Dr Franziska Kohlt 🦤
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Leverhulme Res Fellow @hpsleeds | Inaugural @USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor @OxfordConted | Ex @UoY_SATSU & @UniofOxford | Ed @CarrollReview | Erdős–Bacon No: 8
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What an eventful year! I so enjoyed speaking on
#AliceInWonderland
at
@bodleianlibs
, on automata on
@BBCInOurTime
, curating exhibitions on insects for
@RoyEntSoc
&automata for
@ComptonVerney
, appearing at
@BhamLitFest
& in a
@UniofOxford
video,
@ARTEfr
&
@trtworld
&more!
#scicomm
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Dear anglophone media, you seem to be confused as to whether it's Ms Merkel, or Mrs Merkel or Miss Merkel - it's Dr Merkel. You're welcome.
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The "Oxford Vaccine" is in fact an international collaborative project, as the project website will tell you () Stop deliberately, deceitfully misrepresenting how science works for the sake of your nationalist isolationist agenda,
@MattHancock
#COVID19
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2/3 The Oxford vaccine is one of the most advanced in the world. Bringing together the best British science and the best of British business will give us the best possible shot at a vaccine.
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And while we have your attention on the 38.7k threshold affecting research: this is what the "prestigious" postdoc fellowships at "prestigious" universities pay (1 of the many reasons we've been on strike). -Under these new rules you couldn't even accept an offer if you got one.
Salary threshold for skilled worker visas to rise to £38,700 under government plans to cut legal migration levels
Follow live
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As I realise this might have slipped off people's radars: I applied for
#settledstatus
7 months ago (after 10+yrs in the UK)&I still have no decision. I'm not the only one. The pandemic left those responsible with no plan B. If you care about fairness in politics: kick up a fuss.
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Ah always lovely to start the day at your local
@Tesco
to be asked whether you'll be going back now. ("Back where?" I ask, chirpily. "Back home where y'all come from")
#Brexit
#GE2019
#StopTheHate
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UK academics don't usually know this. At the moment, if you fail to get a permanent post in German academia 6yrs post doctorate, you face a job ban - you either go up (v few tenured posts, v long app periods of 1-2yrs, visa holders:more issues), or out.
This is being cut to 3yrs.
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My English teacher told me I would never be able to put together a proper sentence in English. Next weekend I'm officially graduating from
@UniofOxford
with a doctorate in English.
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Germany requires you to REGISTER not to APPLY.
#SettledStatus
requires you to APPLY not to REGISTER.
Repeat after me:
#SettledStatus
is an APPLICATION not a REGISTRATION
Again:
APPLICATION not REGISTRATION
#SettledStatusIsNothingLikeThis
@cliodiaspora
@JackWDart
@MadeleinaKay
@cliodiaspora
I wouldn’t personally use his language but what’s so awful about registering? You do know that Germany requires all non-EU residents to register for a German residence permit which must be produced to officials/police when required? Not quite sure why you’re so upset about this.
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Right, Brits, but esp also
@the3million
: I'm doing a few interviews on Brexit & the 31st Jan for German media in the next few days. How are you feeling? What are your greatest anxieties, how will Brexit affect your professional field, your family and friends? Please RT!
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@kk_liber
@Waterstones
Cc
@BootstrapCook
who's compiling a list of those companies that are being abysmal in this crisis.
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For
#FolkloreThursday
have some strange
#Victorian
#Christmas
Cards! Lots of them had Natural History themes-why?
#NatHist
was a popular genre for religious education: the study of Nature was seen as the study of God's creation, and therefore seen as morally improving /1
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So to the Leader of the House of Commons, and the Health Secretary we can now add the Universities Minister as lying about Brexit & the vaccine - they have not apologised, or deleted their tweets. How hugely concerning.
#Covid19UK
#CovidVaccine
#Brexit
Why did
#BBCqt
let
@michelledonelan
and
@LiamHalligan
repeat the lie that Brexit sped up the vaccine approval, even though the regulator has itself said that's not true?
