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Seems the Telegraph waited two weeks and baked another vitriol pudding around the same draft document they worked the Newton angle on (https://twitter.com/AllyFogg/status/1386591258685157378). Purely cynical. They don't believe a word
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On the value of all subjects and all parts of the HE sector: this thread, from a colleague with a locked account, struck a chord with a lot of people
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I once asked a mystic who dwelt atop a mountain what the secret of a contented life was, and the mystic replied: "Act as though your actions might get written
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Quick thread about corridors and contagion.I've been hearing about how things played out in a UoM teaching building – one of the big ones with not-so-big corridors – around the
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Typically woeful magical thinking here. This from an Oxford spokesbeing: "Remote invigilation is widely used in the higher education sector." Erm, no, it *isn't*, if you're talking about the UK.
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ANTI-HE HIT PIECE ALERTThere are over 200 000 academic staff currently employed at UK universities. This diligent investigation has uncovered *ONE* serving academic in the UK who has done what's
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Status: staring blearily at science advocacy/#scicomm responses to the 5G/Covid-19 myth that rely on explanatory interventions that it's pretty clear from the anti-antivax and other cases *are not persuasive to
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