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That thing when a white male prof tweeting that women don’t belong in college results in him...potentially not having to do all of his own grading & having smaller class sizes 🤷🏻♀️
We're aware of the situation involving an IU faculty member. The beliefs expressed in those tweets do not reflect the values of Indiana University. IU will remain a place of tolerance and respect for all. See this statement from
@IUBProvost
Lauren Robel.
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Saw a couple moments at C19 panels where grad students and NTT faculty said outright on panels that they’d be unemployed, forced out, or are choosing to leave the profession. I think this was an important and brave thing to do in public, and I just wanted to amplify it.
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I’m a Reviews Editor for College Literature, and any grad students that might want to write a review for us can just send me an email out of the blue! Tell me what your fields of interest are, and I’d take it from there.
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3 year old picks up book: “what’s this?”
Me: “it’s a book about a sailor” (Billy Budd)
3yr old, with intense disgust: “it’s all non-stop words, not even a picture of a boat”
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Some of us get $100,000 tenure gifts and some of us get told we can use 5 total paid “sick family” days to help our kid recover after hip surgery (the rest must be unpaid OBVIOUSLY). Colleges & Universities & America are so great I love them
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Hi, hello. The same labor crisis that makes NTT people have to over-produce scholarship also overburdens some TT fac with service and teaching and admin that makes scholarship a challenge. We need more jobs, not speculation about who writes more or works harder.
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I know it’s an academic cliche to say that teaching & research are mutually reinforcing. But I actually think I’d be a better teacher if my job ever truly supported my ability to write & publish research? Will delete just wanted to feel reckless typing into the twitter machine
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Hi. Making fun of grad students for learning things/reading things that are new to them is all kinds of messed up. (Remembering when a prof in my first semester grad seminar acted shocked when I said out loud I hadn’t heard of a book—that was not assigned.)
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@upstaterica
Everyone knows someone who’s had an abortion; they just don’t know that or don’t want to know. You’re amazing to insist that more people know.
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I have many correct opinions, but one that is indisputable is that Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” is the best pop vocal of the 20th century
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BRB have to claw my brain out after reading the phrase “mixed vaxxed couple”
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@dee_bee_h
sorry I was told to hold onto my fucking hat AND strap in and so I forgot the buckle ok
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@PsychDocB1
@pjmaciak
It’s the mean singing getting louder / “a new person is dancing” part for me
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I am an old sap but when Whitman calls grass the “beautiful uncut hair of graves”, that is good stuff
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I know some people got Guggenheims or whatever,but today my good thing was that I took off my cardigan in class and belatedly realized that that meant I taught in a stained tee that says “Thunderbitch”
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Favorite student eval comment of all time, bc it was so brief and so mysterious: “too much women”
First year profs and future first year profs - as evaluation season is coming up, know that almost all of us will get at least one bad student eval. If you're like me, no matter how many good ones you get, that bad one will keep you up at night. My recommendation - [1/2]
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This week in PT, my three year old who has cerebral palsy rode a tricycle lap around the entire clinic & walked on an incline treadmill for 10 minutes while chatting away wearing a kids N95. So, like, can we adults agree that we can maybe handle a few more months of masking?
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Reading Daniel Deronda for the first time. This shit’s good, you guys!
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The brutal productivity expected of humanities folks on TT market is terrible. Just a gentle reminder though that some TT faculty at some jobs appear “unproductive” from a pub POV, bc our labor goes into teaching 12-18 different classes & we have 90+ students each semester
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I’m in awe of contingent fac who have written books, truly. But maybe reconsider tweets mocking TT fac for not having books or the same ‘output’ as you? The system is truly fucked, but I think most fac work really hard. And there are so many other fun ways to mock the tenured!
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Love to hear about well attended panels about precarity & prestige at major academic conferences. Love to hear about folks wanting to unionize. I’ll also preach again: if you’re in a stable TT job, find out if your dept has a “conversion” policy, and could they, and why not?
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Any literary historians who think about how/when/why young people started referring to any longish book as a novel? It’s so persistent, even when I know that they know there are different genres of writing
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Trying my best to raise a toddler who has strong Lucille Bluth energy
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People who know more than me about teaching first year writing / comp: 25 students per section, when most fac teach multiple sections of it per semester, is a lot, right? And probably counteracts the goal of providing effective writing instruction?
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Waiting for the university courseware to upload a video like it’s 2000 and I’m waiting on a 7hr Napster download
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Was your favorite album as a young teenager Tori Amos “Little Earthquakes,” or were you a friendly teen just loving life?
