I haven't been on this hellsite for a year and a half, aside from parachuting in to share things a few times. Now I'm logging off for good. I've got the same handle on the other site so let's connect there.🤘🏼.

@TheCurrentCBC @JHUPress @SSHRC_CRSH The whole episode is fantastic. Very smart stuff from @mattgallowaycbc and producers. Have a listen.

I was delighted to close out @TheCurrentCBC's wellness 6-month series today to discuss my book Why Wellness Sells (@JHUPress), based on my research funded by @SSHRC_CRSH. The Current with Matt Galloway-June 4, 2024: Which brand of wellness works for you?

It was a pleasure to chat with @shayla__love about whether lifestyle influencers should follow their own advice. (One clarification: I agree it matters how people live, I think I'm just too cynical to believe people actually do practice what they preach.)

I’m thrilled to announce that my department is hiring a Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities. Deadline is September 16. Please share widely!

On the elusive hunt for balance in life, I was pretty psyched to have won both a research award and a skate contest medal this year. More proud of the latter, tbh.

I've reached the point in my career where if I do a thing but don't put it on my CV right away I have no idea that I've even done it. Does this mean I can retire now?.

RT @michellecyca: for @thewalrus, I wrote about the misguided, self-serving attempts by Canadian employers to cover up their institutional….

Example: if a meeting is scheduled by an admin who teaches, it will.-be on Zoom.-start 10 after the hour (classes end on the hour). If scheduled by an admin who doesn't teach, it will:.-be on Google Meet.-start on the hour. Result: no one knows when meetings start or where. 🤯.

It's wild being neurodivergent in an admin role. Nothing makes sense and nothing is consistent and people don't seem to notice except for those who see things in nauseatingly microscopic detail.

RT @JayDolmage: Dear Colleagues:.We are excited to present a new issue of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Please read and pleas….

I really miss Twitter. 📢People who are sturdier of constitution, how do you manage this ever more chaotic space? If there's a way to filter the crap so I don't end up in a wild panic each time I log on, I might come back. Got hot tips to share?.

Sometimes my research takes me to surprising places and sometimes they're not surprising at all. Somehow I'm going to connect all of this to wellness, health, and optimization. (And maybe I'll become a snowboard guide in the process.) Also, hi, it's been a while.

@JournalRhm "Derkatch’s work is a must-read [and has] significant implications for every area of our field. Readers will gain key insights into how the self-generating discourse of wellness affects our day-to-day lives, as well as how it functions in exacerbating health inequity writ large.".

@JournalRhm "Why Wellness Sells. demonstrates the pervasiveness of wellness culture and how its tendrils are tightly woven within the fabric of our society—and how we might untangle those threads to understand how they constrict, rather than expand, our understanding of health.".

First scholarly review of Why Wellness Sells just dropped in @JournalRhm!

RT @JournalRhm: New #RHM issue hot off the press! Check out the full issue of 6.4 here Thanks so much to our contr….

Was delighted to speak with @mulkerrins at @thetimes for her fun article "I joined the wellness set just like Kate Moss. Am I woo-woo too?"

@JHUPress @Sharronapearl Here's a thread about the series from earlier this year. We're psyched to hear from you.

Reminder: the Hopkins Health Humanities series at @JHUPress is soliciting projects. Coedited by @Sharronapearl and me @ColleenDerkatch, this series seeks humanities-based research about health that swings for the fences. Info⬇️ (sorry for unrelated image):