melissa t. yang

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-...

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)

brb still reading every pigeon book in the library

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

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...

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.

“if 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...

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?!