Minh-Anh Mia Do 📖✒

Devout believer in the Oxford comma || PhD candidate @UOW, researching international student experience in the Australian mental healthcare landscape

[Minh-Anh Mia Do 📖✒ @thespecsofMia]

(1/2) To my friends, teachers, and mentors who are here on Twitter--starting now, I'm using both Minh-Anh (/Ming-Ang/ or /Min-Ann/ for ease) and Mia in both personal anf professional contexts. My Vietnamese name was given to me by my paternal grandfather, who passed in 2019.

[cp 🪩💋🍸 @theBKbelle]

once i came to terms with my mental health being something i will have to actively manage for the rest of my life (because it is a chronic illness), it made me realize that i have to actively choose joy, goodness, and pleasure.

[Thea Snow @theasnow]

“When a language dies, so much more than words are lost. Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world.” Robin Wall Kimmerer.

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Seriously

[Graham Walker, MD @grahamwalker]

Just so we're clear: the pregnancy that ends up in the wrong spot, like the fallopian tube? The one that will NEVER turn into a baby and will rupture and kill your wife, daughter, or sister? Terminating that fetus is also an abortion, and they want to ban those, too.

[Minh-Anh Mia Do 📖✒ @thespecsofMia]

(2/2) He gave my parents the idea for my name, the meaning of which is "clarity, and brightness (of the mind) or intelligence". I haven't been able to visit his grave since he passed (#thanksCovid) and this is my way of honouring our grandparent-grandchild bond.

[Minh-Anh Mia Do 📖✒ @thespecsofMia]

(1/2) To my friends, teachers, and mentors who are here on Twitter--starting now, I'm using both Minh-Anh (/Ming-Ang/ or /Min-Ann/ for ease) and Mia in both personal anf professional contexts. My Vietnamese name was given to me by my paternal grandfather, who passed in 2019.

[WholesomeMemes @WholesomeMeme]

The First Ever Photo Of A Cat In History (1880)

[Ly Tran @LyTran18]

Excited about our new article on mediating b/t
‘Western’ & local imaginaries in internationalisation of #Vietnamese #HE. It addresses the co-existence of both socialist & capitalist ideologies in the imported curriculum. Link to 50 free e-copies:
https://t.co/tUD4ui3RPy
#inled

[Bryan Banks @BryanBanksPhD]

Whoever made this is my new favorite person.

[hannah soong @hannahmobility]

How our government respond to our international students now will alter the future of Australian international education sector. They do not need another knee-jerk response but a more human and compassionate approach https://t.co/egcPz8mcL1

[zae @itszaeok]

can we start a movement to have subtitles at movie theaters i'm begging

[Minh-Anh Mia Do 📖✒ @thespecsofMia]

@KateMfD @GivernyW @PeteGoderie @DakotaFeirer @doessheeek @bonstewart @lizmorrish This is just beautiful.

[Shelf @shelfcomedy]

me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles

god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying

[Academic Chatter™ @AcademicChatter]

When you think you have a brilliant original idea.. and then you find a paper on it.. and then a special issue covering it.. and finally a school of thought based on it.