ElIa Wind
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languages, #rstats , MENA, children-raising, Florida woman in Toronto, PhD @nyusociology , senior researcher @Publicwise . Tweets on many unrelated niche topics.
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Beyond insane that half of Canada's population lives in a little strip that forms a near perfect line and we don't have a high speed train running down the middle of it
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Every so often one of my Syrian friends will ask me, “what is the cultural equivalent of Fairouz for Americans” and I always have to shock them and explain that most cultures do not have one particular singer you are supposed to listen to in the mornings, that’s mostly just them
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it's kind of weird to me how not big a deal the $10-a-day childcare agreement has been in Canada. We are saving well over $1000 a month due to it, it's probably one of the most impactful policies ever passed for the Canadians it covers and yet seems kind of unnoticed already.
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If you really love learning languages, you should learn Arabic, because no matter what, you will have to keep learning it for your entire life
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I know there's a widespread stereotype that Arabic classes are a pipeline for people to join the CIA or whatever, but from looking at the outcomes of all the Arabic classmates I kept in touch with, as far as I can tell, it's just a pipeline to marrying Arabs
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People online thinking Toronto has bad transit by North American standards because it’s one of the few North American cities where a large percentage of people use transit often enough to actually discuss and complain about it a lot online:
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Sociologists will do a study focusing on the one wealthy country in the world with no universal healthcare, no parental leave, wildly higher rates of violence, with the most byzantine political system imaginable, and be like "yeah, this is probably inherently generalizable."
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Still thinking about this sick climbing cage play apparatus that we tried out at a Richmond Hill playground this weekend... I don't know what these are called or what they cost but there should be more of them
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Drivers to other drivers: 🤬😡🖕😤👿☄️
Cyclists to other cyclists: 👋😘🤗🫶😻💋
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Toronto is just a better city to live in than it is to visit. Truthfully (at the risk of pissing people off) I basically do not recommend it to would-be tourists. Montreal is the opposite, living there is kind of disappointing compared to its top-tier status for tourism.
Inbox: Toronto ranks second most over-rated city in the world. Based on tourist reviews online, 16.8pc were disappointed. This puts the city closely behind Bangkok (18.4pc) -- which does make one question the methodology
Most disappointing attraction in Toronto: the CN Tower
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@laserboat999
I know multiple indian dads who love Gilmore Girls. Starting to suspect it's a thing.
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Leaving academia is like walking through a portal where all of a sudden you're transported from this world of anxiety, scarcity, and passive aggressive competition to one where people actually appreciate, cooperate
and compensate you for your work. Highly recommend.
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Percentage of formal modeling skills I learned in my PhD that I use in my job: 30%. Percentage of data cleaning and data visualization skills Iearned in my PhD that I use in my job: 300%
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This morning my PhD was accepted with no revisions. I'm still in shock that I'm done and don't know when it's actually going to fully sink in, but it still feels wonderful.
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I’ve never in fact heard of this as a thing anywhere else but if some other country/region does have this, please let me know!
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@khanombang
you forgot using cookie tins for sewing equipment and repurposing plastic containers as tupperware
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@TimBryson16
My kid's grandparents live in Ottawa and we live in Toronto and it kills me that it is too expensive, unreliable, and inconvenient for me to justify taking her on the train there instead of driving there once a momth
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@yolo_goat
There's a ferry that takes you from Toronto downtown to a little recreational island in lake ontario and as far as I know, that's it!
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Hearing conversations in Somali/Urdu/Persian/other languages when you know Arabic gives you like one word a sentence, so it sounds like: indecipherableindecipherableGOVERNMENTindecipherableindecipherableSTRONGindecipherableHOUSEindecipherableindecipMONEYindecipherableSUGGESTind
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@weedadvisor1
Let me explain it to you like you’rE a child: just because you buy a blue check, Daddy Elon will never really love you
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and to having some kind of admin or business or translation job in a Gulf country
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I don't have any weird strobe lights to sell on this viral post but if you're inclined, please donate so Nasim can get to Canada
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People’s first idea for why Arabic seems hard is almost always that it’s written right-to-left but funnily that aspect is really barely difficult at all and probably wouldn’t make the list of top 25 hardest aspects of learning Arabic
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this tweet brought to you by me spending two hours last night rewriting this paper to convince sociologists why a study done in Syria shouldn't be only suitable for a Middle East studies journal
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Babe, wake up, new extinct Indo-European language just dropped
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You don't finish your PhD in the sociology dept at NYU when you defend, nor when your get your diploma, but when you finally clear out the 200 books you left in your dept office 4 years ago and double the size of the free book pile in the lobby. (So you can now call me Dr. Wind.)
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@hill_william4l
@CathyReisenwitz
Her entire body of work. When you wake up in Damascus and walk outside you hear different Fairouz songs faintly streaming out of each house’s window, layering together. Even thinking about it now makes my heart hurt.