@bbcquestiontime
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Been a rough start to 2021. But on the upside there's the cat. Nearly one year ago I spotted a tiny starving kitten in a building site, who I couldn't get close too because she was so terrified. Not much of that left now.
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Okay this is my favourite so far
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@NoreenMasud
Omg, I have a story for you. The BL who enjoy ridiculous ID demands towards non-British nationals a bit too much once asked me for a "bank letter" after my passport, id card, driving license, tenancy agreement, enrolment certificate, council tax bill & tax return were not enough.
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And if anyone is tempted to give me the bloody "you must integrate" line, I was buying effing Lemon Curd which I was planning on transporting in a tote bag from the
@GSFestival
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I honestly haven't missed £400 conferences &£80 dinners.
As a grad student I had £500 travel allowance for my entire PhD. Such fees are completely prohibitive for the not independently wealthy & "refund culture" really doesn't help.
No lessons learned from Covid.
@AcademicChatter
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As there is nothing known about how the Turing scheme will actually work, comparisons as to what scheme is "better" are without substance and purely for show.
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I just find it so offensive how some people constantly feel the need to express the clearly ill-considered conclusion that I have too many books -- especially when it is so glaringly obvious that the actual problem is that I have too few bookcases.
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@NoreenMasud
"JAAAAANE, It's that British Library again with one of those letters" "Jane" with a knowing face gets to work, the printer starts spitting out pages-1,2..6 "get a stamp, that'll make it more official" "which one" "oh take both" signing & stamping ensues. I watch in astonishment.
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After 5 weeks of illness finally on road to recovery -- some essential Fran maintenance today 💛🧡🩷💜
#newhairday
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On the 7-month anniversary of my
#settledstatus
application, I have been in the phone queue to speak to s/o about this (yet again) for over an hour, after the switchboard informs me
#EUSS
admin may still be working from home. I've been doing this (bi)weekly for 7 months. SEVEN.
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Time to let the cat out the bag, I guess. From next week I'll be joining University of Leeds
@hpsleeds
as Leverhulme Research Fellow. Melancholy leaving
@UoY_SATSU
; wish it'd been more peopley & less pandemic, but immensely excited about Leeds, new project & a return to
#histsci
!
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The reform intends to pressure unis into creating more tenured posts, as it would be in their interest not to lose highly qualified post docs. But it creates no framework for mandating or financing that. It assumes that this is how it'll be interpreted, and thus duly implemented.
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From the man who brought us "Eat Out To Help Out", which "drove new COVID-19 infections up by between 8 and 17%":
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I was once singled out and stopped from walking into a prestigious venue by security
- "Sorry you can't come in here. There is a public lecture taking place here in a minute"
-"I know, I'm giving it."
The looks were gold.
my parent’s new neighbors said i was welcome to talk to their single 24-year-old son when i “have normal hair,” so i told them he was welcome to talk to me when he has a doctorate :)
for real tho, can we stop judging people based on looks? thanks
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Let me interrupt your doom feed with this Pancake 🥞
(PSA: Pancake Day is on Tuesday, 21 February)
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@NoreenMasud
Over-dramatic sigh of relief "yes that's exactly what i described earlier: it's *the only legally valid* bank letter." A new reader pass is printed. This took 90 mins. The brit next to me presents a driving license. they have no second ID. A card is printed. Took less than 1 min.
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Boris Johnson lied.
Dont let anyone tell you otherwise.
Prime Minister,
@BorisJohnson
, insisted earlier this year that Britain wouldn’t be leaving
#Erasmus
– the popular
#EU
funded
#student
exchange programme. But it was a lie.
#Brexit
is based on lots of lies. My report at:
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@alassmith
@peterjukes
I think the problem is many understand immunity as an on/off switch. But that's not how it works, It's more like a sliding scale from "some immunity" to "good immunity" (as provided by vaccines).
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I mean, I nearly failed English* at school & have a PhD in English from
@UniofOxford
- and the reasons for that are far from inexplicable.
Maybe time to listen to some of them experts with degrees in "low value" subjects?
