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@LouBegaVEVO
I got "walk breaks" at one job I worked because I pointed out that others got smoking breaks and I also wanted to stand outside for a few minutes.
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Breaking my no-dunk rule: I very much do not generally think people should be fired for things they do out of work that is unrelated to their work, and at the same time, fascinated that this person did seem to call for hiring committees to target a grad student based on speech.
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I am feeling sad and a bit angry that a local lefty queer fest advertised masks required, only to just…not require them, and actually turn down KN95s (free!!) for surgicals.
If it is “masks required,” it should be masks required, or change the language. Don’t lie about safety.
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I think it's worth reflecting on Aaron Swartz for a minute
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
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Guess whose gotcha day is also today? Willow!
Adopted at around 10 years old, she has become more kitten-like by the year, including knocking her kibble on the floor tonight.
mr lover is already celebrating his gotcha day
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Reminder to cis folks who support trans liberation:
You do not need to use the language of anti-trans activists! I've seen way too many cis women in the last month call themselves "biological women" or "biological females," and you can/should refuse that language altogether!
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US academics pulling this while higher ed collapses across the country, mass uni layoffs, heightened adjunctification, depts shut down…we need labour solidarity around the world, but if one cannot see its importance when one’s backyard is on fire, makes me nervous.
Ah, thanks Browne Center for this one simple trick to avoid crossing a picket line!
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So, this thread by the UK Health Secretary is terrible—and those who voted Labour should calling for Streeting’s resignation—but I am continually taken aback by how little policymakers know, or how easily “this is okay for cîs kids but not trans” rolls off their tongues.
Puberty blockers have been used to delay puberty in children and young people who start puberty much too early.
Use in those cases has been extensively tested (a very different indication from use in gender dysphoria) and has met strict safety requirements.
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It is hard to express—to those who haven't been watching, studying, anxiously avoiding, etc bad corners of the internet that push anti-trans/anti-gender hate—how deeply anti-trans/anti-gender activism is tied with antisemitism and racism.
At the same time as predicting an imminent "orgy of blood" above, Nina Power was running secret 'Groyper' accounts as well as the anonymous 'gorsedd6' account that she used to target me with what the judge ruled was aggressive bullying with the “whiff of threat and antisemitism".
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Also putting aside that Ryan is bad at numbers, I am of the opinion that trying things out with gender is fine—someone can bounce around, opt for some clinical stuff, change their mind, it is ok!
Being trans is not a certification process that takes 5-10 years! That is a PhD!
Putting aside the fact that this is a made-up number, if this were true we would see far higher regret rates in surveys of adult trans people.
Or does the anti-trans braintrust think that people are happy with their transitions until the moment they seek to reverse them?
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@unMaskedRogue
@KindaHagi
It is totally possible to work to minimize the impacts of COVID and not say wild stuff about someone's dead spouse.
I know this bc I am someone who's been doing COVID mitigation work since it started, I have LC, and, well, I am not saying wild stuff about someone's dead spouse.
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@RottenInDenmark
I went back to the piece, and it is (again) fascinating how "activists" include people who are both experts and people who are not activists, while "experts" includes people who have advocated for hate crimes and also have a poor understanding of categories and biology.
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Today, as I have finished the PhD (on migration bureaucracy!) I got my Canadian postgrad work permit at the Can/US border.
It cost $255, took 15 minutes, gives me the right to live/work in Canada for 3 years (as I await PR), and gives me access to govt healthcare.
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Question for folks wearing N95s/KN95s/etc and who prefer earloop masks over headband ones: Why?
(Honest question, because they irritate me so much by pressing on my ears, and I find headband-style ones initially a little more annoying but SO much more comfortable!)
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Seeing a Liberal minister share a video that is 1) edited down to not show homophobic hate, 2) targeting a student, and 3) does not clearly show what the Minister accused the student of...this is incredibly worrying. Misinfo like this will get someone physically hurt.
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If you cannot make it to a protest, you can: write/call (often) to those who represent you in govt (and get others to do this), organize a teach-in, coordinate a fundraiser, educate people online/offline, share resources with others, donate, make signs for those protesting, more!
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Sometimes, translating Canadian news for a US audience is tough.
