#Academic

Emily M. Bender

emilymbender

On professional societies not giving academic awards to harassers, "problematic faves", or bigots, a thread: /1 Context: I was a grad student at Stanford (in linguistics) in the 1990s, but

Dr Richard McNeil-Willson

mcneilwillson

Late to the party as spending less time on twitter atm, but the attacks against @AsimCP and the many authors of this book are representative of a wider assault on

Nicole Pagowsky

nope4evr

A thread expanding on the #claps2020 peer-review move from blind to open (after having a conversation with a colleague who wanted to know more about the decision)... (1/9) In previous

Zach Elliott

zaelefty

I received an excellent question about sex determination, and how biologists classify organisms. Here's the question: "Is it a consensus among biologists that sex is determined by gametes? If so,

Arindrajit Dube

arindube

There are many problems with Difference-in differences design, but many of them can be addressed (or evaluated more clearly) If you follow a rule of 1) stack by event date,

Emily Deans MD 👻

evolutionarypsy

Doctors in 1918 tried high dose aspirin, quinine, arsenic, camphor oil, digitalis, strychnine, Epsom salts and castor oil, and when none of these helped, fell back on bloodletting. They had

Simon Whitten

Simon_Whitten

A couple of recent retractions have brought attention to the large number of racist papers based on painfully flawed science that have infested the psychology literature.I want to talk here

BDF (Black diaspora faggotry)

blacklikewho

Form and Black Studies. A few things. A radical Black Studies has always considered form as both problem and freedom. Form and its considerations is why Du Bous wrote novels,

hanggang sa tagumpay 🌟

moloficent

i will never forgive white people for being the direct murderers of our languages for them to only profit off teaching it back to us centuries later in academic spaces.

Aida A Hozić

hozic

When I was in graduate school, my advisors told me a cautionary tale about a historian, David Abraham, who wrote - in their view - a brilliant book about the

Sachiko Ishikawa

Ishikawa_Sachi

There is this Spanish feminist group called "Mujeres de Asia (Women of Asia)" that is led by three white Spanish women.Not "ABOUT Women of Asia" but "Women OF Asia."You can

Women in Statistics and Data Science

WomenInStat

ON BEING AND SUPPORTING #FIRSTGEN STUDENTS:Being #FIRSTGEN means navigating a complex system without benefit of familial knowledge. For me, this meant attending to every academic rule or request. I didn’t

Katherine Angel

KayEngels

The REF is gross! It's moronic and it's bad for everyone. That's my thought for the day. I mean, it's harmful, corrosive, & divisive. But it's also embarrassing; it makes

Somnath Mukherjee

somnath1978

So many folks posting "I got v few marks in XII and still turned out ok". Many have played Russian Roulette and came out alive and/or rich - doesnt mean

sm00sh

J_Dahlin

Mask wearing - is it effective?I see the anti-mask crowd has latched onto a few studies to support the "masks don't help" train of thought.As a data scientist however, I

A Jay Holmgren

AJHolmgren

New paper out in #JAMIA @AMIAinformatics today: barriers to hospital electronic reporting to public health agencies (with @NateApathy and @j_r_a_m) https://academic.oup.com/jamia/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jamia/ocaa112/5842141 Lots of att