#Universities

Dr Anton Howes

antonhowes

When it comes to attracting the top scientists, engineers and inventors, the UK takes the approach of build-it-and-they-will-come. It lowers barriers to entry or makes the country more attractive to

Jon Boeckenstedt

JonBoeckenstedt

Thread: It's college ratings week, and in our business, we know that means USNWR. I don't blame USNWR: They simply identified something colleges probably should be doing, but were reluctant

gabriel⁵// fanboi // MSD 📌//

regularfanboi

"Are your wings the same pain as me?" an emotional? story of how and why I became a stan of TXT and why Beomgyu is my bias [a thread]#MOASD #MSD

NEH Digital Humanities

NEH_ODH

The Office of Digital Humanities is pleased to be accepting applications for NEH CARES: Cultural Organizations, an emergency relief program to assist institutions and organizations working in the humanities that

Lola 🌍🌹

femlxla

LSE has refused to accept the extent to which the coronavirus epidemic is preventing students from preparing for exams.Students are suffering. LSE's response has been inconsistent and insufficient. It has

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Let's talk about the two-track economy that I think Bidenomics is trying to create.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-12/beating-china-won-t-help-biden-reach-full-u-s-employment?sref=R8NfLgwS 2/Basically the idea is th

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In 1948, Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform, the Soviet information agency, in retaliation for its "non-aligned" status; deprived of information-processing capacity, the country created its own IT industry from scratch.1/

Student Nurse Pia ⚕️

studentnursepia

𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗡𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚? 𝙰 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝙽𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝙵𝙰𝚀𝚂

Zara Fahim

zarafahim15

**LONG THREAD** Didn’t feel it was my place to comment on #UCUstrike as an undergrad, but seeing students complain about strikes, I can’t keep it in. Gutted I’m abroad &

Joachim Hackshaw

joachimorjoe

Long thread from a student doing a postgraduate diploma in communications studies with a digital media major on a quote from Judith Collins this morning “the problem with secondary schools

Jide Akintunde

JSAkintunde

A Roadmap to Fully Reopen NigeriaMy wife, a physician & consultant cardiologist, has been 2ce in self-isolation during this Covid-19 saga & tested negative. Trying to understand the impact of

Justin Hendrix #ProtectTheResults

justinhendrix

1/ We still need ways to pump billions more dollars into journalism and news gathering across the country. The FTC published an interesting paper ten years ago on this subject,

small robots

smolrobots

Almost every year we talk about the fundamental problem with standardised testing, and as with everything in the year of covid, this latest debacle simply provides an extreme example that

David Perell

david_perell

Lessons from different fields:1) Advertising: We overestimate our capacity for independent thought.2) Poker: Life is probabilistic. We can do everything right and still lose.3) Architecture: We're influenced by our environment,

Alex Souchen

AlexSouchen

1/12 Now that #WarJunk is published, it’s time to offer a sneak peek! So let’s talk about one type of war junk…bedframes! THREAD@UBCPress #twitterstorians #WW2 #SWW #ecrchat #materialculture #histtech #envhist

Don Moynihan

donmoyn

One thing that I think people off-campus (and even some people on campus) might not fully understand is the capacity of universities to self-regulate reasonable standards around speech. Given that,