Melanie @melaniesage Twitter profile

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@melaniesage

2 months

My favorite moment or the night. The Walz kids adore their dad @Tim_Walz .

Brennan Murphy

@brenonade

2 months

Tim Walz's kids tear up: "That's my dad!"

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@melaniesage

3 years

@jorowags I had students create an infographic based on a research paper after a topic of interest. After peer review they sent to authors for feedback. Authors asked permission to use & were quite enthusiastic.

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@melaniesage

7 years

@realDonaldTrump Going down- these are anti trump votes.

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@melaniesage

5 years

@PreetBharara Spoken like someone who has never had garlic cheese Naan.

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@melaniesage

4 years

@NYGovCuomo We're getting good at ordering in, meeting with masks on outdoors, shopping delivery. Businesses are adapting. Those who are vaccinated will start going out more and that will be the assessment of need. No cost is higher than our lives.

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@melaniesage

3 years

@edgykristina Like all early 90s teens, we met at the mall. We were 16. I worked at the mug cart, him Spencer Gifts. Been together 30 years, both professors now.

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@melaniesage

2 months

@floaker55 @thecurvyjones @piper4missouri At my local place if you have a morning abortion and then return again after 4pm you get half off.

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@melaniesage

2 years

Hi! Here's a Twitter post that's been making the rounds- I am leaving academia for industry! My new job is at Meta/Facebook in Integrity, trust and safety. 🧵(thread)

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@melaniesage

2 years

@AlanDettlaff @UH_SocialWork Wow, so much for "academic freedom"- anyone who says universities are not businesses first is missing the big picture. Social workers need to pay attention to the many ways capitalist ideals inform administrative choices in academia.

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@melaniesage

5 years

Hi social workers/social work academics! What's one paper that you think EVERY social worker should read during their MSW program? What's a paper that's stuck with you throughout your social work career? #workingonmysyllabus

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@melaniesage

6 years

The @chronicle writers suggest posting a pic from freshman year. It's not all dorm rooms and 4-years. I was 18 in 1993, juggling community college & new mom life. Whatever your #FreshmanYear2018 looks like, find your supports & keep eyes on your goals. #PhD #backtoschool

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@melaniesage

5 years

@chronicle What a terrible idea- compare emergency online learning under major international pandemic & faculty w/no prior exp under pass/fail grading, to regular instruction under ideal circumstances? Oh thank goodness this solves the self-selection problem!

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@melaniesage

4 years

MD on the radio this morning: "there's an emerging area called lifestyle medicine that takes into account behaviors, triggers, and environment." So... How much are doctors gonna get paid to discover social work and prescribe sw interventions?? 😂

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@melaniesage

4 years

How are you doing today? Also, wouldn't this be a great mental health check-in in primary care, similar to the little faces?

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@melaniesage

4 years

I started a store for social work-related gifts. Wanna see my soft launch? Please let me know if you find any spelling errors or other problems! Have any great product ideas? Also, if you want a 10% discount code DM me! 💙💚🧡💛💜

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@melaniesage

2 years

Packing up my academic office today. My journey: pregnant teen>community college> regional universities>msw>child welfare worker> clinician>PhD> faculty at state school> faculty at R1>equity researcher at Facebook. It’s ok if your path isn’t straight. Keep going.

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@melaniesage

4 years

I love the profession of social work. We bring value to society. We ask hard questions. We talk about things nobody else wants to. We interrogate our methods. We stand up for vulnerable people. My colleagues are smart, thoughtful, & passionate. #socialwork #JustSaying

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@melaniesage

6 years

@TIME Your headline is inaccurate. This is @SpeakerPelosi articulately explaining the way in which she and others were put at risk by @POTUS .

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@melaniesage

4 years

When I applied to a PhD program in #socialwork I had never had a relationship w/anyone w/a PhD. #impostersyndrome hits hard. It kicks in regularly. We can do hard things. We can change generational trajectories. Keep going. #FirstGenPhD #academictwitter

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@melaniesage

5 years

@jon_bl_martin @aphillippy @toktalks I see a new business model here. I would also pay for a handwritten positive review of my dissertation. 😅

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@melaniesage

1 year

Last year I left a tt social work faculty position at an R1 to work as a UXR in social impact & equity @Meta . I got laid off Wed. Would I do it again? Yep, here's why.

