#Students

Hi, interdisciplinary social scientist here. I see a LOT of convo around #CancelStudentDebt, and I want to help frame this concept. Not only is canceling student debt good for the
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Today the results of Class 12 is out. There will be a crazy following of the toppers for a few days and really it doesn't matter. This result is not
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Having happily accepted that an academic job is unlikely to happen. I've started writing with joy, and without pressure. Grad students who are constantly publishing, and not taking time to
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A) This is not in direct response to the "FB post" but it did make me think about how council estates are sometimes viewed. Growing up, I lived on a
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Chicago families speak, a .“I’ve seen voices of Black & Latinx children & families coopted to support the union’s & district’s arguments.Frankly, I’m tired of a predominantly-white union & predominantly-white
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1/ My speech this morning: Assessment – time for a re-think? 2/ Whilst exams are important, an age-old system that relies only on written exams signals that what matters exclusively
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Great to see Arthur Lewis as a Google Doodle today. I often reference him to new faculty: “I got into the history of the world economy because Frederick Hayek, then
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The state of online learning:1) YouTube will eat the low-end of the market.2) People will pay 5-15x more for live courses.3) The three biggest competitive advantages are the personality of
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BIG NEWS: We just released the FIRST report ever on the diversity of House interns. Our findings show internships remain racially segregated and the racial identity of a member impacts
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One of the toughest things about freelancing is negotiating pay —(Can be awkward, difficult & emotional!) What would you say to yourself now if you were just starting
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Thread of financial help books calling student loan debt “good debt.”1. Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook, 2006 2. Alexa VanTobel’s Financially Fearless, 2013 3. Jon Hanson’s Good Debt, Bad Debt, 2006
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Tip: Look for consistency in research across studies and different research teams. That gets you closer to the truth. 3. Funding for research from groups with ideological stances is really
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Today I hosted a mentoring panel at #SPSP2021 on how academics can use social media effectively. I got some great questions and figured I would share the highlights for anyone
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I am sceptical that the university of Edinburgh has much evidence of a building being named after the famous 18th century Enlightenment philosopher David Hume causing 'distress' to contemporary students.
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What does it mean to be an international student in the current environment? It wasn’t easy for me to answer this in the form of a first-person essay but it
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Astrophysicist Margaret Geller was born #OTD in 1947. She is known for her work on the distribution of galaxies and clusters, which showed that the Universe is full of unexpected
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