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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

11 months

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

If you get turned on/clued in to a topic/vein of discourse because of a conversation with a junior scholar, find a way to visibly cite them. Cite something they've written, or *cite the conversation*, if they haven't published anything, yet. Put their name in your writing.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Unsolicited advice for superstar tenured scholars on Twitter: stop complaining about your job.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

@anne_theriault During labor at hospital I told my partner I didn't know my mother's Social Security Number! He goes "YOU are 'mother'!" 🤣

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

The academic job interview process has got nothing on the new friendship at age 40+ interview process.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Call it now, universities: online all semester. It is ridiculous and inhumane to send faculty and students into online courses at the beginning of this term pretending we're gonna switch to going in to full in-person classrooms if/when admin decide it's time. Have some foresight.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

4 months

Okay I finished. It's so good. It's about America. It's one of the best books I have ever read. Am I terrible person?

Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

6 months

I had never read _Lolita_. So tonight? I bought _Lolita_ at a used bookstore and sat down, in a bar, with a beer, with _Lolita_. Holy fucking shit, y'all.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

If you missed today's episode of Academic Twitter, you'll want to look yourself up on Course Hero. You might find, like I did, Creative Commons (free! open!) licensed IP of yours being sold to subscribers for profit. I hope today starts the countdown to takedown.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

Please stop the "pay me for articles" discourse. It makes us look ridiculous. We do get paid to write. It's part of our job. Just ... stop. Maybe instead say: pay (all of) us enough for the job we do, which includes writing. Many of us in academia are underpaid and job-insecure.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

A synthesis tweet of #pedagogy takes I've seen and agreed with over the past week: plan something way different for next semester. A pedagogy of PAUSE. The opposite of lean in. Slow it way down. Stop and check in. Reflect rather than jump-start. Thread 🧵 of references:

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

@nytimes When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When is "soon"? When?

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

@adrierising Radicalize your concept of family now, and stick to it. Articulate your making-kin. Keep Friendsgiving forever, and make it primary, not just a cute stop on the way to some other thing that someone told you was family.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

4 years

@NateSilver538 I'm pro-free-speech, but I also worry that we'll look back in 5 years and discover all sorts of adverse consequences from influencers with huge followings on Twitter and poor understanding of public health messaging saying whatever the heck comes into their heads.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

Evergreen and true:

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@brittlestar

3 years

MY FAVOURITE SEASON IN CANADA IS SPRING

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Today I told my students, "your profs are exhausted, too; if you have energy to spare, extend some empathy to them." And then my students spent 30 minutes regaling me with ways in which their profs had helped them make it through the last 20 months.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

@simonesmithedit Because there was this one AMAZING band called the Squirrel Nut Zippers.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

@Brotinus @CariHovanec Came here to say this. The Seinfeld/Superman synthesis.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

@myelessar

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

We could've been working on this all along, but instead we chose the whole safety/computers/desks thing.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Today is Simone de Beauvoir's birthday!!!!! It is also my birthday.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

THIS BOOK EXISTS!!! out now, Minnesota UPress BEHOLD, YOUR LOVELY PRISON!!! Read it (and, if you wanna, buy it; but read it please). And if anybody wants some representative module of our polyauthor to come to your institution and talk about it, please reach out.

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@iccitutm

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Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance? The ICCIT's Jeremy Packer & @KateMadd , w/ @PCVillavicencio @kfoswald , @alex_monea , and J. Reeves, posit the emergence of a totalizing digital control in this new polygraph from @UMinnPress :

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

In 2023, after having re-tooled my courses in one summer to teach for 2 years entirely online, then re-re-tooled my courses for the full return to f2f classes, now being exhorted to transform my pedagogy for the LLM context, all of this in a space of 3 years, pre-tenure...🧵1/3

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

@NateSilver538 Let's say "some sort of special circumstance" is, like, living in interdependent relation with other human beings.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

In honor of Thanksgiving, I give you the largest turkey in town. 🦃 #Toronto @UofT

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Abortion is normal. Abortion is healthcare. Access to free healthcare is a basic, essential, and humane goal for governance in the 21st century. None of these three statements are remotely radical, nor should they be incendiary.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