__
*not my first* language
*(my fifth)
🎓 Half of graduates with first-class degrees are inexplicably outperforming their A-Level results, the university watchdog has said
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Whatever your convictions are on
#brexit
, I recommend you bookmark this article and reread it in two years.
#Article50
Long and brutally thumping read: "May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven..."
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@NoreenMasud
Lady
#1
turns back round to me: "You see they havent a clue what it is they actually want to see, so we just make up several types, one of them usually works, it's always a different one" I leave with 3 multi-page letters. Show all 3, none of these have any currency, ofc.
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Finally, here's the official announcement. Incredibly honoured to have been appointed Inaugural Carrollian Fellow at
@USC
&
@USCLibraries
- and so humbled by all the kind words. Have been having a tremendous time & more exciting stuff to come!
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Thank you all SO much for all the kind wishes- that meant so much to me! This has been a really special weekend, full of warmth& happiness (literally- even the weather played along!) Now on to the next adventure!🍾🥳🎓
@UniofOxford
#graduation
#phdchat
#phdlife
#AcademicChatter
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And that's just an extract! Have a look at the trial's website: It is shameful to see how this government is deliberately and consistently putting agenda before facts - /ends
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Happy *first* DPhil graduation anniversary to me! I graduated from
@UniofOxford
on 29 February 2020- 4 years ago on leap day! (A most ingenious paradox) What a four years its been: 1x pandemic, 2x postdocs& 1x US fellowship- brace yourselves for what the next 4 yrs have in store!
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Reader - I got the job!
(I can also finally share this without crossing the
#UCUstrike
#digitialpicket
) Am thrilled to be working with
@amandarees9
&
@mcleish_t
at
@UniOfYork
&
@UoY_SATSU
for the next three years - more soon, but expect more
#histsci
#litsci
#scicomm
here!
Hey
@Uber
, I was just called a "fucking bitch" by your driver for asking him why he didn't pick me up at the pick up point - and he dumped me in the middle of nowhere, I'm omw to a job interview. Is this your service?
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@KirstySedgman
When I was turning off my phone before a performance recently, I was informed by the gentleman next to me that one does not use one's phone (the performance had not yet begun) by him putting his hand on my thigh. 🤷♀️I loudly asked him to stop touching me. I thought of your book 😂
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@ZwergMelanie
@KirstenOfM
@SchlimmeHelena
Ganz mein Gedanke! Wir mussten damals einen Linolschnitt von einem Tier machen & ich entschied mich fuer eine Schnecke. Meine Banknachbarin fuer einen Drachen. Meine Kunstlehrerin schaute uns ueber die Schulter und meinte "Eine Schnecke ist aber kein Tier". (Aber ein Drache...?)
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This is the illuminating thread you didn't know you needed to read
We were doing one of these interviews last week, and the student was talking about how sometimes they found it annoying when we had paper copies of books instead of ebooks. I can get them on the kindle, they said; the books are only £10. How come you can't buy us enough ebooks?
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This, I'd it goes through, is catastrophic. Even in the most ideal of circumstances 1) it takes time to create posts& change the currently v convoluted appt syst. If you've got 3 yrs, they can't take 1-2 years to appoint s/o. You'd have to apply for full prof straight out of PhD.
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Feeling absolutely privileged to be working with the Lewis Carroll collections at
@ChCh_Oxford
today for a little film with
@OxfordGradStudy
& talking about my doctoral research at
@UniofOxford
My heart still skips a beat when I hold these manuscripts
#phdchat
#oxford
@histchild
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What an immense pleasure to cast my vote for
@TheGreenParty
's
@MagicMagid
in the
#EUelections2019
who with his warmth, openness & proactiveness reached so many in his year as Lord Mayor of Sheffield! Don't forget to vote today & remind your neighbours & passers-by to vote too!
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"Funding has also been received from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) Innovation Fund for Medical Science (CIFMS). The ‘CSIROxbridge Consortium’ (Principal Investigator Prof. S. S. Vasan) is led by Australia’s science agency CSIRO .... /2
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This is also v tied to publications, especially of books. Do they know how long academic publishers sit on book proposals and articles, let alone how long they can take to get published? 2-3years not unusual here, and 6mth review periods for journal articles also not uncommon.
