#Academic

Ari Feinberg

FeinbergAri

Did anyone else ever hear the phrase “log-log plots are cheating” during your science education? Where does this come from and why is it wrong? A thread . Lognormal distributions

Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm

A short thread for those who want to understand just why twitter (well, the trade part of it) is going crazy surrounding an "IP waiver" for covid vaccines (thread) In

Deeva Shah

happygolawky

No thanks. I hate it.https://twitter.com/dispositive/status/1320029562684772355 For those of you who don’t want to click in, here’s some legal scholarship on using the n-word in the classroom. One of those professors

Michael Erard

michaelerard

Writing advice in most books are like fingernails on chalkboards to me. A batch of te-rendered juicy bits from Williams, Strunk & White, & Zinsser. 1) They usually don’t acknowledge

Larry M.

notoncable

I would love to quantify this, and maybe I will down the line, but my sense is that when We, The Party™, do Hispanic and Latino outreach, we emphasize a

Malcolm Craig (not 'Creg')

contestedground

There's a long history of intertwining Islam and nuclear weapons - luckily, I've written about it in @SHAFRDH https://academic.oup.com/dh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/dh/dhaa032/5850078 https://twitter.com/asmiff/status/1274712158841

kwaku

thekwakuel

PLS RETWEET. Hey everyone, please send a nice email or call to @DeseretBook Calvin misrepresented Prof John Gee & they’re being pressured to pull his book. He is the top

Deign Frolley

deignfrolleys

Currently writing my letter which would allow me (if endorsed) to give a PASS grade to my students. In the department meeting that we had yesterday (which made me cry

Liesbeth Corens

onslies

PHWOAR this article! Couldn’t have been timed better, highlighting the resisting and changing power of hitting the break. Kinetics and temporality! #VeryHappyLiesbeth https://twitter.com/PastPresentSoc/status/1272538099902566401 I started

James Sumner

JamesBSumner

ANTI-HE HIT PIECE ALERTThere are over 200 000 academic staff currently employed at UK universities. This diligent investigation has uncovered *ONE* serving academic in the UK who has done what's

Eryn O'Neal

erynnicoleoneal

Thank you @DrSeanKWilson for giving the academy this powerful piece. We don't deserve it. But, I seriously appreciate it. I will be assigning it in all my grad classes moving

Bret Devereaux

BretDevereaux

So I noticed a lot of my followers are graduate students in the 'academic' fields. And I know things right now are looking pretty grim. Distance learning and distance teaching

sa simula't sapul hindi na patas ang laban!

pa_pards

NO TO ACADEMIC FREEZE!!mga kabataan, hindi lang estudyante ang maaapektuhan, lubos ding maaapektuhan ang kabuhayan ng mga guro, staff ng school, at mga maliliit na manininda sa paligid ng mga

Shannon McNamara, MD

ShannonOMac

I recently left my job in academic medicine.I’m sad to leave. I’m sad leaving was necessary.Ultimately, we had a values conflict about learning & safety.Excellence comes from ‘power-with’ culture.I could

Isaac T. Soon, PhD

isaacsoon2

"Second-Hand Knowledge of Second Temple Jewish Scholarship" or "How the Scholarship of Women Gets Left Behind" - A Thread 1/ There is an interesting post over on the Logos Academic

Jonathan Beardsley

JBeardsleyMath

Just a reminder that the problem with the academic job market is not that there are "too many PhDs." The problem is that universities are working really hard to eliminate