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@melaniesage

4 years

@ukleghoul Lots of well published jerks, ask him for his teaching evals. ☺️

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@melaniesage

4 years

I just submitted a "revise and resubmit" and I went over every comment five-billionty times and it was super stressful and now it is out of my hands so I am eating cheesecake. #AcademicChatter

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@melaniesage

4 years

Hi, we made a thing! Check out this paper about using Twitter to build Professional Collaboration Networks! Many thanks to #UBDSW1 for being our first model group. #edtech #AcademicChatter #ImpSci

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@melaniesage

5 years

Check out my article: A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19 #socialwork #swtech

A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19

Social workers are often unsung heroes, and that’s often ok with them. They go about their work in the backgrounds of organizations that are meant to do other things: in hospitals that are meant to...

www.linkedin.com

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@melaniesage

7 years

@lilscud1974 @zerotallrnc4bs @mockhiavelli @BillOReilly I am also here in defense of shawarma. It's never had cause to pay out millions for its behavior.

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@melaniesage

5 years

This is finally public- we've been awarded a grant by @NSF and @amazon to explore machine learning and fair data use to improve service delivery in #fostercare ! Very exciting project led by @_kenny_joseph in the @UBCommunity computer science program!

UB receives $800,000 NSF/Amazon grant to improve AI fairness in foster care

Researchers will work toward developing a computational approach for delivering preventive services.

www.buffalo.edu

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@melaniesage

6 years

Basic income. Free higher ed. Universal health care. Full funding for quality child well-being programs, including family support, child protection, foster care, drug treatment, mental health care, housing, healthy community spaces.

Tamara Winter

@_TamaraWinter

6 years

What’s your public policy moonshot?

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@melaniesage

4 years

I wrote this thing about the magic of social workers, and in the last 2 weeks, 98,604 people have read it on LinkedIn. I hope this means some social workers feel a little more seen and some non-social workers understand the heart of our work a little bit better. ❤️ #socialwork

NCWWI

@NCWWI

4 years

Both heart-wrenching and heart-warming at the same time, and a great reminder of all that is special about #socialwork : (thank you @melaniesage ) #childwelfare #fostercare #CWworkforce

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4 years

I hope Ashley Biden, MSW, has a place in the new White House- she can bring actual policy chops & training/experience in social justice. Move over @IvankaTrump , we're done with the Trump brand of chaos for ratings.

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@melaniesage

5 years

@r_heisman @Joe_Fru Short article: how to balance fatherhood and stem? Be married to a woman.

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@melaniesage

2 years

@academic_exit I thought that the weight would finally lift after getting the next big grant/finishing the big grant/getting enough papers.. there’s always another hill, it’s never enough

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@melaniesage

4 years

Hi social work colleagues who are teaching online! Faculty/staff at @ubssw have created 24(!) videos about best practices for distance teaching. Watch me all awkward on camera in videos 21-24. All videos are short watches- some under a min! #swtech

Teaching from a distance

www.youtube.com

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@melaniesage

4 years

I like to start my social work classes with a grounding technique, something that is transferable to use in practice. I found this nice list of 30 grounding exercises today:

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@melaniesage

2 years

Congrats to my awesome colleagues on this honor! These co-authors are some of my favorite humans and I love to work with them. One of the co-authors was an MSW student! Read the paper here:

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@melaniesage

4 years

I am currently having success recruiting youth for a survey via Instagram ads & wanted to share- it's fairly inexpensive, about 50 cents a survey. Really excited- long survey (40 min) and good results. Lmk if you have questions. #swtech #academictwitter #AcademicChatter

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@melaniesage

4 years

@DrJulietteM OMG yes please, I'm a hot mess right now. Covid, politics, summer, where am I even supposed to be besides technically not working but also working all the time?

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@melaniesage

3 years

Thinking about creating a blog of reviews of things academics like. Potential reviews: sleeping aids, wine glasses, coffee machines, houseplants, dog leashes, laptop bags, yoga mats. What other completely stereotypically obnoxious things would be on the list? @AcademicChatter

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@melaniesage

2 months

@BDeMayo @KamalaHQ No values, such projection. Wonder if he was acting this way because his wife wasn't there to help him control his anger, which he says he needs in his book, due to his unresolved childhood trauma. He needs professional help.

