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Megan Dixon
DamsonEd
1/4 So, I am looking through a school website. They are explaining their rationale for teaching literacy. They quote some famous EduTweeters- but do not actually reference the seriously amazing
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Dr. Keston Perry
kestontnt
Yesterday I had a really interesting conversation about how Black academics are perceived in academia. We are expected to always present ourselves as groomed or we can be mistaken for
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Chris Bateman
SpiralChris
Yet there's undeniably a weird nest of dogmas lurking deep in game studies, and peer review's self-reaffirming echo chamber only intensifies this blindness.It's not just a problem in game studies
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X Æ A-Xi Jinping
comradebernout
The trend towards extreme specialization and division of bourgeois academia into a fractal of fields & sub fields reinforces ruling class ideology, as academics often lack a cross-disciplinary perspective. Lay
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G.C. Pieters, PhD
ProfPieters
1/ As I sit waiting for 9:30am Zoom meeting on Saturday (& on my birthday) to get clarifications on a policy change for this quarter, I really wonder how academics
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Dr Alicia Spencer-Hall
aspencerhall
A PhD does not guarantee you a job, true. But it should make you employable within the university sector. Currently this is not the case for most ECRs. & many
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Simon Kövesi
kovesi1
I am a Professor at Oxford Brookes University. I can confirm that it is a real university full of amazing academics, brilliant professional services staff and fabulously committed students. It
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Jack Bailey
PoliSciJack
A take on academia’s apparent left-wing bias:Many comments about @epkaufm’s survey point to it being non-representative, too small, etc. This might be true, but misses the point: even a perfect
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Dr Kirsty A. Miller
KamMilz
Looking forward to welcoming our new 1st years tomorrow and considering what WILL be the same this academic year. Our students WILL... Have peer mentors to help their transition into
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GaryFoster
Prof_GD_Foster
Academics with kids, when isolating at home. Academics with no kids, when isolating at home. Academics who’d been on strike now looking at emails, when isolating at home. Academics who’ve
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Jenny Chamarette
Jennychambles
Having mixed feelings about the article that's circulating about #gender disparities in #research productivity under lockdown. Yes, it's true, but it's only bringing to acute visibility the inequalities that were
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Bryan Gaensler 📡🧲
SciBry
If you’re not feeling especially productive right now, you’re not alone. (Code is at https://github.com/bgaensler/arxiv_productivity_covid) Update: In mid-March, astronomers were producing scientific papers at their lowest rate over the last
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Jon Stone
joncstone
You may have seen this claim from a report by right-wing think-tank Policy Exchange doing the rounds - it's total demonstrable bullshit. Here's why (THREAD) It's very loosely based on
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cfryar
seefryar
US-based academics, if there’s been a recent uptick in “complaints” about academic jobs on your TL, know that that uptick is likely bc of national strikes of UK university workers
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The Daily Free Press
dailyfreepress
BREAKING: Effective this Fall, Boston University will begin approving the issuance of degrees to students who die before completing their college education. Those who do not meet the criteria for
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Lane Greene
lanegreene
I've been asked to write a 5,000-word chapter for a mostly academic imprint that I respect. I said sure, sounds fun, how much can you offer? The answer: we don't,
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