Dan Li, Ph.D.

In academia, merit doesn’t pay — visibility does. I help scholars become visible. | | Also, my Erdős number is 5.

[Dan Li, Ph.D. @danli_o]

"Do you think your idea is worth spreading?"
"......"
"Then go fking spread it!"

Literally had a conversation with a friend in academia today.

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https://t.co/MW6tBHMKcy

[Dan Li, Ph.D. @danli_o]

At least some people need to hear this: you don't have depression; you just deserve to be in a better situation.

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https://t.co/yloZmKn539

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We need mothers in workplaces, because--new essay--Only a Mother Knows: on standpoint, care, and limits of knowledge and understanding.

https://t.co/yloZmKn539

[Dan Li, Ph.D. @danli_o]

Daughter: Everybody loves everybody in this family!
Ryan: I'll teach you how to write that in predicate logic when you turn 7.
Me: For all x... Do?
Ryan: We don't use the do operator here.
Me: Except for between Dad and Mom?
Ryan:

[Dan Li, Ph.D. @danli_o]

Motherhood.

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https://t.co/LTmbkourjx

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17 | Not a Very Good Mom

[Dan Li, Ph.D. @danli_o]

"Some schools educated students; mine manufactured them."

https://t.co/vVdrea7hDp

[Dan Li, Ph.D. @danli_o]

"Motherhood feels like a slow disappearance—of sleep, solitude, even air. But in that disappearing, something else expands: the number of hearts beating because of you."

https://t.co/6ISczf7JlS

[Dan Li, Ph.D. @danli_o]

"It takes something special to make New York subway say 'Don’t be someone’s subway story.'"
https://t.co/xdpK6OImms

[Dan Li, Ph.D. @danli_o]

"Meritocracy is an illusion, a myth, a mechanism to trick us working-class apes into working harder for those who can tell good stories."

https://t.co/EUvc7sRqeG

[Dan Li, Ph.D. @danli_o]

“When you’re employed, you don’t care about the tangible returns of the work you do. You get paid. That’s all you need to know.”

https://t.co/w9JafHgdxp

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https://t.co/ZPu6275AT9

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"... he lost most of his teeth—toothache after toothache—because it pained him even more to pay to visit a dentist."

https://t.co/I45a52o16N

[Dan Li, Ph.D. @danli_o]

It's hard to make a difference when people Google you and only find your tweets.

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https://t.co/xdpK6OImms

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Or simply, "I can't find it! It's too hard too."

[Mathieu @miniapeur]

I'd love to find the area under your curves.

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https://t.co/xdpK6OIUc0

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I don't know what the rest of the US would do when a stranger -- a tall big man -- talked very loudly (almost shouted) at a pregnant woman who's alone. But I know what New Yorkers on a subway did.

This is my favorite essay so far.