#Academics

Helen Dale

_HelenDale

People who believe in media effects theory are so touching. Presumably they also believe watching porn produces sex offenders (it doesn’t) and playing video games produces school shooters (they don’t).https://twitter.com/tpopularfront/s

Nikki Hessell

NikkiHessell

Thread: Universities are worlds of creativity, analysis, and growth - we face a catastrophic shrinking of those worlds unless university management, academics, and students stand in SOLIDARITY against decades of

Tyler Black, MD

tylerblack32

1/ **thread: Mental Health and COVID**Few things annoy me more than "experts" making claims and headline-horny academics publishing surveys about mental health and Covid-19 doing so with complete lack of

Progressive International

ProgIntl

BREAKING: The @ProgIntl has announced a new working group on global Debt Justice, convening academics, advocates, and organizers to dismantle an economic paradigm that has empowered a tiny class of

卐 Vedic Boy 卐

vedicboy

[Thread]The Ancient Varna System has often been misinterpreted by Academics as the source of modern day Caste System or perhaps it's initial phaseBut what is the truth?Is Varna based on

Oliver Stuenkel 🇧🇷

OliverStuenkel

Brazil: The Chinese Embassy's no.2 diplomat will be interviewed in prime time TV tonight, reflecting a historic shift in Chinese public diplomacy in Latin America. No longer faceless bureaucrats, the

Jillean McCommons

jilleanmcc

There are a lot of names missing from those lists about who writes about Appalachia. They may talk about Black people but notice if they lift up Black folks work,

❮hackerman❯

xelienx

my mom was talking abt how my parents got good grades and whatever and i was like wtf why did u both do so well why is our family full

Dhaval Kotecha

dhaval_kotecha

I truly believe diversification is overrated!(Thread from my personal experiences)https://twitter.com/dhaval_kotecha/status/1253427544092631040 1/ Back in the days when I started investing, diversification was of utmost importance to me. I used to st

Heidi Colthup

Heidi_Colthup

Many of you know that I've been studying for and writing a doctoral thesis for many, many years (I think it's about 8). I'm in the final stages of writing

Eve Tuck

tuckeve

I am participating in #ScholarStrikeCanada on September 9 & 10, and I hope you will too.https://scholarstrikecanada.ca/ We will be joining thousands of academics in higher education in a labour action

Diana Butler Bass

dianabutlerbass

Analyzing and critiquing how a person interprets and practices their faith in relation to their world-view and political policies, especially in application of the law in a pluralistic nation, is

Suzy Houston

SuzEHouston

1/6 Anyone who thinks e-learning at uni can be boiled down to videos & equated with Netflix is highly misinformed. Online curricula in HE involve a RANGE of 'learning types',

Dr Deborah Toner

DeborahToner

As a @uniofleicester employee not in one of the areas it has earmarked for "disinvestment", I dispute the suggestion by @NCanagarajah that I'm not "directly affected" by these plans. I

punkacademic

punk_academic

Solidarity with all in HE, students and staff, who are in varying degrees of nightmare at the moment.To staff, I know you are getting shot at from all sides. Even

Ryan D. Enos

RyanDEnos

I've been watching this unfold over Twitter - looks like the paper published had serious errors and has been largely dismantled. As a more general point, I think instances such