4/23 Twitter Tuesday

This week’s Twitter Tuesday was EXHAUSTING - I normally try to do all of the assignments for the week for this class all in one day, but this single assignment took up so much time and I haven’t even had lunch yet, so I guess I might need to figure something else out.

Anyway, upon recommendation from a classmate, I followed Rose Foster-Dyer, an Antarctic researcher. From there, I just followed whoever the website told me to in the “Who to Follow” column in the left, which made this part of the activity. I somehow ended up following a lot of Canadian wildlife researchers, including Clayton Lamb of the University of British Columbia, who I believe works with bears and other large animals. Later, I tweeted out a link to a very important article about the donkey skin trade in Africa from The Atlantic. I sort of went on a little rant about the Chinese government (they deserve it!!!) as my “thread” for the week, and the went back to tweeting about other articles, including a particularly interesting one from The New York Times about animal cognition - something that we’ve been studying extensively in WRITING 60 so far this year.

As for the blog comments, I responded to Charliene Lien, Cole Mak and Emma Chu. I really related Cole’s experience with setting up Twitter for the first time and being overwhelmed by the feed, and I also appreciated Emma’s interpretation of the Bird Brain documentary. She did a great job deconstructing various quotes from it and relating different aspects of it to the readings from weeks 1 and 2.