#ACADEMIA

Adjacent Possible

Sage_Opinion

If you think that there has been censorship or 'information management' on issues such as Brexit or the Chinese coronavirus, then perhaps you should keep your mind open to the

Amy Thunig

IndigenousX

#BecauseOfLindaTuhiwaiSmith I was able to draw on research methodologies that challenged the dominant paradigm of research and I was confident enough to cite as many Aboriginal scholars throughout my thesis

Farhana Sultana, Ph.D.

Prof_FSultana

Few women academics, and rarely women of color academics, make it to full professor by age 40 (if at all, because of toxic institutional racism). Imagine how they feel... https://twitter.com/timminglab/status/1278623270820929537

Saadia Toor

pagalpanchi

So it’s a new year & I thought I would do a thread on how to be an ethical academic. I’ll add more points as I think of them 1.

L Harris

ladyduckpojok

Academia blues- I have never been closer to leaving academia, & it breaks my heart. I was raised in a right wing, anti-intellectual, xenophobic, misogynistic environment. My parents didn't see

Nijay K Gupta

NijayKGupta

Academics: How to handle outside criticismIn 2019 I had an experience where a group of religion scholars openly mocked and derided me and my workSince then I have been processing

Thomas Poulton

thomaspoulton_

Mulling over some familiar sentiments that were raised today about discouragement of potential phd students as a (priority!) method of balancing the graduate/workforce in academia (thread). Wondering is anyone has

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽

NeedhiBhalla

https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2020/11/16/nih-challenges-academia-to-share-strategies-to-strengthen-gender-diversity/ Is the NIH...unaware that access to NIH funding is often a major determinant in whether women ascend the academic hierarchy?

Jason Scott

textfiles

In 1985, Mary Ann Buckles released her dissertation, "Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame Adventure", receiving her Ph.D. from UCSD. She fought for it the whole way, saying it was really

Michael Pennington

OlDrPennington

You know, #academia isn’t for everybody. It wasn’t for me, but I knew that going in. I got a great education, and have spent my time at small, regional universities

Sunny Singh

ProfSunnySingh

This is not failure. Grants applications are a shitty process and often reward ‘who’ rather than ‘what’ of research. And yes those ‘who’ are those for whom academia was built

Grace Emmett

grace_emmett

Someone asked me what the response had been to the man that asked me this question, but in the particular incident I was thinking about when I wrote this tweet

Dr. Erin Millions

erinmillions

Can we talk about academic precarity and the committments we make in community-engaged research? #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdchat I'm about to enter the last year of a 3-year postdoc. I love

Petra Boynton

DrPetra

So much mental distress in academia would be reduced if we taught how and why things work. A few I've spotted today - why your email isn't being answered, when

PromesasYJuveniles

ProYJuve

The ReviewOn this thread I will inform the fans of the playing style and position of the youngsters in this list. I think the public should know and get excited.

The Provost / سيدة الفتنة

MsEntropy

I'm about to hop off Twitter to get work done, but first: I want to briefly bring up something I think is sorely lacking in analyses of the Capitol Siege.

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