Beth Bowden

Communications @WUSTL | @WUSTL Alum | Girl Mom | All the Books | All the Pets

[Beth Bowden @BethBowden15]

The photogenic city

[Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9]

Sunrise Reflection at Sears Tower. The start of the day on Friday along the South Branch of the Chicago River. #chicago

[Emily A. The Spirit of Jezebel @emzorbit]

If you live in Missouri and you previously voted for one or more of the following:

- legalize weed
- legalize sports betting
- raise the minimum wage
- expand Medicaid
- codify reproductive rights

Get your ass to the polls this week or Aug 3rd and vote NO on 4.

[Henry Shevlin @dioscuri]

My students sometimes ask why they should memorise things in the age of Google and LLMs. But internalised facts are your bullshit filters and your raw material for creative association. Facts outside your head are inert.

[Beth Bowden @BethBowden15]

@awizardharri @johnvvariety Beat me to it

[Beth Bowden @BethBowden15]

Good thread on the current higher ed discourse

[Jesse Smith @jessesmithsoc]

Since academic X is abuzz about viewpoint diversity and conservatives in higher ed, and I've written a fair amount about this, it would be professionally irresponsible of me not to engage in some shameless self-promotion.

My basic position:

1) Yes, we need viewpoint diversity.
2) Yes, that means conservatives.
3) This is warranted on purely intellectual and epistemic (as opposed to political) grounds.

Want to see that argument fleshed out over several thousand words across multiple essays? Of course you do.

A compendium. ⬇️ 1/

[Beth Bowden @BethBowden15]

@shedreamspurpIe I’ll allow “Sammie” though

[Beth Bowden @BethBowden15]

@BolshevikNeo @memilies Yes. My abuser wanted to “use a different word for it to acknowledge the ‘complexity’.” 😠

[Beth Bowden @BethBowden15]

@QueenMab87 And sometimes even when they DO.

[Dr. Annie Andrews @AnnieAndrewsMD]

Believe women.

[Beth Bowden @BethBowden15]

@LisaBeeRose @CartoonsHateHer All inclusives were the only vacation we could do for years

[Mental Health America @MentalHealthAm]

Affirmations for July:

Every version of me deserves love.
I’m allowed to start over again.
Loving and caring for myself is brave.
I’m still growing, and that’s okay.

🌻

[Nostos @NostosLit]

- Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

[Beth Bowden @BethBowden15]

@RachelZader Maybe they homeschooled because of their children’s traits, not the other way around.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Dear writers, we need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound. https://t.co/FEmCrdQ392

[Beth Bowden @BethBowden15]

Yes! Do it!

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

To all my friends who are turning 50 or are over 50… get your shingles vaccine shots if you haven’t! Shingles is hell! So take your butt to your doctor ASAP!

[Beth Bowden @BethBowden15]

Just hold up one finger when you walk past and say “don’t even.” Works every time.

[Austin King @AustinKingMT]

Costco needs to get rid of the AT&T people.

Sir, I'm here to buy 8 pounds of chicken wings, 600 paper plates, and a years supply of oil for my truck, not be harassed about changing my phone plan.

[WashU @WashU]

A course 250 years in the making 📖: This semester, students took a deep-dive into the history of the U.S. through lectures from scholars at WashU and throughout the country. All lectures are now available online and free of charge. https://t.co/J6K4D7EBit

[FEAR GOD @FEARGODMINDSET]

C.S. Lewis wrote this banger

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

this should be reposted repeatedly!

[Beth Bowden @BethBowden15]

Atticus

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

What would you name this alpaca? 😅