Nicola Elle 🏳️‍⚧️

Realizing, after a friend of mine made a request for her own field, I probably should ask this.

Does anyone know of a university within the European Union (I have EU citizenship) that's going to do a faculty search next year in operations research / supply chain / logistics / management sciences / international business / business ethics or a similar field?

There was a really cool moment in today’s bike ride. We sometimes pick up riders at random on our rides, people riding who see us and want to join. So another rider joined us halfway today. When we got t our destination, as we talked, he started pointing at us: “Now I know why you’re here, and you’re here, and you’re here, and you’re here…”.

Thing is, we’re a queer cycling group. And I wasn’t one of the ones pointed at.

@faithisleaping@anarres.family recently spoke of the desire to be invisible sometimes - that, even if we don’t woodwork, the ability to just be a girl is nice. I worry I don’t pass sometimes, that the world is just being polite.

It was nice to just be a girl in a crowd for once - to know I was just seen as a girl in the crowd.

Magasplaining v. When someone who clearly gets their information from factually-questionable conservative media sources tries to correct or explain something about your area of expertise or line of work.

Used in a sentence:

“That old lady tried to magasplain to me about how what’s wrong with education is all a leftist conspiracy! Geez, I was only referencing the negative impact COVID had, not some Qanon crap!”

(And yes… this quite literally happened to me today.)

Something I wrote for my International Business students, as the semester closes.

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You could spend your entire career, your entire life, in the Rochester area. It's a nice place to live, a good place to settle down, raise a family, build a life.

But you don't have to.

You could stay entirely in New York State. Maybe find a job in Albany or Buffalo, maybe get a job in the City. The City is a lovely place to work and live, once you get used to it and understand the rhythms and rules of how the city works.

But you don't have to.

Statistically speaking, other than perhaps the occasional business trip, you quite possibly will spend all of your career in the United States. For most of my life, the United States was the beacon of democracy and freedom and enterprise; while it was never perfect, it strove to be an exemplar for the rest of the world to emulate. For many people, America is still the place to be, and you could potentially spend your entire life and career here.

But you don't have to.

There are more things in heaven and earth than can be found within the borders of this country. The world is out there. Lives far from these borders await if you're willing to go out there. Languages, citizenships, cultures, these are all barriers that can be circumvented or overcome to set up a career almost anywhere in the world.

If you want to.

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#business #education #immigration

Bad thought of the day, one I had in all seriousness before I internally facepalmed.

"You know, given the cyclosporiasis outbreak right now, it's a really shitty time to experiment with vegetarianism."

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@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw

“Don’t cry for me, Argentina…
The truth is I never left you,
All through my wild days,
My mad existence,
I kept my promise…
Don’t keep your distance.”

Yeah; singing that while making stabby seems… ominous. 😳