Kristin Van Dorn

Ph.D. cand. @ UofMN studying tolerance for political differences & institutional trust. Head of client strategy and research for @braverymedia

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

@JackRabuck @mattyglesias @CardiffGarcia By the way, just keep in mind that corporate research led to the creation of opioids and all the randomized control trials that showed they were safe and not addictive.

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

@JackRabuck @mattyglesias @CardiffGarcia Basic research is not what corporations are set up to do at this time. They rely heavily on the basic research coming out of university research programs.

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

@JackRabuck @mattyglesias @CardiffGarcia There are DNA viruses and RNA viruses. COVID is not the only instance where an RNA vaccine would be useful. I’m not a virologist so I don’t know enough here, but retroviruses as I understand them are a type of RNA virus and are linked to all host of other diseases.

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

@JonHaidt I hardly go on Twitter at all anymore, but my brief tour this morning felt chock full of cognitive distortions. This resonates.

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

@BookofHeroesSBB Will you come back for Fairytale Fables??

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

Hey, hey, shirt brother. Nice to meet you. I like this guy. Shirt brother. He's got good taste.

[NurseBrianRN @rn_murse]

the moment i found out i’m actually an 86 year old woman:

[Austin Knies @Austin_Knies]

It’s job market season! I’m Austin Knies, an Economics Ph.D. Candidate at @IUBloomington on the 2023-24 job market. My work is in applied microeconomics at the intersection of health economics and information frictions. A quick 🧵 about me:

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

I went from reading The Night Circus last week to reading Earthlings this week. And I enjoyed both in very different ways. But laying in bed preparing for sleep, it was way more fun thinking about a magic circus world than it is now to think of Poppinpobopians and that ending. 😬

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

I actually went on a vacation, read two novels, and almost completely unplugged from work. It was pretty great.

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

@FromPhDtoLife In my experience, this myth gives certain academics a permission structure to act unethically and treat people poorly. If you believe you’re spending your career doing morally good work, bending ethical constraints for that work supports a greater good in the long run.

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

@FromPhDtoLife That the subject of someone’s research doesn’t often impact their personal behaviors the way you might imagine it might. In fact, it works in the opposite way you’d expect: the subject of person’s research is often their blindspot interpersonally.

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

It has been a really long time since I’ve read a book that has rendered all other books temporarily tedious and unenjoyable.

But, I’m just lost since finishing Piranesi (it’s been a week now). Suzanna Clarke is such an inventive storyteller. I just love this book to pieces.

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

@NicoleBarbaro Stanford is a private university with a top 10 endowment size. It appears they have more grad students than undergrad. I’m not sure they ought to serve as a general example.

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

DON'T PANIIKK 😱

#academia #phdlife #phdchat #science #xp #AcademicChatter #phdvoice

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

@amandaesque saw this and thought of you, friend!

https://t.co/YRfi9RePkx

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

Spectacular article. Excellent writing. https://t.co/3CXpyCe05H

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

"Schools of globular animals grazing, plant roots in their hustle, the wild west of the soil. All those bandits, brigands, loners, crapshooters. The soil was a horizonless external gut. Digestion and salvage everywhere."

- Merlin Sheldrake, on imagining life as a fungus

[Kristin Van Dorn @yossariansghost]

You all know my answer.

[Tea with Tolkien @TeawithTolkien]

which Tolkien character are you defending like this