#Sociology

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MisterAedan

For whatever it's worth, Media Studies was one of the best classes I took at GCSE and A Level. People were saying exactly the same nonsense about it back then

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

One problem is the people telling us to just “follow the science” rarely seem to understand the interaction between things science can and has resolved and the unknowns and trade-offs

Marsha Henry

mghacademic

Am re-reading a great article for class next week & wanting to comment on something that is unique to Gender Studies in a short thread which promotes some of my

Christy Christina

ChristinaKretc1

Just had a rather pathetic encounter w a Trumper in my local grocery store. I hope everyone understands how completely demented these folks are at this point, how the aggression

Zeyad el Nabolsy (زياد النابلسي)

ZNabolsy

1. Philosophers should care about the sociology of philosophy.2. From the perspective of global intellectual history, the analytic-continental divide is a family squabble between 2 Eurocentric siblings. 3. Hegel is

Natalie Thurlby

StatalieT

We just discussed @timnitGebru @emilymbender @mcmillan_majora and (sch)@mmitchell_ai s Stochastic Parrots paper at #DataEthicsClub. I'm going to attempt to summarise our discussion, but I'd love for the other attendees (or

Bernadette Lim, MS

bernielim

It is time for medicine to do away w its obsession w restricted academic journals + esoteric publications.Our author team of "Toward the Abolition of Biological Race" chose to publish

#JusticeforBreonnaTaylor

ryan_huerto

I’m going to be brutally honest and humble with y’all for a second. So here’s a brief thread on what I think medical institutions must consider, if they haven’t already,

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

This overly bureaucratic prioritization, and the outrage over a few undeserving people cutting ahead (which I don't support but the harm is much less than all this) will likely do

Pradip Varma

Pradip_K_Varma

#TheRiseOfPakyaFirst the good things in NEP ...Skills from 6th std, I've advocated this for longFlexibility b/w courses, multiple entry/exit pointsTransfer of credits eCourses in all languagesSingle Higher Education RegulatorCommon entr

Polly Mackenzie

pollymackenzie

Here’s the thing about equality intersectionality.A serious effort to reduce socio-economic inequality (that did nothing on race or gender) would inevitably have disproportionate benefits to BAME communities and women.Because they

Henry Fung

calwatch

Interesting statistics about the California state high school proficiency exam, the #CHSPE: https://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sp/documents/chspereport1617.pdf https://twitter.com/calwatch/status/1286563905074946048 - Passing score is pretty low.

Dr. Joshua Moon

DrJRMoon

So WHO just called for an independent inquiry in the global covid response. I've written about its IHR review committee here: https://duckofminerva.com/2020/05/the-world-health-organization-already-has-a-review-mechanism-heres-how-it-wo

Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸

gauravsabnis

Most elite Indians (primarily savarna white collar urban english medium educated folks like me) land on Western shores convinced that we are just as advanced and developed as these countries

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri

vivekagnihotri

Left vs Right Biologically & psychologically, there is no individual who isn’t a combination of both. We have left & right brain, limbs, eyes. But they don’t conflict, instead they

Anne Sophie Lassen

AnSoLassen

Who uses the possibility of longer parental leave? Short answer: Mothers! But why is that? In this working paper, I show that gender norms rather than standard economic incentives explain

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