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melissa t. yang

@mtyrhetoric.bsky.social

here for birds & words πŸͺΏ poultry & poetry enthusiast researching multispecies rhetorics 🐣 writing center director @ emory πŸ•ŠοΈ

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The Price of Eggs - Orion Magazine Or, death of a chicken

lost our first hen last week & found this lovely thing in my inbox while waiting for necropsy results orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

16.06.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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the new babies are the cutest & we are keeping every finger & toe crossed that they actually turn out to be hens (the older hens are not impressed)

05.06.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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brb still reading every pigeon book in the library

03.06.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

building our second chicken coop in two months because chicken math is real

01.06.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

always thrilled to see more writing stringing together my longest-standing academic obsessions: pigeon rhetorics & entanglements with bird feet! even if it does mean I'll need to revise the stringfoot section of my pigeon chapter yet again...

28.05.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s One of the Weirdest Mistakes in Movie History. I Spent Months Investigating How It All Went Wrong. The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird.

β€œif one bird can do it, that bird, you know, that bird’s going in.” coming out of hiding to share the best bird deep dive I’ve read in a minute: slate.com/culture/2025...

23.05.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

relatedly: I simply must have a calico hen to match with the cat, so if anyone has connections to a millie satin silkie or jubilee bantam cochin or mille fleur d'uccle or similar in the atlanta area, I would be so grateful

06.05.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

reveling in the joys of new chicken parenthood, which largely involve googling "can chickens eat ____" & being reassured that chickens can & will eat nearly everything (including each other & probably also me, if given the chance)

06.05.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

attended one equine-centric talk at #4c25 but have not seen a single sparklepony?!

12.04.2025 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh fancy, perhaps a lost cousin of big bird’s? speaking of decorated animals, meant to ask re: buttoned eels: any relation to the ancient art of adorning eels with jewels??history has so many mysteries

11.03.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

began reading the dissertations of grad school friends in an inspired moment of procrastination. acknowledgments sections are so pure (and/or full of cat puns) <3

27.02.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

what a kairotic moment to be teaching multimedia journalism for the first time in my life 🫠

05.02.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

academic job alert: our writing program is hiring at the intersection of digital & cultural rhetorics. I’m on the search committee & happy to answer questions

20.11.2024 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

if you see me on here, please yell at me to go work on my book instead, thank you in advance

18.11.2024 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh no: I spent 99% of my time on twitter exclusively posting to my drafts folder. what is my survival strategy here in this strange sky land with no drafts feature?!

21.09.2023 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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