@ghamjoon
@AlexUsherHESA
It literally takes 20 minutes to melt! I’m not saying it isn’t hot, but an ice cream taking 20 minutes to melt in direct sun seems…normal?
@tylerpgarrett
Hey. This sucks. I don’t know what your project is or what methods you plan to use, but there are poli sci departments in the US and elsewhere that don’t fetishize advanced math as the only way to do good work, and take transfer students. Like mine. Happy to give advice if I can.
I had a Zoom call this morning with my colleagues at
@uOttawa
who are engaged in Canada’s evacuation of
#Afghanistan
and resettlement of Afghan
#refugees
. Spoilers: Canadian policy looks better on paper than it does in practice. A 🧵: 1/18
@Benaclejames
@TheFoxipso
Something I noticed - the person listening made a “yes” sign at a couple points while the other person was speaking, the way I would say “uh-huh” or “yep” while listening to someone. It makes total sense, I’ve just never noticed it before!
The publisher of our book Advocating for
#Palestine
in Canada (
@fernpub
) has generously made it free for online reading. It's got compelling chapters from activists and scholars. Whether you're new to Palestine activism or an old hand, check it out.
we need an american girl doll who went to Jordan for study abroad, learned Arabic at college, went back and taught English in Cairo, got her PhD in Middle East studies, joined an anti-terrorism think tank that pushed for war, and then transitioned into ME expert at the CIA.
@AboodMalfarra
Thank you! Your work looks awesome. My research team has some video production work that needs doing from footage we already recorded - I need to reach out to the rest of the team and figure out the logistics. Is it best to contact you by Twitter or email?
Today in feeling sad and hopeless: one of my grad school acquaintances is Israeli, and wrote their dissertation on (what I interpreted as) an anti-occupation topic. And now, they are posting photos of victims of the Hamas attack with "Hamas = ISIS."
@Meredith_Seeley
@Momademia
@AcademicChatter
In my experience: babies: easy. Toddlers: avoid at all cost. 4-6: depends on personality. 7-10: book or tablet during panel, let them score free merch in the book exhibit. Tween/teen: they like the attention they get for asking smart questions (at least mine does).
I understand that they're experiencing a lot emotionally right now. But to see someone who I know has thought critically about power and violence choose to use a frame currently being used to justify immense violence against civilians. I'm sad. And I don't think it bodes well.
The work of studying politics means learning how to harden one's heart just enough in order to be able to understand how a tragedy is working. The part we forget sometimes is how to soften it again.
Shout out to
@dadakim
and Jeremy Horowitz for writing an abstract so clear, I can use it to have undergrads identify research question, causality, logic, data type, & paradigm without having to look at the actual article. (The whole article is good too.)
Forcing any instructor to give up intellectual rights to their own work undermines academic freedom and disrespects the labour of teaching. (And I say this as an
#oer
advocate.)
@cupe4600
workers deserve better pay and respect for their intellectual creativity from
@Carleton_U
Chief among the issues at stake in the
@cupe4600
strike is intellectual property.
@Carleton_
is forcing contract instructors to give up the rights to their own designed course materials. This is a line in the sand. It will affect full time faculty one day too. You betcha.
@AlexUsherHESA
I have been in search committee convos where a NorthAm PhD was preferred to a UK PhD because of coursework, which means the student has had a broader exposure to different methods, subfields, etc.
All my solidarity with poet
@monakareem
. She traveled to Kuwait to visit her family, who are Bidoon & unable to travel to see her elsewhere. Mona was stopped at the airport & threatened with deportation.
@USEmbassyQ8
, what are you doing to support this US citizen?
#مني_كريم
🎉 ADVOCATING FOR PALESTINE IN CANADA is now available from
@fernpub
! I co-edited this volume, which brings together chapters from activists & scholars on the challenges of Palestine activism in Canada. Get your copy:
@ajnabieh
@jeremywildeman
@CCEFJCWS
@BlueSpaceCanary
@ManishEarth
It really feels like this takes the normal, everyday problem that latin-language-writers can't figure out what's going on with Arabic and takes it to the next level.
@JZPhilosophy
As someone who manages an overwhelming sprawling project that has a million pieces and a ton of stakeholders and giant goals, I agree..but/and I get frustrated when people have resources and don't either build supportive infrastructure or adequately support staff/community.
@sadika_bidushy
@PhDVoice
@AcademicChatter
I just came back from a semester of leave (only possible because I'm faculty and got paid) and I want to echo what others have said: you have to find a way to stop entirely for a period of time. Give yourself room to breathe and tend to everything that isn't your work.
Solidarity with the
@uOttawa
students standing up for real anti-racist action. We don’t need another committee: we need dedicated staff, budget lines, and to completely reform campus security. Now.
#uracism
@ErikSherman
@cigarcitypro
@jonathanbfine
It would shock me 0% to hear that you have to read German to be an Egyptologist, based on my three years of being the student assistant in an ancient Near East studies department in my youth.
