@AliMicMac

@SSHRC_CRSH 🇨🇦 Historian | Senses & Temporality in 18th c. | Art & #materialculture | Consumption & Retail | PhD @williamandmary | @AHVS_uvic grad | Hiker 🏔

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As a follow up - what are things you know now you wish you knew coming into your PhD?
Alexandra M. Macdonald@AliMicMac25 Apr 2023
Out of curiosity, grad students/faculty, how many of you are the first person in your family to get a PhD (but not a uni degree, ie your parents have uni degrees but not a PhD or other grad degree)?
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Out of curiosity, grad students/faculty, how many of you are the first person in your family to get a PhD (but not a uni degree, ie your parents have uni degrees but not a PhD or other grad degree)?
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Sensory, embodied knowledge is knowledge
Prof. Brian Keating
@Briankeating20 Apr 2023
Your PhD thesis in five words. Go!
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A week later and my glass blowing experiment is coming home!
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Claire Turner@_claire_turner_13 Apr 2023
!PLEASE SHARE! I’m interested in exploring working with an academic coach for postdoc applications - it would be great to have any personal recommendations, especially for people with experience of working with PGRs/ECRs and/or historians. Please feel free to DM me!
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Slowly working my way through as many early modern craft skills as I can - today, glass blowing!
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What book(s) do y’all go to for inspiration/motivation? #Blktwitterstorians #twitterstorians
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Reimbursement culture assumes a ton: family money, savings, etc and can close the door to a lot of exceptionally talented/smart people from diverse backgrounds of all sorts. If we want academia to change, we need to make it economically (in addition to other things) accessible!
Adam X. McNeil, PhD (aka Metaphors & Memes)@CulturedModesty6 Apr 2023
Replying to @AliMicMac
Lllllooookkkk. Reimbursement life is of the Devil. And then you are at the mercy of the postal service! Just a supreme struggle that sometimes makes you wanna scream.
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Currently trying to balance reimbursement life + stipend life and @CulturedModesty’s words really hitting home! Would love to see a time when grad students aren’t having to fund travel upfront on credit cards etc #phdchat
Adam X. McNeil, PhD (aka Metaphors & Memes)@CulturedModesty6 Apr 2023
Look! I’ll be 31 in late July and thinking about how long I’ve lived the stipend life makes me sick. You can simultaneously be grateful for where you are while also holding incredible grief about all it took to get where you are…especially being broker than a joke alladatime.
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As it seems this is starting to get out and I think I’m allowed to share now - I’m thrilled to have been selected as the Barra Material Culture Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center at U Penn for the 2023-2024 academic year!
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OIEAHC
@OIEAHC23 Mar 2023
Job alert, #VastEarlyAmerica! The @williamandmary Department of History and the OI invite applications for a one-year, non-tenure-track position in Vast Early America to begin August 2023. Learn more here: jobs.wm.edu/postings/52878 #twitterstorians #history
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Casey Sylvia Schmitt@csschmitt17 Mar 2023
Hey historians! Who is working on late 16th/early 17th century maroons in Hispaniola? I know of Schwaller's article and Dieve's older stuff, is there new work coming out in either Spanish or English? @jjponcevazquez @DrJesseCromwell @DrDanielleTW @_JohnPaniagua
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Adrianna Link@Adrianna_Link6 Mar 2023
Alright #twitterstorians, it’s that time again: who is doing good work on the relationship between anthropology and studies of human fertility/population growth? Particularly interested in historical accounts about these ideas in the 1970s. Thanks for any and all recommendations! – at Philadelphia, PA
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I'm hoping to speak with some UK academic mums about navigating conception / pregnancy / young parenthood whilst in academia. I'd like to arrange an online session for researchers considering parenthood. If you're interested in sharing your experience, please get in touch 🙏
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Adrianna Link@Adrianna_Link22 Feb 2023
Have a Ph.D. in Indigenous Studies or allied fields? Interested in a career in public history and/or working with collections? Join us at @AmPhilSociety as the inaugural #NativeAmerican Scholars Initiative Career Pathways Postdoc Fellow! Apply by March 3: apply.interfolio.com/119143
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Bringing work home in the best possible way with some 19th c painted chairs from New England. Now for @BeowulfPeter to prove they were made in Maine…
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Casey Sylvia Schmitt@csschmitt18 Feb 2023
📢 Grad students, junior, or senior scholars of New Netherland or the Dutch Atlantic - check out this fellowship app! Up to $5,000 for archival research, due Feb. 15: newnetherlandinstitute.org/p…
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MHS Research@MHS_Research7 Feb 2023
Deadlines to apply for fellowships at @MHS1791 approaching: 15 February: our Civil War fellowship (co-sponsored by @bostonathenaeum) 1 March: our numerous short-term fellowships. Apply today! <masshist.org/research/fellow…>
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Fellowships for the Latin American Library are now available. Deadline: Friday, May 12, 2023. Only candidates who are residing permanently in a Latin American or Caribbean country, including Puerto Rico, at the time of application will be considered. library.tulane.edu/lal/richa…
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