#Academics

Bahar Mehmani 🌍🌳🏃🏻‍♀️🎓

mehmanib

#PeerReview #ConfirmationBias @JeffreyUnerman article on Risks from self-referential peer review echo chambers developing in research fields: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2020.100910I find this important for #DiversityandInclusion #TrustInPeerReview

Michael Bishop

thatMikeBishop

Why is it so rarely noted that forecasting is actually crucial to informing all kinds of policy? Traditional social science and policy research is great for understanding what happened in

Erik Angner

ErikAngner

Dear colleagues, fellow academics, and experts of all kinds: Now would be a good time to practice the intellectual virtue of epistemic humility. /1 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modesty-humility/#Epis Being an expert involves not

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MorlockP

I agree with parts of this, but strongly disagree with the "for", which implies causalityThe boomers accumulated a fair bit of wealth because, largely, they had luck to be born

Caner Dagli

CKDagli

Advice to young academics: Too much “Islamic studies” today is 3rd-rate postmodern cultural critique--lazy riffing about Muslims as a variegated bundle of racial/gender/sexual groups with "Islam" as a symbolic cultural

Faheem Younus, MD

FaheemYounus

1/ Important Thread: COVID and ChildrenChildren are more likely to beat COVID than adults.Plus the what, why, and how of careful schools re-opening.If you like to self study, read article

Dr EM

PankhurstEM

I'm interested in how ideologies spread & get established, who pushes them, what do they have in common, why will people die for certain ideas. No regimes came in overnight.

ProfB

AntheaButler

As promised here's my thread on Campus Reform, right wing attacks on academics, and the right wing disinformation machine. Let's start w exhibit A So I had a thread yesterday

Occasionally Messy™

Miz_Soraya

October is #ADHDAwarenessMonth, and as someone who was diagnosed late, a lot of my time has been looking at my past and how ADHD manifested itself even when I was

Ryan J. Gallagher

ryanjgallag

The Twitter API v2 for academics makes it a lot easier to collect complete event dataI currently have a 4 step process that I finally successfully ran end to end

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nctleos

yuta the type of boyfriend who will take you to gym dates. he wants you to stay healthy just like your relationship. he would call you before he works out

Rob Yeldham

RobYeldham

Lots of media talking about the return of students to campuses, and especially “freshers” facing local downs and missing out on social activities. Thread. But most are not reporting that

@TIGERinSTEMM

tigerinstemm

I think we need cake. As a group, we are one year old! Thank you for everyone who has helped us long this journey and continues to support our work!

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

A specter is haunting Western democracies:It isn’t the surging pandemicIt isn’t mass deathIt isn’t catastrophic unemploymentIt is the supposed end of free speech and the advent of “cancel culture”https://trib.al/QxaMTjk Trum

Matt Goodwin

GoodwinMJ

A short thread. Many institutions adopt an imbalanced or ‘asymmetric’ approach to diversity & inclusion. They focus overwhelmingly, & increasingly, on race/ethnicity, which is often seen as the only relevant

Sean W. Anthony

shahanSean

The earliest description of Europe (أروفى|urūfā, not أوروبا; from Εὐρώπη) in Arabic literature comes from a book called *Routes and Realms* by Ibn Khordāḏbeh (fl. 800s CE), by the caliph’s