Katie Beardall, PhD
@kbeardall.bsky.social
Sociologist. Higher education, mental health, culture, organizations. I work for the Census but this is a personal account 🌈 #adhd
“What was THAT?” - Charlie, about a “beep beep” noise from a trash truck #academiccats #skycats
January 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“What was THAT?” - Charlie, about a “beep beep” noise from a trash truck #academiccats #skycats
This was the wrap up I didn’t know I needed. 11/10 good job keeping us safe despite our best efforts to explode ourselves
It was a year of large spiders, large moths, large eagles and a wall of ducks. A year of art, squirrels, monsters, and Knife Ghosts. It was a year of not establishing parasocial relationships on Bluesky. The best year yet. And now, for your consideration, our favorite safety graphics made in 2024...
December 31, 2024 at 2:55 PM
This was the wrap up I didn’t know I needed. 11/10 good job keeping us safe despite our best efforts to explode ourselves
My cat is basically my remaining coping skill. And he causes a lot of chaos so tbh not sure he counts as coping. #catsofBluesky #academiccats
December 19, 2024 at 2:35 PM
My cat is basically my remaining coping skill. And he causes a lot of chaos so tbh not sure he counts as coping. #catsofBluesky #academiccats
Reposted by Katie Beardall, PhD
One of the best pieces of advice a senior executive gave to we juniors was never use your sick days when you're sick. Save them for days that it's sunny & beautiful outside. Always passed that on & it makes such a difference in your people's perspective
December 19, 2024 at 7:35 AM
One of the best pieces of advice a senior executive gave to we juniors was never use your sick days when you're sick. Save them for days that it's sunny & beautiful outside. Always passed that on & it makes such a difference in your people's perspective
Reposted by Katie Beardall, PhD
The government is going to get shut down because this oligarch dipshit believes blatant lies from the dumbest person on Twitter.
December 19, 2024 at 4:17 AM
The government is going to get shut down because this oligarch dipshit believes blatant lies from the dumbest person on Twitter.
One of the things I am most grateful for in my work life is how genuinely respectful everyone on my team is of boundaries. It’s expected that when you’re on lunch, you are on lunch and NOT responding to pings. When you’re off, you’re off, and my team models it. That should be the norm everywhere.
Covid remote work offered new flexibility around where to work and which tasks to do when, but also created an "expectation of omnipresence"--pressure to respond immediately to digital alerts, even during meetings and off hours, that carried back to the office.
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December 17, 2024 at 4:42 PM
One of the things I am most grateful for in my work life is how genuinely respectful everyone on my team is of boundaries. It’s expected that when you’re on lunch, you are on lunch and NOT responding to pings. When you’re off, you’re off, and my team models it. That should be the norm everywhere.
Scout heard about the orcas using salmon as hats and was jealous that the trend started without him. He also doesn’t know what a salmon actually IS but he is committed to fashion. So he got creative with this artful hay fascinator that may inspire a wave of copycats within equine society.
December 10, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Scout heard about the orcas using salmon as hats and was jealous that the trend started without him. He also doesn’t know what a salmon actually IS but he is committed to fashion. So he got creative with this artful hay fascinator that may inspire a wave of copycats within equine society.
Friends (and enemies? Not that I really have any. Other than my nemesis in Finance) HOW do you handle a cross country move? I am getting overwhelmed and will happily take any and all tips and suggestions
two men are carrying a large cardboard box that says ' dhl ' on it
Alt: three men are moving rapidly throwing boxes and moving supplies while one has a sledgehammer
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December 8, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Friends (and enemies? Not that I really have any. Other than my nemesis in Finance) HOW do you handle a cross country move? I am getting overwhelmed and will happily take any and all tips and suggestions
I know Bluesky is really here because my favorite cousin has finally joined 🤩 welcome @trochabeardall.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 2:12 PM
I know Bluesky is really here because my favorite cousin has finally joined 🤩 welcome @trochabeardall.bsky.social
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Man I cannot endorse this abstract more
November 25, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Man I cannot endorse this abstract more
I broke my leg *in my doctor’s office* two hours after defending my dissertation.