I will not go overboard with the emotion, but I want to say that my 7yo has had his first SARS-COV-2 shot, and I am so relieved and grateful. Please get your family vaccinated as soon as it is available to you. Please get your boosters. Please support global vaccine equity.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

@caseyboyle Casey Boyle's Colon Cleanse

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

4 years

Hey @WSJopinion : Wow. Today's piece on Dr. Biden's PhD perfectly encapsulates, amplifies, and reproduces US patriarchy and anti-intellectualism in one neat, asshole-sized package. Way to curate content worthy of your publication's position in the ecology of public discourse. NOT.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

6 months

I had never read _Lolita_. So tonight? I bought _Lolita_ at a used bookstore and sat down, in a bar, with a beer, with _Lolita_. Holy fucking shit, y'all.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

Do I reply all to the group email from a bigwig in the field asking me to advertise a fixed-term, semester-to-semester, "Assistant prof" job and say that no, I won't be forwarding because it's not anything that counts as a "job" in an actual profession? 😬

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

I do not hate him. I liked his class. This is not shade. I merely wish to explicitly note the extreme difference between his professional circumstances and mine. I am tired.🧵3/3

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Is "sus" for "suspect" (as in, "that's way sus" to describe something sketchy) part of elementary school argot in other geographical locations, or is it unique to my child's school?

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@KateMadd

3 years

@DFisman You're *great*, and I am grateful for your work. And/but you've got quite a critical mass of people following you, so you should be careful with your sarcasm. This is a new and non-salient topic in the larger population; assume that literacy is low.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

@bi_rhetorics This checks out.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

@alwaystheself Bc they are having a collective experience, maybe? Maybe people are learning a lot about a country they knew little about three days ago bc that country is getting aggressively invaded, and they are seeking and sharing information? Is it one (albeit feeble) manifestation of care?

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

We opted not to censor our language around our child (and we both cuss like sailors), and the result is that our child polices our language; he's a total square about it.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

We're 3 years into the pandemic, and people are still quote-tweeting N @te S*lver to own him. He's airborne, people. Stop the spread.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

5 months

Bill H-D @billhd : thank you for your shining example of how to be a human. 💔 I hope tomorrow's a good day to ride in heaven. 🚴‍♂️

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

@BryanBanksPhD

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

If a typeface could talk, what a tale it would tell.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

Happy birthday, Simone de Beauvoir! It is also my birthday.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

8 months

This is the best "my book in the wild" flex I have ever seen.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

@mkirschenbaum Humanities discourse 101, avoiding hubris: "first to ever" is totally not a thing worth claiming, at this point. If it is in fact the case, someone else can say it about you after the fact.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

This behemoth of a book comes out today. I am so proud to be included with so many formidable and cool colleagues. (Chapter 27! "Emerging Practices in Scientific Communication Pedagogy") Hats off to the editors: C. Hanganu-Bresch, M. J. Zerbe, G. Cutrufello, S. M. Maci

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

It absolutely blows my mind that everybody, all at once, just changes their style of pants like that. Like some memo got sent out and every single person went out and bought a new (floppy) pair of pants. Every time this happens I am agog.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

4 years

@VonnegutLibrary "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful of what we pretend to be."

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

GRAD SCHOOLS PUT THE RECOMMENDATION DEADLINE IN YOUR EMAIL TO RECOMMENDERS kthanks

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

@KatherineJWu OMG just this Wednesday I held you up in my #scicomm class as an excellent pandemic communicator, and then you (or the editors @TheAtlantic ) go and write this awful headline. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

This project is finally gonna be a book in March 2023. I've never had so much fun working on a thing, and that's because my coauthors are the best people on the planet (and because Jeremy Packer, the project's mastermind, is the best of the best people).

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Has anyone else had their coffee suddenly stop providing them a hit of magnanimous, energetic bliss and start just making them vaguely panicky? Is this a new level of depression? Is there a way to reverse it?

