Andy Bowman

Grad student trying to learn how to twitter (again)

[Andy Bowman @andybowman4]

Even though I'm posting this to get a 35% off coupon, I cant avoid saying it's freaking cool: https://t.co/cd4Z1rqYV6

[Andy Bowman @andybowman4]

Even though I'm posting this to get a 35% off coupon, I cant avoid saying it's freaking cool: https://t.co/cd4Z1rqYV6

[Katie Berry @KatherineABerry]

A few incoming PhD students have asked me what they can do now to prepare for grad school. Here’s my advice - don’t refresh on stats or or try to get a head start on research. Instead, do absolutely nothing! Sleep until noon, spend time with loved ones, & binge watch trashy tv!

[Dr. Angry Grad @GradSkoolStrugs]

I don’t give a rat’s hairy ass how many publications or grants someone has.

Do you treat your students and colleagues with RESPECT and KINDNESS?! Because that’s what I care about.

[Dr. Angry Grad @GradSkoolStrugs]

“So what do you do for work?”

Me: “I’m working on my Ph.D.”

“Good for you!”

Me: “IT DOESN’T FEEL SO GOOD, SUSAN.”

*Susan runs away*

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is. 1/

[Andy Bowman @andybowman4]

@nelsonlflores https://t.co/Y471mSUTdQ I also think the "living wage" language lacks detail. Many grad workers use this site to back up their slogans with more specific money math.

[Andy Bowman @andybowman4]

@nelsonlflores As a grad labor organizer, I think EVERY worker (not just people with PhDs) deserves a living wage. Most (not all) grads I know feel that way too. When they say "nobody can live" they mean no one should have to. The grads complaining are "living" on those stipends now.

[mekline.bsky.social @melissaekline]

It's common advice to new PhD students to treat it like a job, ie setting some regular hours/boundaries for how you work. I'd like to encourage you to think of it as a job, in that you are performing work in exchange for money.

Academia has really really weird ideas about money

[ISUGradUnion @ISU_GWU]

Please sign & circulate this letter written by graduate workers & faculty calling on @IllinoisStateU, Pres. Kinzy & the BOT, to do the right thing, to follow the IL Dept. of Public Health, the IL Board of Higher Ed, & the Centers for Disease Control in mandating vaccines!

[Kaitlyn Adams @Kait2lyn]

Last Thursday my dad told me he doesn’t want to get to know my girlfriend or us as a couple and when I got upset and told him how hurtful that was, he said he didn’t want to know the “physical, intimate details” of our relationship

[eli nova rose @unambivalence]

one time lauren berlant gave me some advice about affective survival in toxic institutions:

"if you're going to be very fierce, you might also want to be very warm."

and… i try, honestly i try.

[GEO at UIUC @geo_uiuc]

Follow and support our comrades @ISU_GWU!! They continue to be exploited by @IllinoisStateU which pays them poverty wages and no benefits. Amplify their struggle as they prepare for a potential strike.

#FairWagesForGradLabor

#UniversitiesWorkBecauseWeDo

[Andy Bowman @andybowman4]

@amanda_bales My response to that faculty member, "Get our pretty name out of your mouth!" Then go google solidarity!

[Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD]

We are, all of us, at best no more than a decade of misrule and one bad natural disaster away from this

[GEO at UIUC @geo_uiuc]

UIUC announced last night that it will discontinue its use of Proctorio, the invasive and discriminatory remote proctoring software, after Summer 2021! This is a win for our members and our students, who have been organizing on this issue for months! https://t.co/2aeLTZxgee

[Andy Bowman @andybowman4]

Interesting discussion of a intersectional identity #CRTed https://t.co/jGrKiXZc7T

[Andy Bowman @andybowman4]

A rare bit of good news out of Texas; state BOE voted against inshrining racism even deeper in the curriculum https://t.co/Rbm3BEkgzq #CRTed