#Academic

Penny Edgell

PennyEMN

I'm not surprised by the election results, and it's largely due to my work on the American Mosaic Project with fine colleagues like @jgerteis, @hartm021, @EvanStewart23, @ajacfrost, @jack_dele (and others).

Dr Anton Howes

antonhowes

I’m not a philosopher, but one line struck me: that academics are pressured to write for publication, not to be *read*. Since leaving an academic post last year, I’ve done

Nishant R. Shah, MD MPH

nishantshahmd

I said 'no' to two academic opportunities in the past 2 weeks, and honestly...it felt great. A brief with my advice for #ACCFIT and #ACCEarlyCareer about the importance of learning

Ben Doyle

BenJamesDoyle

Re my last tweet: through the CV/cover letter vetting process I often wanted to email individuals to give feedback. Sadly there are too many to make this practical, so instead

Julie S. Lalonde

JulieSLalonde

I am a public educator which means I talk to 'monsieur-madame-tout-le-monde' & do not have the benefit of a bubble.Too many progressives take their knowledge & expertise for granted &

Luca Fornaro

LucaFornaro3

Some thoughts on a recent piece by @MESandbu https://www.ft.com/content/5a92d0f1-e65f-4965-a685-bad83496e40f. First, the part I disagree with. Contrary to what argued in the article, multiple equilibria are deeply ingrained in mainstream ma

Donald Welsh

DonaldWelsh16

Academics isn't for the faint of heart. Its about fostering an environment filled with debate and active criticism. We build structured arguments which others dismember, often politely through questioning or

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

Surprised by how many people respond to arguments about lockdowns by arguing that recessions save lives. They always draw on the same work by Ruhm noting macro-level correlations between mortality

Maarten van Smeden

MaartenvSmeden

Personal top 10 fallacies and paradoxes in statistics1. Absence of evidence fallacy2. Ecological fallacy3. Stein’s paradox4. Lord’s paradox5. Simpson’s paradox 6. Berkson’s paradox7. Prosecutors fallacy8. Gambler’s fallacy9. Linds

Jonathan Ryder, MD

JonathanRyderMD

We've come to the end of another week on #GenID at @UNMC_ID lead by our fearless leader @DrJRMarcelin, which means its time for another recap of #IDPearls from team #PasteurellasFellas:https://twitter.com/UNMC_ID/status/1294035482188423

Travis Seifman

toranosukev

For the first time, actually starting to get a sense of which Jinbocho shops are which. Keibundo 慶文堂 is a small shop, but one of the few with sections explicitly

alex hayes

alexpghayes

i'm writing a blog post about research code and how we currently ask way too much of code produced by academics i want to use examples of real

Lang Social Justice

LangSocJustice

Our report from our webinar "Upsetting the Linguistic Anthropology Canon":http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/LSJ-Citations-Syllabi-Report_December-2020.pdf We addressed the necessity of reformulating and

Elinor Elliot

ElliotElinor

Covid hasn't broken universities - the systematic evisceration of higher education by so-called "free-market" extremism has. Covid has just exposed the giant con like nothing else could have.https://www.theguardian.com/educati

E. Krebs🧂

kkrreebbss

I know many folks are struggling with getting things done these days, but I’ve been more productive since the pandemic began than I ever was before it. Why? Academia has

Lois Parshley

LoisParshley

Subtle arguments on Twitter are a losing battle, but going to try to address schools and #Covid19 with nuance: It's been really hard to get good data on children and

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