Amy Gill

Dear new #BlueSky people,
If you've come here from #Twitter and you identify as MAGA, please include Trump or MAGA in your Blue Sky bio. That way, like-minded people can find, identify and follow you. Srsly. 😏 #USPolitics

400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us

When your government is okay with locking up ten year olds but wants to ban under sixteens from social media, things are truly borked #auspol

Absolutely shameful, and one of the many reasons I left academia.

Almost certainly underestimated, too.

It gets worse with perimenopause too 😞.

This is a great initiative if you are crafty in the US. Sadly postage would be a bit too much for me.

Unwarranted Racial Disparity in U.S. Foster Care Placement Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Unwarranted Racial Disparity in U.S. Foster Care Placement www.nber.org/papers/w3315...

"Nationwide, we find that Black children are placed into foster care at higher rates than white children with identical potential to experience subsequent maltreatment"

This texture is amazing.

A Christmas tree with a yellow knitted star on top.

Everything on the tree is handmade, either knitted by me or crafted by the small child. What should we add this year? #showmeyourknits #knitting

So simple and clever.

My advice to all the new folks here is to be kind.

That doesn’t mean nice. Be *kind.*

And then when you’re done doing that, be kind some more.

And if you can’t be kind, just go do something else for a little while.

meme of two lobsters fighting while three college kids excitedly throw money to bet on it everyone - the fighting lobsters and the depraved kids cheering them on - is labeled 'leftists'

people just showing up to bluesky: there's not enough political conflict here

bluesky, for the entire first year and a half of its existence:

Yes, if I think of it that way it does seem breathtaking rather than depressing.

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

Hi everyone.

The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

I don't know. I guess many employers don't understand the skills, experience, and persistence demonstrated by having a PhD?

But at least we have the print these, right?

Precisely.

Luckily I didn't have to take out student loans, but I did give a local business some work from this.

You're right. It's the main point of having a PhD...

Wow. Ok, I guess it could have been worse for me.

I hope you are right...

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A small but growing community here that was very important to me at the old place.

Stigma at its most obvious.

👋🏻

I think I once knit that sock with the same colorway..

A decade ago, female mentors told me not to wear a wedding ring because “people won’t give you a job if they think you’ll go off and get pregnant.” I’m genuinely elated when I see any instance of academic spaces being inclusive to parents. We have so far to go!

Just wait til you actually start tho...

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever