Dr. Giulia Evolvi

It's ok to ask for reviews but why, why do I have to register to the journal's website, set a password, give them all of my data, write my grandma's last name and the name of my first dog, recite a poem in latin, offer two butterfly wings and the eye of a toad just to say I'm too busy to review?

Last week I organized a workshop. I invited academics (professors, researchers, Ph.Ds) and non-academics (journalists, activists, writers). I didn't put any title in the program, nor any affiliation: just the name and the expertise of the person. That's my experiment to make academia more open

Once I sent an email to JUDITH BUTLER and she responded, so those full professor who think of themselves as too important to answer other people's emails just make me laugh

People now say bad things about Twitter, but exactly four years ago I connected with @genderedform.bsky.social there and now she’s my co-author and friend and I’m so happy to talk to her all the time 💜

I’m sorry Pope Leo had surgery but great he’s no longer in the U.S., it would be weird to have a religious leader cook meth to pay for healthcare

When I did my comps during my PhD I wrote 4 essays in 4 days for a total of 100 pages, so I don’t fear AI because I think of myself as a human ChatGPT

If you wonder whether the patriarchy is alive, know that little boys’ trousers have pockets, but little girls’ don’t

Sara Ahmed gave me killjoy solidarity 💜

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?

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 :)

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

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

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.

Ed ecco finalmente la Barbie che piace a Tajani

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

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?

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

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!

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Me, preparing an ERC grant: "Oh, let's have a look at the people who got the grant in the past years!" The people who got the grant: droxtailstews.substack.com/p/prof-dr-bo...

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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”

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!"

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?

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

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 🫠

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.

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

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

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

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the best in every category