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

okay but seriously why do humans not hibernate

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

telling my kid this is Miranda July

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

@_jrrdy Katherine McKittrick!!

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

6 months

@caseyboyle I was unprepared for how immediately, hilariously funny it would be.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

The kid is so much a read-at-the-table person (like me) that the spouse got him a book holder for it.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Can we just all agree today was Friday? I'm done.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

5 months

I am late with a book review that I said I would do, and hand to god I would've turned it in a month ago if the journal+publisher would've sent me a book and not a pdf.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

Fave ep of my favorite podcast right now: Martin Hägglund @martinhaegglund on @leftofphil . An earnest, serious, contemporary fulcrum for Hegel's philosophy of right. (Some notes/highlights in 🧵) 3rd RT of this episode; I can't help it. ✨It's so good.✨

49 | Coming to Terms with Human Finitude w/ Prof. Martin Hägglund | What's Left of Philosophy

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

Time for the dudes to step up and get their vasectomies. That's still legal, right?

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Do you ever think about how violent of a metaphor the term "branding" is? Every time I hear it, I wince a little bit.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Baby's first blizzard. (It's me. I am the baby.)

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

@JuliusGoat There was a time when you were not a blue check, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember . . . You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

Taking the Bogost bait: What he "whispered" is such a comp lit major thing to whisper. (I can say that because I was one). *I call elitist bullshit.* Comp/rhet exists, in part, to provide students direct, instrumental access to university language politics. Read yr Friere, Ian.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 months

@alexrmoskowitz start looking for a new job offer for leverage why are you even asking this question

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Taking a lesson from the Toronto School (from Innis/McLuhan to Sharma), I think a big, philosophical portion of the trouble with the mid-term shift back to "in-person learning" is that a discourse of space is being applied to a problem of time. A 🧵[thread] 1/11

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

@gdmorejon "Signature Event Context" (because: I teach media studies undergrads)

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

@NateSilver538 That's partly because people who understand how to communicate responsibly about data know that how they write about it can directly affect folks' behavior, and they (the people who understand how to communicate responsibly) don't want to contribute to another spike in cases.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Re-think the knee-jerk response when our students ask for what we call "hand-holding." How can getting them to "figure it out themselves" become a re-introduction to teacher/student co-presence? (h/t to @shannonmattern for showing me this thread)

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

I got a small grant for my writing course to do cool stuff! I got a small grant for my writing course to do cool stuff!

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

@LaurenGallaway Uh, dude, what?! It's Saturday, Nov. 16, 1996. There is ABSOLUTELY an internet (please). Saturday night at 9pm I am in the UNCG library on a public computer, checking my fucking Hotmail, on my way to watch Rebar play all of Ziggy Stardust in somebody's rented house's living room.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

So from here on out, all conference CFPs are just "how can we save the world?" I guess.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

@RachelSchine I have mentioned a connection and/or interest in living in the area for every job I have gotten. One was in my hometown. Are you over-qualified for the job? If so, I think a quick, diplomatic mention of your roots in the location plays in your favor.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

@annehelen @sstohla The fact that it hasn't ended and, apparently, isn't (ever?) going to end. This ad-hoc, constantly anxious, suspicious, unsure, every decision harder, all plans contingent, emergency/survival way of living life. Not a sustainable way to live. No end in sight.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

I adopted a puppy 2 months ago, and in the past 2 months, I have spoken to more people out on the street than I spoke to in the two years prior to puppy.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

Today I am marking an assignment that I changed/improved, and the work I've gotten is SO much better. Taking this as evidence that I am teaching it better. Progress actually happens.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Kid just requested a "book about technology" for bedtime, so I figure it's time to start him on _Discourse Networks_.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

If we "return," we miss the moment to raze and/or redesign. Pedagogy of pause; refuse to return. STOP and ask: what do we do differently in the world we have to make from this point forward? ( @shannonmattern )

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

6 months

"... and a cesspool of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile" jeez

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

"...a political thinker who can’t see the ways that Western structures of power victimize us through our very freedom is missing a great deal—in fact, nearly everything." @adamkotsko on Agamben's pandemic polemic

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

@robmickey avoidenfreude

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

@RobertTalisse you (also whispering): "tastes like lab-grown chicken"

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

For your #Oppenheimer syllabus: don't miss Peter C Van Wyck's _The Highway of the Atom_, a poetic horror history of extraction from the land and the Dene people at the uranium mines at Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories. A terrible lacuna in the history of the atom bomb.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

Showing the 8yo Futurama, and he goes, "so this is, like, the best animation you could get back then, eh?"

