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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Super excited to announce that my review article from this summer, "Post-pandemic inequalities: Evolutionary anthropological frameworks for long-term impacts of the 1918 influenza pandemic," is now available open access!🔓🔓🔓🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I know there's not really a botox shortage or anything, but botox is a super effective treatment for muscle spasticity and chronic migraine and it can only mean good things for people who really need this medicine for clinical rather than aesthetic purposes

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

just had the lovely experience of being denied by aetna for a medicine I need so what the f*ck is the point of health insurance

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

New Lily Allen album is ASTOUNDING. Album of the year caliber stuff and I hope she wins tons of awards and says “f*ck you* to David Harbour in every acceptance speech!!!

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I need everyone to stop sending me high priority red exclamation mark emails. There is absolutely nothing related to my job that is an emergency. Let’s just all chill please

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Why are universities fully sliding into the skid with incorporating AI into EVERYthing?? I don't want to fill out another survey answering how they can help me use AI in all my courses. Can't we hold the line?

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I've been studying the 1918 flu for a decade and just did something for the first time: submitted an article to Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. good luck to me

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

all I have to do to finish this project is have an original idea, find all the previous research on this topic, read it, understand it, integrate it, shape it into a meaningful framework, execute analysis without errors, write it, and communicate it with perfect clarity. that's not that bad

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

ugh I love when I have italian in the crockpot and that first sweet smell of fennel, oregano, and thyme punches through

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

When did we all collectively become complacent to the fact that the White House belongs to the People?

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Have you ever been very deep in writing a paper and all of a sudden just lift your fingers off the keys and say "why am I doing this" #AcademicSky

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This would have been enough to end a political career permanently not that long ago

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I'm obsessed with not just the fact that the Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to cheeto in command, but that the explanation of why it WAS awarded to María Corina Machado included a paragraph on why it would NEVER be awarded to cheeto in command

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I have so many potential papers with just analyses and results finished that will probably never get done. I need a team to finish these off so they see the light. There’s just not enough time for me to get to them. If you need something to do, let me know - you can have it all

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

One of the most important things to remember right now is that you have to keep it 100 on the land, the sea, the sky

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Dusting off the Newfoundland death records. Hello old friends, haven't seen you since dissertation station.

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I just declined to revise a manuscript for a journal for the first time. I thought maybe it's better not to force it and one of the reviews would have been near impossible to overcome (both based on what they said and their attitude about the paper). So, it feels bad, but here we are.

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The last time I went to the movie theater was April 2019 for Avengers: Endgame. I was 8 weeks pregnant with my daughter. Today I took that daughter to see her first movie in theaters! We saw Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie, and she was a perfect movie theater citizen.

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I've seen a lot of these maps lately, and I just wanted to say that I think a lot of them are way too definitive and that it's silly to color the entire map red between California and New York. Surely you can hold space for more nuance than that.

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I realized something. In the 1st half of the semester in my Mass Media & Society class, I taught the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death", whose author argued that the future was Huxleyian rather than Orwellian. My student's had read neither 1984 nor BNW. There's a message in here somewhere

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Excited to share my new article "Body size and risk of death during the 1918 influenza pandemic in Alaska", available in American Journal of Human Biology 🔓!! (@humbioassociation.bsky.social) Thanks to my co-authors for enabling me w. this crazy idea onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Body Size and Risk of Death During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska

In the aftermath of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A pandemic, research revealed the relationship between body size and the severity of influenza outcomes. However, there is little data available on body si....

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Okay I was planning on teaching Death Without Weeping (1993) in one of my upper level ethnography classes, but now flipping through this book again years later I'm afraid it's way too intense. I hate that I'm even thinking this way. This is an important book (flawed, yes, but important).

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Deciding in real time to possibly change an ethnography on my syllabus next semester solely because I cannot find the one I originally wanted to teach on my bookshelves

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

so I asked chatgpt a coding question and the whole thing is just absolute shite. nothing works and if I thought it could get confused, then I would think it was confused - but it doesn't have a brain, so it's not thinking at all

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

uh I have just found out about TPUSA's Professor Watchlist and I have never wanted to more immediately leave academia than after seeing this website. I am so terrified right now, it needs to be said

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Why are two-word surnames kicking y’all’s asses so much

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I was revisiting a paper I wrote 3 yrs ago published in an Elsevier journal, and I noticed “AI-generated topics”: words in your article you could click on and it would take you to an AI-gen page to “learn more” I noticed “Elder” was highlighted in my paper, so I clicked on it and it took me…

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

How did we get to the point where being able to write well on your own is an “advantage” in this world instead of a baseline ability? I’m horrified by this.

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🚨MY DAUGHTER DREW ME PREGNANT WITH HER🚨

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

here's what I'm struggling with in my journey to a high fiber diet: I DON'T LIKE BEANS 😭 halp

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

My Rapidash is now level 95 and a permanent member of my party

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Thrilled for him. Also, it's extremely embarrassing that we're still in "First Black person to ever..." territory in the big year 2025. Please. We know it's not because they're not excellent.

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I have to admit, I’m confused why flags are half mast right now. He wasn’t a politician, public servant, or particularly impressive person. He was a mediocre white guy with bad opinions and spoke really loud about them. Never “debated” in good faith, was openly racist and misogynistic.

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It's so important to learn that not all opinions are valid. If someone says that Black people were better off enslaved or under Jim Crow law, that is a shitty opinion and you deserve to be called out and absolutely no one is required to respect that shitty opinion.

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Thank you Kroger gas station for giving me a $0.03/gallon discount 🥲

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

So it’s possible that this is their martyr

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

my university is offering $500 to faculty who complete a series of workshops in the spring and guess when they are? that's right, the exact time of day that parents who need to be home for the school bus or pick up from school cannot attend. love it

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This is a terrible spot to be in, bc I, like all sane ppl, want grocery prices to go down, but I also do not want them to go down bc I don’t want the orange man to be right about anything

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The United States is not a Christian nation, therefore I will not be praying 🤍

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

“Does not offer many extra credit opportunities” is one of my favorite criticisms of a professor bc it tells on itself. Professors (mostly) want you to succeed, and if you do the work originally assigned you probably will

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I was upset that Chipotle discontinued the spicy honey chicken, then I remembered that I have a smart brain and that I have honey, spices, and chicken and I can just make it my own damn self

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Would it be crazy to do a class on paper next semester? I want to do my Qualitative Research Methods class analog. Printed articles, pens and highlighters in hands, working on reading and thinking together. Will it work

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A children’s book about the Black Death. This goes so hard, I love it 😭

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

“You can’t give ALL your students As” yes I can and I will

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I know it's a big ask for my students to be interested in/excited about cultural theory at 8:00am but I'm feeling really dejected at the lack of any interest in anything I say apparently at all :C most don't even look up

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

got absolutely slaughtered in a review today. I can't say I disagree with a lot of things they said. First time I've had to consider just withdrawing the manuscript during the revision stage. feels bad!

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

“What are even the benefits of your specific research” well it’s always beneficial to improve our knowledge of something, Karen

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