#Humanities

Mar Hicks

histoftech

This is the worst way forward with AI. It is unethical to fund or publish scholarship like this.https://twitter.com/forcriticaltech/status/1275402019130478595 #defundAI if it’s gonna be like this (& it’s already shown us

Charles C. Mann

CharlesCMann

There’s a small academic argument about whether Robt. Malthus’s dire predictions were defeated by science and technology. True, S&T greatly lifted farm productivity, but that’s not the fundamental flaw in

Tinu Abayomi-Paul

Tinu

On this 9th day of Black history month, we will first have a preview of this week. Then today, I’m going to talk about a concept embedded in the nation’s

Gordon Brander

gordonbrander

Lately, I've been reflecting on teleological and non-teleological understandings of processes, and noticing how we have a sort of meaning-making impulse to recon a telos onto everything. There's something about

Eric Koester

erickoester

We are massively failing students in college and grad school now -- Covid didn't cause; but exposed brightly. College was always more about a credential than learning, but at least

Aparna

apparrnnaa

I always wanted to write something on this Topic, but My writing skills are not so great,So I took help from one of My Family members..Why Leftists fear True-Indolgy? 1/N.Prof.

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

People often assume that folx who study math don't struggle with it, but for me, math is a struggle. For #BlackInMathWeek #MyBlackMathJourney, I submit to you all a selection of

The Gormogons

Gormogons

CZ Sorry for a longer thread, but thought Twitter might find this interesting.NDU's college application process requires you write a small number of essays from a much larger list of

Stephen T Casper

TheNeuroTimes

More broadly, the historical profession as a whole, and humanities generally, have relegated disease & disease history to a bad story about the way the past used to be. So

Dr. Lisa Gilbert

gilbertlisak

As a musician and music educator I do not find this meta-analysis' results surprising - or concerning - in the leasthttps://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1288497220602466304 Training in music doesn't transfer to cognitive skills? ...

N.R. Elliott

writeronabike

"Gee, Nate, you sure seem cynical about higher education these days! Why so bitter and angry?"https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/virtually-normal-montreal-student-tries-to-contact-his-online-prof-only-to-learn-he-s-dead-1.5288640 1. Univ

srtaintelectual, Ph.D.

srtaintelectual

I have a PH.D. in romance studies which in actuality as a humanities field, is very broad and versatile. Because of this, I’ve been able to to do real, academic

Pavel Iosad

anghyflawn

One of the things really being laid bare in the school results fiasco is the widespread belief that high-stakes final exams are the 'real' measure of achievement (or even ability).

Sean Burt

sean__burt

Thoughts on “ungrading.” Fall 2020 was the first term in which I conducted all of my courses without grades. I saw visible, inspiring student successes and I’m not going back

Kristina Keneally

KKeneally

.@SenKatyG, @MurrayWatt and I have seen some bizarre Government performances in the Senate COVID-19 Committee.But yesterday was something special.A thread The @NTEUNational says we are facing a $16 BILLION

قیصر خان

Qaiser__Khan

Beginner's guide to the different parts of Twitter; a thread Politics Twitter: Constant drama and infighting. This part of Twitter looks like the cyber version of a WW2 battlefield on

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