#Academics

Dr Laura McAtackney

LMcAtackney

I know journalists can't be experts on everything but this article presents a very one-sided view of what has been a very nuanced 'decade of commemorations'. It has greatly benefited

Matthew J. Peterson

docMJP

Proving case for Biden doesn't require "studies show" & "experts say" that no fraud EVER occurs/no dead people EVER vote b/c our process is PERFECT & could NEVER be gamed

Chirag Chinnappa

ChinnappaChirag

Over the past 24hrs, SM has been flooded by posts on Education Policy in India, with the #NEP2020 at the centre of everything. Seems fair.But with so many media houses

Crystal Lee 李佳佳

crystaljjlee

your daily reminder that Taiwan, a nation of 23.8m people, has had a whopping total of seven (7) deaths due to COVID some interesting things about Taiwan just to get

Orwell & Goode

OrwellNGoode

This year has been quite something.But let's try to pick some of the most clownish stories this year had to offer.Here's to 2020's end of year thread 1/50 Have you

Ian Higham

highamian

Swedish media - public broadcasting in particular - needs a rethink about a.) bias and b.) how it treats academics. A hopefully short thread on a frustrating story... Last week

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

Over *5 years*, the USPS—under a POTUS whose party *benefits* from all Americans voting—removed 12,000 mailboxes.Now, in the *90 days* preelection, a mega-donor to a POTUS who says he wants

Jeffrey Ladish

JeffLadish

I'm trying to figure out good discourse norms for myself. I really enjoyed the conversation(s) that came out of this tweet, but I also got feedback from friends I respect

Fay Lin

xiaofei_lin

Dear academics - Please avoid the following phrases during #COVID19. Thread 1/#AcademicTwitter #phdchat @PhD_Balance @AcademicChatter "It's a great time to work on coding/writing/etc."For some, working from home has challenges

Dr. Jen Schradie

schradie

Men will take over public discourse on the Capitol Siege (ht @beccalew) But women have dominated research on the American far-right. We’re fighting the patriarchy & the pandemic, so we

Dr. Katie Wedemeyer-Strombel

krwedemeyer

So, the other day I realized, suddenly, that I had not thought about grad school or my research or any of those 7 years of my life in long enough

Capel Lofft

CapelLofft

I know various people who have pretty non-woke views (on some issues at least). When I try to warn them that soft totalitarianism is coming, they just think I'm being

Joshua Gans

joshgans

OK time to weigh in on the Gigi Foster COVID-19 view for Australia. I'll do this as academics should but to forecast I am disappointed she took these views to

Matt Lowe

hmmlowe

How to generate ideas@ubcVSE students have started to ask me how to generate research ideas, now that they are moving to 2nd or 3rd year. I don't know whether I

Emily M. Bender

emilymbender

I've now read Yuan, Liu and @gneubig 's paper "Can We Automate Scientific Reviewing?" https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00176 ... and of course I have a few things to say: /1 I'd like to start

Mohsen Goudarzi

MohsenGT

Islamic literature on the Qur’an reports many textual variants that do not conform to the ‘Uthmanic skeletal text (rasm), often attributing such variants to Companions of the Prophet who allegedly

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