#TextBooks

Aruni Kashyap

AruniKashyap

This summer, I taught a intro to cw class marked as “low cost”. I didn’t assign textbooks. I didn’t know how much it helped some students until I actually taught

jan homolak

JanHomolak

A bizzare story of Croatia and COVID-19 spiced up with potentially problematic use of scientific methodology? /thread [2/2] …(1/25) @GordanLauc supports his point by attaching an image of @ResearchGate account

Alexa

WhereIs_Alexa

I saw my friends making threads as they’re reading books so I thought I’d give it a go. I will be live tweeting my reactions to reading ‘A Thousand Storms’

Arlen Parsa

arlenparsa

"They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round"Nah, they laughed because they already knew the world was round–and his math about earth's size was incorrect.This

Ben CatchYourCough Goldacre

bengoldacre

BING BONG NEW PAPERWe pulled together a huge team to look at how we can bring NHS data analysis into the 21st century. THREAD!https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0141076820930666 Academics love to run regression analyses

Jazz

JazzElves

Dionysus never actually existed, but could be interacted with as though he did, because the "negative space" left by Zagreus' death echoed in the presence of the other Olympians as

Samir C. Grover, MD

Samir_Grover

My friend @BilalMohammadMD recently posted on how to convert abstracts into manuscripts. https://twitter.com/BilalMohammadMD/status/1316135691508736000?s=20Many academics offered great advice and described the pitfalls of having an abstract

Casey Fiesler, PhD, JD, geekD

cfiesler

Update on the bonkers omegaverse copyright lawsuit- a bogus DMCA claim for @thelindsayellis's video about bogus DMCA claims. AMAZING EXAMPLE of a complete misunderstanding of fair use. Let's talk about

Bazaar of Ideas 🌹

OdinsProphecy

Narendra ModiThe man who facilitated the state sponsored pogrom in Gujarat (2002)Let's revisit it.[thread] Death toll - Upto 2000 deaths (E)Injured - Upwards of 2,500Missing - 223Displaced - 150,000Timeline -

The Queen of Hats

thequeenofhats

You folks who never wanted to homeschool because that is not what you went to university/professional school/graduate school for...but it's that or COVID? I'm here to tell you if you

DMKM

2paisay

Since the decision didn't come, something to bore the night owls into sleep.I had planned to do this thread later but Raza lovers group made an appearance though Volker Taya

गोपी कृष्ण

gopimaliwal

.@VamseeJuluri :Desp SM bravado hldg that a small group of “Left Liberals” is going to disappear from relevance b/c of Modiji or Trumpji, truth is: it is their way of

Sarah Mulhern Gross

thereadingzone

Teachers are expected to take a bullet for their students. We've suffered through years of being condescended to. We pivoted on a day's notice this spring to offer crisis schooling.

sarah Ψ𓆈

sarasapens

tw // islamophobia , religion , blatant misinformation--proving this video wrong: a threadhttps://twitter.com/kurpkacore/status/1307134297648902154 okay. i just wanted to preface this with i am NOT trying to compare islam to other

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

EARN IT is a bill that takes away online service providers' "safe harbor" (a rule that says that the company that provides your messenger app isn't liable if you use

Michael Muthukrishna

mmuthukrishna

Now out! Beyond WEIRD Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distancehttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797620916782Summary thread: 1/ The world is not WEIRD vs non-WEIRD. How psychologically and cu