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Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 5d

Medieval techniques to preserve mental health? Sage advice here (and a wonderfully written post).

"Tao seemed forever struggling with the dilemma between living freely but poorly and working in the government but unhappily. Besides resorting to alcohol, Tao dealt with such struggles with poetry."

The Rise of Poetry Therapy in Eleventh Century China

How did literati manage their mental health in middle period China? Melancholy, depression, and down moods were as common among them as among us today. In the absence of antidepressants and therapists...

www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 2h

Also, I teach a rather definition-heavy subject, and if I have to *write* the definition on the board, this slows me down in places where slides would actually speed me up, which is SO important, because it gives the students time to think, take notes, get lost, zone out, ask questions, etc.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 2h

I like having slides for talks, but I have avoided teaching with slides as much as possible. It makes it SO much easier to engage with students when I'm not wedded to a single trajectory through the material as determined by slides.

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Greg Restall @consequently.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Pablo Rivas-Robledo, a PhD student in Amsterdam, interviewed me for his video podcast, Ping Pong Philosophy. The first series has launched today, and my interview is the first up. For a quick 12 minute back and forth about philosophy, logic, and academia, check it out here… […]

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 3h

Sounds like fun!

Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 14h

I had about two years of this, but since it generally happened while we were out playing PokémonGo together, I found it useful!

Nowadays, I get regaled with k-pop trivia....

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Kotu @kingoftheu.bsky.social · 12d

The year is 2053, Britain is a dystopian hellhole. But Northern Ireland is doing just fine because everyone was too scared to restart The Troubles so they got exempted from all the dystopia laws.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 14h

@davidpetts1.bsky.social , when I saw this, I thought of you, given your post on FB earlier today!

Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 15h

Dmitri Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar! He also liked it so much he considered writing a rock music themed suite (like his earlier Jazz suites) but died soon after.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 16h

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 21h

It just makes me so incredibly sad, that we can't even use lmgtfy as an insult any more...

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 21h

Of course incoming uni students don't immediately go to google, because for the vast majority of their googling life, google has been shit. Why would they go there to actually search the internet for a piece of information?

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 21h

Remember when lmgtfy was a thing?

Lately, whenever I find myself thinking "did it even occur to you to just type the keyword into a search engine?!?!" before posting a link to a website that answers someone's question, I remind myself that "just put the keywords into google" is no longer reliable.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

It's like they've gone on a scavenger hunt and found all sorts of treasures and they've boxed them up and given them to me as a present. What fun!

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

Reading my Master of Data Science students' final reports is a real treat this year. I had invested, excited students working on projects dear to my own heart, and even though we met regularly throughout the summer, so I knew roughly what they were doing, this is my first time seeing their results.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats! I look forward to seeing more of the outcomes from this.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

A fascinating read.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

A life update: this wound up paying off. I'm still applying to several jobs that are hopefully careers, but I've got my survival needs covered by a job at the airport that I'm apparently pretty good at.

And instead of being in an office alone, which was driving me mad, I see 20k people a day.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · Aug 12

There is a line around this building to get to the line entrance to wait to get into this job fair.

At the airport. For airport jobs.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

I remember my husband staring in horror when we flew with our kid when she was ~3 months, and all she did for the entire flight was put her mouth on everything she could reach (mostly the flight safety card). "I am never touching anything ever again", he solemnly proclaimed.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

and I love the challenge of having to direct people in such a way that the queue (a) continues to exist and (b) remains effective, AND gets as many people in out of the rain and wind as possible, when necessary!

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

I love watching this happen in real time, it's fascinating.

Once a year, I get to manage queues of new students coming into Durham cathedral to become formally admitted as students. I do it every year in part because queuing is an emergent phenomenon so it's fascinating to observe,

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

*does math*

Ouch.

Same.

Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

Have any of them lasted longer than a UK prime minister?

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 1d

UK Universities: Work until you drop. Publish or perish. Wanna research? Get a grant! Oh, and btw, we’re downsizing “our community.”

Also UK Universities:

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 1d

The law was passed in response to a treasury guy named Clark deciding that congress meant him when they said to put Clark (of Lewis and Clark) on a bill. They were not happy with him making that call. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tre...

A Treasury Official in 1866 Put His Own Face on U.S. Currency

The bill was supposed to feature explorer William Clark instead.

www.atlasobscura.com

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

Though, now that I think about it, the combination of getting both my flu shot AND my period this afternoon may also be due some of the blame.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

It is the end of the first day of term.

I should not be so exhausted already.

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