(For the medical nerds, it was a medial malleolus avulsion fracture and a gnarly lateral ligament sprain)
(For the medical nerds, it was a medial malleolus avulsion fracture and a gnarly lateral ligament sprain)
What's a thing that happened to you that sounds made up? For me it was when I was 20 and I had a job at the Louvre auditorium and former French president Valéry Giscard D'Estaing hit on me in front of his wife
November 25, 2024 at 9:00 PM
I broke my leg *in my doctor’s office* two hours after defending my dissertation.
(For the medical nerds, it was a medial malleolus avulsion fracture and a gnarly lateral ligament sprain)
(For the medical nerds, it was a medial malleolus avulsion fracture and a gnarly lateral ligament sprain)
Seeing a sea turtle GLOW after building her nest and laying her eggs remains one of the coolest things I have ever experienced. Nature is incredible
We simply dont talk about about how batshit insane bioluminescence is, like theres a shrimp down there 3 miles under the water literally farting rainbows right now
November 22, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Seeing a sea turtle GLOW after building her nest and laying her eggs remains one of the coolest things I have ever experienced. Nature is incredible
I really love how kind and engaging people are here. So many neat conversations happening. Shoutout to @drcompton.bsky.social for getting me back in this space and shoutout to the blocking features. I missed having a place to share research AND advocacy AND fun things
#sociologysky #academiccats
#sociologysky #academiccats
November 22, 2024 at 4:02 AM
I really love how kind and engaging people are here. So many neat conversations happening. Shoutout to @drcompton.bsky.social for getting me back in this space and shoutout to the blocking features. I missed having a place to share research AND advocacy AND fun things
#sociologysky #academiccats
#sociologysky #academiccats
I want the ability to bookmark posts but in the meantime I guess reposting (reskeeting?) will have to suffice
Okay, here we go. Tumblr thread time. I'm going to copy and paste whatever my computer picks up for text; I hope it's not too hard to parse.
November 21, 2024 at 12:35 AM
I want the ability to bookmark posts but in the meantime I guess reposting (reskeeting?) will have to suffice
If you want people to stay and do good work, then creating a culture that does not tolerate harassment needs to be prioritized. It’s not hard to see the connection between feeling safe and performing well. The challenge(s) is changing ingrained cultural norms that tacitly allow ongoing harassment
"The more often women are sexually harassed in a context, the more they think about leaving (and some do ultimately leave); the net result of sexual harassment is therefore a loss of talent, which can be costly to organizations and to science, engineering, and medicine"
doi.org/10.17226/24994.
doi.org/10.17226/24994.
November 20, 2024 at 12:01 PM
If you want people to stay and do good work, then creating a culture that does not tolerate harassment needs to be prioritized. It’s not hard to see the connection between feeling safe and performing well. The challenge(s) is changing ingrained cultural norms that tacitly allow ongoing harassment
1a. I don’t know how much of my work work I can share, but I work on testing economic surveys
1b. for academic work, how higher ed honors programs essentially work as a tracking mechanism
2. the demographic cliff and how it’s (not?) impacting HE responses to Covid, Palestine, or election results
1b. for academic work, how higher ed honors programs essentially work as a tracking mechanism
2. the demographic cliff and how it’s (not?) impacting HE responses to Covid, Palestine, or election results
Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about
1) Racialized Emotions of Black religious communities during BLM
2) Soc construction of knowledge & its political implications
1) Racialized Emotions of Black religious communities during BLM
2) Soc construction of knowledge & its political implications
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) Black feminist love-politics & hauntology with social movement studies
2) organization building by SMOs in digital spaces
1) Black feminist love-politics & hauntology with social movement studies
2) organization building by SMOs in digital spaces
November 18, 2024 at 1:34 PM
1a. I don’t know how much of my work work I can share, but I work on testing economic surveys
1b. for academic work, how higher ed honors programs essentially work as a tracking mechanism
2. the demographic cliff and how it’s (not?) impacting HE responses to Covid, Palestine, or election results
1b. for academic work, how higher ed honors programs essentially work as a tracking mechanism
2. the demographic cliff and how it’s (not?) impacting HE responses to Covid, Palestine, or election results
My great-grandmother was one of the first women in her small town to work outside the home. Her husband decided to do medical school in his 40s, and to support the family she got a job at the small town post office. She supported her family on that salary while he went to school.
