#Academics

Patrick Thomsen

_PatrickThomsen

So many people in Team Poly are confusing the right to an opinion with subject matter expertise. Call people elitist all you want, but if you "haven't done the reading,"

🌬Mistress Sn🕸w, PhD

MistressSnowPhD

As a sex worker who’s dealt with stalkers, doxing, and death threats for ~15 years, I’d really love to teach some academics a thing or two about dealing with trolls

L.D. Burnett

LDBurnett

okay, something truly bizarre has happened in response to this tweet. #twitterstorians, you will not BELIEVE this. (actually, you will, because you know academe and academics.) 1/nhttps://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1308186836590886912 Her

Lucy Stone

lucycjstone

Friends, we have a few years to dramatically change our ways of living, to keep the climate crisis to something hard but manageable, to prevent full blown meltdown of ecosystems.

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

Could it be that increasingly diverse voices and rich conversations are a threat to their free speech — or more accurately, the prerogative of famous and powerful people to speak

dr stephanie moore

steph_moore

*sigh*https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1359480274468433926 I will grant him that if your online course is online lectures or recorded lectures and that's it, then yes, your online course sucks.But I expect better of academics

jay romeo

SUBTLYODD

Why do catholic schools produce students that eventually become contrary to their "core values" that they've been inculcating?Prolly, it's because they're so keen and only focusing on their reputation more

Joseph L. Giacalone

JoeGiacalone

1) What’s happening with the surge in violent crime in NYC and elsewhere? “Criminologists” interviewed by CNN can’t quite put a finger on what’s causing it. As far as I’m

Eize Basa

PonchoRebound

Common is just a #DnD handwave that lets everyone communicate, like Star Trek’s universal translator.But I want a campaign about how Common is maintained, from the Académie Française-like academics who

Jenna Mittelmeier

JLMittelmeier

#WhyIAmStriking (When I’m back to UK) - a thread #UCUstrikesback #UCUstrike: Casualisation means I’ve been unable to future plan or establish any form of savings. I’m grateful to be

Andrew Rowan

andrewrowan128

This story by @AshelyFetters put into words a lot of the thoughts I was having about how schools are trying to replicate the #college campus experience over Zoom. At some

🧙🏽‍♀️🔮 Shama Yaga the Witch 🔮🧙🏽‍♀️

fritzlechat

I'm a non-Black prof who teaches lit by Black authors that uses the n-word, where that word is very important to the text and we have to discuss it. There

Syaza Nazura

nazu2308

My manager said someting that stuck to my head today (he was addressing questions by students):“Yes, attending top universities can open some doors for you, but you have to be

Samuel S. Snideman

sam_snideman

I had a situation today that made me very much think that I’m unlikely to go the TT route. Rejection, etc. are all very much part and parcel of the

Chris Martens

chrisamaphone

Programming Languages as a discipline has traditionally been approached using the research methods of mathematics: formal definition and proof. There are some who challenge us to approach it as a

Nijay K Gupta

NijayKGupta

Academics: How to handle outside criticismIn 2019 I had an experience where a group of religion scholars openly mocked and derided me and my workSince then I have been processing