#Academic

Lucy Barnes

alittleroad

Interesting statement by @claremcdean to academics at York St John about problems with ebook availability & pricing - includes questions to ask when making publication & adoption decisions, which is

Wayne W. S. Hsieh

whsieh

There's a lot to admire in this thought provoking thread/post, but I think it reflect a lot of fundamental (and exceptionalist) misunderstandings about the American state and history, which are

Ellen Carmichael

ellencarmichael

There's a reason or two that politics have gotten more extreme than ever, but people don't want to hear it. One reason - and again, the people with the power

ReReadQ - #beNotAfraid

DigMemePray

THE MORE YOU KNOW - PCR Cycle Thresholds (CTs)1) PCR test is "gold standard" Covid test2) PCR test "amplifies tiny amounts of DNA material to become large enough to be

Chris Lebron

lebron_chris

1/ Four years ago I wrote on #BlackLivesMatter by putting its ideals into conversation with our greatest thinkers: #IdaBWells #MartinLutherKingJr#FrederickDouglass #AnnaJuliaCooper #AudreLorde #JamesBaldwin #Langston Hughes #ZoraNealeHurst

Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

yarimarbonilla

I know this is an awkward conversation nobody wants to have, but what are the lessons of #Caliphate for anthropology/ethnography? NYT editors say they failed in part because they "fell

Norbert Wiener Kreis

carl_b_sachs

Thoughts on recent interpretations of Kant, Hegel, and Marx in Anglophone academic philosophy: a thread. Raymond Geuss observes that the widespread idea that Kant was politically liberal is a fabrication

Subbarao Kambhampati

rao2z

[#AI & Privacy--a blast from the past--mini-thread] All this discussion about Parler etc being held accountable for views propounded on them reminded me and my friend @PJNarayanan of an interesting

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

Academic Job Discourseᵀᴹ is back (it’s never gone).Tl;dr: There are no jobs.Headline: Commodification of academia has decoupled the value of research from the chance of employability.Long read: Research and teaching

Kimberly Mutcherson

ProfessorMutch

As grades start rolling in for our students @RutgersLaw, especially the 1Ls, congratulations to those of you who feel good about your performance! For those of you who are less

Subjacent Banana

subjacentish

Here is a summary of what an Adjunct professor is, because apparently RW people think they know all about it. An Adjunct Professor is a contract worker, typically hired for

June-Ho Kim, MD MPH

junehokim

Two new studies on the #OpioidCrisis. During residency, we treated countless patients w/ opioid use disorder in the hospital w/ infections like endocarditis. They spent weeks hospitalized, discharge options would

Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

dannagal

Where are the explainer threads on the role of "psychological reactance" (Brehm, 1966) and COVID? Especially as we sit perched at the intersection of identity-fueled political polarization and a politicized

David Paton

cricketwyvern

Two things annoy me a little in the school debate. First, well-intentioned comments like "schools should be last to close & first to open".We never debate when supermarkets should close.

Frontline

FrontlineSW

1/3 The child is already punished because they've been excluded. Then they go to a pupil referral unit where we know they're exposed to criminal exploitation and being groomed... Florence

Ben Barry💄✨👠

DrBenBarry

When I became an academic, I was taught you make change by practicing civility. I wondered if civility prevented us from making real, radical transformation and, after listening to the

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