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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am on holiday in a province not my own. Out for a walk, I noticed houses with lawn art based on the provincial flag. I wondered whether it was fascism or just small-town quaintness. Then I noticed the sculptures of black boys with fishing rods.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This reminds me, as I head out to move twins into first-year dorms, to turn off their location-sharing. My 18yos might well be indifferent, but it’s symbolically important for me to make that break.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’m not teaching Intro Linguistics this year but if I were, I would assign this review to my students to read:

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My experience has been that every single request for a "chat" has come from a man who wants to tell me why I am wrong and he is right. So I offer a third suggestion: rather than a decade of resentment, rather than clearing the air, consider Letting It Go.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I would just like to report that I am an overweight 53-year-old woman and this morning I squatted the literal weight of my body. 🏋️ #SabbaticalGoals

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Working on a conference proposal in a discipline that's new to me and not confident if wordplay in presentation titles is the done thing. I fear not, but am not sure I'm capable of writing a straightforward title?!?

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

On the one hand, I'm on research leave so I'm not experiencing my Annual August Panic. On the other hand, my twins start uni in two different cities in about 3 weeks, so the difference in ambient household panic level is negligible. August solidarity to all students and teachers!

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

They remind you to be cautious about alcohol consumption when you've donated blood but I am here to report that drinking one's usual amount of coffee the next day is also a mistake. #jittery

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This paper is so useful for my work, and it is exciting to me for a couple reasons. First, a disclaimer: I am almost entirely ignorant about psychometrics/sociometrics, so I am offering zero commentary on the quantitative argument at the core of the paper. 1/n

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Not strictly a first-time 🩸 donor but first time this millennium.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'm wary of the baseball pitcher name game as one of those identity-theft lures, but I'm really tempted to play because I just bought a tin of Beeswax.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Finally finished a project that has been in progress for more than two years. #Sabbatical 🧵🪡 #DHmakes

Round cross stitch, repeating red rose pattern along the bottom and “Stay tender” in gold stitching in the top half

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

On the one hand, the moon rise is really pretty tonight. On the other hand, the reason I know this is because I’m waiting in a cemetery for a tow truck at 11:25 pm

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A defiant rainbow for today, from my extensive TomboyX collection

White person with short blond hair and sunglasses wears a black tshirt that reads “try to erase me. I bleed rainbows”. the word ‘rainbows’ is printed in rainbow ink.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I was so busy last week I forgot to post my rainbow garb but there’s still some June left! Today’s rainy weather allowed me to deploy the rainbow umbrella

A view up into the ribs of an umbrella. Each panel of the umbrella’s fabric is a different colour.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I inherited today’s rainbows from Twin B when he outgrew them.

Slip on Vans in the classic check pattern but the check is rainbow coloured

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Today’s rainbow took me forever to stitch onto my binoculars case

Torso of a person wearing a binoculars case. There is a bee-shaped badge stitched on the case. The bee is rainbow-striped and the caption reads “Bee Proud”.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A slightly faded, worn out rainbow today, but with a timeless message.

White person with short hair and glasses wearing a white tshirt that reads “Love always wins”. The word ‘always’ is spelled
in rainbow letters

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A new rainbow in my collection today. I bought this just a couple weeks ago at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

White person with short blond hair and glasses, wearing a turquoise dress and multicoloured necklace

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Today’s rainbow was a gift from a friend. It also glows in the dark!

A white person’s wrist wearing a bracelet made of rainbow glass beads

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A relatively subtle rainbow today, made less subtle by my clumsy repair when I was first learning to do visible mending.

Closeup of lightweight knit fabric with a narrow rainbow stripe. A hole has been darned with rainbow-variegated sashiko thread.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Today’s rainbow is from Sophie Labelle’s @assignedmale.bsky.social merch store.

White woman with short blond hair and glasses wearing a blue tshirt with a T Rex on it. The dinosaur is holding a pride flag and the caption reads “LGBT Rex”.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I just keep saying over and over, the point of a PhD is not for a dissertation to exist that didn’t previously exist. The point of a PhD is that a human has learned something.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

For today’s rainbows we go to the hosiery section. Unfortunately, like many retailers, Bombas has not put out a pride collection this year. But fortunately for me, I tend to make my clothes last a long time.

A person’s lower leg in a rainbow striped tube sock.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I was going to show you my multi-coloured sandals but then realized I don't want to be on wikifeet, so you'll have to imagine today's rainbows for yourself.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Today we have the tiny, subtle rainbow unicorns. A retired bishop once told me that unicorns are “very heraldic”.

Catherine wearing a short sleeved button up shirt, navy with tiny white unicorns. The unicorns have rainbow manes and tails.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Today’s rainbow celebrates ice cream in addition to Pride. Win-win!

Catherine wearing a blue t-shirt with a rainbow and an ice cream cone. Caption reads “it’s okay to eat your feelings”

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Three rainbow items today, including this fun necklace I got from a fellow conference-goer in French Lick, Indiana in 2024.

Catherine, a white woman with short blonde hair and glasses, wearing a pendant made of small Lego bricks arranged in rainbow order

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

For my own entertainment on this, the First Day of the Month of Pride, 75% of my clothing today has rainbows on it. I don't think I can maintain that percentage throughout the month, but I will strive for >2 rainbows per day for all of June.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I am at ORD this very minute and my sister and I are the only mask wearers I’ve seen in the last two hours.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I saw roseate spoonbills last weekend and a scarlet tanager this morning and life is very good. #TinyJoys

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

For example, _Language_ has a Teaching Linguistics section: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... and many other disciplines have journals or sections dedicated to questions of teaching in the discipline.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Today @alexusherhesa.bsky.social lists important steps to grapple with how post-secondary education needs to change in an AI world. higheredstrategy.com/lectures-ess... Teaching-focused faculty members have *scholarly expertise* in these matters. And there are journals for this kind of work!

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Lectures, Essays, Genies, and Bottles | HESA

A couple of weeks ago, the Times Higher Education printed a kind of farewell interview with the University of Waterloo’s outgoing President Vivek Goel. Like many THE interviews of this nature, it’s a ...

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I just watched the documentary Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social in Toronto and am feeling affirmed and despairing and also tentatively hopeful about the world. If you get the chance, make time to watch it!

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I had a great-uncle who died at age 103. Near the end of his life (pre chatgpt but post iphone), when asked what technological change had had the most profound effect on his life, his answer was "the zipper".

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I was disproportionately proud when a 16yo friend of Twin B described our 2006 Toyota Camry as “sick”

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My sons turn 18 today and I’m taken aback by how emotional this is making me. 😭

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Pamela Swett @pswett.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

McMaster has become the first university in Ontario to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, more familiarly known as DORA, which will allow us to better assess research contributions in terms of societal and community impact. news.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-sig...

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McMaster signs Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

McMaster has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) as part of an institutional commitment to advance meaningful ways of recognizing and rewarding research contributions. S...

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Elin McCready @elinm.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Gauging interest. I were to do a workshop on possible academias -- defined as ways of doing knowledge production and sharing, maybe other things, who knows -- who would want to participate? I'm interested in thinking together about how we could build new structures or understandings of this thing!

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A couple years ago I asked my linguistics students a question to prompt them to think about prototype theory (cf. "is a hot dog a sandwich"). The question was not very effective, because I had assumed they would know that bats are not birds.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

OOTD for today’s International Women’s Day event on campus supplied by the @academicaunties.com merch store.

Catherine, a middle aged white wine with short blond hair and blue glasses, wearing a tshirt that proclaims her a “difficult woman with personality problems”

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