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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 10h

Cheesy post alert: I'm preparing a grant application & organizing my project's final workshop. There's SO MANY people who are helping and supporting me doing these two major things. I am getting hope in academia again :)

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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man criticized me for not including enough men in the debate on Catholic women’s ordination, so I just decided I’ll stop working now because today I can’t

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Il mio progetto Marie Curie sta finendo e io festeggio con un workshop su Cattolicesimo, femminismo, e media digitali! Con speaker eccezionalə, aperto a tuttə e si può seguire anche su Teams. Scrivetemi per info

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whoever put my teaching from 11 to 17 on the same day without breaks is sadly not aware of how nervous I become without a proper meal. Poor students.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ed ecco finalmente la Barbie che piace a Tajani

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They say you only have 18 summers with your kid, but I'm Italian so it'll probably be 40 and then I'll die making tomato sauce

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In my experience, PhD students and early career researchers are always fast to answer and ready to help. Then, somewhere alongside our path, we end up being the professors ignoring emails for 3 months. Is it because we think of ourselves too highly, or is it because we are burnt out?

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In case you wonder whether I'm a good person, I need to send an annoying task to some people but I scheduled it for Tuesday because I don't want to annoy anyone on Monday

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Finally my article on sex toys - the only thing I ever written about something that isn't sad or depressing - is out! Jokes aside, this comes from a great collaboration with Gabi de la Vega and her MA thesis work and I'm so happy about this!

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I know they do it for money and capitalism etc etc, but I just hope Elon cried a bit

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The fact that my favorite person is a four-year old who just threw a tantrum because I cant bring dinosaurs back to life today is a testimony of how little I like people in general

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I don’t want to be overly pessimistic, but are all of the people we like too tired of this world and choose to leave us?

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I asked Chatgpt whether it would fund my Marie Curie project. Chatgpt said it is a terrible project. But thing is, that project WAS funded with a very high score. AI can be worse than reviewer 2, apparently

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I don’t want to brag too much but I had my birthday party today and while I’m much older than Jesus I have way more than 12 close friends

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think ICE should be abolished but you know that someone whose name rhymes with dusk has a brother who’s on an expired visa? One of the grandmas in my Boulder book club told me so I’m 100% sure it’s true

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Now it's maybe a good time to tell the story of when I went to a Rocky Horror Picture Show live performance and since it was the first time they wrote V for "virgin" on my cheek with lipstick but I didn't have make up removal at home so it was still there the day after when I went teaching

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I seem all fun and relaxed but I only use Times New Roman 12

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Once I said out loud during a conference that God must be a woman and I'm not afraid to repeat it.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

As women, racialised, LGBT, disabled, working class folk have entered academia, we/they have exposed how knowledge is not some abstract thing to “discover.” Knowledge is produced in particular (hierarchical) social and political settings. Academia, like other institutions, reproduces inequalities.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’ve read that men survive plane crashes more than women or children because they just push everyone else and get to the exit. I can’t stop thinking of it.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

what's funny about this is that monks were perfectly delighted with the printing press, the myth that the late medieval church resisted printing is false, you can actually embellish printed books and people did, illuminators and scribes are not the same people, and simon should read more.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In my hometown, they closed down a toy shop to open a funeral home, in case you want a picture of how birth rates are going in Italy

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Workshop about AI. A 3rd-year Ph.D. student said she trained AI with her papers, so AI could write papers in her style for her. She was applauded for being so smart. I keep thinking that as a 3rd year Ph.D. I was a really shitty writer, so glad I didn't have AI so I actually learned how to write.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I know someone who walked 15 hours just to reach the goal of 100.000 steps and I understand it, I am writing academic grants with the same spirit of trying to test my limits while knowing I’ll feel pain

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Conference. Q&A. A random guy starts by saying “I don’t know anything on this topic” and proceeds with a 20 minutes comment suggesting new literature to the female presenters A woman who literally won a prize for an article on that topic said “I’ve got two questions but I’ll make them very short”

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is the time of the year when I think about my Marie Curie application in 2022, when I wrote I was going to webscrape data from Twitter because "what can go wrong, a billionaire buys Twitter, makes it a far-right playground, and places restrictions for academics to study the platform? nonsense!"

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ok important question for academics who have expertise in grant-writing: In which section do I write that I have been called "diva" and "idol" by PhD students who like my style?

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is the first summer I spend as employee of my current uni. We don’t have to request holidays, we can go when we want. I went on holidays in July when everyone had super urgent emails for me, and I had to work anyway. Now that I’m back everyone is on holiday and nobody answers my urgent emails

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So the deadline for the ERC grant I’m submitting is the same day I organize the final workshop for my current grant, it’ll be a fun October 🫠

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A student found the fossil of a new dinosaur in Sardinia in 2008 but the dinosaur was named after his professor. That’s academia in a nutshell.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I booked a room for an event in the fall. The booking was confirmed. However, I was told to book again because apparently booking twice is what people must do. So now I’m all happy because I’m starting to gather material for a Kafkaesque novel

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you wonder whether fascism is alive, I’m on the beach and a guy has a Mussolini tatoo

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Since you are all talking about the Odyssey my take on the story: Odysseus didn’t want to go home he wanted to see the world and know more than other people but being him an Asshole he kills all his mates and cheats his wife a lot in the meantime

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Grant application deadlines in the fall are clearly designed to make academics’ summers miserable, nobody can change my mind

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the best in every category

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Dawn @502eire.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

there is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026

I very much see this with my daughters. The turning point for my 12yo was when she Googled something about Percy Jackson and Gemini gave her an incorrect answer because it pulled from fanfic. She was disgusted. The kids might just be alright.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I recently was able to understand the meaning of 6 7 in a conversation so I’m young

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I have put an out of office that basically says "I'm on holiday but I'll keep checking my emails because I'm a workaholic people pleaser full of guilt"

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

every single admin (and a good portion of researchers) in my university is named Giulia and this is singularly unpractical when you need to send emails.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“I hope this email finds you well” This is how your email finds me now:

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John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I think it's great that between Odysseus and Moses two of the foundational mythic heroes of Western cultures are men of unearned overconfidence who doom their fellow travelers because they'd rather wander aimlessly for years than ask for directions.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’m ending my emails with “ I wish you a MICE summer” and that’s probably bc my brain wants these people to spend two months with rats

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

All these issues with a black Helen of Troy when really I have issues with Americans doing the Odyssey

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Watching the Aristocats as an adult. As much as I love cats and I love this movie, I realize the butler is the real victim and Madame is the real villain

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