#Dissertation

Frederik 'Neckar'

NeckarValue

How Paypal led to Palantir, a quick thread:Peter Thiel and Palantir's CEO Alex Karp were roommates at Stanford. Both received their JD's from Stanford Law in 1992.https://stanfordpolitics.org/2017/11/27/peter-thiel-cover-story/ Karp

Tim Hopper

tdhopper

I started this 7 hour interview with Knuth, and it's really great. I love his childlike joy in the curiosities of mathematics. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp7GAKLSGnIPart 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqPPll3uDa0 Here's a tran

🦋Rising☀️

BmoreDoc

I just want my fellow scholars to know I was the last author on *one* paper in grad school. I had no publications from my dissertation or post-doc. Two years

Nathan Tankus

NathanTankus

I really appreciate this very, very generous profile from @petercoy but I do want to disagree with the headline, which is reinforced by the article. I do have a credential-

Shantel G. Buggs, Ph.D.

sgbuggs

the race discourse on Kamala is already very interesting for those of us who study multiraciality. Barack was talked about as first Black, rather than first biracial candidate/POTUS and now

Marko Attila Hoare

markoah

The establishment of Balkan academic specialists in the West played a role in the 1990s wars that was every bit as inglorious as the role of the Western political establishment.

Greg Downey

GregDowney1

Advice for turning your PhD into a book in anthropology, from a journal editor who sees a lot of dissertation chapters and has reviewed first book manuscripts for four presses:

Sonia Paul

sonipaul

I started working on this story for @POLITICOMag over a year ago and am glad and relieved it’s finally out in the world. It’s about how Hindutva, the ideology underpinning

Rain Mason, PhD, BLM, ACAB 🦊

500livesasafox

Even spicier, though, are studies showing that under conditions of stress and risk, you can provoke Western adults to behave as if they believe in magic. Magical thinking doesn’t mature

Dr. Shay-Akil McLean, BA, BA, MA, MA, Ph.D.

Hood_Biologist

Hello everyone! First I'd like to thank @kstsosie for organizing @DecolonizeDNA & inviting me to participate.Today I'll be discussing the relationships between race/ism, biology, & human health. Below is a

War Through Other Stuff

stuffofwar

#WTOStakeover Hello! I’m @ArturStasiek. For my masters dissertation I examined the conflicted heritage of WWII camps in the Chicago area, which this thread of tweets is based on. My website

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌

RachelBitecofer

I got some flack from @SenSanders Bernie world over the course of the primary when I appeared on some progressive pods like @SamSeder's & @MMFlint's & discussed the improbability that

Andrea Ghiselli

AGhiselliChina

Here some takeaways from the great event with Dominic Byatt of @OUPPolitics about academic book publishing. Hopefully, they will be useful for those who read them. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter THREAD! https://twitter.com/AGhiselliChina

Aaron Ellis

aarone31

@FootnotesAnthro @KrystianaKrupa @Savvy_Newell What is this newest Footnotes post? Something feels icky about having two white women talk about how NAGPRA, as it is currently being utilized, is harming Native

Gabi Fleury (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 🇧🇷 🇦🇴 🐆

fleurygs

I'm getting questions bout how I did all these international field things. It's a fair question, conservation often makes it so you either don't get paid as an early-career practitioner

Ananya Chakravarti

achakrava

1/ Apologies in advance for a monster thread but I recently had a check-in with my doctoral students and I thought I'd share the gist of that conversation in the