Jillian Sayre 🦣@jillio@assemblag.es (@Jillio) header
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Associate Professor of English at Rutgers-Camden. Author of Mourning the Nation to Come. She/her

New Jersey
Joined May 2008
So excited to start work at MARCH! I'll be building from the fantastic public history work by @ProfMires and team as well as starting new initiatives in the environmental humanities with researchers across campus and regional community organizations
This July 1, we welcome @Jillio as the new director of @MARCHRUCamden, giving sincere thanks to @ProfMires, who led @MARCHRUCamden for over ten years. #RutgersPride #RutgersExcellence bit.ly/43ZWjPA
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want to say how proud I am of what the union and esp the bargaining team was able to win in Trenton. Still working for BHS clinical faculty in their ongoing negotiations but the framework includes a 48% raise for adjuncts AND job security which is an amazing victory
Three Rutgers University academic worker unions (@ruaaup, @ruaaup_ptl & @ABhsnj) have entered their 5th day of a historic strike. "They want labor to be as cheap as possible," says union member @murchnik, of the "neoliberal" university system that benefits those at the top.
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We won job security for NTT faculty in the form of presumptive renewal. We won an amazing 33% raise for grad students. We won 2.4 million dollars in community grant funds for our hosting communities. We won a flat dollar raise for our amazing EOF counselors. So much going on!
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If you have a ton of followers here and/or don’t want to leave Twitter that’s okay. But this isn’t what mastodon is, how federated social media works, or what can happen with it. The propensity to declare “this is what this thing is” without properly understanding it though…
Academics. We all know that the federated structure of mastodon is really shit for academia, yes? Like, one of the relentless arguments made by administrators and academics alike is that we need to get out of our fucking silos, yes? Well, mastodon is silos all the way down.
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“Are the advantages [of Twitter] really advantages?” Nerd Farmer Podcast talks to the awesome @tinysubversions : nerdfarmpod.com/2022/05/22/h…
With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter. 🧵
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I’m going to stick around here for a little bit because Philly sports but I’m also on assemblag.es for the great mastodon migration if y’all want to hang out over there
Me to students: thank you all for showing up despite Halloween and Philadelphia sportsmaggedon happening all around us.
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Listen. The kid has been through a lot. Can’t he just get something to eat before getting back into the freezerinos? (Step 2 of costume finished)
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This is the winning stack. Thank you to all the writers who made this possible. Go Phillies. 🧹🧹🧹
In the morning light our short throw Phils set up looks pretty ridiculous.
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In the morning light our short throw Phils set up looks pretty ridiculous.
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I’ll have y’all know that when they went down five I put my noise cancelling headphones on and pretended to read my book and not watch the game. So I’m taking personal responsibility for this win.
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I’m really going to miss this app
Did Simmons just air ball a layup? This is just out of control.
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I’m going to miss this app
Ben Franklin but make it 𝓼𝓮𝔁𝔂
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The Art of The Deal: when your finance bros tell you they will drop you if more texts show up in discovery so now you have to buy that thing you overbid for because you wanted to ban people who say teslas suck.
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Got to host @jeezluisjorge today! On the board behind me you can peep the pre-visit brainstorm with horror students (how is exoticism and xenophobia connected? consumer culture AND consuming culture?! body horror as a way to think about appropriation?). What an awesome class!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our Horror Stories event and a special thanks to @jeezluisjorge for giving us so many nuggets of wisdom on creative horror writing!! Stay tuned for the next event coming soon
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