#Scholarly

Leisy Abrego

AbregoLeisy

It is the season for PhD program applications and as I work on letters of recommendation, reading over people's materials, I want to share some tips that I hope will

🦋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

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:

Lawrence Foley

LawrenceEFoley

We made rows compulsory @BMooreAcademy 2 years ago. A couple of teachers felt iffy about it, but for us, it was about empowering our least experienced teachers and reducing difference.

Jim Ambuske

JamesPAmbuske

Hey #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #library #archives & #scholarly friends. The videos from our EDITOR Transcription Workshop: Cataloguing Where No One Has Catalogued Before are now live on @YouTube. This was a

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

1/8 Does the Quran contain less legal material than the Torah? This is a common assumption scholars make. But a short investigation coupled with a scholarly grasp of the Quran

Dr. Katja Thieme 👀

Katja_Thieme

I'm getting free, topnotch advice about my scholarly prose from someone who seems to have never published!This nugget fills me with gratitude (watch me quote it with care ):"You're supposed

Jordan Sumbu

JordanSumbu

The only women whose beauty & attractiveness are always questioned & made a topic of debate by colorist & anti-black people (particularly black men) are dark skinned black women. They

Per Bylund

PerBylund

Peer review is an imperfect tool, and should not be treated as a Swiss army knife (always applicable). It has its uses where it works and adds value, but there

Bachman

ElonBachman

1\ Fauci's new paper on COVID-19 is a tissue of falsehoods, which isn't too surprisingBut what surprised me is what a terrible writer he is. The introductory paragraph could serve

Peter Webster

pj_webster

My new book from @CUPElementsPBC is now openly available online for the next four weeks. The Edited Collection: Pasts, Present and Futures. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108683647 Longish thread to follow later. 1/ For

Byzantine Ambassador

byzantinepower

Re: Constantinople's walls: lack of systematicarchaeological work & linguistic barrier twixt local scholars & international scholarly community makes the situation complicated. The farce climaxes in the fact the Byzantine names

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

visa is almost done ✍🏾📖

visakanv

this is a slightly weird thing to say but this picture of Krishna and Radha from my mum's Facebook stopped me in my tracks because it seriously reminds me of

Noor

figandoliveblog

Hijab is a contentious issue, the argument is not usually in terms of 'obligatory vs. not obligatory' but rather about whether the hijab is fulfilling its purpose in the West

Fade

fadeaccompli

*points aggressively at this while nodding*https://twitter.com/NeolithicSheep/status/1246408189937168386 One of the most difficult things about discussing ancient religion in a casual/non-scholarly way is that we bring SO MUCH of our modern understan