#Academic

Dr. Darwin

HelanaDarwin

How am I 33 with two MAs and a PhD and still so precariously situated on the job market? I feel like I went about my 20s all wrong... maybe-just

𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic

sib313

It is incredibly frustrating to read academic papers covering topics where you know what you are talking about. This recent paper on digital first GP consultation, for example: https://www.jmir.org/2020/6/e18203/pdfA thread...

Charles C. Mann

CharlesCMann

New Nature paper uses genetic evidence to argue that pre-1492 population of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico was **much** lower than previously thought—fewer than 80,000 people.Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03053-2NY Times

TNK 🙂

TTBikeFit

Bombshell study (meta review) from Oxford just published on PCR testing, Ct and virus viability. This study completely invalidates the current c19 PCR test dataRecall that invalid test results also

Moebius Stripper

moebius_strip

Okay, here we go: some thoughts on academic integrity during These Unprecedented Times, inspired by what I see as an unnecessarily polarized conversationhttps://twitter.com/texasinafrica/status/1304947528853532672 Like many faculty, my work

Timothy Martin

treephys

I periodically see posts regarding academic publisher @MDPIOpenAccess regarding aggressive marketing and predatory behavior. I am EiC of @Forests_MDPI , and have always been hesitant to reply publicly. But here

Rob Ford

robfordmancs

A quick update on this - the report has now been changed, without public acknowledgement, in the middle of the night. Kaufmann has not acknowledged the change or the original

Harry Fletcher-Wood

HFletcherWood

1) Feedback is great, right? The meta-analyses show it is - but this fascinating study by Stefan Ekecrantz takes those meta-analyses apart. He examines Hattie and Timperley; they rely on

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/9) #LongCovid is common. In this study of 180 Faroe Islanders (of whom only 8 were hospitalised), 53% had at least 1 symptom after an average of 4 months (minimum

Valerie, RD, MPH

RDValerie

Short thread on proteinThere are 8/9 essential amino acids (depending on the source) that you must get from food. The others 11/12 are considered non-essential or conditionally essential, because you

Kerron Ó Luain

DublinHistorian

We've long been aware of the shit state academics in Ireland, and globally, find themselves in. This article spurred me to count the number of short-term contracts I've been on

Kirti Deolekar

kirti_sd

"The Purusha Sukta is a theory of the origin of the Universe. In other words, it is a cosmogony. No nation which has reached an advanced degree of thought has

Adam Sandor

adam_sandor

In the context of the current anti-government protests in #Bamako, it is key to consider the performative role of rumour (and disinformation) in the politics of contestation. This morning I

Christopher Newfield

cnewf

very good @TeresaWatanabe coverage of UC Regents' power grab over chancellorial appointments, in which they propose to replace faculty evaluation with an outside search firm.https://lat.ms/3jSBQWj because there are no real

A Semi-Colon Hate Account

KingstonJancro

Just gets me so angry how people respond to others on the internet who are using “academic language.” Can you imagine you tweetin to yourself, mindin yuh business in your

Sereana Naepi

SereanaNaepi

We have done the numbers. We can now share how many Māori and Pacific academics there are up to 2019, and yeah it doesn’t look much different https://tinyurl.com/y4shtwuc 1/n As

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