#Literature

Helen Young 🏳️‍🌈

heyouonline

Claiming Tolkien was anti-racist also contributes to erasing and ignoring the lived experiences of fans of colour. It makes fandom less welcoming to POC. Don’t do it 10/ The racism

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53. 21 Sep / 05 AshwinThe very scene of this destruction of his world-conquering army was making Mahishasur enraged to no end. He took the form of an enormous male

Dr Sam Hirst

RomGothSam

Took me about 5 minutes to stop rolling my eyes but I'm back now.This does rather seem to lean into elitist attitudes which are all too common with (self-defined) 'literary'

Shlomo Zuckier

ZuckierShlomo

Over the past few months of dissertation writing/quarantine living, Ishay Ribo’s music has been a calming influence & an inspiration. I wasn't expecting anything, & today he releases a commentary

PhD Diaries is on Discord 💬

thoughtsofaphd

Skills no one tells you you'll need: how to properly catalog papers so that you can come back to them weeks, months, years later and know exactly why you downloaded

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

Thread. Jews, the Christian Zionist endgame is Armageddon/ bringing the end times, during which they believe we will not be saved. We’re a tool to help them get there. Even

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

When I entered med. school (no docs in fam), I assumed:1 Med education would primarily train me to be a doc2 Cancer screening is an unalloyed good3 When docs recommend

Judith Ridge

msmisrule

One of my colleagues was speaking today about a recent PL session she attended (remotely, of course). It addressed reader engagement in teenagers, and strategies to address the age-old problem

Swapnil Hiremath, MD, MPH

hswapnil

Others may have made fun of this ridiculous foray from the @nytimes into guidelines But let’s quickly look at 2 related to the kidneys (H/t @edclark75 for pointing out this

Stephen Longstaffe

SteveLongstaffe

This is essential reading, but it isn't news. In 2013, @BobEaglestone and @kovesi1 called it. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/english-why-the-discipline-may-not-be-too-big-to-fail/2008473.articleI was working on employability at the

James Lin

jamestwotree

This paper blew up on Twitter. There are economists and historians waging arguments left and right. My take on why historians find this paper so problematic, and what economists who

Steph 🧜‍♀️

GivenToRant

Cis folks, do me a favourNext time one of your friends jumps in with 'I've read [insert billionaire wizard writer lady's] blog, she's not transphobic..."Remind them that up until recently

Allison Golbach

AllisonGPharmD

FIRST TWEETORIALWhether you are in school, starting residency or first “real” job, or any time throughout your career, you may find impostor syndrome (IS) creeping up on you. One of

Rao Tejas

TejasOmkara

Sharing what I had written sometime ago and yagñā-s and the invocation of agñidēva. There are many yagñā-s and different devI-s and devatā-s are invoked using different yagñā-s. The word

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyToday

One of the greatest emperors of Vijayanagara, and also one of greatest rulers of India, Sri Krishna Deva Raya, under whose reign Vijayanagara attained greatest heights. His reign was marked

Marina Picciotto

MarinaP63

This evening my mom, Skai Varkalis Ahern, died in NYC. She survived infection with COVID19, but she never recovered enough to leave a hospital bed. She died after developing a