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Wait, was anyone On Here actually saying that Princeton grad students getting a raise was a problem?
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Thinking of being a little wild w my latest conference bio and providing only name, affiliation, and my teaching load 😜 😈
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One stuck at home pandemic story I will try to remember for my daughter: Today she befriended some of my menstrual products. I heard her from the other room saying, “Hang on tampons, things are about to get groovy!”
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Child: Hi! You’re at my restaurant, what can I get you?
Me: I’ll take a turkey sandwich, please.
Child: I don’t want to get you anything.
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Apropos of nothing, child informs me: “It’s frowned upon to bring your own cantaloupe to a pizza restaurant.” Noted.
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Just helped my public school teacher husband install a VERY large whiteboard in our garage-turned-Zoom classroom. But please do go on about how teachers aren’t really going to do anything if they’re allowed to teach remotely.
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I just discovered rainbow parrot tulips, and so I now fully understand 17c Dutch tulip mania.
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I’m going to two academic conferences this spring and I sure as shit better see one of you wearing this pair!
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If you’re in an August 1st spiral, remember August also = corn, tomatoes, blueberries, beans, melons, blackberries & & &
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I’ve never given a paper quite like the one I gave today, but it felt excellent to tell Herman Melville exactly why I can’t even with him sometimes
#mmla2019
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This is a policy about what the uni will do if instructors die. Sorry “pandemic related impacts.”
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If I could ask everyone to please celebrate the birth of a ***very important*** child on this holiday eve. Me! It’s me!!! 🎉 🎂
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Going to get out ahead of tomorrow’s discourse and sternly say that August is Still Summertime. Calm down (academic twitter).
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My mother-in-law calls anything she watches on Netflix “A Netflick”, and it delights me every time!
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Don’t waste your time reading scoldy silly articles that cite The Scarlet Letter — TSL is actually beautiful and weird and sexy and creepy and psychologically astute and annoying but smart-annoying and so you should just read it instead
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@ashleyrattner
I’d like to announce that my Dad was expelled from his Catholic elementary school in the 1950s, because he was punished by being sent to the coatroom and so he ate the nun’s lunches.
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I understand why large events are cancelling, but it's supremely unhelpful and confusing when places continue to hold sporting events and concerts, airlines won't refund tickets, etc putting the onus on individuals to shut up & eat the cost or be 'irresponsible' and attend
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For Mother’s Day I got myself a hotel room with a nice bathtub & I had coffee in Rittenhouse Square this morning & I am going to the newly renovated Philly Museum of Art by myself and honestly? I’ve never had a stronger feeling of “no regrets.”
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The peer review quotes here only solidify my 30 RockTheory of Academic Popularity (from Liz Lemon’s college reunion ep): too many academics think people don’t like them bc they’re ‘nerds,’ when they are actually arrogant spiteful shits that most instinctively know to avoid.
What’s the harshest criticism you’ve gotten in peer review?
Here’s mine:
“The weakest aspect of the manuscript...is evident in the first chapter, which reads like a leftover from a c. 1995 dissertation. My advice is that Pearl should scrap Chapter One...and start again.”
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If you’re tired of hearing songs on the radio praising the messiah born on Dec 24th, feel free to imagine they are about meeeeeeeeee! And celebrate accordingly (🍷 🧀🥯)
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Apologies in advance if you ALSO have a mural of your dead dogs on the bedroom ceiling, but I don’t know that I’m super interested in touring this home
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“Access to abortion should not depend on our GPA, the color of our skin, where we live, or the luck of the draw. It should not depend in any shape, form, or fashion on who our governor is or who is sitting on the Supreme Court.” 🗣🗣🗣
cw: sex abuse
If you missed Crystal Good's powerful testimony today at
#AmyConeyBarrett
hearing, I urge you to read it: "Access to abortion should not depend on our GPA, the color of our skin, where we live, or the luck of the draw..." Thank you, Crystal.
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Hard pass on this take. JLP is great BECAUSE it sounds like an angry teenage girl wrote it.
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Junior humanities scholars are under tremendous pressure to produce, but some of us do start/have careers as professors without writing books pre-tenure. You’ll likely work at a non-R1 institution and teach a lot, but it is indeed still a career!
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It is my birthday, so to increase my powers please substitute any mentions of “our Lord” “Jesus” “King of Kings” in Christmas carols with my name, not that usurper
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Got too excited telling my hair stylist about 19c mourning jewelry made of hair. It happens.
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Love to hear about TT conversions—they should be celebrated! Our conversion policy is one of the things I love most about my (public, unionized) Dept.
