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Sarah Osment

1 year

Hi all: my fall editorial calendar is booked up but I'm currently taking clients for indexing and developmental editing for winter 2024. I don't yet have a website so I thought I'd do a brief thread with some recent titles I've worked on:

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

6 years

today i asked my class to come up with a pair of terms that share a denotative meaning but whose connotative meanings differ and one student offered BUTT DIAL and BOOTY CALL anyway that student's the professor now

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Sarah Osment

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3 years

I thought I paid off my student loans in Feb 2020 but apparently there was a 2 cent balance. I stopped receiving bills so I thought I was in the clear. Today I received a bill for $38.62, the interest that had accrued on two cents. Cancel student loan debt already ffs.

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Sarah Osment

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3 years

3 year anniversary of my worst day on twitter dot com

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 months

Half of my paycheck goes to rent, and I vacuum my entire apartment every day from the same electrical outlet. I have a PhD and work at one of the richest schools in the world.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 months

unfortunately this city is called graduate school and your sworn enemies also live there

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They should invent a city where u and all ur friends live in at the same time

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

@fuji160s imagine having a savings account lol

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

6 months

incredible that, within mere hours, we witnessed brutal assault by the NYPD on students because of "outside agitators" while the LAPD stood by as they witnessed brutal assault on students by outside agitators

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

All 5 New College professors going up for tenure were denied today, despite approval from the college's faculty and previous administration. Every academic should be paying attention to what's happening there, now. Florida is very likely your future.

DeSantis-backed New College board scraps 5 professors tenure

The New College of Florida trustees now dominated by conservatives appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis voted Wednesday to deny tenure to five professors, overriding concerns by faculty and students that...

apnews.com

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

8 months

today I learned that Edward Said wore a bullet proof vest when he gave talks at The University of Chicago

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

6 years

also, free title for a course on media and sexuality

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

6 months

what's the value of having tenure if you can't even defend your own peacefully protesting students? how will you look them in the eye when they return to the classroom?

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

@tgriffithspsu I'd sooner become The Joker than start a podcast

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 months

my union lawyer liked this 🩵

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 month

my phone just reminded me of the raccoon that used to watch me write my dissertation, thank you phone

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

5 months

you think you’ve seen every horror imaginable and then suddenly your tl is full of videos of burned, beheaded babies in Rafah

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 years

no offense but an academic-only social media platform sounds like a fucking nightmare

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 months

legitimately one of the worst emails I've ever received

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

4 years

how to mourn an entire generation of scholars lost to austerity

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

6 months

they should make a book critic that didn't go to yale

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

Ashbery was 80 when he published this

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 months

@blauexstunde not sure what your deal is but it’s neither funny nor helpful

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

"is there a doctor on this plane" jokes represent academic twitter so succinctly it's almost beautiful: boastful, cringe, deeply unfunny

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

nothing but respect to my former colleague Matt Lepinski for resigning from the college as a result of the votes

Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

1 year

Today’s New College of Florida board meeting ended with a board member announcing he’s leaving the college:

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

4 years

I will delete this soon but I cannot tell you how devastating it is to face the possibility of being shut out of the career I’ve devoted myself to for 16 years. I’ve been teaching college courses for 16 years. I’m good at this.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

from one of my students

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Tobias Ryan

@TobiasvRyan

2 months

pure bait but I'm curious what's a piece of art [interpret at will] that has retained an essential mystery no matter how many times you've revisited it?

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 months

@feedmewifi I have a dog that sheds

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 months

when Rilke wrote "you must change your life," he meant that I should buy these shoes

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

This afternoon I learned that one of my former students went on Jimmy Fallon last night and mentioned how one of my classes impacted her. Imagine what I could do if I got paid to do teach permanently.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

4 months

increasingly convinced that the academic job advice industrial complex will long outlast the existence of academic jobs

Catherine D. Tan

@Catherineoscopy

4 months

The academic job market is starting up again soon and many people are spending the summer prepping their materials. Here is some advice from someone who was never a market star (not even close) but succeeded anyway… (1/7)

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

5 years

if I had a tenure track job I would simply stop doling out unsolicited advice about how to get a tenure track job in a historically catastrophic market

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

4 years

love how every Duke UP book is like Abolish Struggle Resistance and the press is like labor union? never heard of her

