Natalie Claire
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Urban Studies @uniBasel | Housing @eth | @LSEcities alumni on all things academic mom life, housing, cities & climate change. 🇿🇦 in 🇨🇭
Zurich
Joined August 2011
If you've done ethnographic (or similar) fieldwork, what is one thing you would have liked to know beforehand to help you prepare? I'll be teaching a workshop for grad students ready to start research & I'm wondering what logistical, legal, personal etc issues to cover
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Housing people, I'm looking for a movie or TV scenes that shows the mortgage and credit score process. E.g someone wants to buy a house and gets rejected because of a low credit score. Anyone?
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Swiss table service is so terrifying. Like, I get nervous every time I need to order something because the waitron may/may not bite my head off. I just got lambasted for ordering “too quickly?” and now I’m expected to tip the guy? Imagine what he’ll do if I don’t
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People of #AcademicTwiiter how did you find PhD funding? Any tips, tricks, secrets I should know about? I have my first year funded but after that I'm on my own and frankly, I'm starting to stress. Send success stories (or money)! #PhdVoice @PhDVoice
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My 3yo looked down at our crumb covered floor this morning & yelled "Papa, come sweep the floors". I was right next to him but apparently sweeping is a job for dads. When I asked what my job is he said “you work" Looks like mission #SmashThePatriachy is well underway @momademia
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I was moved by a panel on Beyond Extensions with @ULIP_French @InhabitationLab and @XazaarAdjame so I wrote some poems adapted from the words of the speakers. This first one is adapted from Solomon Benjamin. A thread...
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Poured 150ml of milk down the drain this morning🥹This is what travel-mom-life looks like! Glad I’m no longer at the point where I need to cool & store the stuff though. Respect to all traveling moms waking & pumping before the day starts. You’re magic #AcademicMoms @Momademia
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Left my babies for the first time and am on my way to Paris for a seminar series on Urban Life at the Extensions. Looking forward to the event (SO @ULIP_French) and to sleeping in a hotel room all alone for three straight nights without interruption (SO @Momademia).
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Survived my first proposal rejection as a PhD student and it didn’t hurt nearly as bad as I thought it would. I think I owe it all to you #AcademicTwitter. You guys have prepared me well with all your gloomy pessimism. Thanks fam 🤗
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🚨Urbanistas, banda #Movilidad, #SeguridadVial #Enamov #México ¡#Tuxtla te necesita! De $3.2 mmdp que @ObrasPublicasCS tiene para #Chiapas quieren gastar $1.5 mmdp en puentes viales en medio de Tuxtla, donde 90% NO nos movemos en auto privado ¡Tuxtla es 15% de la pob. estatal!
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2 vomiting babies. 2 proposals due in the next 2 days. If there's a god out there, now is your time to shine. Shout out to all the @Momademia moms out there, making it happen despite the WHOLE ENTIRE UNIVERSE working against you.
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Academics, why do you use WhatsApp for work coms? Maybe coz I come from an industry where getting DM'd out of office hours about work WOULD NOT HAPPEN but It’s freaking me out. I want to be able to check my phone in the evenings but now I'm scared! #academicTwitter #phdvoice
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