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@melaniesage

4 years

My urging to all my social work friends in 2021. Take care of you so you don't lose the passion and energy for the work to be done. #SocialWorkChatter #MessageToSelf

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@melaniesage

4 years

mood: listening to my husband (also a social work professor) lecturing about healthy communication and relationship skills and thinking about how to use this against him the next time he is difficult.

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@melaniesage

7 years

Updated my office bulletin today. "We rise by lifting others." Love to my mentors, friends, & others spreading love in spite of and because of the hard work we do. ❤️ #academickindess

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@melaniesage

2 years

@DrFredGrady Called the radio station to request a song, had my tape recorder on standby.

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@melaniesage

3 years

@MaraLeighhhh @BASWRachel @venmo4feet with a required and recommended readings list? 😅

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@melaniesage

4 years

It's our wedding anniversary. 25 years of marriage. How? Forgiveness. Patience. Love love love. Did I say forgiveness? Also, @socialworksage is a good human. This is important. We are a good team. And we gotta give the best we can. (We are old, yeah?? So weird.)

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@melaniesage

5 years

Is it OK for me to announce @socialworksage just successfully defended his dissertation or should I let him tell you? ❤️❤️❤️🔥

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@melaniesage

4 years

Dear parents of college kids: Some online courses are amazing & some in-person classes are crap. (& teachers who care about the design/don't care are likely to be similarly effective in either space).

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@melaniesage

6 years

I'm super excited to keynote the @SWDEConference in a few weeks w great colleagues @laurelhitchcock & @njsmyth ! Imagine a world where social workers are innovators with technology. Let's figure out how to make it so. Will you be there? #swtech #weteachwithtech #socialwork

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@melaniesage

3 years

I'm excited to join the editorial board of the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal in my role as having expertise re: technology w/this population. The feedback is quick (110 days to full acceptance) and impact factor good for our field (1.864).

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal addresses current issues in the field of social work drawn from theory, direct practice, research, and social ...

link.springer.com

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@melaniesage

4 years

I had a physical today and looked at my bill- $25 for administration of the phq-9. Which I filled out on a clipboard w/several "sometimes" responses. Not one person asked me about it or said "how are you" during my visit. Our "Healthcare" system is dumb.

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@melaniesage

5 years

Social workers have things to say! Here's a list of 31 (!!) #podcasts hosted by social workers, on topics from #mentalhealth to #decolinization .

Social Work Related Podcasts

docs.google.com

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@melaniesage

4 years

I am happy to announce the launch of @UBiHeartTech , an Institute of the Buffalo Center for Social Research at @UBSSW , directed by me & @laurelhitchcock . Our mission is to research & disseminate healthy uses of tech for good. Please follow & share! #swtech #socialwork

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@melaniesage

5 years

If I die of Covid19, Hurl my limp cold body at the White House steps, Tell them I was one of the deserving ones with health insurance and protective factors. Remind them that my work was about family engagement,

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@melaniesage

5 years

Hi! It's my birthday (1am) and the first thing I did on this birthday was submit an article that I am excited about. Yay! #swtech #nerdlife

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@melaniesage

5 years

Any of my colleagues know students applying for social work PhD programs? Tell them to check out #ubssw , an R1- deadline soon- I am looking for a research assistant, fully funded, w child welfare exp to work on big data tech ethics issues & use of predictive analytics. DM me!

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@melaniesage

3 years

We wrote a book! That’s kinda cool, right? It’s 700 pages and we give you tips to teach social work online, or with tech, in a good way. Nobody else taught you to do that, did they? But here we are, doing the thing. Make it work for you! It’s good, I promise!

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@laurelhitchcock

6 years

Want to learn more about teaching with technology in #SocWorkEd ? Check out the book I wrote with @melaniesage & @njsmyth - Teaching #SocialWork with Digital Technology: #WeTeachwithTech @CSocialWorkEd

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7 years

This year at #sswr2018 I have had great discussions with #socialwork colleagues about gratitude for mentors, about how we lift each other up, developing intention in #academickindess , building positive culture. Let's do this work together.

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@melaniesage

2 years

I survived the Meta layoffs, but we lost many talented and senior people. Decisions were not based on performance and I got lucky. Mood is mix of frustration, gratitude, and survivors guilt. Still important work to do. #swtech #uxr

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@melaniesage

6 years

We wrote a book, Teaching Social Work with Digital Technology. You can buy it here for $58.

