#PhDs

Excited to share a long term research project of mine with you all - "Are Economics and Financial Literacy EducationSubstitutes?" Our goal is to identify which class improves financial literacy
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I really need everyone to be very wary of the idea that continuing to make work "flexible" is a good thing and any kind of progress. This position makes it
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I see increasing trends in harsh/very harsh/extremely harsh reviews in @netscisociety and @complsys @CompSysSoc conferences, let's not even mention papers related to such fields. This is worrying for several reasons
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I am neither a historian of early America nor the early Repub, but I am an expert on expertise, esp. women’s expertise. So I want to comment on what was
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You've probably seen the screenshot of the sexist first paragraph of that wretched shitpile of a "column" in the WSJ by Prof. (not Dr.) Joseph Epstein. The whole thing is
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For my final day (because in this post-PhD phase I’ve got my weekends back ;)) I wanted to reflect on my experience of #DoctoralOTUK study. For those that follow me
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1/ Thread: Buffett's genius in investing in the Unknown and UnknowableIn 2006, Richard Zeckhauser wrote an intriguing paper on "Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable", and one of the protagonists
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Public health medicine is undervalued until high profile outbreaks like #covid19. Disease prevention is often behind the scenes work that can be taken for granted. Why do things need to
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Hi I have some _things_ to say about this graphic and none of them are about the end of the world.https://twitter.com/mbrenes1/status/1352321826882523150 First, I want to say this: it's weird and
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Can’t believe I’m already a 2nd year PhD student. I realized how relevant my Washington post article about Katherine Johnson is for me right now. It’s already time for me
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Academia needs institutional change to dismantle systemic racism.Putting our training to practice, a committed group of @oiioxford students wrote a document w concrete recs calling for institutional change, dismantling systemic
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1. As I come to the end of my first year as a PhD ‘student’, ‘researcher’, ‘candidate’, whatever your preferred tipple is, I thought I’d do a thread on experiences
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In our new paper, published today in @nature & led by Martín Ezcurra @MacnVp, we present evidence that lagerpetids, a group of Triassic reptiles, are the closest evolutionary relatives of
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What? The GRE is not a face valid measure of quantitative + verbal reasoning? These discussions are off the rails. Validity evidence for the GRE is not lacking. You can
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Hello #chronicillness friends. This is a very important thread. Recently @sciam published a promotional (instead of journalistic) article promoting the idea that functional neurological disorder (FND) is a legitimate neurological
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I wanna talk for a minute about informality in computer science and race and privilege, based on a conversation @lindsey and I had about how they just recently found and
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