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

good afternoon to the dog refusing to get out of the fountain at the Louvre

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

4 years

The year is 2045. I've just finished my shift desalinating water in New Ohio and log on to find an advice thread on how to approach the academic job market. "Love what you do" it begins. This is helpful. A feral dog runs across the alley with something half-alive in its mouth.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

whoa this blew up who knew that others are saddled with debt. anyway abolish student debt and check out my sound cloud

Hyped on Melancholy

Hyped on Melancholy publishes essays about music, culture, and melancholia.

www.hypedonmelancholy.com

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 years

@molochofficial @lint_ax not the most urgent thing but also a good time to ask why I, as an AP exam grader in ~2006, was put up in a blood-stained hotel room in daytona beach while I graded thousands of ap lit exams in a week for like 800 dollars

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 years

matched with a TT prof who's here doing research and he unmatched me after learning that I'm NTT 🤡

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

4 years

good morning, asking for this much for a first round is unethical

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

26 days

in light of his passing, here’s the concluding paragraph of Postmodernism, which I teach every time I teach conclusions and which makes about six important moves in two sentences

Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

26 days

I wrote about whether academic writing is good or not, and why, for please shut the fuck up magazine

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

5 years

my advice to incoming grad students and also everyone: u n i o n i z e

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

. @gabrielwinant has clearly and powerfully articulated something I've been struggling with for the last two days (shared with permission)

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

5 years

I’ve seen people say it before here but it bears repeating: requiring minimal materials —cover letter, cv, maybe writing sample—for the first round of TT searches would make an immediate & material difference in the lives of job seekers.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

someone just showed me this update from the academic jobs wiki and I can't stop laughing. truly incredible stuff

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

It will never not be insane to me that some professors have tenure while many more live below the poverty line.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 years

mark my words: a Duke UP book will make this argument within 3 years

Headless Horsewoman

@kayteterry

2 years

This is really silly but I don’t like how anti-fungus The Last of Us is. It feels reactionary to our future body possibilities.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

5 months

may we all have the righteous clarity of this UChicago student

mischa 🔻 ☭

@redmischa

5 months

This guy, with absolutely spot on answers. Genuinely surprised this even aired.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

in honor of the first real snow of the season: David Berman

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

I've said this before in other contexts but: teaching at New College was among the most rigorous & rewarding experiences of my career, & I've taught at a handful of the most elite institutions in the nation. Students & faculty there are serious, & deserve the very best.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

I've watched and taught John Berger's Ways of Seeing approximately 888 times and it's still so charming

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

5 years

a living fucking wage

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

4 years

tired: mass academic burnout wired: mass academic strike

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

11 days

sorry to be annoying but Walter Benjamin was famously ambivalent about technological reproducibility

Gavin Mueller

@gavinmuellerphd

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Walter Benjamin VINDICATED

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 years

I'm finally starting to feel like the years I spent adjuncting, often in multiple states & at multiple universities, often making less than 30k/yr with a PhD, wasn't time wasted or a source of personal shame but an education in labor politics in higher ed.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 years

why do tenured faculty love disavowing their own power

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

@revbian this is the best; I’m now happy about tweeting this—thank you for sharing

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

5 years

Today I learned that in order to retain library access while between academic appointments, an undergraduate and former student at my former employer has been manually overriding the system every single morning since May 15th. I cannot tell you how moved I am by this gesture.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

there's a man on my street cracking a whip and screaming "i am covid"

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 months

young child being carried in a stretcher asking the men carrying her if she’s being taken to the cemetery, boy uncontrollably trembling from ptsd, half of a girl hanging from a wall like discarded rags, beheaded babies, refugee tents on fire, “survivors” screaming in agony, starv

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

3 months

What comes to mind when you think of 🇺🇸 President Biden?

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

8 months

they don’t tell you this when you adopt an animal but you will find yourself singing songs with titles like “who’s the little baby in the ring today?” and “who is the softest boy in the world?” and the answers to those questions will always surprise your animal

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

extremely baller move imo

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

4 years

if I were a tenured academic in a world-historically awful job market I would simply not moralize to job seekers under the guise of "free advice"

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 years

we’re on our way home

Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 years

what if she came to live with me

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

11 months

Good morning! Did I mention that the writing instructors at the University of Chicago won our union election yesterday, after a year-long, hard-won campaign?

