Christina Roman

Reuters Institute Fellow / Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow / Columbia Journalism ‘23 / founder of Immigrant Report, celebrating immigrant voices / she|her 🌈

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@AnInvitation I would join TikTok just to follow your account! Always so insightful

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@kneadtotalk Long walks and looking for birds

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@PeterTMcKenzie @TinaBrownLM @aagalloni @stecklow @Reuters Ah congratulations!

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This might be my favorite fake citation example ever.

Now that “cite your sources” has become more mainstream, the creativity (especially in wellness spaces) to provide citations both tickles and horrifies me

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@cat88966620 @klhicks912 Hahaha I need a break but I’ll check it out. The writing was good in the beginning, which made the content and choices so much more disappointing

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@AffordAnything I think it demonstrates that she was looking for a good VP to govern and not just a good VP to win! I was surprised too, but like the choice the more I learn.

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Two of the best!

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Welcome back to @ColumbiaJournMA alums @ayakibrahim (MA Politics '22) and @PeterTMcKenzie (MA Politics '23), who have returned to Pulitzer Hall this week as 2024 @DartCenter Ochberg Fellows! https://t.co/ekehUwnHo5

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@RowanBrightonB A surprised/stuccato/sharp exhale. “Ha” for vocalized. Hiccuped as a verb (slightly more surprised/positive connotations.) Silly descriptive sounds like piff turned into a word.

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@EthanMidkiff Try communicating desired outcome instead of or in addition to individual tasks. I notice this is a big disconnect in communication between folks w/ different ways of thinking

Easier if you understand *why* something needs to be done xyz way and *how* it fits into the end goal

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@EthanMidkiff Lots of folks mentioning this: sounds like neurodivergent struggle. Being smart and capable but being told you’re ���doing it wrong” and therefore given less opportunity takes the drive out of a kid so fast :/ But given a clear challenge and a chance?!

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@JenLouiseWilson It’s cruel to not name although I have ideas

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@JenLouiseWilson You know how all self help books are mostly the same but they sell well because if someone reads the right message at the right moment for them it feels revelatory? It doesn’t matter the quality of the book or the depth of the advice.

I think some books are like that too.

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@APompliano @TheMindBrew This study isn’t about heteronormativity and says nothing about a mother and father together. Notice the graph says “intact” as the first structure. It is about support networks. Don’t push agendas by bending data

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@TheMindBrew @clairezagorski Citing c sections as the cause of difficult childbirth is a wild choice.

As with the rest of your list, the tiny grains of truth are lost in the radically incorrect framing pushed by wellness conspiracy and not science

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@pschofie79 Academic articles? Textbooks? Non fiction books? Novels? Recent novels or older texts? What’s the level of comprehension you are hoping to achieve?

Page-count-as-progress is useful on an individual level (as in personal writing and reading goals) and silly as a general marker.

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@irinibus Haha maybe for those seemingly intimidating books! Ease the initial worry until curiosity takes over

I never had a professor assigning audio either, but leaning in to tech instead of away is interesting. (I always thought critiquing an AI summary would be a great assignment.)

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@irinibus Awesome! I still remember the opening of the Canterbury Tales from *high school* because of a class exercise like this. Plus the musicality is hard to read and easy to hear!

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@irinibus Also, it seems there is a shift in work satisfaction that understanding “why” is important beyond simple requirement.

You may already do this, but I wonder if providing explicit reasons for why each text is selected and what you hope they absorb/consider would provide that?

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@irinibus Definitely troubling!

Anecdotal and offered only in case it sparks ideas: I struggled post pandemic and found that audio books were a great tool for a “first pass” that allowed me to consider big themes first and then return to sections that sparked curiosity for closer reading