#Academia

🎗⏳The Solitary Reaper🕉🍀

YonSolitary

Rest In Peace, #AaronSwartz A brilliant mind & a beautiful soul taken away too soon by a vindictive University six years ago #TheDarkSideOfMIT https://youtu.be/Dv6t21xXogY @aaronsw @AaronSwartzDay @wikileaks @xychelsea @Snowden @Su

Meg

agameganon

I dunno man, I don’t think it’s my job to try and rehabilitate the reputation of Classics. Perhaps it’s ironic given that Classics is the study of ancient civilisations long

Shivaji Guerilla

GuerillaShivaji

Twitter is a den of negativity & hopelessness. People complain about the liberals, or communists destroying factories or demographic challenges or China all the time. But no one talks about

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

REAL TALK: I'm a senior professor and I have had ...1) journal articles desk rejected.2) articles rejected AFTER at least one if not TWO ROUNDS of Revise-And-Resubmit3) articles published after

Taka | Black Lives MATTER

astrobassball

Regarding this point, for the transition from STEM academia to industry data/software:You’ve spent years developing the relevant skills. However you **absolutely must package & frame the skills in ways that

Qasim

smqasimahsan

In an op-ed Dr. Hoodhboy has outlined the issues of exam-taking during Covid.He focuses mostly on the inability to ensure 'cheating', & the ways to get around rudimentary barriers to

simine vazire

siminevazire

I’ve always been baffled by reports that large proportions of reviews contain offensive or demeaning language. I know it happens and it is never ok. But I’ve seen 1000s of

Katherine Crocker PhD supports #BLM

cricketcrocker

Apropos of being in academia, I want to just remind my colleagues (jr and sr) that if you’re in a position of having students, they are not the enemy.Possibly politicians

Anthony Lee Zhang

AnthonyLeeZhang

Random thought: there seems to be "hidden curriculum" stuff in many lines of work. Academia, of course, but also: how to schmooze your way into a tech internship/offer, how to

Nando de Freitas

NandoDF

Another long thread. Bear with me till the end please. These are my views, and not necessarily of those associated with me. Though those associated with me have been incredibly

American Horror Callie

DeathCab4Callie

#WhyDisabledPeopleDropOut a thread about things that made me nearly drop out as a disabled person in STEM (please RT): 1. Classrooms aren't accessible-ever.2. We are left out of learning interventions

Katherine Crocker PhD supports #BLM

cricketcrocker

One of the confusing things about academia, to me, is that the level of willingness to tolerate broken stairs “because they could be worse” or assertions (or assumptions) of virtue

Kari Jerge, MD, FACS (she/her)

kari_jerge

This is an important thread about what we are seeing in our community. Science communication is now more critical than ever. And when that group of professionals is being culled

Dr Hayley Bennett

HAYLESBEN

Having researched unemployment for yonks, worked in 'employability' , had many jobs, applied for even more, & am generally really into labour market info, here are 5 bug bears that

Prof Amy Brown 🕷🤱🐘

Prof_AmyBrown

I found this Facebook memory today & thought I would share. Would have been my first independent paper as a PhD student. It didn't get accepted until 2010 for a

Eric Merkley

EricMerkley

Lucky and grateful that my family and I remained employed + healthy through 2020, avoiding the suffering experienced by so many. So, I will do something out of character and

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