#Academics

Hamza A. Tzortzis

HATzortzis

My advice to Muslim academics is to be wary of ‘ujub (self amazement) and kibr (arrogance/egoism); two of the main spiritual diseases of the heart. Remember, it is only Allah

Post-Pandemic University

PostPandemicUni

Academic staff and students are more likely than ever to encounter each other on social media. There are a number of reasons for this: - Through use of platforms in

Ankita M

muk_ankita

Thread: 5 years ago, as a young Masters student at the LSE, it was an honour for me to attend the annual Amartya Sen lecture. After the event, a big

Ella Al-Shamahi

LittleMsFossil

Hallo! Today is #WomenInScience Day. I want to recommend the research of a few women in my field who are at the cutting edge and whose research consistently excites me:1-

The Notorious EEG (M. Scott Perry MD)

TheNotoriousEEG

When I interview new graduates for positions in our practice and ask them what they’re looking for in a career, they often say “I definitely want to stay in academic

Farhana Sultana, Ph.D.

Prof_FSultana

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

prof jenny pickerill

JennyPickerill

To convert 5 hours of F2F teaching to online has taken 4 days (32 hrs), so over 6x what it would have if I had been able to pitch up

The Dread Pirate Jussim

PsychRabble

I'm back. In honor of KO'ing two hard, back-to-back deadlines, a Thread! A mini-thread! Of loosely connected papers and ideas:On Scientific Uncertainty, Especially in Social Sciences & Psych In honor

John Bull

garius

University admissions teams right now. Website/phone and infrastructure teams are all... Russell Group are all over in the corner right now being proper... Meanwhile over in the accomodation office... The

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

Look, people, I am not naive. I've been in this business for a very long time. I've worked many other jobs (nothing to do with higher education). There ARE many

Nijay K Gupta

NijayKGupta

Academics: How to handle outside criticismIn 2019 I had an experience where a group of religion scholars openly mocked and derided me and my workSince then I have been processing

Kevin Farnsworth

Dr_K_Farnsworth

Academia is a bizarre world. Like all academics, I am often asked do work for free. But today I received the worst offer yet! Review 10 chapters for an upcoming

Dr Addy Adelaine

AddyAdelaine

I follow a long line of scholars who have tried to raise awareness over inequality & the marginalisation of Black Women in HE & research. In 1982 (3 years after

David Andress

ProfDaveAndress

"Students pay fees to universities" is an excellent example of the value of a political Big Lie.Universities were compelled by government to set a "fee" level, because it was the

Melusi Thwala

realmelt

I review journal and examine theses manuscripts. Sometimes I don't think supervisors do justice, sometimes you wonder if the manuscript was even read by the senior co-authors. Once I had

Stuart Lau

stuartklau

The ongoing tussle over the EU-China investment agreement has generated a number of interesting broad questions for European policymakers and academics. Here are three: 1. Strategic autonomy? Some in EU

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