Give me one interesting fact about your family history that you learned.
November 15, 2024 at 4:14 PM
My great-grandmother was one of the first women in her small town to work outside the home. Her husband decided to do medical school in his 40s, and to support the family she got a job at the small town post office. She supported her family on that salary while he went to school.
This (finally) arrived today. PhDone for real for real for reals #academicsky #sociologysky
November 15, 2024 at 12:59 AM
This (finally) arrived today. PhDone for real for real for reals #academicsky #sociologysky
I am Sports-adjacent at best but I will be thrilled when Gritty shows up here. I am not a Philly sports team person, and I can’t claim any particular connection to the city (beyond loving it the times I’ve visited)
I just really unironically love Gritty
I just really unironically love Gritty
guys I dunno how to tell you this but SportsSky is here. It's really happened. We are so back(we were never here before)
This Mike pause was clocked 7 seconds, just 1 second short of his record of 8 seconds. He really let this answer simmer with the body language too (liked his answer)
November 14, 2024 at 1:14 AM
I am Sports-adjacent at best but I will be thrilled when Gritty shows up here. I am not a Philly sports team person, and I can’t claim any particular connection to the city (beyond loving it the times I’ve visited)
I just really unironically love Gritty
I just really unironically love Gritty
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OKAY by special request, here comes the encore performance of How Hans Christian Andersen Was a Bisexual Disaster.
Telling the full wild story of why Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Little Mermaid for a guy who kept desperately trying to ignore/rebuff his advances without making it weird and wrote about how HCA kept making it weird in his diary.
I have a game. What were you "known" for on Twitter?
I'll go first. I'm the woman who caused Dave Ramsey to mass-block Royals Twitter.
I'll go first. I'm the woman who caused Dave Ramsey to mass-block Royals Twitter.
November 13, 2024 at 12:35 AM
OKAY by special request, here comes the encore performance of How Hans Christian Andersen Was a Bisexual Disaster.
I love the internet sometimes
I make Baja Blast Cuba Libres at home. Good, easy, fun. Highly recommend adding to your mixology repertoire.
You can make a zero proof version using Seedlip or Little Saints. To go with the chicken
You can make a zero proof version using Seedlip or Little Saints. To go with the chicken
I’m gonna try making some Baja Blast chicken
November 11, 2024 at 11:44 PM
I love the internet sometimes
Reposting to amplify @jessicacalarco.bsky.social ’s Field Guide is an incredibly helpful resource for students and can confirm that a @bskybymidge.bsky.social giveaway will make your day (the motivational card she sent still lives on my fridge). Sometimes the internet is a good place.
Are you a prospective/current PhD student in the US? Mentoring a prospective/current PhD student in the US? Enter the "Field Guide to Grad School" 📚 giveaway! I have dozens of copies to send! All you need to do is subscribe to letstalkgradschool.substack.com (fill out the giveaway survey in a post).
November 11, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Reposting to amplify @jessicacalarco.bsky.social ’s Field Guide is an incredibly helpful resource for students and can confirm that a @bskybymidge.bsky.social giveaway will make your day (the motivational card she sent still lives on my fridge). Sometimes the internet is a good place.
#proofofcat some assembly possibly required but Charlie is here to welcome all the new friends
November 10, 2024 at 8:15 PM
#proofofcat some assembly possibly required but Charlie is here to welcome all the new friends
I really love how many social scientists have started to join and make starter packs of cool people. Re-upping this sociology list for those who might be interested! @drcompton.bsky.social was ahead of the curve making it 🤩
I made a Sociology Starter Pack. Its just a start, so let me know if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/QqTLQau
go.bsky.app/QqTLQau
November 9, 2024 at 2:30 PM
I really love how many social scientists have started to join and make starter packs of cool people. Re-upping this sociology list for those who might be interested! @drcompton.bsky.social was ahead of the curve making it 🤩
No thoughts, just snuggles
November 9, 2024 at 2:27 PM
No thoughts, just snuggles