@ElissaRodkey

Historian of Psychology & Californian in exile. 🌞 Under contract for "Neither Rat Nor Robot" (Magda Arnold biography) with Oxford University Press!

 Moncton, New Brunswick
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Joined February 2011
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"Dear, dear, you and me belong so much together!!” My dissertation as chick flick. gesellequalsgazelle.wordpres… #Valentines

The meet-cute to the tearjerking goodbye

They met in her Harvard summer school class. She was the teacher, he was the student who stood out. Roman collar, razor sharp  wit, head and shoulders above the rest of the class both physically an…

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Adriana Porter Felt
@__apf__Oct 16
after watching the West Wing, I remember thinking I could never be press secretary. but recent events have been great for my self-confidence. I now think I could be a press secretary for at least five days
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
@jayvanbavelOct 11
Women with high cognitive ability face "detrimental interpersonal ramifications" at work Men do not. The theory is that smarter women violate perceived social role expectations leading them to face backlash that men do not receive psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d…
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#FlowersOnFriday Douglas Strachan Nativity scene, in the chapel of Westminster College, Cambridge. The lilies symbolise Mary’s purity, & the deer bring to mind the introduction to Psalm 42: ‘As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God.’ @churchartnature
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A seemingly modern moment of abstraction in a medieval manuscript, representing silence as a yellow rectangle: publicdomainreview.org/colle… “And when he opened the 7th seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour” (Silos Apocalypse, BL Add MS 11695)
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Einar Baldvin
@EinarbaldviiOct 6
“Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of the Earth's greenings. Now, think.” St. Hildegard von Bingen
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nun 🇪🇸@prochoicenunOct 6
A picture that really affected me as a teenager is this one of rosaries confiscated at the border, thrown in the trash, and recovered by a janitor who worked at the border facility
Polymarket
@PolymarketOct 5
JUST IN: Catholic Archdiocese sues Trump administration, alleging immigration detainees are being deprived of private confession, communion, & other sacraments.
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Plantagenet@Plantagenet1455Oct 4
Angels playing the seven golden trumpets from the Book of Revelation, c. 14th century. The seven trumpets herald a series of divine judgements upon the Earth.
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Jonathan Fine@jonathanbfineOct 2
what the artificial intelligence consciousness debate shows is that deep down tech bros just want to be humanities graduate students
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What if English never adopted Latin names for months? From @Starkey_Comics
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Aquinas to his haters:
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how your email finds me:
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medieval women must have smelled so mf spicy
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Alexandre Blaineau
@AlBlaineauSep 29
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Plantagenet@Plantagenet1455Sep 30
God Creating the Birds and Fishes, c. 1415.
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Nicole Munro@Nicole__MunroSep 30
With the evolving Cornell University story, I have been reflecting on my fourth and final year at St. Thomas University in 2015 in Fredericton. One of my professors, Jan Wong, wanted some of our class to work on an investigative series on rape on campus.
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Why, why, why did they remake Sense & Sensibility?!! Emma Thompson’s version with her script, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Kate Winslet, and Greg Wise was absolute perfection! I’m seriously getting sick of remakes.
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hermit reading, france or flanders, ca. 1445
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The Pennine Painter@PennineTheSep 24
Peter Brook often added interest to his snow scenes with the inclusion of touches of colour. In ‘Pausing, whilst Walking by Woods in Winter’ the patch of pink in the sky, the odd autumn leaf and the tinges of blue enliven the painting. (Sold by Contemporary Six earlier this year)
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Brambly Hedge@bramblyhedge_Sep 23
Autumn Equinox is here… time for Primrose to head out on an adventure.
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Historygirl
@janeyelleneSep 22
A glimpse into an ordinary family day from more than 120 years ago. Captured by early filmmaker Alfred Ernest Passmore, this wonderful footage brings the Edwardian era to life in the very first home movies. #Edwardian #HomeMovies #BritishHistory #1900s
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