#Academics

Sabina Vohra-Miller

SabiVM

This past week has seen a lot of discussion on vaccines and vaccine hesitancy. Before joining Twitter this year, I spent a lot of time addressing this on vaccine-on-the-fence and

NelsonDaly

NelsonDaly

A friend retweeted some tips for screenwriters to help them stand out in the hiring process for tv shows. It got me thinking about #architectural awards season and how some

Jay C. Shambaugh

JayCShambaugh

Today @hamiltonproj released a set of papers on productivity growth and innovation. In a framing paper by me, @RyanDNunn and @emilynmoss , we explore the productivity slowdown in the US.

Matt Finn

MattMattFinn

Is the government just straight out trolling schools, children, parents, teachers & academics now?Like publishing guidance for major changes after 5pm with one school day before the new term, on

alex hayes

alexpghayes

i'm writing a blog post about research code and how we currently ask way too much of code produced by academics i want to use examples of real

Tom Zoellner

tomzoellner

THREAD: Here's a new modern dynamic. A professor writes an article, radicalized media makes it into an outrage segment and hordes of flying zombie viewers then flood that professor's inbox

Elinor Elliot

ElliotElinor

Covid hasn't broken universities - the systematic evisceration of higher education by so-called "free-market" extremism has. Covid has just exposed the giant con like nothing else could have.https://www.theguardian.com/educati

PSC

PSCupdates

In a House of Lords debate this week on antisemitism in universities, John Mann, government advisor on antisemitism, made the spurious claim that there are no examples of the IHRA

Abeba Birhane

Abebab

Few days after I tweeted this MIT pulls down Tiny Images dataset following our paper @vinayprabhu"MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset that trained AI systems to potentially describe

Declan Ganley 🇭🇰

declanganley

1. In what now seems another lifetime ago, late 80's and into early 1990, I put serious effort into the idea of launching Western communications satellites on Soviet platforms. It

Ryan Cordell

ryancordell

*Soul* left me ruminating on how academics get caught up imagining “the real work” as perpetually forthcoming—once I pass comps, once I defend the diss, once the book is out,

Helen🏳️‍⚧️💙

mimmymum

Ever wondered how the anti-trans PR machine works, spreading trans-hostile propaganda and indoctrinating the naive and misinformed to their ideology?Here’s the story of the “WPUK bomber” (who wasn’t) and how

Ricky

ideasByRicky

Course: Watched week 3 in Intro to Causality from @CasualBrady. It feels like this week was laying down the foundations of the shared language of causality. Specifically graphs- connected nodes

Alf

AlfonzCavalier

Scots is a dialect, writing in an accent and using regional slang words does not change that it just makes you look daft https://twitter.com/ionafyfe/status/1348355793616252930 'Action maun be taen tae gie'

David R. MacIver

DRMacIver

Back in https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-16-14:22.html I talked about "ghost knowledge" - knowledge that exists within expert communities but is never written down and basically doesn't exist for you unless you hav

Stuart Newman

sanewman1

1/4 The debate among left-of-center academics and pundits about whether Trump represented a turn toward fascism has a well-worn contour. Some are pointing out that things that have happened in

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