Dr Garrett E Eriksen

🏺PhD Historian @StellenboschUni | 🐊Conservationist @Cangowranch | 🗺️Traveller x 55 Countries | 🇿🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

My dissertation is finally available for viewing! You can download it here: https://t.co/zYazq5W42G "One Percent Terror, Ninety-Nine Percent Boredom: An analysis of the military boredom and leisure time experiences of SADF soldiers during the South African Border War 1966–1989"

[💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄👹🩸 @ArtOfMaquenda]

The Court of Ego

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

First day off in 9 years and another 2 weeks to relax. Forgotten what this feels like. Bliss

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

Defence passed, I am officially Dr Eriksen! ��🥳

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

Love you dad.

[Cᴀɴɢᴏ Wɪʟᴅʟɪғᴇ Rᴀɴᴄʜ @cangowranch]

Dear friends of Cango Wildlife Ranch,

Today, we honour the life and legacy of an incredible man. Our devoted, innovative, and loving Managing Director, Andrew Eriksen, has passed away.

[Allan Cudicio @AllanCudicio]

(1/16)Africa never developed writing! What a colonialist lie. Of course its griot-bards and their oral epics are magnificent but it has developed several writing systems too - Africa is rich in both🖤I will list a few of them. The first one is well known, Egyptian Hieroglyphs:

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

Want to check if your heart still works? Have the power go out while you're working on a chapter, then try open the doc later and find it completely corrupted. Spend 2hrs in despair trying to recover it only to finally find a backed up copy on a random hdd. Bloody hell. #phdlife

[ruthy0nfire @ruthy0nfire]

My own mental health crisis averted, I can share these #CrazySocks4Docs curtesy of @CiplaRSA to support mental health awareness for medical professionals.
Where's the rest of my gamers at?
#mentalhealth #ItsOkayToNotBeOkay
#ZAStreams

[Sir Ddinbych @Captn_Hurricane]

Alignment of 5 planets, Earth, Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter, as seen from Africa at 4 am.

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

True zen https://t.co/9KyvzoPWJi

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

Oh nooo… their wealth is untouchable… 🗿

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

Just vibing, working on that thesis chapter, having a chill Sunday, enjoying some #TLOK lofi. This is the way.
🌊⛰️🔥🌪️ https://t.co/hGdJw19pKK

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

@AmberPinkish Yeah you and millions of other internet-goers 😂

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

@CaV1E I’ve seen this vid! It’s great!

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

If you’re experiencing internet outages today, just remember that you’re experiencing the ALMIGHTY POWER OF THE SUN! You’ll have to watch your cat compilation videos another time.

https://t.co/u8nI7vxHv5

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

Our Eden, rising.

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

@CofCNatHistory What skeleton is that? Looks super cool in this atmosphere!

[Incunabula @incunabula]

An 18th century Ethiopian Version of Kings, መጽሐፈ ነገሥት , which contains the two Books of Samuel and the two Books of Kings, together making up 1-4 Kings. THERE ARE TWO FULL-PAGE DIAGRAMS OF THE TABERNACLE AND THE ARK OF THE COVENANT, with many marginal annotations. 1/

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

@Goonwuff @GeckoEdit Yes, we actually had a good chat about it on fb. The consensus was to NOT italicise. But I wanted to hear from a more diverse group of historians and writers before I made my final edits.

[Dr Garrett E Eriksen @lofi_historian]

#twitterstorians do you italicise words/sentences in your manuscripts that are NOT your primary written language? Eg, I’m writing in English but I quote Afrikaans often. Should I italicise the Afrikaans quotes? More considerations in the 🧵