Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿

critical approaches to AI pop music, social media discourse analysis, moss aficionado, outdoorsperson, digital media lecturer @stiruni 🐝🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Jack MacGregor @JMacR]

the anthropocene is over, we now live in the slopocene

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

IASPM Canada @iaspmca 2025 conference CFP.
Early submissions, for SSHRC funding consideration, due tomorrow - March 15th. Regular submissions due April 1st.
Conference to be held at Toronto Metropolitan University, 16 - 18 October 2025.
https://t.co/iiwDHMttkG

[annelot prins (10 minute version) @LennartSpion]

Book is out: https://t.co/rfuyc4vEYv

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

@TexasRepublic71 @PressSec Agreed, Trump is done!

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

Come work with me! Lecturer in Digital Media. Expertise in social media and data analytics preferred. https://t.co/U1aSq0K6pV

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

CFP: IASPM Canada @iaspmca conference. October 16-19, 2025 in Toronto.
https://t.co/M9RDuUoej5

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

Applications now open for funded PhD opportunities at @StirUni in Creative Industries. People working on relevant music research are welcome to apply.

https://t.co/iCVKbz3led

[Grouse Beater News @Grouse_Beater]

Academic Lolly

Stirling University boss, Sir Gerry McCormac, [pictured] has rocketed 40% - from £295,000 in 2022, to a whopping £414,000 last year. His total package, including pension contributions, has been raised from £320,000 two years ago to £438,000 today.

Gerry has now overtaken Edinburgh University head Sir Peter Mathieson, becoming the highest paid further education boss in Scotland - and receives more than double the £166,786 earned annually by Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

The increase was branded "simply obscene" last night by Mary Senior, Scotland official at the UCU union, who warned pay hikes for bosses were compounding the financial challenges faced by universities. There are fears they also undermine repeated calls from the sector for the Scottish Government to implement a more sustainable funding model.

Senior said: "University staff can only dream about getting 14 per cent salary hikes. Over the past two years this principal has managed to add almost a staggering £120,000 to his annual earnings. With the extra £24,000 in added benefits he receives, he earns over nine times more than the average worker at the university.

"This level of salary and salary inflation at the top of our universities is simply obscene.

However, the university said Sir Gerry had turned down pay rises in eight of the past ten years, and had donated £120,000 to the Vice-Chancellor's Fund in the last decade.

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

Ridiculous 😡

[The Courier @thecourieruk]

Gerry McCormac now earns more than twice the first minister's annual salary. https://t.co/BSzlyVUTU9

[abby @abby4thepeople]

Lmao at thousands of people downloading Rednote (the version of tiktok that is actually owned by China) to spite the U.S. government, finding themselves having lovely interactions with the millions of Chinese citizens on the app & inadvertently undoing decades of U.S. propaganda.

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

@British_Airways chatbot informs me it's in @yvrairport control. Any update on when I can receive my luggage, YVR?

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

According to my AirTag, my bag has now been sitting in the baggage carousel area of YVR for 15 hours with no updates from @British_Airways

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

According to my AirTag, my bag has now been sitting in the baggage carousel area of YVR for 15 hours with no updates from @British_Airways

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

Another Christmas, another arrival in Canada where @British_Airways has left my luggage in the UK 🤬

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

@British_Airways Now in a random field in Ireland?!

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

@British_Airways I have had no updates. I tried to get an update with BA chat today and they wouldn’t provide me with one

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

https://t.co/LhVXgxdFGH

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This statue just appeared at a park in Philadelphia

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

[Dr Melissa Avdeeff 🌿 @avdeeff]

@JBarbero32 @RollingStone Cool story bro.