Matthew Smith

Higher Education Lecturer @valdostastate - @UUtah (BA), @BU_Tweets (MA), @MSState (MS), and @UniversityOfGA (PhD) alum - researcher - educator - world traveler

[Matthew Smith @SmithMatthewJ]

@InuitKodiak Just followed. Thank you!

[Matthew Smith @SmithMatthewJ]

@InuitKodiak Thank you! Looking forward to this (and I appreciate all you're putting into this, I know it is a LOT).

[Matthew Smith @SmithMatthewJ]

@InuitKodiak Totally understand. A good problem to have with so many interested. :-) Happy to wait for your DM in due time.

[Simpsons Daily Glavins 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @simpsons_DG]

One of my fave all-time Phil Hartmen bits!

[Criminalsimpsons @Criminalsimpson]

the greatest to ever do it

[Eshan @eshanbuilds]

The version of Star Wars returning to theaters on February 19, 2027 is the one George Lucas spent nearly thirty years insisting could never be shown again.

This is the genuine 1977 theatrical cut, newly restored. Han shoots first. There is no CGI Jabba slithering around Mos Eisley. None of the Special Edition additions Lucas folded in starting in 1997 are present. It is the first proper theatrical run of the original film in over forty years, confirmed on the official Star Wars site.

What makes that remarkable is how hard Lucas worked to bury it. After the 1997 Special Editions, he said repeatedly that the altered versions were the only ones he recognized. He compared his right to keep changing the film to Michelangelo deciding to repaint part of the Sistine Chapel.

His stated reason it could never come back was technical. He said the original camera negative had been physically cut apart to assemble the Special Edition, which made a true restoration of the 1977 version impossible.

So for almost three decades, every official release carried Special Edition material. The one time the original cut appeared on DVD, in 2006, it was a low-resolution transfer pulled from an old laserdisc master, slipped out as a bonus disc with no restoration at all.

The best way to watch the real 1977 Star Wars became a fan project. One team tracked down an actual 35mm theatrical print through a seller in Spain and scanned it frame by frame, cleaning every speck of dirt by hand over several years, because the studio that owned the film would not.

The 2027 restoration quietly proves it was always possible with the technology that existed the whole time. What had been standing in the way was ownership. Lucas controlled the film and did not want this version seen, and that only changed when he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 for four billion dollars.

The 50th anniversary celebration everyone is sharing is, underneath the nostalgia, a studio releasing the exact version the film's creator spent his life trying to paint over, now that he is no longer the one holding the brush.

[Simpsons Daily Glavins 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @simpsons_DG]

Nothing beats a stroll in cattle country... Hi, I'm Troy McClure!

You may remember me from such educational films as Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun!

And Firecrackers: The Silent Killer.

[Matthew Smith @SmithMatthewJ]

@InuitKodiak I'd be interested :-)

[Simpsons Daily Glavins 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @simpsons_DG]

Now, Apu, Mrs. Simpson claims that she forgot she was carrying that... bottle of delicious bourbon,
brownest of the brown liquors,
so tempting...

What's that? You want me to drink you!?

But I'm in the middle of a trial...

[Sinem Toraman Turk @SinemTrmnTurk]

Nitel araştırmalarda 5 temel desen (gömülü teori, fenomenoloji, etnografi, durum çalışması, öyküleyici/anlatısal) kullanmıyorsak niteli bilmiyormuşuz gibi düşünenler var. Oysa nitel bir çalışma tasarım olarak betimsel (descriptive qualitative) olabilir. 👇🏼 iki çalışma açıklıyor++

[Sinem Toraman Turk @SinemTrmnTurk]

Nitel çalışmaların sınırlılıkları olarak bazı araştırmacılar “bu çalışmanın sonuçları genellenemez” yazıyor. Oysa nitelin amacı zaten genelleme yapmak değil bulguların başka bağlamlara transfer edilebilirliği. 👇🏼 bu makale paradigmalardan hareketle güzel açıklamış bence ++

[Simpsons Daily Glavins 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @simpsons_DG]

"Now, we're going to run a few tests. This is a simple lie detector. I'll ask you a few yes or no questions and you just answer truthfully - do you understand?"

"Yes."

*BOOM*

[Matthew Smith @SmithMatthewJ]

@DrBritWilliams I have the same nightmare!

[Simpsons Daily Glavins 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @simpsons_DG]

"All right, Hans. Time to go."

"But, he ate my last meal!"

"If that's the worst thing that happens to you today, consider yourself lucky."

"Are you really allowed to execute somebody in a local jail!?"

"From this point on, no talking..."

[Simpsons Daily Glavins 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @simpsons_DG]

"Care to join me in a belt of scotch?"

"It's 9:30 in the morning!"

"Yeah, but I haven't slept in days..."

[Matthew Smith @SmithMatthewJ]

@fbatistasl Congratulations! So exciting for sure! I will definitely be looking to read it down the road. :-)

[Dil Bilimi-Linguistics (Mustafa Altun, PhD) @dilci_linguist]

Yeni Makale:

https://t.co/j3I5Pv5QKH

Bu çalışma, nitel araştırmalarda “kaç görüşme yapılmalı?” sorusunu ele alıyor. Yazarlar 2010–2019 arasında yayımlanmış 562 akademik makaleyi inceliyor.
Görüşme sayıları çok büyük farklılıklar gösteriyor. (2’den 682’ye kadar).

[Fan Yang @FanYangUChicago]

My lab is hiring a Postdoc and a Lab Manager at UChicago! We study existential cognition—how people engage with life’s big questions, from meaning to morality. Excited to build this emerging science together.

If this resonates, apply or share!😀
https://t.co/mcTOJQsUTX

[Matthew Smith @SmithMatthewJ]

@CynkEvelyne Congratulations!

[Matthew Smith @SmithMatthewJ]

@helenldevine @Yale @NSF Congratulations!