My mother doesn’t follow me on Twitter, so I can brag to you that I finished a piece of embroidery I started in 2019 today, which will get framed and be her Christmas gift.
Just finished
@ryka_aoki
‘s Light from Uncommon Stars, which, in addition to being a soulwarming book (pun only slightly intended) is also an amazing example of what can happen if you take six genres, put them in a hydraulic press, and use them for good.
When doing fieldwork, you always have a favorite place to go after a good interview. In Ramallah, it’s La Vie. In Beirut,
@darbistro
. In Hintonburg,
@breadbyus
.
I’m halfway through a move, it’s the second week of the semester, I made mistakes in like 8 students’ submitted final grades, and my wife and I woke up with COVID.
Ok, as someone who studies protest and everyday politics AND has Extremely Online children I feel like I have ten new research questions as a result of this tweet.
Honored to receive this, and glad to use it as a reason to advocate for making your research results accessible and to using and creating
#oer
across the curriculum.
@christinenowik
Oh, this is genius. I currently use the “just email me and we’ll work it out” option but this might be faster. And I didn’t know you could add your own buttons!
@autism_songs
@qaxaawut
Speaking as a settler - yes, we do need it. It's an excellent entry point (and super well-written). But it's not enough, which raises a really important challenge to those of us who are teaching or making knowledge to not stop there!
I'm looking for partner classes outside Canada for my undergrad course next semester. Want your students to get to collaborate with Canadian and Brazilian students to study social movements? Get in touch! 1/?
Apparently my teen only processed the words "train derailment" "Palestine" and "Ohio" and somehow thought that Ohio was involved in derailing a train in...Palestine. Not East Palestine, Ohio. The country Palestine. "I was sure Ohio was up to some shady stuff in the Middle East."
I’m chairing a thesis defense in the economics department, and let me tell you, I understood what was going on more when I chaired a defense in the chemistry department.
Proud of my colleagues in
@psuossuo
for standing up for each other and going on strike this morning. Support staff is crucial to the function of
@uOttawa
and deserve a better contract. I hope the admin comes back to the table with a real offer ASAP.
#FairDealNow4PSUO
@_alyssacsmith
In Canada, unionized associate professor in the social sciences: C$138,000. My annual raise will be about $2900, and I'll get a double raise the year I make full professor.
Since it’s about to become obvious I’m not teaching, I might as well say it explicitly: I’m on sick leave for a while, hopefully just a couple months. I’m having a lot of feelings about this, but it’s very necessary.
This weekend I spent eight hours at a Nordic spa and had to actively fight not to be anxious and worried about literally everything while resting. Brains are fucking dumb.
@rosalieru6io
I start my grad students with Yanow and Schwartz-Shea's Interpretive Research Design. If you're only going to read one chapter, the one on trustworthiness is a banger. Tim Pachirat's Among Wolves is a book about interpretive ethnography in the form of a play, fun to read.
If your mom shouts "REPRODUCTIVE LABOUR IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY UNIT!!!" when you refuse to come get your clean laundry, you might be being raised by a feminist political scientist.
I received my award back in November - here I am hosting librarians for tea on my porch! But come next Thursday to learn more about what makes
#oer
#openscholarship
so exciting.
Join us virtually on Thursday, January 27 at 2 p.m. to celebrate the work of Emily Regan Wills (
@ajnabieh
), recipient of the 2021 Open Scholarship Award! 🌟
Details here 👉
Eight years ago today I won the lottery and was offered a tenure-track position at
@uOttawaPoli
. It transformed my life, and allows me to do work I care about, support others doing work they care about, & earn a living wage. It’s a great gig, and I’m unironically blessed. (1/2)
My very first “grown up party,” my Mexican bestie looked around approvingly at the quantity of food and said “Good, I was worried this was going to be a white people party.”
I have an overdue task that was stressing me beyond all rational analysis, so I’m bribing myself with what
@PattiTLenard
once described as “one of the ten best things about Ottawa” - the Pure Kitchen cauliflower wings. (Large, half and half, side of crispy tofu.)
Yesterday was my birthday. Behold my dessert progression: coconut whipped cream with fresh strawberries and Valerhona chocolate;
@TheMerryDairy
vegan gluten free mint chocolate chip ice cream cake.
I was not, as they say, spoiled for choice when it came to permanent academic jobs, but if I had been, I would have chosen
@UOttawaPoliSci
for two reasons: 1) the ability to speak French* every day 2) the communal espresso machine.
Ego-boost moment: during office hours today, one of my students (who is in their second year of all-zoom-university) asked me if I had been a teacher before I became a professor, because my teaching style is so different and more helpful than what they’ve experienced.
Well, apparently the SSHRC post-doc application converted the name of the person who uploaded the institutional commitment letter from 'Peter' into... "To fart." Reviewers of Committee 4, enjoy that one.
