Cat Watts

Medieval French / Fanfiction, videogames, comic books, social media / PhD student @Newnham_College @Cambridge_Uni @oocdtp / (she/her)

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

This is a legacy account - academic queries can find me at my institutional email

I post memes and tunes at @gauvain4president on insta

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

For anything academic (chats, collabs, and anything I can help with or promote as MML representative), drop me an Institutional Email

For your totally unscheduled memes and tunes, I'm over at @gauvain4president on insta

[Dr Miranda Griffin @MirandaHGriffin]

Online Medieval French Seminars starting tomorrow at 5pm BST and then fortnightly throughout the summer. DM or email me if you'd like to be added to the mailing list.

[Cambridge Medieval Literature and Culture Seminar @cammedsem]

Our next session will take place on Thurs 10th June, 5pm BST. Rebecca Courtier @BexCourtier will speak on 'Revolutionary Love: Radical Poiesis: Cultural Reversals in French Literature'.
Register now @ https://t.co/0EKpOzQRGj! #medievaltwitter

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

Shout out to uni departments offering ongoing flexible employment you're the real MVPs

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

To clarify: I love my PhD, it is easily the cushiest job I have ever had, three years' steady employment? In this economy? Yes please.

But it is a 30 hour wage and we need to acknowledge that.

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

you're allowed to work 10 hours a week which takes it up to £10.22 an hour, which is why I'm not remotely ashamed of having a (better-paid) second job despite being a "fully-funded" "full-time" student

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

love when a society has a reduced membership rate for students of "only half a day's wages"

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

your friendly reminder that a fully-funded UK AHRC PhD student makes £7.66 per hour if they work a 40-hour work week (which is why I Don't Do That)

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

reached the stage where I send invites to study sessions with this song and no further context

https://t.co/zvBqhGc75Y

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

@DrAshwinyOK I'm SO impressed but also that is definitely way too much to have on your plate alongside everything else you do!

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

I think I like reviewing! It's just being nice to someone and attentive to the things they care about for five hundred words.

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

also if i was gonna accidentally wear flannel to any academic event I guess this one's the best one

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

the most radiant glorious launch of #tgqs finally made me cry in the last five seconds. congratulations on such a wonderful resonant book❤️@chantermestuet and @aspencerhall have seen to it that you can even read some of this important scholarship for free

https://t.co/oPG3YswhVm

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

"multitasking isn't really possibl-" i'm waiting on the phone to the bank, reading for a review, and chatting with a friend with music on. i'm too powerful.

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

@Ascolotl YES totally agree!! This is why we deserve nil points I was just sat there like "pls shut up you are embarrassing us in front of the continent"

[Dr Miranda Griffin @MirandaHGriffin]

Publication day for this lovely thing: https://t.co/y77nUOvLof

[Cat Watts @catchantwatts]

anyone else having a fight with #outlook today? I haven't been able to import contacts lists from Google Docs, Word, or Excel (in various .csv formats) that worked up until Tuesday

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