Taylor van Doren, PhD

I know there's not really a botox shortage or anything, but botox is a super effective treatment for muscle spasticity and chronic migraine and it can only mean good things for people who really need this medicine for clinical rather than aesthetic purposes

just had the lovely experience of being denied by aetna for a medicine I need so what the f*ck is the point of health insurance

Today my sister asked me what I wanted for Christmas this year and I remembered this ad and told her "Merriam-Webster Dictionary The Twelfth Edition" and she said "you got it"

This is so sad. Flu usually is not rough for a healthy 29 year old, but when it’s bad, it’s REALLY bad :(

New Lily Allen album is ASTOUNDING. Album of the year caliber stuff and I hope she wins tons of awards and says “f*ck you* to David Harbour in every acceptance speech!!!

I need everyone to stop sending me high priority red exclamation mark emails. There is absolutely nothing related to my job that is an emergency. Let’s just all chill please

Why are universities fully sliding into the skid with incorporating AI into EVERYthing?? I don't want to fill out another survey answering how they can help me use AI in all my courses. Can't we hold the line?

I've been studying the 1918 flu for a decade and just did something for the first time: submitted an article to Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. good luck to me

all I have to do to finish this project is have an original idea, find all the previous research on this topic, read it, understand it, integrate it, shape it into a meaningful framework, execute analysis without errors, write it, and communicate it with perfect clarity. that's not that bad

ugh I love when I have italian in the crockpot and that first sweet smell of fennel, oregano, and thyme punches through

anthropologists to the front

When did we all collectively become complacent to the fact that the White House belongs to the People?

Have you ever been very deep in writing a paper and all of a sudden just lift your fingers off the keys and say "why am I doing this" #AcademicSky

This would have been enough to end a political career permanently not that long ago

I'm obsessed with not just the fact that the Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to cheeto in command, but that the explanation of why it WAS awarded to María Corina Machado included a paragraph on why it would NEVER be awarded to cheeto in command

🫣 Who me

I have so many potential papers with just analyses and results finished that will probably never get done. I need a team to finish these off so they see the light. There’s just not enough time for me to get to them. If you need something to do, let me know - you can have it all

You'll be able to sync up with the 5G soon. Mine only just connected last week. Just keep getting the shots and you'll be good.

One of the most important things to remember right now is that you have to keep it 100 on the land, the sea, the sky

okay what the f*ck is this. sorry for saying f*ck on the picture of a pastor. but literally. every new picture is worse than the one before.

Dusting off the Newfoundland death records. Hello old friends, haven't seen you since dissertation station.

I just declined to revise a manuscript for a journal for the first time. I thought maybe it's better not to force it and one of the reviews would have been near impossible to overcome (both based on what they said and their attitude about the paper). So, it feels bad, but here we are.

The last time I went to the movie theater was April 2019 for Avengers: Endgame. I was 8 weeks pregnant with my daughter. Today I took that daughter to see her first movie in theaters! We saw Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie, and she was a perfect movie theater citizen.

Also yes, this is my map, and yes, it's possible I'm the only person who has made one of these to put Missouri in dark green. I am from Missouri and it deserves more respect honestly.

I've seen a lot of these maps lately, and I just wanted to say that I think a lot of them are way too definitive and that it's silly to color the entire map red between California and New York. Surely you can hold space for more nuance than that.

I realized something. In the 1st half of the semester in my Mass Media & Society class, I taught the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death", whose author argued that the future was Huxleyian rather than Orwellian. My student's had read neither 1984 nor BNW. There's a message in here somewhere

Okay, it hasn't occurred to me in a while that I could just buy a hard copy of the Dictionary, and now I'm like "I should buy this hard copy version of the Dictionary"

The pope is now radical left (I assume is what they will say)

Body Size and Risk of Death During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska In the aftermath of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A pandemic, research revealed the relationship between body size and the severity of influenza outcomes. However, there is little data available on body si....

Excited to share my new article "Body size and risk of death during the 1918 influenza pandemic in Alaska", available in American Journal of Human Biology 🔓!! (@humbioassociation.bsky.social) Thanks to my co-authors for enabling me w. this crazy idea

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Okay I was planning on teaching Death Without Weeping (1993) in one of my upper level ethnography classes, but now flipping through this book again years later I'm afraid it's way too intense. I hate that I'm even thinking this way. This is an important book (flawed, yes, but important).