Emily Simmons (she/her)

instruction librarian • msls from @uncsils • accessibility, critical pedagogy, rhetoric, etc • 🌈

profile picrew: citruslucy

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

SARSCOV2 affects every organ system & leads to long covid. Repeat infections lead to worse outcomes. Current vaxes lower severity of infection & are worth getting, but don’t prevent infection or transmission and aren’t enough to rely on alone.

Learn more: https://t.co/2vqFe1szwG

[you aint got no job tommy! @AceRedBand1t]

I love yall but please stop using AI. Even the fun little trend stuff on here.

On top of wasting water those harmful emissions from the data centers are harming some black and brown communities somewhere.

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

⚠️ BREAKING:

NHS Calls for 10-Day Isolation for New XEC COVID Strain as Cases Rise; Experts Warn of Worsening Symptoms and Possible Return of Masks and Social Distancing

[Emily Simmons (she/her) @emilymsimmons]

@violetbfox I see it and I can't believe we (I) are just going on like normal...going to work like nothing is wrong.

[Emily Simmons (she/her) @emilymsimmons]

@schizoreads it was that bad, huh?

[Emily Simmons (she/her) @emilymsimmons]

@korrasatx The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo. Just read it and it got kinda weird.

[INALJ (Naomi House) #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 🇸🇩#Sudan @INALJNaomi]

People trust librarians to be able to guide them to accurate information, and by unmasking quite early as a field (stares at all LIS conferences since 2021) we failed to be who we claim to be: experts

[Emily Simmons (she/her) @emilymsimmons]

@schizoreads nice

[Emily Simmons (she/her) @emilymsimmons]

@notlayingroses Lots of virtual pride events featured here: https://t.co/AIuQC5lxrI

[Cara Santucci @CaraSantucciTX]

Would love the opportunity to “lunch & unlearn” for once. I know too much. Brain needs emptying.

[Emily Simmons (she/her) @emilymsimmons]

@schizoreads i can't remember the last time i cried even a single tear reading a book.

[Catherine D. Tan @Catherineoscopy]

We are approaching that time in the semester when therapy dogs are deployed to colleges/universities across the country to solve major problems well beyond their expertise.

[Emily Simmons (she/her) @emilymsimmons]

@schizoreads omg game changer

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

It's striking how many people fail to understand that quantified evaluations, such as standardized tests and rubrics, are no more objective than narratives & other qualitative appraisals. They just use numbers to conceal the subjective judgments that underpin them.

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Me at my desk every morning recently

[Emily Simmons (she/her) @emilymsimmons]

@CaseyHRawson AGAIN?! 😖

[dr. alicia andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz]

I tweeted about turning down an unpaid invited talk as an academic mom & a male scholar commented that I should’ve known how grueling academia was, that I was “disingenuous.”

I don’t want a “grueling” life for anyone—I want us all to desire more, differently, & better than that.

[UE 150 The Workers Union at UNC @workersunionunc]

❤️‍🩹💓✊🏿We SALUTE the heroic efforts of housekeepers and maintenance workers to keep students safe during the tragic and traumatic event on Monday.

Parents Credit the Janitors at UNC Chapel Hill for Saving Their Children's Lives During Shooting
https://t.co/XKAAYwG90w

[Emily Simmons (she/her) @emilymsimmons]

i'm so angry at this fucking country

[Emily Simmons (she/her) @emilymsimmons]

the fact that this happened at my alma mater this week and it wasn't "big" enough "news" to prompt anyone in my workplace or from my family or whatever to ask how i'm doing...fucking sucks

[Caitlyn Yaede (she/her) @caitlyn_yaede]

The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel –

I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.

Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

[Emily Simmons (she/her) @emilymsimmons]

not to mention the fact that i'm questioning whether i'll get in trouble for tweeting this because i've been explicitly told by leadership not to be an "activist"

is gun violence too political to talk about at my public university?