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You can't "reform" the bit w the people already most affected by the current situation, without reforming the framework that's meant to accommodate them. They are good enough already. You have to reform the structural environment to give them somewhere to go with their expertise.
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@NoreenMasud
They sent me to the nearest branch of my bank. Obvs a "bank letter" (not a statement, that was also not ok) isn't a thing, and I describe desperately what was asked of me. Lady looks at me po-faced: "Is this the British Library?" "Yes" [lady swivels round on chair] ...
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I've been off sick & miserable for over a week - but today cover proofs for your long-anticipated Looking-Glass Companion have come through! 🥳 Which one do you prefer? A) vertical, or B) horizontal text? Help me and
@justinehouyaux
decide!
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@MadeleineSeys
The relief, when they ask "Ms, Mrs or Miss?" and you reply "Dr", does not wear off.
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This morning I had two emails from readers telling me the enjoyed the recent issue of the journal I edit. It really made my morning - do tell people when you appreciate their work, it is really, really nice.
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
@AcademicChatter
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I have introduced Pancake to pancakes. This was her reaction. 🥞
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@GSFestival
And it seems, yet again, time to repost this thread on complaints and what a burden they are on the discriminated (making discrimination a double burden)
Discrimination& complaints: a thread, Or: Why, when you witness a colleague (or anyone) being marginalised/discriminated against/treated unfairly (by a word, action, structure), you should not first/only tell them "You should make a complaint"-but consider speaking up for them /1
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In celebration of
#LFCchampions
my dad just sent me a photo of this advert from one of the first football games he attended back home (he thinks in 1974)
@LFC
@DynamoDresden
#YNWA
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Well, the Cheshire Cat is out the bag! Hear
@kieraqm
,
@RobertDFBooks
-
and myself! - chat all things Alice with Melvyn Bragg on
@BBCInOurTime
This coming Thursday, if you're so inclined 🐇
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But in times of Darwin and popularisation of the natural sciences, exotic and extinct animals made their way not only into public consciousness, but also popular culture & Christmas cards /6
#histsci
#scicomm
#FolkloreThursday
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Preclinical testing of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine is being conducted in collaboration with our partners: Rocky Mountain Laboratories (NIH/NIAID); The ‘CSIROxbridge Consortium’; Public Health England; The Pirbright Institute ... /3
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And we are very nearly off. Next stop: Los Angeles, CA, where I'll be setting out on my stint as the Inaugural Carrollian Fellow of the University of Southern California!
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I'm in this wonderful
@cbcideas
documentary about Lewis Carroll & Alice, alongside many famous scholars
http://t.co/VnI8ZgQwm4
#Alice150
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You might want to do some actual research on what parts of the GDR population was under surveillance by the Stasi, and who could actually get away with murder (literally, but also pretty much anything else).
Kindly,
An East-German
MP caught on tube without mask complains country is ‘like East Germany under the Stasi’
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Prof. Dr. Stephen Becker at the Institut für Virologie, Philipps University, Marburg. Manufacturing for the current and future clinical trials is being conducted in collaboration with the University of Oxford Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility, Advent Srl (Italy) /4
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Hm, this thread has aged medium well now that it's clear scanned passport data was among the data stolen in the recent ransomware attack on the British Library.Did they *really* need the passports, council tax bill, bank letters, etc of non-UK citizens? 🫤
@NoreenMasud
Omg, I have a story for you. The BL who enjoy ridiculous ID demands towards non-British nationals a bit too much once asked me for a "bank letter" after my passport, id card, driving license, tenancy agreement, enrolment certificate, council tax bill & tax return were not enough.
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@NoreenMasud
(this is to extend my readers ticket, not, like, you know, get married, or take out a loan)
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The moment your landlord appears at your door, looking at you sternly & you think "Oh no, what bill have I forgotten to pay" & he blasts out "YOU were in a show with Melvyn Bragg! I've been listening to his stuff for 20 years!"
