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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them)

@lizwfab.bsky.social

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Assoc. Prof. of English & Comm Books: The Computer’s Voice (U Minn, 2020) Robot Suicide (Lexington, 2023) Under the Mistletoe (McFarland, 2024) Worker Bots (U Minn, in progress) LizWFaber.com

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · Jun 17

Reminder: I do freelance editing! I can proofread, edit, and format anything from a CV to an entire thesis or dissertation in any discipline. I even do indexing. Pricing and details are on my website. Please share with your grad students and colleagues!

www.lizwfaber.com/editing

Editing Services | Liz W Faber, PhD

editing, cv, writing, academic writing, feedback, cover letter, academic jobs

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 4h

kermit the frog is wearing a black cloak and says evil laugh

ALT: kermit the frog is wearing a black cloak and says evil laugh

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 4h

10 minutes later, KL is still reading about the speed of snails because they are also 100% neurotypical

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 4h

Me, a 100% neurotypical person: “academic hiring moves slower than molasses, which moves at 35mph. So probably like the speed of a snail. I wonder how fast a snail moves…hold on lemme find my phone…AH! .03 miles per hour…yeah that feel like the speed of academic hiring.”

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 13h

Weird Al, all the way.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 4d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 15h

INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 17h

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨

I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥

I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action

More info: cella.io

Cella M. Sum –

cella.io

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 17h

I want to believe. 👽🛸
#WhatProfessorsWear

A white non-binary person wearing a tshirt that has an alien and a spaceship abducting a cow that says “just visiting,” with black pants, a polka dot cardigan, and white shoes

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 19h

This is literally why people are joking about it. What other outlet do we have when we’re essentially powerless against this authoritarian government?

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 19h

The girlfriend of the founder of antifa

An orange cat loafing with one paw tucked and one laying flat

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 19h

Cairo

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

*sigh* Okay, cat’s out of the bag.

I am the Director of Cultural Marxism and Gender Ideology at Antifa HQ.

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Since we’re clearing the air, I might as well put out something I’ve been concealing for a very long time.

I’m the Vice President of Antifa (Western Continental Division)

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

In researching faculty professional development models, I have discovered that "Faculty Technology Mentorship" is abbreviated to FTM, and wow I can't get my brain to read it as anything other than a transmasc thing.

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

Me: Here are 5 rhetorical elements. Let's practice analyzing them together. In your next essay, you'll analyze how one author uses the 5 rhetorical elements. My PowerPoint is on Canvas if you need to review.

[Repeat for 3 class periods]

Students: Here's a 3-paragraph summary of an article.

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wormbuxx @wormbuxx.bsky.social · 2d

Now I’m falling asleep and she’s calling a cob

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, fair

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Spocktober! 🖖🏻🎃
#whatprofessorswear

A white nonbinary person wearing a tshirt that has a drawing of Spock from Star Trek and the words “Happy Spocktober,” with orange pants and black boots.

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about Boston is that, when it rains, it washes away everyone's knowledge of how to drive.

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

Much spookier today, thanks

The quad at Dean College, with a grey overcast sky

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 2d

Victorian Lit Prof / Creative Writing Prof / Lit Theory Prof

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

Associate Professor / Full Professor / Assistant Professor

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I love him!

Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 2d

A cooking competition show where they declare a winner every week but nobody ever gets eliminated, they just have a nice experience, and then after 10 weeks everyone just goes home happy.

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 2d

🙃

Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 2d

Time for my least favorite game: will the CVS smell like pee or pot today?

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