#PhDs

Srila Roy

ProfSrilaRoy

Such a great thread! Would encourage PhDs and ECRs everywhere to read, not just in Africa... (Some more thoughts below)https://twitter.com/PhDinAfrica/status/1283388325747929095 I love what they say about quality over quantity. Even

John Cawley

cawley_john

In thinking about this year's #EconJobMarket, one analogue is what happened during the 2008-09 financial crisis. A new memo by our AEA committee on the job market explores this: 1/7https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/communications/memo-aug-11-2

Minorities in STEM

MinoritySTEM

Happy #HumpDay ! This tweet by @BWiSNetwork has inspired me to chat about my PhD experience, beside the research itself. The pros and cons. Let's start with pros!https://twitter.com/BWiSNetwork/status/1248588867814526976 Pro

Rui Xu

RuiXuKS

In 1989, I was born in Switzerland because my parents were pursuing their PhDs there and got pregnant. Because I had an older sister and China’s One Child Policy, that

Leonardo Carella

leonardocarella

Now for some poli-sci victory laps. The 'citizen forecast', the favourite model of all quacks based on asking people "who do you think is going to win?", had Trump winning

Chemjobber

Chemjobber

The National Science Foundation's Survey of Earned Doctorates is the best place to understand the demographics of chemistry PhD holders. The latest data is from 2018. For the 1711 chemistry

Dr. Sam Dundon

serdundon

The longer I was a PD, the more I wanted to hear voices of folks who "didn't make it." Often, when I expressed anxieties about being able to get a

Mando

MitchellCares

Jacob Frey on MSNBC: “We need to abolish the behavior, we don’t need to abolish the police” Keisha Lance Bottoms really filibustering and amounting to say “its bad police are

Dr. Keisha N. Blain

KeishaBlain

No offense to journalists & others who occasionally write #history. We appreciate you and we thank you. We hope you will continue to do it. But I think it's important

Shravan Venkataraman 🔥🚀💰

theBuoyantMan

Career in Finance - a thread.If you want to have a proper career in the Financial Markets, as an analyst or as a trader, in M&A, or with a VC

Michael Curzi

michaelcurzi

Half the people bitching about rationalists just want to rescue them lol. The other 80% are irritated at smartness signals without apparent worthiness to wield that power, and nerds are

Alissa Amundson

alissa_amundson

1/ I’m the only active female (HSsoftball) umpire in Knoxville. I made a call. I was confident in that call. Coach (m) disagreed. He’s allowed. I clarified. Assistant coach (m)

Littlefoot

LTF_01

A bunch of PhDs are trying to clarify that this study is somehow biologically impossible or anthropologically illiterate.The amount of trouble academics go through to shield people from what they

Whatfreshhell

Whatfreshhell5

My partner just came out as GC on Facebook and all his friends - tightest best crew he ever had - have mobbed him called him hateful TERF etc. They

Sam Perrin

samperrinNTNU

Hey early career ecologists, bit of a thread that I could really use help getting out to interested writers!So @HasikAdam and I have been running Ecology for the Masses for

Phil Magness

PhilWMagness

THREAD: If you want to understand the academic job crisis in the humanities and some social sciences, it's mostly an accumulated glut from decades of PhD overproduction. PhD overproduction occurs