Dr. Melody Kate Waring 🦓🦄

🔥 take. (Not sure if I agree 100% or just >50%, need to sit with this and think it over. So while I'm thinking, read this 🧵)

Some wonderful points in this 🧵. The system can change when individuals who want to do good in the world begin to change practices.

@IndigoDaya Love this description. Love the point.

I’ve got a new work in progress on the easel, playing with a different approach to self portrait. Absolutely no idea how I’ll resolve these different, intersecting parts of me, but I think that’s the point.

WHAT THE ACTUAL 🤯😤

We're going to be hiring at least 10 TT positions across my college (over 30 university-wide) ranging from social work to anthropology with a cluster in indigenous and Latinx studies. I'm very excited!!

@empiricallove WOW!!!!!! I'm so happy to see this update. And excited to see what sort of things you'll be working on and posting about!!

Of all the things I achingly, daily miss about my brief academic career..... Yeah, grading online discussion boards ain't one of 'em 🤣

Today I learned from my neighbors that my INDOOR cat occasionally sneaks out of our apartment through a tiny hole next to my window a/c unit, hangs out on the landing above us, then sneaks back in. I knew she was a scoundrel, but I didn’t know it was this bad.

I really hate threads about how to be super productive, but there are a few gems here. Like the despair, for instance. Or maybe the whiskey. Well worth your time.

Some Senate Dems are still fighting for the policy, with the opposition originating with Manchin -- not leadership. “Until the bill is printed, I will continue working to include paid leave in the Build Back Better plan," Gillibrand just said in an emailed statement

💔 A massive betrayal.

@DrAmyMarschall Chiropractor?

For my next Public Health initiative, I’m going to get business cards for my cats where the job titles are all terms that should be regulated but aren’t. My aim is to teach people what to look out for. So far I have surgeon and nutritionist. What else?

Let's talk about how diversity statements work for disabled applicants on the academic job market: They don't. As long as the academy views disability as a personal failing, a professional limitation, and an institutional liability, disclosure will always be a risk.

This is a PET CHECKPOINT. You must show me a picture of one of your pets before you resume scrolling. Thank you for your cooperation.

@rationalfish @callie_freitag That makes 2 of us

@MatthewBorus Wishing you a lot of comfort. On the scale of a small herd of tiny goats.

@beth_morton dm'd!

@melodywaring Concatenating across rows: 332 of them. The first is an ID. The rest are 331 columns with each column having just one answer somewhere in it. I want to concat the ID with the one answer in a new column... I think. Honestly these data are a mess the way the platform output them.

Is anyone really good with Excel functions? I want to concatenate across 330+ rows ignoring blank cells and know the formula, but only if I write it out for each column. There has to be a better way....

@beth_morton ...well, and you are concatenating across columns? Or down rows?

@beth_morton Are the rows sequential?