you can just sit at a table together eating leftover fried rice and talking about cultural phenomena and emerge feeling so enriched. how cool!.
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I am once again forced to remind myself: the best PhD is a finished PhD.
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Witnessing violence from a distance is not even remotely the same as experiencing it, but can absolutely still impact you when you are inundated with it. I have spent the better part of the last decade researching perpetration of mass atrocity and I know this unequivocally.
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Becoming desensitized to violent images is neither healthy nor helpful to anyone (and especially not to liberatory causes) and that is almost certainly the path that everyone on this website is currently treading.
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For the uninitiated (and because I’m teaching this tomorrow) Simon of Trent was a 2-year-old Christian boy found dead in the cellar of a Jewish man in Trent/Trento, Italy in 1475. His father claimed the crime had been committed because Jews needed his blood for Passover matzah.
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Brother you can tweet all you want about how a better world is possible but I watched you be a horrible to a bartender, and you certainly made their world worse.
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Whoever on here suggested annotated readings as an un-ChatGPT-able assignment: thank you.
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The people most vulnerable to proposed policy changes (immigrants, lgbtq+, bipoc, women, the rural poor) are also the least able to flee due to a confluence of economic and social factors that prevent it. To ignore this is unhelpful.
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Everyone says this but OH my GOD the post-PhD job hunt is truly soul-destroying. And believe me I know what soul-destroying feels like, I did a PhD.
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Getting called a ‘bourgeois pig’ in the girlies groupchat for saying Mr. Monopoly as a hear me out option.
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For clarification, I’m not criticizing the impulse - I personally spent a very long time trying to make immigration out of the US work for me. But we can’t act like a mass exit plan is a viable option for the majority of Americans who will be most impacted by far right policies!.
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And I’m gonna need American academics who have straight up zero clue how UK PhD funding dynamics work for international students to sit this one out.
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@MithrandilPlays Ohhhhhh you should call your county elections people and get them to cancel your old ballot/send you a new one.
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I get paid ~£16 per hour and Edinburgh uni limits phd student teaching assistants to 9 hours of work per week so the math ain’t mathin’ here
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Coach Walz I owe you an apology, I was unfamiliar with your game.
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@Komaniecki_R I really think people imagine America as being the only place with strict immigration restrictions, which… um lol.
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last night my bf called twitter “eharmony for grad students”.
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I cobbled together much of my funding through grants and scholarships (which are often reserved for UK/EEA students) but for a huge number of intl students self-funding via savings or loans is the only real option. The uni absolutely relies on this for its funding model.
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They admit more students than they can reasonably support, keep them past the point of no return on their projects, increase tuition and cut funding opportunities - all to cash-grab. THAT is the real scandal! One student getting pissed is not the scandal!.
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@ahhhhhhhimgay It’s worse, he sent her a tarot reading video that called her a ‘karmic narcissist!!’.
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Some of you are thinking this would be about historically evil people, which is only a small part of it. Largely it would be an opportunity to air petty personal grievances against people who’ve been dead for four hundred years.
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The only way this happens is if the uni exclusively sees you as a profit center for them. Which is a problem across the academic sector in the UK. I was on strike *every single year* of TAing because of how egregiously UK unis rip their faculty and students off.
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HOW do I study history and still just feel like I know NOTHING about history?? Is this normal??.
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@VanyaWright You can use any word you want! The joke is that AI-generated papers use 'delve' far more frequently than your average college student. We use lots of other indicators for AI content, this just tips us off that something might be amiss.
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Imagine a prestigious school saying “the only way you’ll get the opportunity to do a degree here is by spending a TON of money” and you cough up every year to have that opportunity, then after four years they tell you that the past three were entirely fruitless.
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OKAY LAST THING. Being able to look away is a privilege not afforded to people experiencing violence. This should always always always be acknowledged, and their pain can be at the heart of your desire to retain your own humanity while insisting on theirs too.
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I'm obviously not advocating for prioritizing your own mental health above the pain and fear being experienced on a massive scale elsewhere - just to be careful that the 'you' that exists and can do something isn't totally subsumed in the deluge of horrors.
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Issues like abortion, vaccination, trans rights, etc. are all prone to this sort of thing. Here’s a breakdown of what I mean when I say this is 1) narrative appropriation and 2) explicitly antisemitic. 2/.
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or for an even better thought experiment: can a horse jump a 5 foot wall without a human on its back? yes.can the rider jump that same wall without a horse under them? probably no. so who is doing the majority of the athletic work here hmmmmmmm.
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