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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sara Ahmed gave me killjoy solidarity 💜

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Something that I always struggled with is how, at job interviews, they ask you about the 5-years plan. What am I, the People’s Republic of China?

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 Moorebidity @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 · 02/09/2026

There’s a brilliant Italian comedy called “fascisti su Marte” where fascists decide to conquer Mars and right now it seems strangely possible.

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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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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I guess because philosophy departments have this huge old white rich guy vibe? I loved philosophy in high school but one day my professor came to class saying there’s no thinking outside of Europe (in was the early 2000, not the 1700s) and I knew something was not right there

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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 · 22/08/2026

Now that I look into it I think this isn’t an ERC but another project he’s running at the same university… but I guess that’s the type of work he does

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It took a while for me to realize it was THAT bad

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don’t know, English isn’t my first language, but I’ve got a degree in religious studies and this sounds like he got a couple of shots of grappa in his morning coffee

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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 · 21/08/2026

It’s also a sign of who reads the newspaper… remember my grandma buying it so she could see whom among her acquaintances died…

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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 · 12/08/2026

I’ve read Ramona! This sounds like an interesting class…

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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 · 11/08/2026

Looking at your purple hair in the profile picture I'd say you truly are iconic!

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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

I so needed this in 2019 when I spent an entire semester smuggling cleaning products to uni to try deleting a sharpie, while pretending that “what is meditation?” followed by students brainstorming was so important that needed to stay there all semester

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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 · 30/07/2026

Best part of living in Colorado was people giving random compliments! Now I do it too, a lot!

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

Yes people aside it’s all great 😊

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