#Academics

Erica Bailey

ericarbailey

currently running a 300 person study on prolific which involved a screening survey (and attention check) filtered on workers who have a 98% approval rate or higher. how is it

Hoploo

hoploo1

“Gee, why are people so depressed?”-State subsidization of single motherhood & promiscuity-Police state breeding mistrust in communities-Drug war trapping people in legal industrial complex-Political parties fostering cultural rivalries to get

🌼 dandelion boy 🌼

whoteverforever

thread incoming: i'm disturbed, but not surprised, by how the imperial core responds to systematic challenges to its typical function, namely covid-19. there has been a rise not only in

Surprisingly Articulate

most_articulate

Blackness isn't a fun theoretical exercise or a thought experiment--a space to demonstrate one's own intellectual prowess or a tool to prove one's political commitments. It is, of course, a

Rural AB Doc for Patients

docabrural

Dude, so many people can’t afford the dentist or vision care. If healthcare went that way it would be bad. You should flip your argument to make dental and vision

jonathanstray

jonathanstray

"We need more from academics and industry," a policy-maker tells me. I've heard this before. Lawmakers are pressing forward with social media regulation, but if it's full of strange and

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

OMFG.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0049124120914951?journalCode=smra The author is a cognitive neuroscientist who claims that "fat bodybuilding" made him understand and support fat studies. I hope he's writing the hoax I&

Gabrielle Hecht

GabrielleHecht

Black grad students @Stanford offer a powerful analysis of the university's response to #BLM concerns and its weird reluctance to departmentalize African and African American Studies. Some highlights... 1/https://www.stanforddaily.com/2

Niall Gooch 👍🇬🇧🇻🇦🚅🏏✒

niall_gooch

Nothing makes me realise my fundamental conservatism more than seeing so many members of the intellectual classes justifying street violence with sophistry & jargon. I hold the stupid unsophisticated bourgeois

SuluArtco

SuluArtco

1. Ilham Tohti2. Rahile Dawut3. Halmurat Ghopur4. Tashpolat Teyip5. Chimengul Awut6. Arslan Abdulla7. Dilmurat Ghopur8. Jemile Saqi9. Abdukerim Rahman10. Abduqadir Jalalidin11. Zulpiqar Barat12. Alim Ehet13. Nurbiye Yadikar14. Mutellip Sidi

🎀 sonyasupposedly.com 🤖

sonyasupposedly

how do smart / talented academics in [vague sweeping gesture] these Twitter circles feel about the general attitude of "wow it's a pity that you didn't go into something useful!"

Kat 🟥

KatarinaHill2

Last week Beth Fisher, a sports journalist made this extraordinary statement on the validity of the science behind World Rugby's proposal to make women's rugby single sex. Thread 1/

grimes knew

MiaAriasTsang

sitting here at two thirty ay em, trauma dumping on a professor in gmail, bc somehow this is the only way they'll even consider maybe making a deadline slightly flexible?

Daphne M. Penn, PhD 💕💚

DaphneMPenn

One thing that gets lost in debates about productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic is the reality that people cope with trauma in very different ways. 1/7 Someone recently shared that

Larry Sanger

lsanger

1/ Let me "fact-check" the very idea of fact-checking.I have great contempt for fact-checkers. Here's why.When people claim to do a fact-check of some claim, what they purport to do

Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir

ImaanZHazir

This is going to be a long one, but its important so please bear with me:Health Secretary (UK) Matt Hancock gave a press briefing on COVID-19 yesterday. It should be