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Great thread on strategies for not overloading yourself in #academia.

(Of course, not everyone has the same freedom to say no to various requests, but these strategies are great advice for when you have the choice!)
Sometimes when I’m trying to compose a reply to an e-mail asking me to do a thing I wish I could just copy-paste in a three-second sample of the panicked screaming of my inner voice
I feel like they would understand
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Katie Mack
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This teapot is giving me attitude
The physics of this is that the lid fits perfectly and is stable when the teapot is cold or empty. But the heat from the tea makes the plastic lid a little less stiff and expands it slightly, so the pressure of its edges against the glass launches it up into the air. ✨
(I should add that this doesn’t usually happen. It’s just an unfortunate coincidence of the precise sizes of a couple of the pot/lid combos. Usually the teapots are very well behaved!)
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This is what it looks like when a newbie first-time author finds out from Twitter that her book already has an Amazon pre-order page amazon.com/End-Everything… ‼️‼️‼️
The link currently has a stand-in cover and I think even the subtitle will change before the final version so I’ll do a real pre-order announcement then but in the meantime this is very exciting!!
(But feel free to pre-order now, of course! 😃)
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Katie Mack
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Please stop doing podcasts with terrible people
I have in the past worked with people who turned out to be terrible and so I stopped working with them because working with terrible people gives them legitimacy and tacit approval and we could just not do that???
There are so many people in the world! A lot of them are really lovely! If you have a really big platform please try to spend your time and attention and social capital on the nice ones, for all our sakes.
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📌#Thread about #Sabrimala and myths.
Real history of sabrimala.
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Lord Shiva & Mohini had a child named Dharmashasta.
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