#Academic

Jacob S. Rugh

JakeRugh

"By 1913, 6 of 26 BYU faculty were women...These early faculty helped build the institution & set its trajectory, though their contributions to BYU are often lost in the institutional

Byzantine Ambassador

byzantinepower

THREAD on Erdy, Turkey & Hagia Sophia Turkey has turned into a pirate state with "soft" Islamist ideology. FP has gone from zero problems to zero friends in one decade.

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

The Nietzschean idea that suffuses all of modernity is the idea that “values” are idiosyncratic to each individual and group. When people refer to their “values”, “what we value” etc,

Julia Serano

JuliaSerano

THREAD: just published my latest (& perhaps last) debunking #autogynephilia essay: "Autogynephilia, Ad Hoc Hypotheses, and Handwaving." feel free to share it & give it lots of "claps" (up to

Stephanie Reinhardt

stephanie1839

Accessible Virtual Storytimes Everyone Can Enjoy with @MissReneeDomain and Jessica Fredrickson. They began with a set of descriptors - who they are, where they work, and what they wear. Great

Jeff McFadden

homemadeguitars

If today's rising power generations who sneer at us boomers hadn't had us there, you wouldn't be watching eagles or defending wolves. There wouldn't be any.We gave you OSHA, the

ghost of daniel parker

SeekerOTL

1\THE TWO LIVES OF CLIFFORD G GADDYThe Second Life (1987-2020)a thread Part I can be found here:https://twitter.com/SeekerOTL/status/1320531338789818369 2\Like a real life Don Draper, Clifford Gaddy was reborn. In 1987, he

daniel falush

DanielFalush

Why the west needs to move towards centralised quarantining, as soon as is practical. Time-critical policy threat, please retweet. 1/14 @Magda_Skipper @genemodeller @mrjamesob @piersmorgan @guardian @Telegraph when, in

Himanish Ganjoo

hganjoo153

Via reddit user Crantankerous, a thread on what's going on at JNU. Q1: What is going on in JNU right now? A: JNU has a student body of about 8000

Nicholas Guyatt

NicholasGuyatt

Wow, this story about Cambridge moving lectures online for next year really blew up, didn’t it? A thread on what it means and what it doesn’t.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52732814 Disclaimer 1: I teach

i’m a doctor not a popstar

rianaelyse

Okay - so now you know THAT I’ve passed the exam, let me tell you HOW I passed:A whole get-on-your-recliner-and-grab-some-tissues testimonial #thread giving honor and glory to God:/1 https://twitter.com/rianaelyse/status/12852167351891394

Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP)

genomeark

The VGP announces a special @nature issue w/flagship & other genome assembly pubs focused on quality, standardization & scale @RockefellerUniv @HHMINEWS @genomewarriors @sangerinstitute @maxplanckpress @genome_gov @MT_Genetics @Geno

annelyse gelman

annelysegelman

thanking all my teachers in my mfa thesis EXCEPT dean young, who refused to meet with me on campus yet hung out and drank with my male classmates, & whose

JoseDeservesRespect

RespectJose

Thread from The Times article on Joao Sacramento. I am coping and pasting whole article so you don't have to sign up on The Times to read the article:From superfan

Ben Yong

BYMYong

Spads. What do they do, why do they exist? Prompted by comment . There are a no of common complaints: 1. They don’t do anything; 2. They do too much;

Lawrence Freedman

LawDavF

Given allegations about early UK response to Covid-19 I’ve been looking at minutes of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG). This to the main Scientific Advisory