#Academics

Izi Duffy 杜政傑 ཡེ་ཤེས་ يىزى

IziDuffy

I had a really nice trip to the Guanfu Museum in Beijing this wee, but couldn't help wondering whether some of the items on display (particularly porcelain) were really authentic.

Emmett Macfarlane

EmmMacfarlane

Been seeing lots of tweets from academics lately about reference letters. Not a new debate, but I have (nuanced) thoughts. A thread. 1/n First, for faculty job applications, yes, we

Taka | Black Lives MATTER

astrobassball

An ex-academic data scientist I know said once:In academia, you have to be a “star” (out-impress and/or out-grind most of your junior peers) to score a long-term job and have

Dr. Erik Wade

erik_kaars

[TW: racism, homophobia, antisemitism.] #MedievalTwitter thread: White supremacists are very invested in academic conversations. One major UK white supremacist account put out a long livestream video about the academic debate

Grant Macaskill

GrantMacaskill

A few thoughts on academic hours and 4 day weeks. I’m all for the latter where it works, but it often won’t for academics because our research work can’t be

C. Jane Kendrick

CJaneKendrick

Something I wished I had known when I was leaving Mormonism—the pain that came from the apologetics of Mormon academics, progressives and liberal thinkers hurt the very most. Felt like

Srila Roy

ProfSrilaRoy

The zoom academic universe shows, ABOVE ALL, that the limitations of having actual voices from the Global South in conversations in the Global North has NEVER been about the limits

Abigail Higgins

abbyhiggins

The @NewYorker asked @PeterSinger why he mostly cites white, male academics: “I have to say, I want to work with people whose ideas are, you know, at a level of

Hay Festival

hayfestival

LIVE on @CrowdcastHQ shortly | @devisridhar talks to @dandavis101 about the Covid-19 pandemic http://crowdcast.io/e/hayfestival_event39 | #ImagineTheWorld "Medicine is about treatment, public health is about prevention" - @devisri

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ChairmanJ_

Was listening to @2p0_Pod’s interesting discussion on Private vs Public schools and as someone whose been privileged to attend both I thought I’d weigh in on the differing experiences between

Dr Jenny Thatcher (Mischievous Sociologist)

JennyAThatcher

Often when I raise issues of ill treatment of precariously employed staff, I’m told it’s the fault of management. Yes! But if you’re a permanently employed member of a department

Dirk Schwenk (Esq) 🎵

DirkSchwenk

Before law school, I was a teacher. It's where I met my wife. I would still be a teacher if that was viable as a head of household where I

Corey A. DeAngelis

DeAngelisCorey

Harvard Law School is officially hosting an anti-homeschooling conference in June.Professor James Dwyer organized the conference.He claims "The reason parent-child relationships exist is because the State confers legal parenthood." Professo

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annegalloway

I want to have a real conversation with academics who feel their research is pretty pointless now. We invest a lot of ourselves in what we study and some of

Kelebogile Zvobgo

kelly_zvobgo

I was born in a country with a strong authoritarian government, but I only witnessed police harassment when my family immigrated to the United States.1/ My first experience, which was

The Nerdskull

aNerdskull

This is what raw reactionary anti-intellectualism looks like.https://twitter.com/johnpauldickson/status/1278997229068406789 Note what he doesn't actually tell you is that in the period fo time he was talking about. Only an extremely sel