#Academics

Aaron Huertas

aaronhuertas

Quick thread:Blame-the-scientists is a pretty common perspective in this discourse, but it ignores power.Scientific institutions have far fewer resources to communicate and advocate than :: checks notes :: the $5.7B+

Prathamesh Godbole

prathgodbole

Wonderful read- an autobiography by SL Kirloskar, on starting and running a manufacturing conglomerate in early 1920s Indiahttp://kirloskar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cactus-and-roses.pdf kingdom of Mysore invited them to setup a machin

Allison in Brexitland

andevers

Reclaim for who exactly? What if they took a man’s name because of their gender preference? I’m all for finding ways of highlighting women’s work that has been overlooked. But

Wednesday Martin PhD

WednesdayMartin

This is me explaining again why I never use the term “ethnical non-monogamy”—the fact that you live in a culture that enshrines transparency as morally correct does not make you

🕷Laurie Stras is on the virtual picket line

LaurieStras

I keep writing and deleting tweets about this, but here we go. One of the most insidious contributors to poor staff mental health is the effect of so-called "reasonable adjustments"

Joshua Broggi

JoshuaBroggi

1/A thread on supply and demand in higher educationOne function of a university (not the only function) is to match supply (teaching) and demand (students). Universities are brokers. Accreditation gives

Akash Junjhule-Kondue

akashiyr

Student of the year is quite a painful watch but it triggered an interesting idea. What if the 10th standard board exams had one final social exam which tests the

Elinor Hamilton

sayerhamilton

Thoughts for freelancers who don’t feel able to turn work away at the moment. Today, I was booked for a 10am voiceover session. At 9am the scripts arrived. It was

Moulshri Mohan

moulshrimohan

I am so, so tired of diaspora Indians, and the few US-based academics who study India and are talking about the current crisis, focusing all their efforts on technical interventions

Erika Darics is on strike

LinguaDigitalis

Session 3: Management by metrics. Today's session starts with a reflective exercise. Consider the following contradiction. Reflect on your moral dilemmas, if any. https://twitter.com/DameLEGOVC/status/1198251413098422272?s=20 1/11 Key reading is

Tim Harford

TimHarford

1/ Time for an apology and a correction. Seems that every newspaper in the UK is (correctly) reporting that I said the risk of catching a fatal case of Covid-19

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

I'm really over defending #1619Project but I must correct some glaring inaccuracies in this @politico piece. 1) The project does not argue "our democracy" was founded in 1619. 2) The

Marcus Elliott 🇪🇺

marcuselliott

Today, I delivered what turned out to be an incredibly humiliating and ineffective webinar. And it was brilliant.A short thread1/n Delivering a new session to academic staff on some new

Chris Marsicano

ChrisMarsicano

Here’s why: Members of Congress have staff that read their constituents’ local newspapers every. single. day. If you write an OpEd in your local paper on the #StudentBan, I can

Warwick Labour 🌹

WarwickLabour

We are disgusted by the recent interview @Keir_Starmer gave to BBC Breakfast. To say that defunding the police is ‘nonsense’ is a slap in the face to all the Black

Dr Rune Linding 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇩🇰🇩🇪🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸

RuneLinding

Happy to have helped write the open letter cited in this CNN piece with colleagues from our sister Nordic nation ⁦@kamerlinlab⁩ ⁦@NeleBrusselaers⁩ ⁦@PernillaWittung⁩https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/10/europe/sweden-lockdown-turmp-intl/index.html Read the