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

5 months

sorry I know there are much bigger things going on in the world but it's fucking crazy that you still can't comment on footnotes in Word

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

26 days

I agree with the first part of this, but there is tremendous Marxist literary and cultural theory being published today despite these conditions, and it's mostly by women. Also his name is Fredric.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

if someone asked me to sign a letter and my one and only job for which I was compensated handsomely was close reading I would simply read the letter closely before signing

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

@beenootandaboot idk you kayla but you’re angry about the right things and you have my solidarity

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

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not even the start of world war III can prevent professors from complaining online about how kids don't read anymore, respect

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

pleased to announce that I will stop tweeting about job stuff forever because I just got a jahbbbbb

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

@revbian WHAT lol

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

just saw a grown man dump several books by Agamben into my Free Little Library and then run away

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

what no historical materialism does to a mfer

Agnes Callard

@AgnesCallard

1 year

As academia became more competitive, high-achiever types flocked to it & outperformed the weirdos who used to populate it; the result is widespread unhappiness, bc academia is more suited to ppl who obsess over Aristotle's theory of sleep than ppl who want to change the world.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

6 weeks into being securely employed after bouncing from year-to-year contracts & with healthcare for the first time in 18 months & I knew this intellectually before now but: this has been totally intellectually & emotionally transformative & every single person deserves it

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

6 months

hooo boy

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 months

sincere question: do other professionals do this as much as academics? does dentistry twitter see any and every cultural event in their own image?

John B. Holbein

@JohnHolbein1

3 months

The academic job market in the good ol' days vs the academic job market today.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

6 years

big ups to all the men sending me DMs explaining the difference b/t dialing and calling what would i do without you

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

it's NOT a job, you're NOT workers; you are SPECIAL BOYS whose teaching and research HAVE NOTHING TO DO with labor AT ALL

Andrea Niles, PhD

@PsychNiles

1 year

@jasonh_86 @sciliz PhD is not a job though. It’s a degree program.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 months

@AllForThe6_4 @feedmewifi that too

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

administration literally laughing in the faces of the faculty whose careers they're about to end

Appodlachia

@appodlachia

1 year

The condescension in the WVU General Counsel’s voice after a faculty member asks a reasonable question about people losing their jobs is so gross.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

get fucked

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

@realchrisrufo

1 year

New College of Florida will be hiring a large cohort of new tenure-track faculty in the following departments. Help me find the best people who are committed to our mission of restoring the classical liberal arts. Drop me recommendations, links, and CVs.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

sorry for being cringe but it is genuinely so fun to watch someone who is good at teaching lead a class

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

4 years

will probably cut a novel but this is the reading list for my Climate Fiction course, in case anyone's interested

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 years

saw a job advertised in 2016 for a millennial governess: 6 days/week, 12 hrs/day. 100k + benefits + manhattan apt. duties: live-in tutor/nanny/part-time chef/maid/dogwalker & advisor to family ancestry project (???). ivy phd required.

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2 years

Just learned that the dude in this video who gets sent to fetch ingredient for Sophia Coppola's daughter has a PhD in ancient philosophy

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 years

academia (and academic twitter) would be infinitely better if academics accepted that they are not exceptional

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

8 months

I spent an entire year of my teaching career deprogramming students who'd been seduced by him and OOO, just the absolute fucking worst

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

9 months

imagine being this unbothered and happy etc and the next day your picture is on the burbank pet hospital website for dog obesity

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

guess whose application was approved

Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

perhaps the surest sign that I was a graduate student ca 2008 😓

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

WE WON OUR NLRB HEARING

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

@SPBPHD going viral is a nightmare

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

2 years

unfortunately by tweeting "dj ben lerner" I was passed over for a really prestigious academic job making 38k on a one-year non-renewable contract

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

if you’re mad about the Princeton grad worker stipend increase wait till you hear about literally every other facet of academia

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

within the diegetic world of Seinfeld is Seinfeld a good comedian

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

8 months

epigraphs from Said’s 1979 Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

imagine having your heart broken by Picasso & attempting to mend it with help from Lacan

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10 months

ahahahahahahahaha

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

1 year

my dream for twitter or whatever we call it now is that we stop sharing memes about how accomplished we are, or what counts as "privilege," and start fucking organizing for students who deserve higher ed and the faculty who teach them, because we're next

Lisa Di Bartolomeo ☮️🇺🇦🌈

@LMDiBartolomeo

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The Department of World Languages at #WVU is recommended for dissolution, eliminating ALL programs, grad and undergrad, and reducing faculty to ZERO.

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Sarah Osment

@sm_osment

3 years

I just called my pharmacy asking why the price of an rx was so high and the pharmacist literally said "most people don't ask about it but since you called I can lower the price by half" and then lowered the price by half and this is truly the essence of healthcare in America.

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