Happy Valentine's Day, Twitter Style

Just in time for the "holiday," Twitter brings us #AcademicValentines. Not surprisingly, many of these tidings of love and joy center on tenure:

But for you academic commitophobes out there, you can always hedge your bets:

Ouch. Of course, many entries address scholarship strategy...

...and methodology (again, offered in the more and less committed varieties)...

...and the beloved peer review process:

There are even nods to scholarly citation styles:

Sure, but is she committed enough to convert to Bluebook? That's dedication. And speaking of Bluebook, and the legal academy's penchant for insisting that every factual claim, no matter how obviously true or otherwise universally accepted, be cited:

I'll end with another one of my favorites:

Anyway, check out the live updates under the hashtag, or this great storify of some of the best ones from the past few days.

Also worth checking out: #ScienceValentines and #PhilosophyValentines. Sadly, I cannot recommend the #LawValentines hashtag, as it's pretty pathetic, with only two entries to date. Get on it, people.

UPDATE: Al is on the case:

Comments

[Whatyouliveby]

#LawValentines may be pathetic, but #LegalValentines wasn’t doing too bad last I checked! Definitely more suggestive than the other tags, though.

[Michelle Meyer]

Ah, my bad. If only twitter hashtags were searchable using root expanders.