#Academics

Dr Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay 👩🏻🎓⚗️💊🚽

cgl_119

While we all face grant rejections, I have noticed that there are two categories of academics in the UK. The ones who know a next grant is coming and those

Mila

sedcontra_

Something really bothersome to me is antiracist academics who have done extensive work on antiracism were also be really enthusiastic for Elizabeth Warren. Very few peoples’ “antiracism” includes people abroad

Awe Onisokuso™ CAC-OFR

sarnchos

This is my own idea for how to catapult Nigeria into industrial status.But it will not happen overnight.Empowering our youth will achieve several aims at once.Being proficient in basic skills

Liam Bright

lastpositivist

I think Journal of Controversial Ideas submissions are mostly gonna be people saying “what if socially normal hierarchies are... good actually” - ideas controversial in academia but, like, normie irl.

Dr. Jessica B. Hernandez

doctora_nature

Remember that permaculture is co-opted Indigenous knowledge. The founder of this field, Bill Mollison went to Tasmania, Australia to “research” and “learn” from the Indigenous peoples of a small village.

Shannon Burns, PhD(!)

shannon47burns

Going into fall, I really hope academics are evaluating ways their new online instruction policies may be ableist. Online classes are hard, ESPECIALLY for students with learning disabilities, on the

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

A little experiment explaining how scientists, doctors and academics have learned not to speak out the truth.It all starts with 5 monkeys... 1/n The Five Monkeys Experiment"An experimenter puts 5

Sandy Johnston

sandypsj

I like Geoff's work but the idea that using one computer program instead of several is "disabling" or "theory poor" is a great illustration of the divide between academic planners

Christopher Z. Dlamini💙

chris_dlamini

All universities with an active Learning Disability cohort please list your name here. How good and how special it would be if we all networked regularly, especially our student nurses,

King Hong

TefoWritesStuff

Being groomed in your teens is fairly easy for teenagers bc in the tiny, tiny world of your high school and your friends, kids are constantly being singled out for

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

There is a real elite: the very rich and the politicians who support them. They have 2 tricks for diverting blame for the multiple disasters they cause. 1. Focus it

Peter Suber

petersuber

Since the pandemic shutdown began, journal submissions of co-authored papers, with women among the co-authors, are slightly up, and solo-authored papers by women are significantly down.https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/21/early-jo

Sayantan Datta

queersprings

Educators and language-in-classroom thread: When encouraging students to counter each other and/or learning to have a healthy academic debate, what are the words that you use? (1/n) Words like "attack",

Stephan Pennington

stephanPhD

I saw a tweet from an undergrad saying that university should be free of it is going to be remote. It reminded me of a conversation I had with an

Jonathan Jones

nmrqip

“Science works best when everything is examined critically, not when there is unquestioning acceptance of just one narrative. When that happens, a particular paradigm has captured a field, and that

Prof. Joanna Kidman

JoannaKidman

This is a thread about research trauma. It’s about how we tell stories, as indigenous researchers, about the violent past and the complicated, messy present; how we occupy different time-zones