So there's weirdness and drama afoot in science twitter. I really feel for people, this kind of shit is hurtful.https://twitter.com/IsabelOtt/status/1290007767109865475 …
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But also as a veteran of LiveJournal of a Certain Age, I look at the people saying the fake account went on for years and that maybe means it wasn't fake or that was really weird and justpic.twitter.com/a8OvG8CCry
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Let me introduce y'all to MsScribe: https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Ms.Scribe_Story:_An_Unauthorized_Fandom_Biography …
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Mostly what twitter has done is make it harder to spot this shit because you can't easily compare IP addresses anymore. I mean also VPNs etc are easily available now.
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But look if LiveJournal taught us anything it was that people will indeed run sock puppets for years on end.
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🚩Shepherd 🏴 Retweeted Nora Bombay
Oh shit another epic LiveJournal era identity wtf https://fanlore.org/wiki/Thanfiction …https://twitter.com/norabombay/status/1290284508680294409?s=19 …
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And look I don't know why people do this shit either. You could try tracking down Dionne (MsScribe) or Andy Blake and asking them but I doubt you'd get a straight answer. The main reason seems to be gain -- of prestige, of social capital, of credibility, sometimes of money.
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The latest incident in science twitter seems to be our of an urge for credibility and social capital. Why else construct a queer indigenous sock to attack people who criticize you for being racist?
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Cynically, a queer indigenous identity is less likely to be questioned by cis/straight white people, even when she fucked up and claimed to be teaching a class that didn't exist at the university she was supposedly at.
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And honestly I think this is most probably how it started.https://twitter.com/StoopidTallKid/status/1290292857819918337?s=19 …
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ꙮ @StoopidTallKidReplying to @NeolithicSheepIn this case, it looks like this was an anon personal account that got enough of a following to become it's own thing. Looks like the account didn't claim to be indigenous until the owner was accused of racism, at which point she pointed to her sock puppet.2 replies 5 retweets 74 likesShow this thread
This shit was so fucked up. We had our own bs in medieval studies. You should look up Gay Girl in Damascus if you hadn’t heard of it already. And the fucker who did it still is in academia like nothing happened.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep
Yeah. This guy, McMaster, has a job at an HBCU.
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