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Students and postdocs thinking about diverse careers -- everyone tells you that networking is critical, but you might think that is impossible during the pandemic. Not true!There's a lot you
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I'm on a call right now with an ICU physician who is working bioengineers at his academic hospital to jury-rig extra ventilators. He has a lot to say about the
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Love to everyone who is reeling, angry & scared in these horrible times. This toxic stew of systemic racism, ableism, and a pandemic shows how critical it is to support
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OK you ask for it, you get it. This will be Academia is Stupid Part I: ResearchAlmost all humanities & social sciences research in the Anglophone world happens at an
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OK, so this is funny.Seems the American Society for Criminology had their annual meeting recently.And they had a meeting on research integrity (which given all the recent fuss, makes sense).After
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Anyone still think I was making too much of the danger of giving Trump and GOP the chance to run against Scarequote Socialism?It was literally all they talked about last
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A love letter to jr Black Women in STEM, from middle career Black Woman...aka - note to my younger self Hey Love,It’s been a tough time; and we haven’t really
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Cal Newport offers useful strategies in his books like 'Deep Work' and 'So Good They Cannot Ignore You'.He offers no non-sense advice that can help you create a meaningful and
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Happy twitter-verdant (that was supposed to be -versary but I like it) to me. I joined & left Twitter a little earlier but rejoined with this account in 2009. Recently,
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I am happy to announce that I was offered a tenure track Assistant Professor position for the fall 2020. I had to decline the offer. Even though I have no
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Okay I’m back for a short moment because I’m still at work ( IM TIRED) and this bird app is distracting me way too much but I have a few
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A thread on how-tos of cover letter for recent #PhD graduates applying for #faculty jobs right now. @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdlife #phdchat No need to continue reading if you already had
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A story. Way back in the year 2010 I had started my first job. I defended in July. Moved in August. No furniture in my house til September. No real
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OhMyGodI _had_ given up annoying people, forever.But this one is such a facepalm. And there is now online evidence of me completely failing to debug a numbers thing.#MedEd #Foamed #cardiotwitterAll
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Re: the Larry King Live caller accusation by Tara/Ryan Grim. I was able to find the transcript of the episode in question on Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic). The transcript
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1/ I've been seeing a lot of discussion about studies that show transmission of COVID-19 does not occur as often from children to adults. This is being used to support
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