Rachel
@philommeides.bsky.social
PhD in philosophy (Plotinus on matter). Maritimer. Embodiment of 😭 emoji. Film photography and baking enthusiast. Teaching Great Books at St Thomas University in Fredericton.
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Having a LLM or another person writing your papers feels like a victory but it is just your own defeat, you felled by your own contempt for your future and anyone who believes in you.
May 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Having a LLM or another person writing your papers feels like a victory but it is just your own defeat, you felled by your own contempt for your future and anyone who believes in you.
Fun new milestone ahead: eating solids!
May 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Fun new milestone ahead: eating solids!
Impulse-purchased two sea buckthorn plants today 😅 guess I gotta figure out how to garden
May 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Impulse-purchased two sea buckthorn plants today 😅 guess I gotta figure out how to garden
My baby is six (6!) months old today and I can’t even express how happy I am she’s in our lives. She’s so curious about the world and such fun company these days
May 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My baby is six (6!) months old today and I can’t even express how happy I am she’s in our lives. She’s so curious about the world and such fun company these days
The Canadian federal election: the only time the country pays any attention to New Brunswick 😌 and if the province goes blue, we’ll receive more vitriol than the much more populous provinces going blue 😌
April 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The Canadian federal election: the only time the country pays any attention to New Brunswick 😌 and if the province goes blue, we’ll receive more vitriol than the much more populous provinces going blue 😌
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Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
People who co-sleep with their babies are very defensive (because it’s less safe), which sometimes tips into righteousness when they advise every parent with a bad sleeper to do it. My baby, however, simply refuses to do it and sleeps EVEN WORSE if I try 😌
February 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
People who co-sleep with their babies are very defensive (because it’s less safe), which sometimes tips into righteousness when they advise every parent with a bad sleeper to do it. My baby, however, simply refuses to do it and sleeps EVEN WORSE if I try 😌
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This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me 2023
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me 2023
#Archaeology
February 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me 2023
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me 2023
#Archaeology
Can’t believe it’s impossible to find an archived link of the latest Andrea Long Chu hit piece when I’ve got an extra clingy baby and nothing but time on my hands today 😤
February 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Can’t believe it’s impossible to find an archived link of the latest Andrea Long Chu hit piece when I’ve got an extra clingy baby and nothing but time on my hands today 😤
Ran a two-hour seminar on Hume today with my daughter strapped to me 💪
January 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Ran a two-hour seminar on Hume today with my daughter strapped to me 💪
Teaching Hume to my students this week, aka being my most annoying philosopher self as I pummel them with arguments for two hours to show how hard Hume is to knock down
January 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Teaching Hume to my students this week, aka being my most annoying philosopher self as I pummel them with arguments for two hours to show how hard Hume is to knock down
Truly incredible how little argumentation is in Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”
January 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Truly incredible how little argumentation is in Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”
LSAT questions are going around Twitter and are a great demonstration of what historians of philosophy train students to do when reading a text. It’s actually very important to differentiate between what’s actually implied by the text and what seems right but isn’t quite.
January 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
LSAT questions are going around Twitter and are a great demonstration of what historians of philosophy train students to do when reading a text. It’s actually very important to differentiate between what’s actually implied by the text and what seems right but isn’t quite.
So much is fun about watching a baby discover the world. This past week, mine has discovered that her hands can open and close and that her fingers can move and she’s now exploring things with them all the time 😭
January 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So much is fun about watching a baby discover the world. This past week, mine has discovered that her hands can open and close and that her fingers can move and she’s now exploring things with them all the time 😭
A student last night told me he can really tell that I spend my time reading Socratic dialogues because of how I was pushing them all in discussion 😌
January 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A student last night told me he can really tell that I spend my time reading Socratic dialogues because of how I was pushing them all in discussion 😌
Finally graduating from the “this is dangerous” sleep deprivation of a newborn into “I dream about sleep all day but I can function” sleep deprivation of an infant
January 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Finally graduating from the “this is dangerous” sleep deprivation of a newborn into “I dream about sleep all day but I can function” sleep deprivation of an infant
Once again bad at being here, but: first week of post-baby teaching (on the Timaeus and also business ethics) in the books
January 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Once again bad at being here, but: first week of post-baby teaching (on the Timaeus and also business ethics) in the books
After a long, difficult month of trying to make breastfeeding work, my baby has gained 7 oz in 4 days while nursing for 90% of her feeds 😭
December 3, 2024 at 8:27 PM
After a long, difficult month of trying to make breastfeeding work, my baby has gained 7 oz in 4 days while nursing for 90% of her feeds 😭
I made some tweets back in the summer about how more info and more monitoring during pregnancy is not necessarily a good thing, that it can increase anxiety and also is based on false confidence in our ability to know and control the body.
November 29, 2024 at 4:36 PM
I made some tweets back in the summer about how more info and more monitoring during pregnancy is not necessarily a good thing, that it can increase anxiety and also is based on false confidence in our ability to know and control the body.
I’ve had a very difficult month (c-section recovery, thrush x2, mastitis, triple feeding, a baby who failed to gain weight, engorgement, sleep deprivation) but one really nice thing about motherhood is that more time with my baby rather than less seems to be the solution
November 28, 2024 at 10:39 PM
I’ve had a very difficult month (c-section recovery, thrush x2, mastitis, triple feeding, a baby who failed to gain weight, engorgement, sleep deprivation) but one really nice thing about motherhood is that more time with my baby rather than less seems to be the solution
Having a lactation nurse say to me, “wow, you’ve really been going through it” is extremely affirming because, yes, I have been going through it
November 26, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Having a lactation nurse say to me, “wow, you’ve really been going through it” is extremely affirming because, yes, I have been going through it
Working on a business ethics syllabus at 4 am while training my baby to sleep in her bassinet so I have a shot at sleeping once my husband goes back to work 🫡
November 24, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Working on a business ethics syllabus at 4 am while training my baby to sleep in her bassinet so I have a shot at sleeping once my husband goes back to work 🫡
Hello to the sudden influx of new followers and sorry in advance if you followed me for philosophy because currently my every waking minute is about trying to feed my newborn 😅
November 24, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Hello to the sudden influx of new followers and sorry in advance if you followed me for philosophy because currently my every waking minute is about trying to feed my newborn 😅
Delighted to announce that the very same day I stopped taking my c-section pain meds and the mouth rinse for antibiotic-induced thrush, I got mastitis and am back on pain meds and antibiotics 😌
November 19, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Delighted to announce that the very same day I stopped taking my c-section pain meds and the mouth rinse for antibiotic-induced thrush, I got mastitis and am back on pain meds and antibiotics 😌
New Tim Baker holiday album is already the cozy soundtrack I need for sleepless nights and early sunsets
November 18, 2024 at 9:22 PM
New Tim Baker holiday album is already the cozy soundtrack I need for sleepless nights and early sunsets