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@melaniesage

4 years

Working on my syllabus at the lake. Do you think there will come a time soon in which academics who teach online will be able to live wherever they want, ie no physical campus presence? Will covid help propel us into this possible future of work? Is campus vital to your success?

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@melaniesage

5 years

Are you considering a PhD in Social Work? I am looking for a student interested in applied machine learning & fairness issues in social work & #childwelfare . Funded tuition & stipend. Campus program Buffalo, NY. Deadline Feb 3. share!

PhD in Social Welfare

The PhD in social welfare program prepares social workers to conduct research in social issues and become agents of change for practice, policy and education.

socialwork.buffalo.edu

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@melaniesage

5 years

Social workers! Last week I asked what all SW MSW students should read/what stuck w/you. This is what you said.: Now, go add comments- why'd you love this article? Add full text link? Did I miss anything? Do you have something else? Please R/T

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@melaniesage

3 years

Every time a deadline rolls around I scold myself for agreeing to write something, but then it comes out in print and I forget that part. Pretty cool to be part of our profession’s desk reference. (Having babies is like that too, right??) #socialwork #AcademicChatter

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@melaniesage

6 years

Although our book won't quite be ready for APM 🙁, CSWE Press will take pre-orders with free shipping, and we hope the price point (expected about $60) will make you happy. 700 pages! Wowza! Nice review from @pdxssw Dean Laura Burney Nissan! Much 💜 to our #swtech contributors!

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@melaniesage

6 years

My husband @socialworksage is booking us plane tickets for his dissertation defense right now. It’s next month. We’ve come a long way, baby. #1991vibes

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@melaniesage

6 years

I did #childwelfare #socialwork in 3 states. Now I teach child welfare workers. When you have to remove kids: Compassion, safety, reunification, #trauma -informed care, prioritize family & kin placements, safe foster homes, document everything. @DHSgov would fail my class.

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@melaniesage

4 years

Hi, this is my marriage, we are a whole mess. #socialworkchatter #loveislove

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@melaniesage

5 years

@timpastoor @EmreAlper_ @isosteph

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@melaniesage

4 years

@LAPD_unreal It took me like three minutes to figure out whether this was satire. The lines are so blurry lately.

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@melaniesage

5 years

Wow, 6-trillion dollar stimulation. This should absolutely include forgiveness of publically held student loan debt, which is only 1.5 trillion. Stimulate if you gonna stimulate. #SWcovid19

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@melaniesage

4 years

We want to buy a cup of coffee for social workers who are supporting clients during (:gestures broadly:) all this. I will send $5 Starbucks GC every week (at least). Instructions to be on the coffee list (& to chip in to the coffee fund) here:

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@melaniesage

4 years

@Abebab It frustrates me that designers think they can solve social and organizational problems through a few convos with a few people. Social workers spend their careers/get six yr degrees in this. Empathy is not a "step" in a process.

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@melaniesage

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@crunkilton22 @elonmusk The real reason Elon spent so much money on Twitter was clearly to influence American politics. What's the motivatiom? It's pretty troubling to have a billionaire trying to sway votes daily on a platform where he controls the algorithm.

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@melaniesage

4 years

@nasw @realDonaldTrump A social worker in a police department will not be able to change the org culture- they will either be oppressed or adapt. It would take critical mass (defunding & routing $ to sw) for sw to respond ethically to "police" calls re: homelessness, MH, etc. Flip the system.

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@melaniesage

4 years

Added Dr to my Twitter title today in honor of an old white man who was given an academic job with a bachelor's degree (privilege much?) and has a POV about how easy a PhD is, and whether it's worth the traditional academic title when a woman earns it.

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@daniela_witten

4 years

Must be nice to be able to evaluate the worth of any research contribution, without having any relevant expertise, based entirely on dissertation title

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6 years

OMG OMG OMG @DrNJonesTSU the moment the email came that Dr Jones earned promotion and tenure at @TarletonState . We are so excited!! #swtech #socialwork #swde2019

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@melaniesage

5 years

My mom died when I was getting my PhD. I cleaned out her desk and found a file of printed papers I wrote for class that I had emailed her. ❤️ #moms

Amanda Aykanian, PhD

@aykanian

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My mom keeps the title of my dissertation in her phone so she can tell people who ask what I’m studying. #phdlife #academictwitter

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@Partici_Nation @ConservBlue2020 @realDonaldTrump Yes technically, Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary, from Mexican Catholicism. Her bday is Dec 12z Trump is not religious, def not Catholic. He’s a big phony.

