#Academic

Can we also talk about how men treat women in this field? Because I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to deal with unwanted advances + unprofessional behavior
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Important update about grading options for CSUF Spring2020 courses - passed by academic senate as of today (three pieces of news in thread below): 1) All petitions from students to
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thread of redd’s paintings vs the irl one for reference!! sinking painting: Ophelia scary painting: Actor Otani Oniji III as the Yakko Edobei academic painting: The Vitruvian Man famous painting:
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Super thread of threads on the impotence of liberalism & it’s unfortunate influence on leftism. A thread I just did on legalism & so on. It’s relatively lengthy, but if
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Ph.D. comps are the academic equivalent of fraternity/sorority hazing.They are mostly a waste of time.Sorry/not sorry. I’m talking about traditional comps with 3/4 lists with over 100 books each. I
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A year ago, a non-academic friend listened to a talk I gave. I thought it went great. My friend disagreed.She said that academics are experts at making interesting stuff boring—and
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I'm working on postdoc fellowship apps and one of the things that's absolutely crippling me is this:What if - big, BIG, IF - I get a postdoc fellowship to do
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Having now finished reading "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott, I am now ready to write the thread I was thinking of, comparing memoir-type writing advice books. So buckle up,
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I’ve had this little red #origami horse for five years.It’s one of my most treasured possessions. This #thread is about how it came to me.#autism#AllAutistics#ActuallyAutistic 1/ Five years ago I
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Over the years, well-meaning scholars have warned me about the dangers of being distracted by community/public engagement. Therefore, I’ve always been low-key about my “non-academic” activities (podcasting, blogging, etc). #PhDChat
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It’s been over a year since I read the author’s response to a review of his work in which he dismissed the review author — a respected Enlightenment scholar —
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Bodied I mean Ash Sarkar’s academic career is no secret. So I can’t qwhite figure out the outburst from Frances. Bodied 2 this time its final. Bodied 3 This time
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It's a commonplace that labels like "left" and "right" don't mean anything, but that's not true.1/ The first clean distinguishing test I ever heard came from @StevenBrust: "Ask what's more
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So I dated/was friends with Zach Shifrel (AKA “Path Integral Salesman”, @/litgenstein, @/wickrotate, @/leadingorder)This little exposé will use a two-pronged approach:1)I’ll address his (lack of) academic credentials and2)Detail my p
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Eugenics is bad, actually Liberal eugenics, an academic term that caught my eye a couple of weeks ago, should never be used outside the context of academia. It was dumb
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The sheer scale of the loss of university teaching over the past three years has been seriously downplayed. Teaching was disrupted so much even before the pandemic because of strike
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