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Dr. Hadas Kotek 🦄 Profile picture
Dr. Hadas Kotek 🦄
@HadasKotek
linguist in tech | recovering academic | creating & promoting AltAc content | cat lover | powered by coffee and spite | she/her | BLM 🖤🤍💜
May 6 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
So much for my father's side of the family! Good thing I decided to post what I had so far because Twitter (again!) died and lost some text I wrote.

Anyway, onto part 2, my mom's side! The Sternheim/Baum family of Germany. A secular family Jewish German living in Hamm, with a history of many generations in the area of Nordrhein Westfalen. Maximilian was a soldier in World War 1, was badly injured, and received the Iron Cross. He worked as a salesperson


Shaul Cohavy (born Edgar Sternheim) in 1937 in Hamm, Germany
Selma, Kurt (later: Zvi, younger brother of Edgar/Shaul), Maximilian Sternheim, in 1939 in Hamm.
A small family tree
The backs of a few photos, two of which I posted here
May 6 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. It's one of the only days in the year that I miss being there, instead of here going to the office as usual on a Monday morning.

This thread commemorates some of my murdered relatives, they are not forgotten 🧵 The Goldstein family of Hungary/Slovakia. The grandmother Zuzka (Ruth) is second from the top in the first pic. Parents Henriette & Isidor's love story is a classic; they eloped and were disowned by her rich family. He was an engineer with Skoda. Kids are Eva, Agi, Zuzka, Michael


Agi, Zuzka, Michael, and Eva Goldstein, likely mid-1930s
The Goldstein grandparents with son and daughters; Isidor stands in the back, aunt Lilly is wearing the patterned tights. Lots of red heads in that family.
The Goldstein grandparents with aunts and Henriette holding a baby, presumably oldest daughter Eva, likely early 1920s.
Michael, Eva, Henriette, Zuzka, and Agi Goldstein
Apr 3, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
A common convo I have with PhD students who are about to graduate:
Them: I haven't done anything useful/good/impressive
Me: You got good grades in undergrad
Them: right, but
Me: and got admitted into this grad program
Them: ..
Me: and got a fellowship / other financial support Me: and you completed PhD level coursework
Them: ..
Me: as well as multiple projects and papers of varying lengths
Them: ..
Me: and you compiled research insights into written form and presented them to others
Them: ..
Me: and you're currently working on a multi-year innovative >
Jan 1, 2023 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
Academics: the results of your research are less relevant to getting an #AltAc job than the skills you used to obtain them!

Here's a 🧵 on transferable skills translated into corporatespeak, including resume bullet points that describe my own academic career: 1. Experimental design, data analysis:

Quant and qual methods, exp design, and other variations on this theme are by far the most common answer I get from former academics re: what skills from grad school are most useful in their new career. E.g. for my dissertation work:
Oct 25, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Hello linguists and other social scientists outside academia! I am collecting as many diverse titles of #AltAc jobs as I can find. Please share yours! Bonus if you have a link to a job ad with a description of this job, or if you can add a brief description of your own Extra bonus for any other titles you can think of.

Context: I am teaching a Careers for Linguists workshop, and creating detailed course notes that I plan to share with the ling community later.

Retweets welcome!