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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 3h

This isn't primarily a money/class thing; many students with well-off parents have jobs too, and it can give you a leg up with employers who prioritise a well-rounded cv over grades. But a single-minded, study-focused cv certainly gives you an advantage when applying to grad school.

hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 3h

In my country it's pretty common for students to have part-time jobs. My impression as a student was that parents with PhDs were more likely to go against this culture by financially supporting their kids so they could focus entirely on their studies, do unpaid research internships, go abroad etc.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 23h

I hate this stupid idea that analysing literature will 'ruin it'. "Maybe the curtains are just blue lol" stfu you are not sticking up for beauty and common sense, you are being boring and uncurious

hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite kind of project: turning my own old clothes (2 pairs of trousers in this case) into things for my kids. Sustainable clothing with instant history, & a dent in the mending pile :)

(Pattern: the casually stylish Waves & Wild Sunday Pants)

Two pairs of children's trousers laid out side by side on a bed. One is grey with some space-themed patches. The other is an olive green with contrasting colourful pockets and knee patches.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 1d

I played a small role in this and am very proud :)

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

YES! This is such excellent news. Utrecht University now supports Knowledge Commons.

PLEASE ask YOUR library today if they will consider supporting us. We are free to all to use, but we NEED university support to make that possible.

about.hcommons.org/2025/10/13/u...

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 2d

I have used this in the past but had forgotten about it - thanks for the reminder!

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 2d

(The part I dislike is OG 'Takedown' being used as the credits song. seems to reinforce the message on a meta level. would've been nice to have Rumi's rewritten version instead, esp since she never managed to complete her rewrite in the film)

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 2d

this has pastiche vibes so maybe it's a bit but just in case it isn't: her hating & trying to rewrite the lyrics is a whole plot point.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know who this is but I like how his badly cropped profile pic makes him look like a tiny little man, to go with his views

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 2d

I give almost everything I sew or knit away as gifts or to charity. It's weirdly A LOT easier to give something valuable away for free than to make it part of a capitalist exchange that will inevitably require you to undervalue your time & labour.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 2d

Echt de crème de la crème van het Arische ras op de been vandaag

hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 4d

Op de fiets passeren zoon (6) en ik een groepje brallende studenten. Zoon, bloedserieus: "Ik begrijp er helemaal niks van. Ik denk dat ze misschien Orks praten."

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you @naomialderman.bsky.social for writing this 👇

"In praise of “rip-off” degrees" | The Observer share.google/aoaUSb8msQ2F...

In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate

share.google

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 4d

Een vrij alledaagse grammaticale constructie die hier ineens opvalt doordat ie onderbroken wordt door een andere zin.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 4d

Ja die constructie noemen taalkundigen 'gapping', je laat dan in de tweede helft van een parallelle constructie het werkwoord weg. "Oude vrouwtjes jaag ik de straat op & knaapjes (jaag ik) het wakke ijs (op)".

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 4d

Help out a confused elder millennial. Why are all the youtubers doing this face in their video thumbnails? Is it coincidence or A Thing? Does it have a name?

a compilation of thumbnails showing different YouTubers all pulling the same exaggeratedly baffled face.

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Miko Flohr @mikoflohr.bsky.social · 5d

In mijn Nederland gaan we gewoon allemaal lekker niet bij extreemrechts aan tafel zitten.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 5d

Was told today about Indigenous people in Brazil who were desperate to vote against Bolsonaro. There were no polling booths in their villages so they got buses to the city, and when the military blocked their buses many miles from the city they got off and walked there. Fight for your vote, always.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 6d

i know a few people who definitely need to hear this (but they probably won't)

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6d

Stop firing and deskilling librarians and archivists please

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

www.theguardian.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 6d

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 6d

Also I love seeing Cinzia in that Guardian article, i used to work in the same department (though not with her) & always thought she looked amazing!

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 6d

if anything the elder goths are *more* legit! it's honestly amazing to meet people who've been sitting with the world's darkness for decades and you just know that their 'fuck you' to society is real and earned. there's something oddly comforting about it in these genuinely dark times.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 7d

Ik keek laatst even op academictransfer met zoekterm 'linguistics' en zo goed als alle aangeboden PhD- en postdocposities hadden iets te maken met AI.

Ik hoop dat de bubbel barst voor mijn vakgebied zichzelf proactief heeft afgeschaft in de race naar onderzoekssubsidies. :(

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