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My daughter is starting to get into gender stereotypes “boys do this and girls do this” but so far all her gendered statements are about completely random topics that aren’t gendered normally. “girls have birthdays but boys don’t.” “is this a girl sandwich or a boy sandwich?”
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truly what is going on with American university administrations right now? In my 7 years at NYU I saw so, so, so many protests in this square and the admin never did anything like this
Friend just sent me a video of them barricading Cadman Plaza at NYU where the demonstrations took place yesterday.
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@arpitrage
@andreamatranga
Yes! Honestly it makes a lot of sense to me (maybe I’ve just been effectively brainwashed at this point)
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I just saw a job posting that asks candidates to remove the names of the univerisites they went to from their application materials and this strikes me as a very good practice that any "social justice" organizations should do
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New menswear guy lore just dropped
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@stelifanie
Don’t they shower on average more than once a day? Really trying to give Syrians (who would be considered to have OCD levels of cleanliness by U.S. standards) a run for their money
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@BrankoMilan
Americans who are critical of Israel feel more personal responsibility due to the amount of military aid that the US govt provides (which presumably could translate into significant US influence over Israeli military decisions)
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@bruminger
@CoreyRobin
"some comic book" aka a book widely acknowledged as one of the most important works of Holocaust literature and one of the most academically studied comic books of all time.
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A lot of people love seeing the people who miss
@timgill924
's bit and get mad at him but my favorite are the people who claim to love his bit but post a million humbled/thrilled to announce posts exactly like the kind of person he's parodying the rest of the time
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@RM_Transit
We live near enough to a GO train that we hear its sweet little “ding ding” if we are in the backyard when it passes (prompting my daughter to yell excitedly, “train!!”). My mom lives equivalently far from the highway and there is a constant irritating whir in her backyard.
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@fuds67111
You seem to be under the impression that children are their parents’ perpetual playthings and not future adults who pay taxes once they reach working age.
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@BrendanDawe
@sushil_js
My inlaws in Lebanon live in a little town like this, a whole big extended family would live in one apartment building with each nuclear family having their own floor of the apartment.
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Why do native English speakers have such a hard time with the glottal stops in Arabic even though both North American and British English tend to use glottal stops all the time?
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@VottoPlantEmoji
Red scare is cool because it makes me feel like a rebellious, against the grain iconoclast for having a child, a practice that in fact the vast majority of the population participates in
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@sharghzadeh
I once told a swedish friend about the contents of our Swedish American Christmas dinners (the one four-generation tradition passed down) and she was like "wow, that's so cute, you eat like extremely old Swedish people!"
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Coolest part of living in Toronto: There are ~10 different amazing projects in progress which will soon utterly transform the city! Worst part of living in Toronto: somehow everyone one of those projects is perpetually 5-10 years away from completion.
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@meganysta
That’s a good point, I know there are some daycares that offer non standard schedules for night workers and people with early/late shifts, seems like it would be good for gov to make sure there’s one of those in a reasonable distance everywhere as a next step.
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My strength in languages is developing and retaining good pronunciation, sometimes beyond my other skills… My Turkish has gotten rusty but this Turkish waitress heard my opening sentences and basically started telling me her whole life story and I’m just like evet… Hayır…tamam
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My 2 year old didn't know the typical Arabic word for "feed" so she used the form 2 version of the root for "eat" to tell us to feed her something and I just... 😭😭😭
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This tweet brought to you by my paid day off because me and my daughter are both sick. I used to take sick days off my PhD but would spend the day anxiously thinking about how I was falling further behind all the academics without kids who can put in nonstop 60 hour workweeks.
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The vast majority of middle aged people do have kids; most of them own their own houses too. Contrary to popular belief, most Elder Millennials are "adulting" by the most typical metrics.
Chapo Trap House's Amber Frost: "For millennials, middle age feels more like a kind of death than actual advanced age because the middle itself has died. Gone is moderation, the middle class, and even the mid-budget."
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@MaryJackalope
People love to talk about child bearing hips but totally ignore child bearing vertical torso space
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@neuraloup
They just passed a nationwide bill last year which is being rolled out. At my Ontario daycare costs were cut 75%. Apparently though (based on the replies to this) the rollout has been unfolding rather unevenly in terms of actual availability.
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Every time I use a NYT recipe for Middle Eastern food, it has like 20 ingredients, 50 steps, and tastes fine. Whereas if I ask my Syrian mother-in-law, it’s like 5 ingredients, half the steps of the NYT recipe, and tastes way, way better.
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I am simply floored at the number of conservative Canadians in my mentions who seem to be unaware that their children’s university educations are indeed taxpayer subsidized
@ellulie_
My oldest is just starting his second year. Once again I will not rely on anyone other then him and his parents to pay for this. We have said no to fancy cars, cottage ownership, elaborate vacations, AAA hockey in order to save enough but we have him and his brother covered.
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Almost every time I am out in public speaking to my daughter in Arabic, some parent asks me about it and then laments "I wish I had passed [language] onto my kid, we just thought it would be too hard/confusing."