Sometimes, the first sentence highlights the militarization of both the US and Canada to such an extent you find yourself shouting "Oh, no!!!" at your phone (at least, I did).
(Brilliant again,
@ricochet_en
)
"Those in attendance sat in shock at what they were hearing and seeing."
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Cat is now out of the bag: I've been offered a
@FRQSC
postdoc to join the Dépt de Sciences politique
@universitelaval
, w/the incredible
@sule_tomkinson
.
Not only will I stay in Canada (au QC!), I get to hop over to the UK, studying anti-gender mobilization + migration.
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Crying and drinking sparkling juice with a friend and Willow, this is such a big win for something I put my whole heart into, doing the meaningful work I want to do.
More details soon, but for now, taking a minute to celebrate. Just lost for words, it's been a hard last bit.
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@christapeterso
@EthelCardew3
I'm wondering if it's because in EN we think about the Hague as a place with courts vs a city? I will have to ask some linguist pals, this is fascinating.
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In MTL, a mom is protesting in front of the Minister for Immigration's office. Her daughter had cerebral palsy and died in Gaza before she could be evacuated.
**ZERO** people have been relocated from Gaza to Canada through the Minister's plan from Jan.
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Québec banning classroom air purifiers and people wearing hijab during a pandemic and teacher shortage is certainly a choice--we could have safer schools with cleaner air and less anti-Muslim, racist hate, and yet...
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I would read the hell out of a piece on how "political war on someone's wife" applies here to Dr. Neri Oxman and not Dr. Claudine Gay--both are indeed married!--because oooof the weaponization of white femininity
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@TOPublicHealth
It is worth celebrating the healthcare workers who have vaccinated so many.
It is NOT worth celebrating making vaccines less accessible during a COVID surge, especially when we know wastewater levels have been higher/higher for longer than last year.
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@christapeterso
That's not how libel works, but he wants to be British so bad, I guess?
(He could also settle his tantrum by actually finding the supposed large numbers of people who transitioned clinically and hated it, who he gestures to but who don't seem to exist, hmmm 👀)
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I object to some claiming laïcité as "neutral" in QC not just because of academic understandings of secularisms, but also because this is what I see when I walk in the front door of the hospital where my cardiologist is based.
I'm not against a multi-faith prayer room, but uhhh
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The harassment and threats Florence--a brilliant transfeminine jurist and professor--has received is horrifying.
Their work is groundbreaking, rigorous, and world-class. Academic research, expert consulting, and just being trans should not result in death threats!
“If you’re not receiving death threats, are you truly living?”
-Things I Tell Myself To Feel Better About Receiving Death Threats
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Checked my email, got three more permanent job/postdoc rejections, and while I know things are absurdly competitive right now--so statistically, stuff is hard to get!--it is exhausting and demoralizing to get rejections in a wave. Blargh.
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Infuriating that people weaponize homophobia and transphobia to argue for violence in Gaza. In my corner of the world, trans and queer people are raising money for medical care/aid, running teach-ins, bailing folks, organizing for a ceasefire, showing up for peace and solidarity.
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Crying and drinking sparkling juice with a friend and Willow, this is such a big win for something I put my whole heart into, doing the meaningful work I want to do.
More details soon, but for now, taking a minute to celebrate. Just lost for words, it's been a hard last bit.
I really wish that other countries would do what EU granting agencies do, and email the PDF of grant results to applicants on a deadline, instead of all of us crashing a website at 9 am on April 30.
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@eLife
A journal called eLife firing someone for very much being into the preservation of life and naming it as a "cohesion" issue is both ironic and antithetical to academic freedom and freedom of expression.
I worry about what "community" is being built here, given others resigning.
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I am grateful for those who are continuing to mask, make safer choices, and isolate when testing positive, but feeling real grumpy today with “post-pandemic” and “individual responsibility” rhetoric (as well as the anti-vaxxers/anti-maskers in my dept…sigh).
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As a socio-legal researcher, this is a bizarre--rules are not enforced, selectively enforced, violently enforced, etc all the time.
As an educator, I am baffled by a dean saying this, in response to a violent uni reaction: it is a dereliction of duty to not care for students.
