Notices by The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social), page 34

✅ You got your PhD hooray!
✅ You got a postdoc hooray!
✅ You got a professorship hooray!
✅ You got tenure hooray!
✅ You were promoted to department chair hooray!
✅ You were promoted to dean of your faculty hooray!
✅ You were promoted to chancellor oh no now you spend your whole day talking and writing about your university's football team in order to bring in alumni donations; you lost by winning

Microsoft Office 2019 is exactly 1654 better than Microsoft Office 365

I take perverse comfort in the knowledge that all of Enterprise can be dismissed as non-canon, as the final episode arguably shoehorned the entire series into a holodeck fantasy for Riker

My favourite part of science programmes is when they refer to "our furry friends," meaning literal non-human animals and I intentionally interpret them to mean people on Masto

As I learn to sew as an adult, four things come together to irk me:

- I was, through society and directly, not taught anything coded as feminine;
- sewing, and all crafting, is coded as feminine;
- all things coded as feminine, including crafting, is considered lessor;
- living sustainability and outside of consumerism is, often, a form of crafting.

I see what we did there, and I won't stand for it!

I'm reading Plato's Apology and Socrates really doesn't know how to shut up, huh?

The paper I just submitted can be boiled down to 'Thoreau says that you gotta fight the government so let's Do this'

One thing hard for me is to guess abbreviations on others' toots. Even Google translator cannot tell me. Google search and Wiki may give me multiple answers, but still hard to choose which one is right.

Want to use a link shortener on #Mastodon?

Don't! :blobsurprised: All links in Mastodon posts count for 23 characters, no matter how long they really are.

(via @jond )

#MastoTips

hello friends! one of my dear tumblr darlings is interested in joining mastodon, and I was wondering if there are servers out there for people with an interest in poetry and writing? thanks a lot!

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I was asked to create a custom Freddie Mercury bookmark. It was a pleasure to pay hommage to such a queer icon.

The Strange Dancing Plague of 1518: When Hundreds of People in France Could Not Stop Dancing for Months http://www.openculture.com/?p=1060109 https://t.co/psQhhel6TW

The Musical Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights Get Brought to Life, and It Turns Out That They Sound "Painful" and "Horrible"

http://www.openculture.com/?p=1060077 https://t.co/8v0tjG16z1

Editors dump Elsevier in favour of open access journal owned by scholars.

"They contend that scholarly journals should be owned by the scholarly community rather than by commercial publishers, should be open access under fair principles, and publishers should make citation data freely available."

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/14/elsevier-journal-editors-resign-start-rival-open-access-journal