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EvelineSulman

@EvelineSulman@akademienl.social

Christian and Jewish reception history of the Hebrew Bible.
Cats. Snow. Plants. Trains. Village life.
Not necessarily in that order.

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sundogplanets, to random
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I'm talking to a journalist in a bit about NASA's new "space sustainability strategy" and this one sentence from the abstract seems to sum it up:

"Given the substantial upfront expenditures required to develop and deploy remediation capabilities and the potential delay in receiving benefits, these motivations do not appear to be sufficient to incentivize immediate action"

I'm going to have to read this more carefully, but did NASA just say they don't care about orbit?!

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/otps-cost-and-benefit-analysis-of-orbital-debris-remediation-final-tagged.pdf?emrc=661fe22b468ed

EvelineSulman,
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@grb090423 @sundogplanets yes, like plastics in the oceans...

18+ AimeeMaroux, to london
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When he fits into your hand 🥰

Tiny golden phallus pendant found at Liverpool Street, #London.

#PhallusThursday
@antiquidons @phistorians #RomanBritain #GreekRomanArt

EvelineSulman,
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@AimeeMaroux @antiquidons @phistorians is it from Roman times?

petersuber, (edited ) to academia
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From a survey of @penn_state : "72% …reported they had not purchased a course’s required , and 33% said they had not registered for a specific course because of its cost of required course materials. In addition, 33% said they had earned a poor grade because they couldn’t afford to purchase a course textbook, and 17% dropped a course because of the cost of materials required for the course."
https://www.psu.edu/news/university-libraries/story/students-may-avoid-paying-textbooks-expense-academic-success/


@academicchatter

EvelineSulman,
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@DoomsdaysCW @petersuber @penn_state @academicchatter I never tell my students to buy a specific edition, just from which year onwards if there are only minor changes. They can then search for a secondhand book.

ml, to academicchatter
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We're so used to this, but I would like academics to take a moment and look at how much of the official and unofficial discussion around university is about despair, imposter syndrome, stress, harassment, etc.

What I often see in these discussions, especially the official ones, is discussion of coping mechanisms and "self-care".

What I rarely see in these discussions is questioning why we've built an education system that treats people this way in exchange for this education. @academicchatter

EvelineSulman,
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@ml @robs @academicchatter so right! I always ask who made the rules and who can change it!

ninokadic, to academia
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Come up with an acronym for PHD! 📚

I'll start:

Pretty
Hectic
Days

@academicchatter

EvelineSulman,
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@ninokadic @academicchatter Papers onder Hoge Druk = Dutch for papers under high pressure

pjw, to TodayILearned
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What are the arguments for and against making one's lecture materials (hand outs, presentations) publicly available on one's website?

I've never met Jeff Speaks, but his philosophy of language and mind handouts posted online have helped me so many times with trying to understand something. Now that I have tenure I kind of want to pay it forward.
But this isn't done very often, so I worry there are downsides I am not taking into account. Thoughts?

@academicchatter #teaching #philosophy #academia #academicchatter

EvelineSulman,
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@ereinbergs @pjw @academicchatter I agree with that! They are sometimes even abracadabra for students that were absent. They are more reminders for me during class...

icastelaohuerta, to Neoliberal Spanish

💫 My latest article is published in the last issue of "Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education". It is about the stopping practices of who are facing policies These practices are a way of the of neoliberalism, but they are also a privilege of senior professors with stable jobs. I hope you find my work interesting.
Free e-prints here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RMYGMHASAZACIXWNPTED/full?target=10.1080/26379112.2023.2239413

@edutooters @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite

EvelineSulman,
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@icastelaohuerta @edutooters @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite this sounds so familiar! Both the need to stop (called from causes outside the academia) and the knowledge that it is a privilege. Also that it takes time to get used to it. Wow!!

DrLinguo, to academiamemes German

@academiamemes @linguisticsmemes @academicchatter

EvelineSulman,
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@DrLinguo @academiamemes @linguisticsmemes @academicchatter fortunately, the deadline lies before the vacation, not thereafter.

BlckheathHopper, to Archaeology
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#job #JobAlert
Two full-time permanent posts: Lecturer in Archaeology and Digital Humanities, and Lecturer in History and Digital HUmanities, University of Sheffield. Note that the ad completely overlooks the closure of the Archaeology Department from Sept 2024 and presumably the post is primarily based in the Digital Humanities Institute. Closing date 15 Jan 2024. Details at:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEV436/lecturer-in-history-and-digital-humanities-and-lecturer-in-archaeology-and-digital-humanities
#archaeology #digitalarchaeology #DH @archaeodons @academicchatter

EvelineSulman,
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@clmorgan @BlckheathHopper @archaeodons @academicchatter how recognizable...

eniko, to random
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weird how hospitals/institutions/whole countries keep having to bring back covid measures almost like covid isn't fucking over or something

EvelineSulman,
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@eniko yes, weird... I have Covid and some of my students have it and some others that I know of... and some of them say they have the flu, but did they test themselves?

