#PhDs

Y’all wanna know why we aren’t making progress on diversity and inclusion at BG? Because we keep hosting these panels without discussing action steps. We can have these conversations all
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My students are not allowed to call me Jennifer. (Former students who have graduated, sure). My first semester at my current college, students regularly tried to call me by my
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This Friday is #JUNETEENTH2020 (learn more here: https://www.juneteenth.com/history.htm )Some people like to say that 246 years of slavery wasn’t that long, so last year I gave a talk that put the
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PROPOSAL: Journals hire full-time professional peer reviewers and compensate them equitably. This opens opportunities for folks with PhDs who do not want to be professors, and work can be done
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This article is not only utterly misogynistic, written by a man who clearly is jealousy of @DrBiden accomplishments, but also completely misinformed, because PhDs are the original doctors. MDs took
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Been seeing this meme a lot lately so I made one. @jcbecker93 I love this meme but every time I see it I think “what jackass took that picture?” People
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Thread of all the ways I've benefitted as a Syrian Christian in my education and career:1/? Both sets of grandparents owned agricultural land that they sold when they moved to
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Should postdocs be pessimistic about their career chances? In an article on @nature's postdoc survey, @cdwoolston asked me about my role @embl and why - despite the challenges - I
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if you’ve been a regular on academic twitter for more than a year, you’ll already have seen ‘debates’ about unfunded phds before. just like ‘debates’ over laptop bans, and time
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Had a chat today with my longest pal. We did our PhDs together in the 80s. I had a career in biomedical R&D, latterly founding a U.K. biotech. My friend
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1. I respect pple with PhDs. Academics have their place in this world. The purpose of academics is to increase our depth thru research & patents. The purpose of innovators
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Good morning, are you looking for resources for humanities phds thinking about careers in and beyond the tenure track? Here are some ways I can help [thread] The Academic Job
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As I come to the final stages of my PhD, I thought I’d share some insight into what I believe makes a PhD a worthwhile endeavor.[thread] 1) Choose your PhD
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A career is academia is only available to a small % of PhD grads. We need more exposure to the wide range of meaningful careers available to #PhDs. A thread
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Few ideas:1) Don't have cronies with fake PhDs openly consorting with your political apparatus2) Actually fund public universities instead of buying more guns n' ammo. Pay lecturers well so you
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Following @AnnaMeierPS, I attended "From CV to Resume: Translating Your Skills for an Applied Career in Political Science" from Tanya Schwarz. Presentation here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rCNFymfGytiDdISEe8YPqNzim-5h
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