@simontillo
@BBCInOurTime
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Lewis Carroll 18 Jan 1892:Term is put off till February 5 as Oxford is so full of influenza that it is not thought safe to let the undergraduates return. I however stay on here: 3 of the 4 sisters at Guildford are in bed with influenza&I live as a hermit as I have done for 2mths.
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Because "go" they will, but not where there aren't posts, or where their expertise is barred by factors beyond their control (slow publication process, appt procedures too long to fit that law).
They will leave.
They won't even come anymore.
No incentives, no
#ResearchWonderland
.
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Unpopular opinion about academic writing: If I have a PhD in your exact area of study, and I have to reread a sentence 4 times to understand what you're saying because the point is so obscured by jargon and rhetorical flourishes - it is not good writing.
#frant
#AcademicTwitter
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As if all this wasn't bad enough, Will Self is trending.
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It is done! The Through the Looking-Glass Companion has been submitted!📚🪞It contains chapters from an immense array of perspectives, from natural history, physics, logic, theology, film, poetry, data vis&even business studies. Can't wait for people to see it!
@justinehouyaux
🥂
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HAIR HAS HAPPENED!
(Now with photos that make evident how misplaced my worry was that the colour might not come out green enough...)
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I was awful at maths.
Went on to do a PhD at Oxford anyway.
The onslaught on University education under this government is mind-boggling, and chilling.
So yesterday I learned that the Tories have snuck in that if you fail Maths or English GCSE even once you are no longer eligible for Student Loan and can only make it through Uni if you are self funded.
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@alassmith
@peterjukes
There's been a very neatly orchestrated effort by the UK govt/press to drown out those voices as much as possible. In my research I've monitored press/govt communication for the past few weeks& this method is called "spiral of silence". Create noise, drown out unwanted truths.
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Not going to RT but let me tell you as s/o w a degree in Communication&Media Science: it's what's enabled me to spot&understand media manipulation. Me teaching school kids those skills has opened their eyes. Beware of those who don't want you to understand how manipulation works.
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Me: Oh yay, an article of mine has finally been published!
The publisher: "🚫Your institution currently does not have access to this content."
Me: 😐☹️
#AcademicTwitter
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Chuffed about winning a
@BSHSOutreach
grant for the ''Insects Through the Looking-Glass" exhibition
@CTJeffs
and I have been working on, which will be on throughout
@insectweek
until
#AliceDay
at the
@TheStoryMuseum
, supported by
@RoyEntSoc
! Watch this space!
@BSHSNews
@TheBSLS
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More
#weird
#Victorian
technology-inspired
#Easter
cards for the
#easterweekend
@VerityDarke
#histsci
#arthistory
#easterbankholiday
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@theblakegirl
@amydjohn
@AcademicChatter
Equally don't beat yourself up if you can't do that (I couldn't, I worked in up to 5 jobs parallel to my PhD); do what you can, it is okay to have a bad day.
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This morning a 10-day old baby goat licked my face. Then it went to stand on a sheep.
Did you know baby goats cure 10/10 od the most common bad moods?
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I live in a former industrial area, famous, obviously, for its steel production. This may sound bleak, but in spring blossoming trees break through the cracks in the walls of the derelict factories, and it's my favourite thing.
#SundayThoughts
#sundayvibes
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Amazed to discover Vladimir Nabokovs lepidoptera drawings-had no idea these existed!
@RoyEntSoc
@insectweek
#histsci
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If you're wondering just how bright the new hair is: very bright 🌞 💛💚💙💜
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Wow Twitter is bad today.
May I suggest you look at this photo of my very dignified cat instead.
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A matter of perspective:
A gingko leaf that is also a butterfly.
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Statement of Germany's tenured professors against the proposed reform of the
#WissZeitVG
- it couldn't be clearer: "In der Realität muss das WissZeitVG entweder grundlegend novelliert oder endlich abgeschafft werden."
#WissZeitVG
#Profsf
ürHannah
Profs haben eine Stellungnahme
"Nivellierung statt Novellierung: Kritik an der geplanten Reform des WissZeitVG aus Sicht der Professorinnen und Professoren"
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