#Academics

A Pessimistic Thread on Academia While I Procrastinate Because I Feel Like Shit and I'm Almost Out of Anti-Depressants Again: I'm still fuming about that Tweet from earlier, about how
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One thought I have been processing about legal education in Nigeria. I was to share this at the last @NigBarAssoc General Conference, but my panel did not have time to
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I am extremly wary of such analysis, which in challenging stereotypical essentialising representations of the East, constructs an alternative essentialism 1https://twitter.com/jadaliyya/status/1330956797746798593 2- where the nation is imag
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Here are just some of my thoughts on Zhao in Yakuza 7 cause he seems to be a really chill dood to hangout with He is like a very lax,
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The coming healthcare cost crisis is not the one academics are used to focusing on — i.e. societal healthcare expenditures, which appear to be falling sharply. The cost crisis upon
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Qs for all scientists and academics: Has your research institute/University developed any guidelines for implementing return-to-campus and return-to-lab work? If so, would you mind sharing these with me? I'm interested
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Penny Kinnie thread Ur gay and it took u so long to figure it out Probably bullied in school for being weird or ppl just ignored u You have a
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Honoured to have been given OBE for services to higher education. I want to use this opportunity to draw further attention to suppression of critical thought about gender identity ideology
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I don't follow Libya closely anymore. Honestly, following Iraq and Syria are depressing enough most of the time.But when I read articles on the state by some of its supposed
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OK, all systems go. There has been a lot of hard work put into this especially by @rachelsbickley Ben, and myself. Please support us. It is urgent. We are calling
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THIS IS AN EXPLAINER for academic Twitter concerning James Lindsay (@ConceptualJames). I watched an interview with him where he explains how he thinks about Twitter and I learned a lot!
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I should have had an interview for an academic teaching job today. I pulled out (mini thread). Because we should talk about this shit. My decision was 90% practical- commuting
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The past week at #AGU18 has been such a whirlwind! Despite good intentions, I'm now convinced that *virtual* academic meetings will not work as well (especially for ECRs & academics
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I know from personal experience that many academics worry from time to time that they are not qualified for their jobs. Check this thread if you want to learn more
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Now that the first @PsySciAcc project (https://psyarxiv.com/n26dy ) has been accepted by @NatureHumBehav, I'd like to highlight the team members whose many invaluable contributions made it possible. (This might take a
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I left FB a while ago, owing to is propaganda push of right wing narratives, and most importantly, because of the charlatan drivel. Twitter seems to be an even bigger
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