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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 39m

On the plus side, I’m casually on the market and not limiting myself to academia. Interested in having someone with my knowledge and skills on your team?

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ever been recruited away from a tenured position on the promise of same by a place that, upon your arrival, refused to provide the basic conditions required for you to actually do your job, leaving you no choice but to resign after a year? ~haha me neither~

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holding the dialectics of: people need opportunities to discuss systemic/structural trauma in ways that *feel* safe, we will never *be* safe until we acknowledge systemic trauma directly, and Jiminy Christmas, we’re supposed to be a health science. How did we let ::gestures vaguely:: happen?

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And then sometimes I remember her rhyming “sweater“ with “weather” in the Lavender Haze sequel and I’m like, you know what? Maybe the whole queer situation isn’t a load-bearing barrier to discussion after all.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Friendly reminder that my playlist is not AI, government, evidence-based practice, or generalizable beyond me and people very similar to me. I also hear and acknowledge feedback that I am worrying about ::gestures vaguely:: too much and not enough and just right.

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Noted: Message Received with a Pen

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Path (seasonal)🎉 @demandavoider.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

you know who else didn't get anywhere close to making top 38? a guy named jesus christ. you think about that.

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BBC Radio 1 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio1bot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BBC Radio 1 Radio 1 Early Breakfast with Mylo and Rosie Now Playing Noah Kahan Stick Season

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Midnights Track 19: Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have outrageous privilege in this situation. I know that. I’m not thrilled to concede to academic politics given the desperate necessity of these discussions, but I have the benefit of being able to not only make principled decisions in line with my values, but to do so comfortably.

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What Can You Do Shrug

Alt: I Love Lucy GIF. Lucy is shrugging.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I would strongly prefer to not be dead. If I have to be metaphorically dead for the benefit of the sovereignty of Canada or something, so be it. I’ll move home and open a bookstore.

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𝔏𝔦𝔩𝔞𝔠🪩 @ironlilacc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Telling my students they can run with scissors this one time to test their valor

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Skinnie Talls @skinnietalls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sometimes you have to apply music to stop the bleeding

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Algonquin K Farquhar II @buddhatree.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Me: Holy shit is EVERYBODY taking crazy pills? Narrator: Yes. Yes they are.

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The Arcane Nibbler @arcanenibbler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Whenever I raise my eyebrows, my forehead creates a wrinkle in the space-time continuum.

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm finding out way too much for someone who fucks around so little

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

"don't you care about fairness in sports?" No actually, I don't. Nobody does

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 10/09/2026

The curse of mad scientist’s block

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Failing to convince myself that what I experienced was normal and how I reacted was weird is, I’m pretty sure, the reason I don’t get doors held open for me at the psychologists’ club.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don’t like posting this stuff, because what usually happens is that even the most courageous women get real quiet and the most problematic men get louder. But the alternative is letting folks with stories like mine believe they’re alone in understanding what happened to them and why.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And those are just the physical scars. I used to be a meek, overeager people-pleaser. My whole life, childhood through my late 20s. Then my academic #metoo happened. Quiet torture. Then I started talking about systemic coverup, resulting in overt torture. And I’m supposed to pathologize discomfort.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

📍 TW: medical trauma 📍 This is one long scar, by the way. A scar the length of my entire abdomen. There was nothing wrong. I had no illness, no bleeding, nothing. They just decided to cut me open.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(There are some would love to assure you they’ve found the magic workaround, the very secret evidence-based way of doing exposure therapy that doesn’t require you to actually talk about the fear or collaboratively plan the exposures. They have not.)

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I would love to tell you that I alone hold the key to evidence-based treatment for systemic trauma, but I don’t. The key doesn’t exist. I am not *permitted* to connect the sometimes bizarre adversities I experience to things men post online. Clin psych, there’s no ahem-ing our way around this one.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have this massive scar on my abdomen from an involuntary emergency surgery a few years back… only there was no emergency. Nothing was wrong. I was just loud about Epstein in a way some folks didn’t much appreciate. When the women of academia tell you there are systemic problems, LISTEN.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m also expected to do that free clinical work under the supervision of a psychologist with several years’ less clinical experience than I have. For the benefit of the public, you see. She’s great at nodding and making eye contact in hallway conversations and is therefore very qualified. I am not.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The “everybody gets breakthrough mental healthcare and a puppy and no sex crimes“ vs. “everybody has to tap dance in Morse code and mental healthcare and regulation are both just some guys nodding or not and the mafia keeps doing sex crimes” debate I’m somehow losing

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Confused White Cat Asks Why

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh — and, just to really drive home the lose-lose, no standard-of-care exposure therapy for structural/systemic trauma. Exposure therapy *requires* clients and therapists to collaboratively plan exposures together and discuss exposures after. You can’t do that if you can’t openly discuss the trauma.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

FWIW, I wasn’t allowed to talk about Bruno in the United States, either. This isn’t an international relations issue. This is a ‘men of academic clinical psychology, your days of having your cake and &@:&/$ it too are just about up.’ Options on the table at the moment include no sex and no cake.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That, and I don’t smile enough.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The problem, as I see it, is that WORLD SPELLING BEE CHAMPION and evidence-based clinical practice are different sets of competencies. My clinical training didn’t cover mushing them together, and my clinical training *and* ethics prohibit me from disregarding standard-of-care in attempts to try.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No puppies and/or people were harmed in the making of this ::checks notes:: album layered on top of a column of social media posts.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thrilled to announce that I’ve been appointed Dean of Social Media and the Letter S at the University of What It Is. First act of business: What *is* the letter S? Discuss. C, as previously established, is for cookie. And Covid. All requests for approvals to discuss other letters are pending.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Don’t get me wrong — I CARE about my actual students, very much. I share what I know with them, in the (fairly creative!) ways I know how to share that knowledge. But those are very different things.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Please also note that I have never so much as flirted with any of my actual, real-life students, nor any literal child, god forbid. Never have I ever faked data, either. How many people do you know that publish errata to their *playlists*? Come on.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The ratio of actual scientific journal articles pathologizing the understanding that sexual predators do in fact conspire to keep their wheeling and dealing hush-hush to papers on gaslighting and structural trauma is the starter pack for most of what you need to know.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Allowing myself, as a treat, a vent session about Saskatchewan refusing to recognize my PA clinical license and demanding instead that I perform and write up an entire assessment and course of therapy, on my own time, for free, so they can decide whether Penn & MGH graduate qualified clinicians.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Shout-out to the surprising number of really supportive folks, too. This path isn’t particularly easy most of the time, and knowing that many people genuinely understand what I do and why makes all the difference.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am very willing to hold space and provide raw materials to help folks object to and from within the system I describe. Please remember, though, that the system has demonstrably existed for decades; that I’m showing you because I also object; and that we can’t solve problems we can’t see.

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hey, remember that time we all got conned into defending the concept of vaccination against pattern recognition? For whose benefit — and at what cost — do we hold fast to the mandate that vector-mediated communications remain unknowable and unnamable?

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It was Miss Parton, out on the porch, with the guitar

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Paranormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My therapist is still trying to convince me y'all aren't real

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

England, 1997 There are a lot of problems with this system. Being intrinsically American is not one of them.

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