NeurodivergentBC, to academicchatter

need to do way better at supporting . @actuallyautistic @allautistics @neurodivergent @academicchatter @edutooters

EvelineSulman,
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@NeurodivergentBC @actuallyautistic @allautistics @neurodivergent @academicchatter @edutooters yes, indeed. Some of us are autistic enough to understand them and smart enough to support them...

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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EvelineSulman,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat Yep. The last one is what we do until our daughter comes along and she will do it.

josh, to academicchatter
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Glad to see my Mastodon essay making an impact. 😂

@academicchatter #academicchatter

EvelineSulman,
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@javier @bethanyklein @josh @academicchatter and then what? What is the profit of sending this kind of e-mails, I wonder each time I receive one.

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EvelineSulman,
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@danai @academicchatter good luck. Don't study your own stress...

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    EvelineSulman,
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    @Teri_Kanefield 🤣

    SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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    EvelineSulman,
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    @SmudgeTheInsultCat the speaker should have said: the lioness... they are the hunters!

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    EvelineSulman,
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    @eugenia_diegoli @academicchatter yes, once. For a volume that indeed never materialized. Tried to contact the editor: no answer. Sent it to another volume that was published.

    mythopoetica, (edited ) to academiccommunity

    Hello Masto!

    Monday was okay-ish with some really super okay bits.

    The super okay bits:

    (1) One article accepted subject to some revisions (phew!).
    (2) !! So I shot my shot a couple of weeks back and asked a memory scholar I admire if she'd be keynote for my Memory studies seminar. She said yes this morning! This will be great not just for me but my PhD supervisees who are working on with me.
    (3) Got my meds from the hospital (tiring long drive though) and this marks the first time I've been there since injury without using a cane. Another milestone.
    (4) First class of the semester went okay, despite a couple of technical hitches. Lovely students! And I had sufficient brainspace later to do event organising for the creative writing workshop (secured a as guest speaker) plus work on another article.

    Guess that's it. I crash now.

    @academicchatter
    @academicsunite
    @academiccommunity

    EvelineSulman,
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    @mythopoetica @academicchatter @academicsunite @academiccommunity It's good that our students do not know how nervous we are at the start of each new course.

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    EvelineSulman,
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    @maritkragt @academicchatter is it about teaching? Put it under teaching. About phd or research? Put it under research.

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    EvelineSulman,
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    @philippsteinkrueger @klauspforr @Ailuridae @tiago @academicchatter I really miss the quote post!

    Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    EvelineSulman,
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    @Teri_Kanefield looks so familiar! 🤣🤣

    LadyDragonfly, to random

    Problems that were overhyped:

    • quicksand
    • people offering me drugs
    • the Bermuda Triangle

    Problems that I was underprepared for:

    • nightly existential dread
    • remembering all 17,392 passwords required to do my job
    • arguing with robots about whether or not there is an unexpected item in the bagging area
    EvelineSulman,
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    @LadyDragonfly the passwords! 🥴

    natalie, to phdstudents
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    Currently writing an article that should be 8,000 words. I am now at 17,000 and I, as a beginner in professional academic writing, need some advice. I know I am the kind of person who thinks through writing. This means that I have probably written a lot that can be cut and left out.

    But how do I learn to write reasonably lengthy papers? I swear I thought my topic and questions could be addressed in 8,000 words. I had an outline ... with word counts per section. Still, it went completely off the rails.

    Will this get better at some point?

    @academicchatter @phdlife @phdstudents

    EvelineSulman,
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    @natalie @academicchatter @phdlife @phdstudents oh, and keep all the delete stuff. You never know....

    EvelineSulman,
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    @lisabortolotti @natalie @academicchatter @phdlife @phdstudents perhaps by trying to find out which research questions you evetually answer. If you find two distinct ones, you might find a way to split the article.

    writingmonicker, to academicchatter
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    Things I didn't realize about the #AcademicJobMarket:

    (This will be a very long list by the end of the year if I keep it up. We'll see.)

    1. Your statements are basically done after the first few deadlines. I always thought I'd customize extensively for each school.

    Nope.

    On a week like this (with so many apps due Sep 15), you just don't have time. You have to trust that you already put in the work with your base template. It's a mental shift from fellowship apps.

    @academicchatter @sociology

    EvelineSulman,
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    @writingmonicker @academicchatter @sociology I would say: YES. Working in academia is time management, more than anything else.

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