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@nolinuslastname
My husband (then boyfriend) used to sit with me for 15 minutes every night and just try to help me say the ح right and it look about 4 months of that before I got it consistently
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Also your work actually gets read immediately by people in a position to make policy decisions about things and they are eager to use your policy-relevant research to do so?! Mind blowing
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Ok I basically never share “wow, non-Arabs speak Arabic!” videos but the phrase “ana Amishi” with the Syrian dialect here is really sending me
Amish guy from Pennsylvania speaks perfect Arabic.
“Welcome everyone. We are here in Shepherds Dutch farm, here to show you our farm. I am a Amish person, but I speak a little bit of Arabic aH”
Credit: TikTok: maherkhalil2
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My mom is an urban planning nerd so for Christmas, I got her an affordable Toronto housing tour with
@HousingNowTO
and a GTA transit tour with
@RM_Transit
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@tressiemcphd
honestly 90% of posts like this on reddit are just relationship advice fanfiction, so that seems the most likely situation here
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As someone who has lot of loved ones in Syria, and had to learn how to regulate my news consumption when the most awful atrocities were uploaded daily to my feed for years, I want to say this in the kindest way possible, because I feel like some people need to hear it:
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@sunraysunray
@kvnrogan
So obviously correct that I didn't realize that his QT was supposed to be a dunk!
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@probablyfidget
Lol yes one of my main childhood memories is sleeping over at my Cuban and Puerto Rican friends’ houses and their moms starting the most high energy salsa music at like 7 am on Saturdays
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French people need to accept that the rest of the world now knows about Indian and Mexican food. The game is over for them, but they’re like an aging pop star clinging to the era of their hit album 2 decades ago.
Americans *genuinely* believe they have better food than France. They really believe it. It’s truly extraordinary.
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Maybe I’m dumb but I’m always mystified by how the downtowns of so many US cities are so fancy, and even filled with dense housing, but devoid of people walking around. Do the people in the apartments there never walk? Where are the humans of these buildings?
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this is the best approximation I have ever seen for what reading sentences in literary Turkish feels like
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I really don't understand how we got to the point of blanket blaming all ordinary Russians for the actions of their govt. By this same logic, the world should not have accepted Syrian refugees, which would have been a massive injustice.
“Every citizen is responsible for the actions of their state, and citizens of Russia are no exception. Therefore, we do not give asylum to Russian men who flee their country. They should oppose the war.”
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas
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The anti bike lane mayoral candidates combined barely made a dent in the race; other Toronto municipal candidates should think twice before making a platform centered on ripping out bike lanes
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@OhUrbanity
That's kind of what I'm getting at by the living/visiting difference. The urban experience of MTL is amazing and you can pretty much see that accurately when you visit. But the job situation leads to a lot of downstream effects that I think make it feel worse living there.
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@VamonosLA
It's always wild to me that the SF metro area doesnt even crack the top 10 considering the amount of room it takes up in the discourse!
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@ashleyruba
also living in a different state from your partner because you really need that *one* prestigious postdoc to incrementally increase your chances of getting a TT job
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@kaikit_tim
@ztisdale
@liberal_party
@NDP
@CPC_HQ
No worries, I have an 100% voting turnout record for every Canadian election I have been eligible to vote in (one so far) :)
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Someone just argued with me that MENA origin people in Michigan couldn’t possibly be 3% because only 2% of Michigan is Muslims and sometimes I feel like I spend at least 5% of my life explaining to people that Arab Christians exist
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it's amazing how much incels influenced (internet) English. Imagine your grandkids asking you why people used to add pilled to the end of words and you have to explain how a bunch of guys were really mad they couldn't get laid and we all decided to talk like them specifically
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@yolo_goat
While Canada is a lot better than the US at a lot of other welfare/govt stuff, they're basically just as sprawly, car dependent, and bad at transit as the US
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Great testimony today at Toronto city council by
@KevinRupasinghe
on how the plan to raise the city's parking levy is the fairest way to fix Toronto's financial troubles while ensuring essential services don't fall into disrepair. Can't wait for this guy to be
#Ward20
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@katiedimartin
I don't mean this in a bad way at all, but every picture you post of yourself looks wildly different for some reason, I have no idea what you look like based on the 4 or so pictures I think you've shared
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@Laith_Marouf
Yeah, well it is harder to parse out the mass shootings when they come in the context of multiple, intensely deadly civil wars
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@Noahpinion
I visited Philly for a few days and walked across the entirety of the city crisscrossed a few times over... did not seem much less walkable to me than your average European city to be honest
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Having grown up in Florida, I feel like I’ll never get used to the concept of basements. Oh, every house has a creepy same-sized shadow version of the house underneath it? And you’re all cool with that?
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@FuckCarsReddit
Why is China so good at intercity rail but then seems to take the worst things from US urban planning and say "hold my beer"?
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