#Academia

kritikaldesi

kritikaldesi

Academics really need to pay attention to what's happening with regards to international students right now. My experience as an F-1 student was that *almost nobody* who's also not an

Lorrie Goldstein

sunlorrie

Another great column by America's leading conservative thinker: Thomas Sowell: Is truth irrelevant? https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/thomas-sowell-is-truth-irrelevant/article_61d6ef9f-1c20-55b6-b872-71a93a035268.html "It is a

Anne Helen Petersen

annehelen

I have spoken to a number of people applying to grad school right now out of fear and desperation and lack of any apparent alternatives. I get it, I really

Krystal Vasquez

caffeinatedkrys

I'm frustrated today, so please humor me with this rant. Why does academia/STEM assume I'm able to pick up my life and move to whatever state or country for a

Dr Philip W Blood🇪🇺

BloodPhilip

Adolf Galland’s memoir was manufactured during the 1950s. His plot follows a similar style to books published after the Great War. The content is dubious and should be treated with

Crochety Poet 🛸

CaseyRocheteau

Short Thread:During the 1968 DNC, white activists descended upon Chicago for the “Days of Rage” and the Chicago Black Panthers told them not to bc Black Chicagoans were the ones

Dr. Ellie Lockhart is the protagonist

BootlegGirl

The way the Right has seized on "postmodernism" in "academia" as this massive... thing... is so dissonant with my experiences as an academic. I learned about various postmodern/poststructural theories, foolishly

angrynerdgirl

Miss_Jess03

I hate TERFs for a lot of things, but one thing that infuriates me is them infiltrating queer spaces and convincing kids that "queer" is a bad word, akshually. They

Dani

xodanix3

Tbh i wonder how much the "starving artist" is a category created strictly from capitalism. What ppl don't realize when they tell kids to "go to art school" as a

Lyla El-Fayomi

LylaElfay

As promised, here’s a thread highlighting some of the amazing points discussed at the Diversity in Neuroscience session at #SfNConnectome21! These ideas have been circulating for years & it’s such

Jason Sheltzer

JSheltzer

An amazing *randomized trial* on Twitter+academia:112 papers were randomly chosen to be shared on twitter by a group with ~58k followers or to not be shared. Papers that were tweeted

jane shi | 皮爬高

pipagaopoetry

fyi i'm non-binary! i never really came out to everyone in my life because there are times when i hold onto older parts of me because i'm afraid of what

Raven the Science Maven

ravenscimaven

What if you haven't published yet because you were making global impacts in ways other than on paper? Is publishing papers really the only way that universities determine your value?

Nikhil Pal Singh

nikhil_palsingh

I've shared my view of the unbalanced conflation of micro and macro aggressions, and that cancellation is conditioned by punitive competitiveness. But I've little doubt centrist liberals mainly want protection

Sally Grace

sallyagrace

I started a new job as an Associate Data Scientist at @whispir this week . I thought I would be fun to reflect on some of the things that I

angrygradstudent

GradSkoolStrugs

The types of advisors as depicted through Disney characters: a thread. The Cheshire Cat. This advisor perpetuates the toxic academic culture and justifies it by saying, “this is just how

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