Kelly Matula, PhD

Head of Library Research @upennlib. Decision scientist, writer. #SciComm, #DataScience #DisabledInSTEM @princeton, @CarnegieMellon alum. Catholic. Views own

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

@AndrewRAConway Well, since they’re meant to be good luck, how about name it after someone you & Jim feel lucky to know / who has brought you good luck?

For the record, Dave is named in homage to @frootloops’ Toucan Sam + soul duo Sam & Dave 🥣🎶

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

@AndrewRAConway Thanks! Your chicken is great too! Does it have a name?

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

@AndrewRAConway I think my parents read the memo wrong - they have a toucan (I call it Dave).

[Nick Piccone @_piccone]

HOSKINS! ¡EN ESPAÑOL!

@Philliesbeisbol
@OscarBudejen
@ElGringoMalo365

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

@FavaleAbs Oh I forgot St. Faustina!

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

@FavaleAbs Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Dominic (barely—and pretty inexplicably, though not enough so that I’d say “miraculously”—survived a medical emergency on his Feast Day in ‘03), St. Philip Neri, St. Lucy, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. John Henry Newman, St. Dymphna

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

Happy Halloween from my Snoopy Jack-o-lantern & me!
My dad helped steady the knife & did the tricky parts (CP, visual impairment + knives aren’t a great mix) but this is the closest to my own carving I’ve done since ‘08 (the prof I worked for in undergrad had a carving party)

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

flavors) that my family jokes I have a 2nd PhD in “Cheerios science.” Well this Cheerios Scientist is very glad to be back to important breakfast research. 😋Verdict on the strawberry banana Cheerios: pretty good, but apple cinnamon is still the best fruit-based variety IMO.

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

After 27 months on a super-low fiber diet, I’ve finally been cleared by new GI doc to eat any cereal I want. So I’m resuming my old practice of mixing kinds (“cereal non-monogamy”), incl. my 1st new @cheerios flavor since 7/20. I ❤️ Cheerios so much (esp. enjoy trying new +

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

@KayteSB @CBSSM Would come if I were there, nice to see so many friendly faces! Also I’d snag a water bottle, as my one of my parents ruined mine (again) by running it through the dishwasher LOL

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

@ealipstein Oh no, sorry to hear you’ve had to stay home. Hope you’re both feeling ok!

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

@walkthesunnyway 3/3

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

@walkthesunnyway That’s one of my 3 answers. 2/3: “O Sacrament most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, all praise and all Thanksgiving, be every moment thine (IDK how old that particular phrasing / hymn is, but I’ve always found it striking.

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

NB: We’re on 1st-name terms, but I usually use titles in congratulatory situations, esp for women (mom is a physician who spent much of her career having her title or last name dropped) 2/2

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

I don’t think I’d heard about this & am proud to say I know this bad*ss scientist & #SciComm expert IRL. Congrats on your awesomely-named chair, Dr. Mack! 😊
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[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

New business cards arrived 👀

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

@roryreckons By “taught about this” I mean Nazi eugenics (along w/ their targeting of Sinti & Roma ppl, homosexuals, political dissidents, &c.) during our WWII / Holocaust unit.

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

@roryreckons I was taught about this: it was something my 7th-grade history teacher thought was very important to teach, which I think is very good in general but meant that I faced some “They would’ve killed you first!” taunts. Because middle-schoolers can be merciless little a-holes.

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

I get asked stuff like this way more often than most (ablebodied at least) ppl would probably believe. Usually a lot more casually too (tho some ppl have enough decency to at least be embarrassed when they ask).

[Kelly Matula, PhD @kellymatulaphd]

Lots. “So they didn’t know anything was wrong with you/there wasn’t prenatal testing?” etc. make me saddest & angriest. Mom had weeks of preterm labor & parents are both docs. They knew things were “wrong with me” (multiple docs counseled termination, @ least 1 pressured for it)

[Cherylee Houston @cheryleehouston]

I’m writing an article on ableism. What’s your most shocking example? Xxx