Victoria Sisk

Soc PhD student at U of Arizona 🌵 Studying equitable development and gentrification | enthusiastic about everything from mixed methods to hash browns

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

@jdawncarlson "Soc community lounge", "soc lounge", or "soc cafe" all seem like solid starting options? The name could always evolve as people use the space and start to create their own impressions of it :)

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

am I capable of writing a sentence about my research that doesn't contain at least one parenthetical aside, m-dashes, and a semi-colon? only time will tell

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

"financialization" is the new "neoliberalism" and god help me, I'm going to be insufferable about it

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

@jdawncarlson @ua_sociology Can't wait to hear all your thoughts sometime! I think it was @sincerelysione who introduced me to it last summer :)

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

me, 10 minutes in to vaguely trying to explain the financialization of housing to a friend: ok, do you know what pork futures are? no? ok, have you read Hogfather by Terry Pratchett?

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

Does anyone have any advice &/or readings on feeling too slow for academia? I'm feeling a real disconnect between institutional timelines and the timelines that I personally need to do creative, thoughtful work without sacrificing my mental/physical health or enjoyment of work

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

major props to @_rinajames for sharing their comps note organization strategy a million years ago because my new system is just a tweaked version of that

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

thrilled to announce that after almost four (4) years in grad school, I have just now figured out a semi-functional system for organizing my reading notes

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

@peter__ore Tl;dr is that everything goes in OneNote! Unique notebooks for each project, sub-sections within notebooks, subpages within sections. Makes everything so, so, so searchable at different levels. I'm down to talk on the phone/Zoom to show in detail if it'd be useful!

[Diane Yentel @dianeyentel]

Of 31 cities where @evictionlab tracks eviction filings, 14 have surpassed pre-pandemic averages, including: Austin (60% above average), Houston (70%), Bridgeport (61%), Gainesville (51%), Hartford (58%), New Orleans (23%), Jacksonville (26%).

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

Only in Arizona do students ask if class is cancelled because of rain 😂

when I was in undergrad, we had to walk to class in a hurricane. uphill both ways!! (but actually - they sent an email saying classes were still on and to watch for "flying debris" during Hurricane Sandy)

[Capitol Q @IntergalacticQ]

White people are always like “whoa there bud, we only support violence on the systematic level”

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

@danoilplainview you TOO!!! compliments from judith butler and cornell west are extremely deserved <333

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

Would it be weird to email a professor out of the blue to say I loved their (academic) book? I probably won't have reason to cite said book in my published work, but it reminded me why I love sociology + I'm still thinking about it months later

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

"Living with COVID" shouldn't mean getting reinfected with COVID over and over because the government doesn't want to try anymore.

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

What is the street for? By changing the answer to that question, @Anne_Hidalgo is on the fast track to reclaim #Paris for human life.

Watch @CarlosMorenoFr explain this power of the 15 Minute City: https://t.co/NXxWqZenfY

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

when I tell you I screamed when I saw this....

Per the NerdWallet cost of living calculator, that's the equivalent of $34,683 in Tucson. So even accounting for cost of living, that's about twice what grads in my program make

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

concept: if there are no times that work for all committee members in a 50+ option doodle poll, the student just automatically passes the oral defense without having to schedule it

[Victoria Sisk @VictoriaSisk2]

UA announcing a planned "day of healing, memory, and hope" for the 2-year anniversary of covid closures on the SAME DAY they stop requiring masks inside (thus making inside spaces significantly more dangerous) is.... really something