ChristinaLoucks
@christinaloucks.bsky.social
Lover of Books, Asst Prof Eng, read everything I can, Early Mod Women's Studies, Austen, Tolkien, hockey lover- this is my personal account opinions are mine alone
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This.
Don’t shame people for not immediately reading all the books they buy. Some books aren’t made to be ready right away, okay? Some books need time to mature. Some books need to cure for a while. Some books are prosciutto, and don’t you forget it.
April 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This.
It’s 930pm I’ve been doing statistics all afternoon and I still have 19 questions to answer. I miss grading freshman essays.
March 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
It’s 930pm I’ve been doing statistics all afternoon and I still have 19 questions to answer. I miss grading freshman essays.
The current administration rescinded the previous administration’s policies and guidelines for AI (and haven’t replaced them). Btwn losing this significant part of my dissertation and stats it might be time to rethink the PhD…
March 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The current administration rescinded the previous administration’s policies and guidelines for AI (and haven’t replaced them). Btwn losing this significant part of my dissertation and stats it might be time to rethink the PhD…
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Paying tribute to John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC, the last pilot from the Battle of Britain, who passed away in Dublin last night, 17 March 2025, aged 105.
Paddy also served at Dunkirk, & during the Normandy campaign, & was shot down 4 times during the war.
#peraduaadastra #lestweforget
Paddy also served at Dunkirk, & during the Normandy campaign, & was shot down 4 times during the war.
#peraduaadastra #lestweforget
March 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Paying tribute to John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC, the last pilot from the Battle of Britain, who passed away in Dublin last night, 17 March 2025, aged 105.
Paddy also served at Dunkirk, & during the Normandy campaign, & was shot down 4 times during the war.
#peraduaadastra #lestweforget
Paddy also served at Dunkirk, & during the Normandy campaign, & was shot down 4 times during the war.
#peraduaadastra #lestweforget
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Rep. Johnson is now speaking to the dramatic drop in OBGYN residents wanting to come to the state. It’s only going to hurt women and children. Coincidentally, TN GOP is pro-family. Make this make sense. Read my piece here. #tnleg @nashvillebanner.bsky.social nashvillebanner.com/2024/12/17/t...
Tennessee's obstetric residency applications decline - Nashville Banner
Tennessee sees a 21% drop in obstetric residency applications, raising concerns about reproductive health care access.
nashvillebanner.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Rep. Johnson is now speaking to the dramatic drop in OBGYN residents wanting to come to the state. It’s only going to hurt women and children. Coincidentally, TN GOP is pro-family. Make this make sense. Read my piece here. #tnleg @nashvillebanner.bsky.social nashvillebanner.com/2024/12/17/t...
Dear graduate level professors- unless your course has some specific outcome that necessitates group work, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY STOP FORCING WORKING ADULTS INTO GROUPS WITH PEOPLE WHO LITERALLY HAVE OPPOSITE SCHEDULES.
March 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Dear graduate level professors- unless your course has some specific outcome that necessitates group work, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY STOP FORCING WORKING ADULTS INTO GROUPS WITH PEOPLE WHO LITERALLY HAVE OPPOSITE SCHEDULES.
I can write. I know I can write. I teach writing ( ok I attempt to teach writing). So why have I been staring at a blinking cursor mocking me and my past due lit review for over an hour…sigh
March 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I can write. I know I can write. I teach writing ( ok I attempt to teach writing). So why have I been staring at a blinking cursor mocking me and my past due lit review for over an hour…sigh
I’m fairly certain my dissertation is going to become of battle of how many tabs can I have open on two screens without accidentally closing them, for the next year.
March 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I’m fairly certain my dissertation is going to become of battle of how many tabs can I have open on two screens without accidentally closing them, for the next year.
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Another for #InternationalWomensDay
During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.
During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.
March 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Another for #InternationalWomensDay
During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.
During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.
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COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal:
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal:
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
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While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state | Judith Levine
While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state | Judith Levine
Republicans aren’t simply shrinking the government. They’re investing billions in defense, border control and prisons
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state | Judith Levine
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You can add "-ai" to any Google search to remove the AI preview. I have started doing this because I can't stand it
March 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
You can add "-ai" to any Google search to remove the AI preview. I have started doing this because I can't stand it
I have made 4to-do lists in the past hr each in a different room but all having to do with tomorrow and or this wknd. I’m either overly stressed or overly tired or an exhausted combination of both.
February 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I have made 4to-do lists in the past hr each in a different room but all having to do with tomorrow and or this wknd. I’m either overly stressed or overly tired or an exhausted combination of both.
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I know it’s wrong but there’s potential snow coming to nashvegas on Wednesday and my pneumonia worn heart is
excited because maybe I’ll finally feel well enough to catch up on the obscene amount of two schools worth of work I am behind.
excited because maybe I’ll finally feel well enough to catch up on the obscene amount of two schools worth of work I am behind.
February 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I know it’s wrong but there’s potential snow coming to nashvegas on Wednesday and my pneumonia worn heart is
excited because maybe I’ll finally feel well enough to catch up on the obscene amount of two schools worth of work I am behind.
excited because maybe I’ll finally feel well enough to catch up on the obscene amount of two schools worth of work I am behind.
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Academics love Lord of the Rings because it's about a researcher (Gandalf) who does their dissertation on an obscure topic (Hobbit lore), wanders around doing post-docs, gets destroyed in the question session from hell but triumphantly returns and gets to take the golden-boy prof (Saruman)'s job
January 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Academics love Lord of the Rings because it's about a researcher (Gandalf) who does their dissertation on an obscure topic (Hobbit lore), wanders around doing post-docs, gets destroyed in the question session from hell but triumphantly returns and gets to take the golden-boy prof (Saruman)'s job
Advanced stats and dissertation research is kicking my arse already and it’s only week three. I need a time turner and a personal assistant. Whomever said grad school was about who persisted longer might have been on to something
January 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Advanced stats and dissertation research is kicking my arse already and it’s only week three. I need a time turner and a personal assistant. Whomever said grad school was about who persisted longer might have been on to something
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I didn't know this wasn't well known! Here are some resources:
DHQ article on eebo and fingerprints specifically: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...
DHQ article on eebo and fingerprints specifically: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...
January 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I didn't know this wasn't well known! Here are some resources:
DHQ article on eebo and fingerprints specifically: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...
DHQ article on eebo and fingerprints specifically: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...
Gaiman and Tate trending over in twitter is enough to give anyone nightmares for a few months.
January 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Gaiman and Tate trending over in twitter is enough to give anyone nightmares for a few months.
Trying to figure out a viable dissertation topic that I can live with for the next 18 months is going exactly like you’d expect.
January 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Trying to figure out a viable dissertation topic that I can live with for the next 18 months is going exactly like you’d expect.
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“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”
Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
www.theregister.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”
I’m not saying I’m procrastinating on school and dissertation work but I just dusted bookcases, changed air filters, and deep cleaned the tub and surrounding area…
January 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I’m not saying I’m procrastinating on school and dissertation work but I just dusted bookcases, changed air filters, and deep cleaned the tub and surrounding area…
Half productive half rest of day 1 of 2025. Gotta ease in slowly to what promises to be a nonstop year.
January 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Half productive half rest of day 1 of 2025. Gotta ease in slowly to what promises to be a nonstop year.
When the trauma of the past is damaging the promise of the future… #MastersThesisPTSD
December 30, 2024 at 6:19 AM
When the trauma of the past is damaging the promise of the future… #MastersThesisPTSD