Freelance Scientific Editor, Former Academic, Coffee Addict, co-host of the Recovering Academic podcast (recoveringacademic.net), she/her
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29 Aug 2016
Leaving academia or thinking about it? @IHStreet, @Doctor_PMS, & I started the Recovering Academic podcast for you. recoveringacademic.net/
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3 Oct 2023
I am heartbroken to share that Dr. Charles Wingo has passed away. Charles was a brilliant physiologist, an extraordinary nephrologist, and an absolutely amazing mentor. His kindness, passion for science, and his devotion to his family are truly inspiring. williamsthomasfuneralhome.co…
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22 Jul 2023
This is a statement from two of the people who wrote Florida's new education standards on slavery. In it they give several names of people to exemplify slaves who learned skills they applied later in life.
Let's go through the supposed truth of this list one by one.
20 Jul 2023
Want the truth on Florida’s African American History Standards? See statement below from experts who crafted them.
“Any attempt to reduce slaves to just victims of oppression fails to recognize their strength, courage and resiliency during a difficult time in American history.”
Community note
This list is supposedly of enslaved people who "developed ... trades from which they benefitted" but nearly all of these people were either never enslaved, or never held the jobs described on the list.
Some examples:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Cobb
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_How…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_For…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Was…
Here is a summary of the errors on the list:
twitter.com/etotheipie/sta…
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Dr. LadyScientist retweeted
19 Jul 2023
Brain drain. This is a huge loss for FL. Is anyone counting? The number of FL faculty leaving academia and/or the state of FL is staggering.
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18 Jun 2023
Make your father proud by knowing it’s 'Father's Day,' with an apostrophe.
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1 Jun 2023
It’s a gorgeous day outside and there’s literally no rule that I can’t sit outside on the back patio while editing this proposal.
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29 May 2023
I’ve finally reached the age of having kids that I can read my book while they’re at the playground.
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29 May 2023
Scratch that. I just had to referee a game of tag. I’m close though
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19 May 2023
Officially registered my youngest child for kindergarten (got all the paperwork in at last). But what’s really important is finding the person who snuck in here and started chopping onions.
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13 May 2023
The notion of a lab as a “family” is toxic. I think of my lab as a punk band, where I’m the grizzled old manager who goes around picking up bar tabs, cleaning up broken glass and vomit, and lying to the police
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25 Apr 2023
I can tell when my brain has stopped braining. I just read a sentence as “The administrators understand the administration.” That… that was not what that sentence said.
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It has come to my attention that we're in thesis defense season and not everyone has seen the snake fight thesis defense fanfiction
archiveofourown.org/works/28…
ALT From: Kahler, Robin M. <kahler22@barnett.edu> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 9:25 AM To: Petroski, Linda <petroski5@barnett.edu> Subject: Thesis defense issue Hi, Linda- I just realized that I never got an email about the snake for my defense (coming up next week). Do you know anything about how the snake gets assigned? Thanks- Robin
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20 Apr 2023
It’s 6:30pm and I’m trying to make dinner. You’re asking too many questions. Go ask your dad if he got the new smoke alarm batteries.
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17 Apr 2023
I regret to inform everyone that going for a stupid walk did, indeed, help my stupid mental health.
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17 Apr 2023
Going for a stupid walk for my stupid mental health.
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2 Apr 2023
To mix my metaphors: Florida is on fire and, ✨at best✨, DeSantis et al are rearranging the deck chairs with this fight with Disney.
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15 Mar 2023
When I gave a guest lecture on site directed mutagenesis for a genetics course (~2009-2015?), I used CF as an example of a disease caused by a mutation that had no cure. So, this is amazing news!
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17 Feb 2023
This Florida-born woman is thoroughly amazed by the snow in Nebraska! I’m super excited to go back out in it this morning to talk with folks at UNL (no sarcasm—this is amazing!).
ALT Smiling woman (me) standing in front of a snow pile larger than her with her arms spread out. She’s thinking about how you don’t find anything like this in Florida.
ALT Snow piled up on top of a bus shelter by the road. The picture is blurry because I took it while in the (warm) car on the ride to dinner. My kids will be so impressed by the amount of snow around and on top of the shelter.
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