I’m on this search committee - if you are a scholar of racism or settler colonialism in Canada and speak nonzero French, apply to come work with us. My DMs are open for questions.
Poste menant à la permanence: Professeur.e. adjoint.e. ou agrégé.e., Colonialisme, indigénéité, race et/ou anti-racisme au Canada. Études politiques + études sociologiques et anthropologiques. Ouvert aux candidat.e.s dans "une discipline pertinente" :
@LizWFab
Much support. It's OK to push back on misgendering when you have the energy (and to not when you don't). "Looking like a woman" is a really complex feeling for me (I don't mind my body, but I mind that my body is interpreted a certain way) and it takes a toll.
1) Trans Day of Snack is a great idea, go buy someone a coffee 2) is anyone organizing one in Canada, for those of us who don’t have Venmo and do have e-transfer?
Hellooooo babies, our 2023
#TransDayofSnack
campaign is now live! This year, we are focusing on trans people living in 26 states most impacted by anti-trans legislation. If that’s you, we want to buy you a snack today! Sign up and learn more at 💕🧁
What could we be doing instead? Providing visas and a way out for those at risk who are still inside Afghanistan, without them needing to get to a border, not just in the next day but in days and weeks to come. This is not going to be a short-term problem. 12/18
@kirbyconrod
Realized that I was absolutely distorting the survey data through my unconscious reproduction of the all dogs are male/all cats are female binary
Oh good! One of the edited-volume chapters I barely managed to write over the summer of 2020, clinging to sanity by my thumb nails, appears like it will get published. Is it any good? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Loving
@alwaystheself
’s comments in a roundtable on the power of “mesearch” - calling out much of traditional soc (incl Weber!) as based in lived experience, as well as the fraught room made for BIPOC scholars to study groups they belong to (and not to do other work).
#ASA2023
All four of us in my household have COVID. First time for the kids, second time for my wife and me. If you need me, I’ll be under a blanket for the next week.
Sending an email to students with missing work to let them know that it’s okay, they can fill in that hole & still have a route to passing. My heart hurts. This semester has been brutal for me; I’m hoping extending compassion helps make it less brutal for them.
@sadika_bidushy
@PhDVoice
@AcademicChatter
If your funding/etc doesn't allow for you to take a full leave of absence: find smaller units of time where you can turn all the way off. Can you make January a month of absolutely nothing? If that's too much, what about just a week?
@joshraclaw
I am always completely in love with how we use word order to make things bilingual: the library website for the Ottawa Public library is biblioottawalibrary, or the signs say Pont Champlain Bridge, or I got an email w/subject line Festival de Tacos Festival.
One of my students has been told their minor children will be deported, despite both parents having legal status in Canada. This is, in a word, bullshit. If you've got some money to chip in towards legal bills,
@ryankatzrosene
is passing the hat.
I would be forever grateful if you would make a small contribution and help SHARE THIS LINK! This student needs our help, they are facing a very stressful situation and the children risk being separated from their parents.
@devon_cantwell
Most straightforward place to start is the TRC reports: After that it depends which direction you want to go. My reading has been 50% “things related to my research and teaching” & 50% “fiction that the library recommended during Indigeous People’s Month”
Resettling 20K refugees from among those 2.5 million is great! But there is no increase in Canada’s annual resettlement targets - meaning these people will take the place of 20K other refugees who might have been resettled. 5/18
I just came from a beautiful memorial service for someone who my community lost suddenly and too soon. Community means sharing joy, but also profound grief. Rest well, Kimani.
First, the commitment to resettling 20,000
#Afghan
#refugees
: it looks nice! But that number is NOT a commitment to evacuating 20,000 Afghan human rights defenders, feminists, and scholars who are directly threatened by the Taliban. 2/18
Three adults in my house right now: I'm the most recovered from the round of COVID, but since my mom is still self-isolating the kids are still home from school. Trying to work right now is...something.
So even more than your average workaholic academic, I’m struggling with learning to rest and heal. Thanks to all my friends and colleagues in
@UOttawaPoliSci
and
@uOttawaCMIC
for keeping the lights on while I practice.
@tressiemcphd
Every time I watch an episode with ham handed “someday we will overcome racism” and “homosexuality may be illegal but let’s be cool about it” message I want to write a whole article on Canadian intergenerational smugness.
So I've been behind the ball in advertising this - but tomorrow, my student Ryan and I are giving a presentation on our key findings on how community-based progressive funders in the global South are changing monitoring and evaluation processes. Come join the conversation!
A generation of small-scale community-based funders are changing the way development happens.
Our May colloquium with
@ajnabieh
& Ryan Miller reports on their collaboration with the Daila Association to find a transformative approach to change.
Sign-up:
It's funny, if you had asked me eighteen years ago if I'd be supervising PhD students working on LGBT politics globally, I'd say yes; if you'd asked me eight years ago, I'd have said no. Anyway, the answer is yes, two of 'em.