Taylor 💫

Postdoctoral fellow at Rice University | Educational equity, identity, burnout, well-being

[Taylor 💫 @HeyTpayne]

Passed my dissertation defense today!
I’m officially Dr. Payne 🎉

Could not have don’t this dissertation with community!

Huge thanks to my committee co-chairs @drmuenks @Dr_GigiAwad
Also huge thanks goes to #AcademicTwitter for participating

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[Taylor 💫 @HeyTpayne]

@jochantee23 Yes please!

[Taylor 💫 @HeyTpayne]

@NotTroyBolton_ Congratulations!! Well deserved

[No BS Therapist @TweetATherapist]

Shoutout to therapists, who parkour from talking about political anxieties to infidelity to childhood trauma to celebrating milestones to grief to climate change concerns to harm reduction to parenting strategies to last night’s bad date in the span of a day or even in a session.

[thot leedurr @DocDre]

this is where I'm at these days.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academics will have a 2 hour conversation about how busy they both are that ends in them agreeing to co-write something new

[Taylor 💫 @HeyTpayne]

Somewhere along the way, many social sciences divorced themselves from the philosophy of science and adopted positivism in the name of “rigor”

While (post)positivism have their place (and are necessary in some research) they are not the only epistemologies than can be used.

[ayanna @ayannamillerphd]

as a mixed method researcher…we don’t talk enough about how you need the kind of nuance provided via interviews, ethnography, focus groups etc…to be able to form and ask the right questions for your quantitative surveys.

[Dr. Justin Zimmerman @JZPhilosophy]

The thing I like about qualitative work is that sometimes you gotta spend a little time in the community and take history seriously to get a better understanding of certain demographics. They ain’t filling out that survey. I get in trouble every time I say that, but it’s true.

[Jessica Gladstone @J_Gladstone7]

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[Dr Daisy Dixon @daisyldixon]

me checking my manuscript status on the journal portal 5 minutes after submitting it

[Taylor 💫 @HeyTpayne]

@junegruber This paper was helpful when I faced that issue

https://t.co/yO2d9vwK23

[Taylor 💫 @HeyTpayne]

Is the AERA review portal down for anyone else or is it just me 🫠

[Taylor 💫 @HeyTpayne]

@HechoEnAfrica I think one of them could not hear themselves/ear piece was not working

[Trinity University @Trinity_U]

Trinity has named Alicia Moreno, Ph.D., as the new director for Student Inclusion and Belonging. Learn more about Moreno's wealth of experience and student-centered approach to their new role.

[Taylor 💫 @HeyTpayne]

@_inherlane I’m happy to chat! 🙋🏾‍♀️

[Taylor 💫 @HeyTpayne]

Yesss!! You’re an amazing scholar - this is well deserved

[Taylor 💫 @HeyTpayne]

@_inherlane Yay!! So happy that they were helpful

[Taylor 💫 @HeyTpayne]

Did I turn my AERA submission at 11:59? Why yes, yes I did. I am the problem 🫠🤫