My point is simply that the rules must be enforced and it is a dereliction of duty not to enforce them.
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@Moon_Synth_Bio
@ScienceMagazine
Disconcerting to see you pressuring someone you have authority over to drop an equity complaint treated this way in the article and replies.
I don't know what your situation was, but as someone who as grad student took "risks" against my own mistreatment...unsettling.
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This was published two days after the Pride event at the White House, I am just so so angry
a whole lot of people owe me an apology and a job back today
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@melnickjeffrey1
I realize it is quite unpopular, but for a while I've been pretty solidly "university-related events should generally be on-campus unless there is an incredibly good reason why they cannot be on-campus, and then maybe don't have them in people's homes"
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@amandalhu
The framing of that piece confused me and made me so sad, especially when I think about folks around me navigating conversations about risk with nuance, curiosity, care, data, chats about needs, etc etc. I hope for a reframe/rework.
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I am really, really scared that police, university admins, others are going to keep provoking, reacting, and escalating until someone(s) get killed.
It is scary to me that few in positions of authority seem to care about deescalation, facts, and hard work for real safety.
I did hear "kill the Jews," said by a counter-protester holding an Israeli flag, seemingly as a provocative joke in response to the group's pro-Palestine chants. Not sure if that's the specific incident
@Northeastern
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Today, I got to explain to a librarian that Robin DiAngelo is not a Black woman and should not be on the library display for Black authors.
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@BrndnStrssng
If you'd like someone with a couple of anthro degrees to say it's not anthropological (it's trying to justify being a jerk) and being weird online isn't research (and is unethical at that), happy to use my grad degree go on record there. I hope your next date night is lovely!
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@focusfronting
So much of this is funny and absurdist, yet strikes me as just...sad, I guess? Really well done piece, yet also oof.
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@StefMylesTennis
I watched the video (I can lipread a bit) and downloaded/boosted the audio. I feel pretty solid it wasn't a slur, setting aside it's pretty anachronistic (so: likelihood). Either way, some are trying to escalate this in an unsafe way, and you don't need to misgender the student.
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The number of people responding to this who are just hateful and wrong is truly sad.
As Toula notes, Québec's décision to frame francisation as punitive, to restrict access to services in non-FR languages, and assume migrants can learn French in 6 months is not good! Not hard!
In Divisive Language,
@ToulasTake
explores how under the guise of protecting French, Quebec is throwing linguistic minorities under the bus. Now available to read online for everyone:
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Friends, colleagues, comrades in TX:
- If you see potential tear gas/pepper spray, take your contact lenses out ASAP
- Flushing w/water is best
- Tear gas is heavier than air, so stay up
- Change clothes as soon as possible
- Keep your mouth closed (don't ingest it)
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I am so sad that so, so many do not consider transphobia as falling into gender-based violence. I feel like I'm losing my mind as I try to patiently explain how harm I've experienced falls into that category to the point I had a cry and panic attack. (Fine now, just sad.)
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At risk of prolonging the academic jobs discourse:
- I've have dead friends (plural) because of precarity
- I have been lucky w/the kindness of others helping me through my own ongoing precarity
- Academic hiring is not a meritocracy and many ppl are qualified, be serious
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Earnestly, honestly glad my tax dollars are going to this. People deserve to be told the truth about their medical options and health, not lied to by fake "clinics" that might not offer any care.
Not sure I have ever seen a billboard like this from a state or city health department. They are all over Western Mass now.
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@McJunegrand
@carolynmichelle
So this was an incredible, incredible year for games. Baldur's Gate? Tears of the Kingdom? Resident Evil? Even the new Mario? Really solid games! Arguing for that game to be GOTY means you have to argue against those.
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This is—and I don’t use the term lightly—bullshit: it is demanding studies that do not conform to ethical practice, and certainty beyond scientific hypothesizing.
“Safety” is not always attained through prevention, go read
@ButNotTheCity
instead:
We don’t yet know the risks of stopping pubertal hormones at this critical life stage.
That is the basis upon which I am making decisions.
I am treading cautiously in this area because the safety of children must come first.