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@melaniesage

6 years

Check out just-released @SocialWorkToday mag featuring an article about assessing client tech use written by @DrNJonesTSU & @laurelhitchcock , also an article by me and @monaca_eaton on how to evaluate apps for use with clients! #swtech in the house! Free:

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@melaniesage

4 years

Today I have 5,000 followers! Not that I am counting, but I am grateful to have you all in my Twitter community, sharing experience, humor, learning, resources. Drop your fave "distant friends" gif below. #OnlineFriends #SocialWork #PCN

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@melaniesage

4 years

Do you care about anti-racist social work & #childwelfare ? Get free tix to @UH_SocialWork Racial Justice Symposium. Our team presents on #ICWA & ground-up child welfare system change to promote accountability in disproportionality 1/29/21. #SSWR2021

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@melaniesage

4 years

In today's episode of Academic Flailing, I greeted our incoming doc students during orientation with a ppt slide header in which I had incompletely replaced the word Share with Start, resulting in a header that indicated we would Shart. Welcome new students! 😂 #HappyFriday

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@melaniesage

5 years

Fun mail on the first day of the semester... friends, sometimes the writing does make it to print! And I will write with @laurelhitchcock & @becky_anthony any time! #swtech #ubssw

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@melaniesage

4 years

I have really good ideas with high-impact potential related to social work practice, but I am kind of a shitty academic writer, tbh. I've taken workshops on productivity & time mgt, but my real problems are structure, flow, academic language, organization. Submit best tips here.

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@melaniesage

4 years

My niece apologizes to Santa for her late letter. #2020isShit

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@melaniesage

6 years

We've been married 23 years today: together since we were 16 years old! And now we #swtech together too!

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@melaniesage

3 years

Great time with great friends last weekend- we worked and played hard and got some clarity about what we want for ourselves. I hope you all have friends that do that with you. 💕

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@melaniesage

7 years

@DarLovesAmerica @realDonaldTrump Who will be the last standing Trump supporter? @God was out a long time ago.

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@melaniesage

4 years

This is when I saw our book in print for the first time ever! Credit @PatShellySSW who got it 1st! It's so exciting to be able to say "I wrote a book." I got a commission check this weekend, people bought the book! 💗 Love to the best coauthors @laurelhitchcock @njsmyth .

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@melaniesage

2 years

@jn_pro @neuroeden @C_Pley @DrNoMxMo No, in that student-teacher /advisee relationships are not professional. There’s a power differential. One should not express it. It should be clear to students that it is inappropriate for them to express it. But university policies are often unclear bc of “we’re adults” talk.

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@melaniesage

4 years

Today I received my order of slip-on sketchers, three more pair of black leggings, & a t-shirt with a puppy on it. Now I am kicking back with a bottle of rosé waiting for my pizza to arrive, so that's how my pandemic is going. Happy Friday! How are my peeps? #RollCall

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@melaniesage

3 years

Hi! Tomorrow morn I present to l new DSW students about why I am gonna teach them to use Twitter and how it will help them in their social work practice & research. Testimonials & retweets please! Why do you follow me? Have we met? Why do you tweet? #socialworktwitter #swtech

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@melaniesage

3 years

@BogdanN1980 @jorowags We wrote it up as an article here (also posted on ResearchGate if you are paywalled). Blog post w/student perspective @DrNPJones @laurelhitchcock

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@melaniesage

5 years

My fellow faculty, if you are teaching tomorrow, one small thing you can do is a Territorial Land Acknowledgement- educate yourself on the original residents of land your school is on, let students know that indigenous people still live on these lands. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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@melaniesage

2 years

@DrBlackDeer I can’t believe people have to be told this. Thanks for telling them though.

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@melaniesage

3 years

The @UBSSW has a new Dean!

Alford named dean of School of Social Work

The professor of social work and chief diversity and inclusion officer at Syracuse University will join UB on Aug. 15.

www.buffalo.edu

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@melaniesage

4 years

Wow. This is a public health emergency. #GunControlNow #CommonSenseGunLaws

CJ Werleman

@cjwerleman

4 years

5 million Americans purchased a gun for the first time in 2020. Experts warn of a coming spike in gun homicides, mass shootings, school shootings, suicides, and accidental death. My latest for @BylineTimes

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@melaniesage

2 years

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