#Academics

Non-immigrant academics:Our defenses of immigrant students should not be couched in terms of their ‘economic value’ to universities & college towns. Capitalist extraction is not a basis for solidarity. Taken
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One of the worst things about academia is how people will constantly tell you that "academia needs more people like you" because you are different while simultaneously telling you that
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Thread on academia since it’s in the spotlight in the UK:First the pros:Possibly the biggest pro is relative self determination. We know that self determination is one of the key
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Not too much of an exaggeration to say that Alistair Jarvis' piece in the Guardian today was one of the most disingenuous and disgusting pieces I have read re: UK
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I will not be supporting Jess Phillips to become the next leader of the Labour Party because she campaigns for regulatory models that severely hurt sex workers. She has also
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Omg An African-American Studies professor with a PhD just confessed that she has been pretending to be Black for her whole life when in reality she’s a white Jewish woman
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I AM GOING TO CAMPAIGN FOR MY MEMBERS MGA BRO SO LISTEN- I MEAN READ CAREFULLY!!!!Lahat ng gipick ko kay nakitaan ko ng potential (SRC conyo only) And if you
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Study/Methodological quality [short thread]Does anyone care about this anymore?I’m seeing some very poor quality papers being published in my area in last 6 monthsIt appears that the appetite and rush
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Challenge accepted. I will tell you what I think about the podcast. 1. It's well organized. 2. Chris shares podcast clips and is very prepared and sort of takes the
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practical MLE tip: if you know your distribution isn’t Gaussian, min-max normalize instead of standardizehttps://twitter.com/svpino/status/1318930792232456192 practical deep learning tip: if you have serious outliers in your dataset, you
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I must be the only person who was closely following UK-Australia relations over the past five years, because not one person on the internet seems to know why the UK
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Something I have gotten to share with people several times in the last week:I edit a grad student journal and do my best to mentor and support grad students because
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Some thoughts on #workculture & #academia for this coming #LaborDay #AcademicChatter #highereducation The fact that most people use this day to catch up on work I hope reminds us how
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I stand to be corrected, online studying was the best possible alternative, It will make no sense to go back on campus on May should lockdown be over, this quarter
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i fail to understand how people can continue to go out while people are being kidnapped and to add on top of that we’re still facing a pandemic. do you
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1- Americans, or Brits or Aussies, who only speak English cannot really understand what it's like to speak a "minority" language, and be confronted with the dilemma of wanting to
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