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

Sincere tweet: I don't even know what the "right thing" to do is, anymore, in terms of my individual behaviour/relational ethos and SARS-CoV-2 a.k.a. "COVID." I study public science communication, and I can't parse these messages. I have lost the plot.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

1 year

@ThatDangPhil but you can't get a coffee there

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

We. Are. Exhausted. The exhaustion is valid. The most important work we do this coming semester may be ritualistic work. It may be to sit together in the dark, contemplating the burnt-out candle. ( @dowellml )

Matt Dowell

@dowellml

3 years

So lots of exhausted people are going to revise their pedagogies and/or course designs for Spring semester in hopes of getting different results within contexts that are ever changing (case counts) and not changing at all (higher ed’s commitment to the normal)?

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@KateMadd

3 years

The central question of cultural studies.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

3 years

On NYE and NYD, if you are sitting in the dark and trying to imagine how to best work for the world to be otherwise, I recommend @leftofphil episodes 26 and 27, on Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" and @WilliamMParis 's (epistemic!) utopian consciousness.

What's Left of Philosophy

Podcast · [object Object] · In What’s Left of Philosophy Gil Morejón (@gdmorejon), Lillian Cicerchia (@lilcicerch), Owen Glyn-Williams (@oglynwil), and William Paris (@williammparis) discuss philos...

open.spotify.com

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

7 months

RIP to an NC legend, a patron saint of the loud, beautiful, and weird. Everybody cue up some FDJ. Dexter Romweber 1966-2024 via @louderthanwar

Dexter Romweber

The Flat Duo Jets' Dexter Romweber Has DiedWith so many of the big time legends leaving us these days there is an overwhelming feeling...

louderthanwar.com

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 months

Writing teachers are just really really tired, y'all. The past five years ... I am so tired. "Briefly, some things to consider might be ..." 🫠

Diabetic of Enlightenment

@dee_of_e

2 months

i fuckin hate it, thanks!

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@KateMadd

3 years

@DNA_RNA_Uni Where is the hamster in a lab coat that comes with this beaker?

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@KateMadd

3 years

Remember those articles a few months ago that were like, "off-ramp," and "why your tight-assed liberal friends can't let go of COVID restrictions"? Remember those? In, like, the NYT and The Atlantic? (PMS + Capricorn, will probably delete)

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1 year

Just wrote this sentence in a draft. How sad is it? "Perhaps most importantly, [trusting the doctor] presumes a functional healthcare system in which a person has 'a doctor' who follows their medical history carefully enough to understand their body and know what it needs."

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3 years

The courses are all prepped ... IN MY MIND.

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@KateMadd

3 years

I think I need to research and write Something that explores delight.

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@KateMadd

3 years

Trees are great, and most cities have trees, so it should follow that most cities have great trees. Even so, I really do think that Toronto has some exceptionally great trees.

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

I just played pickup soccer with people I've played with for about 18 years, and then I had some beers with those same people. I am 44 years old, and I may have more insight to gain in my life, but at this point I would posit that's as good as it gets. Soccer, then beers.

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@KateMadd

3 years

Wow this is getting shared quite a bit. I recommend further reading, the work of @ridolfoj @lndgrn and @billhd :

PraxisWiki | PraxisWiki:_:PaperMills

PraxisWiki

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Kate M Maddalena

@KateMadd

2 years

If you teach #techcomm #scicomm and/or #sciwri , be sure to show your classes the ALT text on this image as a UX/UI example.

NASA Webb Telescope

@NASAWebb

2 years

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse :

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I love you. I do. But if you say "Generative AI" to me again, I promise I will vomit on you.

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