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@amandalhu
@CRFoundationUK
It's odd to me to post those without asking--for ex, when I came up with a solution for my Flo Mask fit (combining advice from others!), the company asked if they could feature the info/photo on the site, and I happily said yes. It's odd to not check-in, even just a DM to ask.
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Did you know that if you go to a conference in a city with a cat cafe, you can go to the cat cafe?
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I have a self-imposed writing retreat this weekend, which means catsitting the largest boy I've ever had the pleasure of meeting
(Big fan of "let me watch your pets so I have a new place to work")
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If I were an anthropologist in Steven Pinker's lab giving talks at (IMO) anti-trans political conferences and also made such wild anti-trans claims my colleagues had to issue a statement, I would not then run said claims to the NYT Op-Ed section, but alas, we are different.
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Context: Hydro Québec is our publicly-owned electricity provider in QC--that also exports electricity to the US northeast. This is a joy.
Hydro-Quebec stands by post supporting LGBTQ+ community despite backlash
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Check me out on today's episode of Let's Go! 🥰
If
@CBCMontreal
wants to hear from a trans person who is an anthropologist and does not think "biological sex" is a stable category (and that this is disengenous), you know how to reach me.
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This!!!
My own support for COVID mitigation and my support for peace come from a place of a firm belief in doing all we can for the health and well-being of others, especially those targeted by forces of captialism, war, violence. It is an optimistic practice.
I’ve had a lot followers over the past few months make some variation of the comment, “I appreciate your work on Covid but you are wrong about supporting Palestine.” Let me be clear again: I support Palestine for the same reasons I fight for Covid protections. 1/
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Today at the counter-protest against anti-trans hate in Montréal, there were loud announcements to make sure we all knew we were there to fight *all* hate (incl Islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism), at least two labour unions showed up, and we had free masks, water, and food. 🥰
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@postoctobrist
I can't stop laughing re trans flag because yeah it does look like that particular brand of toothpaste
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Entered final grades for my first term as part-time faculty!
(Yes, it is adjuncting and contract work, but I am proud of myself for making it through the term.)
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Begging people who are unfamiliar with UK politics to take a minute before overly fêting Labour: I am glad that many, many Tories are out, BUT.
I am worried that Reform got seats AND that Labour has turned rightward: anti-migrant (esp anti-asylum seeker) and anti-trans.
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@badinfinity2
That is the one class I got kicked out of lol
(Cincinnati-ish, no discussion of contraception legally allowed, so we had evangelicals jump on and tear apart a rose while they told us we would be unloveable if we had sex--I said I didn't want to end up with someone like that)
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@ShaulaCutie
@ettingermentum
It is incredibly rare, and as far as is generally known involves ~17yos. This language 1) conceeds a lot to BS right wing arguments, and 2) limits something that is very rare by limiting much more (eg, surgical endometriosis care might w/this logic be not possible for trans boys)
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Yikes--now
@mcgillu
calling the cops on
@agsem_aeedem
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@YorkUniversity
called the cops on
@cupe3903comms
picket.
It is really worrying to see universities call police on their striking grad students (who are also casualized workers!). A worrying trend.
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Out here in front of the CN Tower to remind folks that if you experience harm/harassment at the
@AmericanAnthro
/
@CASCATweet
Joint Meeting, talk to staff at the front desk or any of us with orange badges!
You can also call 571-560-0772 to report. ✨
#2023AAACASCA
#AAACASCA2023
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Oof, I feel this whole article in my bones as I course prep for another course, but also reflecting on how friends in rad programs doing incredible work (that universities fête publicly!!) are largely adjunct/NTT.
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Increasingly frustrating to me (as a USian, at that!) to see US folks assume their access to COVID-19 care is the same as everywhere else.
Many globally do not have access to new boosters, and few globally have access to things like Paxlovid! Access to care is not the same!
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@Moon_Synth_Bio
@ScienceMagazine
I'm trying to say I don't know what you went through, and I know edits change things, but saying you pressured a student to drop an equity complaint because you were afraid of a tenure review seems bad, and the framing in the piece and here doesn't seem to take that seriously.
