#Academics

Abhinav Agarwal

AbhinavAgarwal

I had taken one online course by Nick Sutton in which he got about half a dozen things wrong about the Mahabharata in the first lecture itself - the number

el gato malo

boriquagato

anyone still presuming that a + PCR test is showing a covid case needs to read this v carefully:even 25 cycles of amplification, 70% of "positives" are not "cases." virus

Dr Eleanor Janega

GoingMedieval

Some thoughts this morning from now that academics are threating the job prospects of grad students who asked for a PDF: The annoying thing about protecting profitability by policing twitter

CheMichael

CheMichael7

I slept on this. A campaign for *intergenerational fairness* is lobbying to damage the financial viability of Universities based on the logic of the market. I think the conclusion is

The Light - Truthpaper

LightTruthpaper

Written by a friend of a friend:Never in the history of contagious disease have healthy people been forced into lockdown. Small pox, the black plague – sick people were quarantined,

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

It's time to discuss a point academics do not understand when dealing with woke professors. STEM people listen up: The woke are not trying to intellectually defeat you with arguments

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

The importance of diversity & inclusion in writing:Plenty of data that global health is neither global nor diverse (https://www.forbes.com/sites/madhukarpai/2020/03/08/global-health-needs-to-be-global--diverse/#61e8cf897659)Having woken up to thi

G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.

mssinenomine

Well...since you asked. For federal govt Covid-19 crisis disability advisory committee I'd prioritize a few actual disabled people with specific current lived experience and identities that put them at the

Monna Wa Chizama

mithisa_motho

What we all need to learn. When somebody invites to war, you should always ask them what the winner gets and what your share of that is. People were systematically

Fiery but peaceful Mike

Doranimated

Progressives threaten the social, cultural, and economic status of those who refuse to affirm their dogmas. It is not enough to sit quietly in your corner. You must actively participate

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

I have a theory about takes like this. @olivertraldi and @DouthatNYT, I'd love some feedback.Basically, it's a story of elite overproduction. The job market for journalists and writers has collapsed,

Reaching Across Classes (RACs)

RACs_uiuc

On-Campus & Online Resources Thread for Mentees being posted at 3pm!! Hope it helps 1. Our first resource is the counseling center. During this time, it is SUPER

Dr Ruth McQuillan 🕷️#Leftie Tosser #FBPE

mcquillan_ruth

It's great to be on the winning side & able to breathe a little easy for a change, but we need to think about why the last 4 years happened

Brenna Clarke Gray

brennacgray

I’m not sure where you’re at in the semester, but here we’re rolling into exams tomorrow and I’m feeling some kind of way about what I have and haven’t been

Ma Jun

MJ_GreenFinance

Yesterday the @NGFS_ released 2 important documents: “Overview of Environmental Risk Analysis by Financial Institutions” and the Occasional Paper, "Case Studies of Environmental Risk Analysis Methodologies". The Overview was p

sola

avenoira

an alternative thread on things i noticed at a bmi of 16.5 1. my hair fell out. so much of it. you can't believe how horrible it is until you