#PhDs

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today in @bopinion, I discuss why America has been producing too many PhDs in recent years, and what we need to do to solve the problem.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-04/america-is-pumping-out-too-many-ph-d-s?sref=R8Nf

Akwugo Emejulu

AkwugoEmejulu

I want to talk about what I’m calling ‘empirical nationalism’ that I’m starting to see among some students—from undergrad to prospective PhDs. Rightly, for their essays, students, especially Black students,

Tricia Pendergrast

traependergrast

There seems to be a misconception about the use of the word "doctor," as in who is deserving of that title. Some people refuse to use the title "doctor" when

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

In honor of #ShutDownSTEM #Strike4BlackLives, I want to amplify two programs, housed @UMBC, that have TREMENDOUS track records for Black folx across the U.S. in #STEM:#MeyerhoffScholars and MARC *U*STAR (URISE)

Julia Gelatt

J_Gelatt

On top of the legalization program, today's immigration bill increases legal, permanent immigration in several ways:- Raises the cap on family-based immigration from 226,000 to 480,000 - Removes numerical cap

foone

Foone

Aww yeah, now we can finally get up to some REAL programming fun fortran fact: at my government job, some of the other fresh-out-of-college kids were mainly employed to convert

Anjali Vyas-Brannick 🇪🇺

AyyVeeBee

I didn't want to retweet directly so as to inadvertently put this person on blast but wow, what a perfectly vicious take from a funded student who hasn't even started

Dr. Michelle Rodrigues 🐒

MARspidermonkey

I am luck and privileged enough that I do not have student debt. But I still support loan forgiveness, because it’s an unfair burden, and predatory industry, that hinders people’s

Dan

NoTalentAC

Maybe PhDs aren't the problem, but instead it is the apparent fetishization of them that is. Or MDs for that matter. Or pilots or any other 'sexy' occupation. https://twitter.com/NoTalentAC/status/1332350166582652932Take this

Dr Torrey Creed

torrey_creed

I see many women with PhDs, EdDs, and PsyDs and #allies who are rightly disgusted by the misogynistic way .@DrBiden was treated in the .@WSJ op-ed. Looks like we agree

Radigan Carter

radigancarter

Very generous of Annie and Val Hollingsworth, great job by Mike on the interviewI get a lot out of these interviews since investing at the core is about being a

Osaretin Victor Asemota

asemota

A stock broker once got a family member with 300m Naira investment in the Nigerian stock market to back him to start an asset management company to manage his assets

Trisha Greenhalgh 😷 #CovidIsAirborne

trishgreenhalgh

Thread for PhD students whose work was interrupted by COVID-19. #phdchat 1/ I’ve examined 101 PhDs, but the one that sticks in my mind was from someone whose partner had

Adelaide

ADHDelaide

When you have ADHD, there's this "We can do anything we set our minds to!" mentality going around. And I just realized that it rubs me the wrong way because...

Anne Helen Petersen

annehelen

I have spoken to a number of people applying to grad school right now out of fear and desperation and lack of any apparent alternatives. I get it, I really

Michael Hobbes

RottenInDenmark

Yes if only America had better immigrants we wouldn't have so much intolerance. I write for the Atlantic.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1351731370972897285 This is a common trope, the idea that we can change the

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