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Timeline cleanse (she just finished a cold treat, as evidenced by the black tupperware)
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@DoSomeMolly
This feels like an incredibly overgenerous read of the caption and image posted, esp given the weird bits about, amongst other things, "cis bodies." (That said, it was an account with a few thousand followers, and my bigger eyebrow-raise was the OP's pro-medicalization stance)
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@focusfronting
There is something uh interesting to me how not all of EMusk's kids talk to him, and looking up to him as a parent of many children
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We are trying to stay healthy!
(Bloodwork for the loaf, who was VERY brave. A longtime staff member noticed how much improved her anxiety/well-being has been since we adopted her!)
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Trying a more COVID-19 conscious and environmentally-friendly effort at conferencing: I'm traveling by train, wearing my
@flo_mask
, bringing an air purifier for a panel, after using a nasal spray, friend I'm visiting has already tested (negative).
#AAACASCA2023
#2023AAACASCA
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@ButNotTheCity
Cass got a peerage for a report that has been called into question by leading scholars who showed their work. I am just incensed: informed consent is quality care, this is turning medical care into politicked policy—it would not surprise me if more healthcare is next.
Cass Review found there is not enough evidence about the long-term impact of puberty blockers for gender incongruence to know whether they are safe or not, nor which children might benefit from them.
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@cjgustafson222
Most college classes aren't taught by tenure track or tenured profs, and I'm wondering where your faculty average salary came from, because according to the American Association of University Professors, you're $40k over on your estimation.
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To the grocery store clerk who slid me a box of treats I wanted but was unable to pay for because I forgot my debit card at home and only had enough cash for dinner-related ingredients:
I hope that you have the best year, and that you are blessed with treats.
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They claimed the policy was for people who wouldn’t otherwise attend, so to just lie about safety feels like a kick in the stomach.
Be honest with safety so people can self-assess. That is the bare minimum, y’all.
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Conference achievement unlocked: asking someone I think is very cool if they knew someone else I think is very cool and...they are married.
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The internet the last few days feels like when I was a pre-teen in post-9/11 US, bearing witness to bloodlust, unable to stop it from accelerating. The denial of humanity and history has hit me psychically, wish I could do more than just refuse to add my voice to calls for death.
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Bizarre to me that McGill takes a harder line on potential tents than it did to my office getting hacked with N*zi stuff--we had to repeatedly call security to get them to even show up, and they came back with a different sw*stika printout and asked if I wanted it. (NOPE.)
McGill's constant anti strike, anti protest, emails are really not it. You're really coming across as the bad guy sending out emails informing us how you called the police to arrest striking students, and now saying don't even think about protesting 🥲
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@chorizanthe
Exxon. A deep and abiding hate of Exxon.
(Context: I was born in Alaska just before the Exxon-Valdez spill, my dad got called out to help clean for months, my mom Holds A Grudge)
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@JessicaHullman
Many PhD applicants won't know the pace of changing projects broadly in a field or with individuals, and PhD applicants do indeed talk about their work from five years before in apps (at least I did?), setting aside few apply to PhD programs five years out of middle school.
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@tlecaque
What seems doubly bizarre to me is the combination of not just that Maddow was not paid for this (and checking facts there didn't seem to be a concern?) but also the number of men mad about this who did not know that Maddow indeed has a DPhil.
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@SimoneHCollins
@SaxbyClare
@jennykleeman
Arguing that an adult hitting a two-year-old is not violence is a hell of a position to take.
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I know I'm connected to
#AcademicTwitter
because the number one comment is how large that Very Short Introduction is.
Per Amazon, it is 6.8" x 0.6" x 4.3"--for those who don't know (
@NYPDPC
), this series is deliberately small, so uhh I have questions.
did……did the NYPD just present an Oxford Very Short Introduction book as contraband?
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@PratitiTiyas
Going to a protest can result in arrest, or simply evidence to refuse entry/deport. Students being doxxed for pushing against Israeli state violence could face deportation and that's just signing a letter! People can do what they want, but this isn't fearmongering.
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For those like me who hate earloop masks and white masks, I got the (recc via r/Masks4All) and really like 'em! Closest to a black aura I've tried.
+ So intense I could eat soup out of it
+ Nose foam/nose wire
- Comes up high on my face
Link to buy:
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@HankThomasDC
This is great to see! I want people to be able to dispose of needles safely, and have access to narcan.
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