So Long Twitter

I easily discovered psychologists by purely typing in the word, “psychologist.” Unlike avian researchers or chicken experts, psychologists are very easy to find on Twitter.

My 97th follow goes to Carl Hindy, a clinical psychologist. Hindy’s bio captured my interest among many other psychologists due to his plug on his love advice book. Love is interesting and using the bio for plugging is commendable. Furthermore, his recent retweet was about dementia which I am curious to learn more about. Following Carl Hindy came Dr. Rob Yeung. His tweets all have to do with ways one could improve their work or workplace. Which is nice considering the job market and my slight interest in Industrial Organizational psychology. Lucky number 99 goes to Jordan Peterson. A Canadian clinical psychologist who focuses on abnormal, personality, and social psychology. Finally the 100 follow! Initially, I wanted to give Sigmund Freud’s quote account a follow, but the quotes don’t align with my views much and so my 100th follow went to Gad Saad. A cool guy with a cool name. Saad is an evolutionary behavioral scientist who applies those skill sets to marketing and consumer behavior. The other six accounts are also all psychologists with their own unique feed.

Looking through the WhatIlearnedinWR60 hashtag felt like a walk through memory lane. Some of the tweets I commented on from there are about Starlings and how light exposure is harmful to them. This one caught my attention, as I have read about Starling birds in my feed before and was intrigued to see how light, something so prevalent in our community is bad for them.

Another I want to mention is about a video we watched previously in this class. The video meant a lot to me, and so I was happy to see someone mention it. The tweet was about how Bede Carmody’s TEDxtalk poultry advocacy spoke to them. Like the owner of the tweet, the video impacted my views on how we treat farm animals, more specifically, chickens.

Some of the tweets I made with the #WhatIlearnedinWR60 is about the cruelty of how chickens were modified to extremes and how I got to learn how to use the UC system’s valuable library. I paired each tweet with a picture, and gave an example of one of the many modifications that were done to chickens to breathe broiler chickens.

Lastly, some of the last tweets I made are about my research. Some of the solutions I decided to share are alternatives to consuming broiler chickens and how an advocacy group took the government of UK to court for how they took the breeding too far. I never thought I would say this, but I would not mind eating insects -given they are raised in a clean environment. This is only after I have learned of what the chicken meat I have been eating is really like.

This has been a fun and enlightening journey that made an impact on my life. I enjoyed reading everyone's twitter posts and blogs! Thanks everyone and have an awesome summer!