I got converted to tenure-track today! I wanted to share because of why it's possible: at UW we have a conversion clause for LTAs built into our Collective Agreement that allows for conversion to TT after 3 years. It's a way to push against the casualization of labour at unis.
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During our current academic year, my university’s resource pantry has distributed over 10,000 lbs of food to over 650 visitors. If you think your campus doesn’t need a pantry, think again!
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My dutiful contribution to babies at bars discourse
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@MelvilleSociety
@ProffWolff
Just here bc I had to put this sexed up Redburn cover art somewhere (1957)
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A year ago today I had severe preeclampsia, an emergency c-section, and a baby in the NICU. Today was much, much better.
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From the chronicle articles MLA roundtable. As someone in a 4:4 Dept where we’ve been working for yearrrrs on curriculum reform, it is a gd miracle to hear someone say this!
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Growing up in metro Detroit suburbs, it was just normal to see “No Scabs” lawn signs and people wearing union patches on their jackets. I like that memory. Go UAW.
It begins, the largest strike in over a decade as 49,000 workers walkout st General Motors nationwide
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my
#C19
panel (hi
@rachel_bracken
and
@erica_d_stevens
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I’ve said as much before and I’m only like 40% joking but: Spite. Spite flowing in several directions.
What got you to finish your PhD?
What kinds of intrinsic and external motivation were important to you? What helped?
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All I learned there was never to admit to not knowing something or to lie
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when women say they like French Country decor it means they are rich but also still want rooster art in the kitchen
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What an honor for my girl to finally trust herself & me enough to take her for a first swim in the “big ocean” 🌊
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And I hope the Enlightenment crumbles just a little bit more every time
#McTeagueTwitter
goes on another bender
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TBH this is always extremely my vibe but now it’s pandemic-chic
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“Can I hit you, Rachel?” —my 3 year old to me, seconds after I said no about something
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I generally agree that lots of people surrender dogs for some shady reasons, but was this person really a bad owner for realizing they couldn’t handle, uh…that? Seems like a sanctuary was the best place for sure.
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Going through old lecture videos and noticed that a Fall ‘21 video (20 mins, with slides so it’s not just my talking head) was viewed by…7/100 students. This was a *voluntary* online course. I get it & maybe I’m bad at this. But my main takeaway is that people are so so tired.
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Just taught my last Zoom class of the semester and, hopefully, of my life. It went out with a whimper, not a bang, but it is done.
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2 year old has taken to telling me "I hate it, I want to get out, I'm done" and honestly, same kid. Same.
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I started my college education at a community college and then a public regional for my B.A. I had some scholarships & a retail job.Weird how I am *still* paying off student loans from that 2002-2006 period!
This is an actual sentence in a news story by NPR, the premier radio news outlet in America
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Like, feel free not to give a shit about my life but we can’t afford full-time childcare rn so I’m full-time parenting on the work days when I’m not on campus full-time. I love both of those things but there’s simply not time and energy enough to write rn. Except twitter lol
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Was trying to set the timer on my phone to take a pic of the kitchen but anyway here is what I imagine the tortilla chips see when I approach to attack
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Typing this out so I can see how objectively ridiculous academia at times makes me feel: I feel bad that I can’t find time to write, while teaching 4-4 w/ service & editorial work w/ a toddler who had about the most traumatic entry possible into the world just over a year ago.
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We also do things like digitize neglected local archives, run senior citizen reading groups & K-12 enrichment & veteran’s ed centers. This doesn’t make the TT market implosion less real, but I can promise that some committees don’t expect an app w a book contract & 9 articles.
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For a brief perfect moment yesterday, I attained all that I came to Twitter for
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grading my students' "Early African American Memes" assignments and pleasantly devastated by the wit and smarts on display. Thank you,
@wickettred
for sharing your original assignment with me!
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Sincerely loving the energy that our student journalists are bringing to the campus newspaper this year
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why is so much of August academic twitter preemptively scolding other academics about ev er y thing?
I just want to know how much corn on the cob you’ve eaten or plan to eat this month 🌽
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A building alarm went off while I was teaching a large lecture section. It turned out to be nothing major, but the sheer fucking terror on the faces of those 90+ students when the alarms & emergency flashers went off is something I will always remember. Fuck this place.
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Yes, the vile Alabama law is engineered to be blocked & blocked & blocked again to make its way to the Supreme Court. Yes, you should still donate to
@YellowFund
today.
I just donated to the
@YellowFund
, which is a grassroots organization funding safe abortion access in Alabama. Their work quite literally saves lives.
Can I get my friends on here to toss $5 their way?
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