#Academics

Rick Swedloff

RickSwedloff

This podcast has an interesting account of why western wildfires have gotten so much worse. In large part, of course, the answer is climate change. But not to be discounted

Mike Berners-Lee

MikeBernersLee

1/13 This thread is my summary of the Cumbria coal mine case, laying bare the many flawed and bogus arguments that have been made along the way, and including links

David McAllister

Dr_D_McAllister

The govt is considering introducing 'minimum entry requirements' for students, meaning they must pass a minimum A-level threshold to get into Higher Education. This is a terrible idea, which would

Andreas Fulda

AMFChina

Many thanks to @iandenisjohnson for raising public awareness of the new (German-language) publication "China(kompetenz)" #China #competence by APuZ. In this thread I would like to engage with an argument put

Jason Stanley

jasonintrator

On Bari Weiss’s supposed martyrdom: my mind goes back to the brutal attacks on @IlhanMN and @lsarsour she made in articles (and before that Muslim congressman Keith Ellison), accusing them

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

What I have learned from COVID19:[Thread] 1. Public health is undervalued, underfunded, neglected, mistreated, and it is easy to get away with that for years, decades, but someday that ends

cliff cannon (he/him/his)

cliff_cannon

I suppose I'd also be opposed to what you people call "cancel culture" if I thought it existed. it exists as much as the "pc mafia" existed thirty years ago.

Karen K. Ho (Doomscrolling Reminder Lady)

karenkho

the easiest way to diversify source lists is by aiming to talk to white guys last for almost every story •Ask PR people to connect you to non-white and female

zara ♀

cache_pas

If you ever want to throw a fancy term at idiots like Zoe, tell them about epistemic injustice, aka “not knowing that you don’t know what you don’t know.” A

eugyppius

eugyppius1

1. Since this thread took off, I’ve read a lot of pro-lockdown content. These are huge twitter networks, dominated by people claiming to be academics, doctors. Their ideas and statements

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

OK: following, my thoughts on Google Brain and similar institutions. Disclaimer: this is my opinion, as someone who doesn't need their funding, and has built a career without needing to

The Times

thetimes

The UK and the European Union have succeeded in reaching a provisional post-Brexit trade deal, with only days left before the end of the transition period on December 31st.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/brexit-deal-is-finally-done-

Cathal Haughey

Cathal_Haughey

Dissertation finished as part of Masters in Public Policy in DCU. My summary of what's wrong with the Electoral Register, the voter registration process, and my suggestions on how to

GET A GRIP 💙

docrussjackson

THREADDebate around 'grooming gangs' reminds me of the poor quality of debate about UK 'gang violence'.Now I'm NOT saying 'gangs' or 'grooming gangs' don't exist, or that there isn't any

Sanjukta Paul

sanjuktampaul

A brief word about having resigned my fellowship with the Thurman Arnold Project: I decided it's appropriate to now focus upon a current organizational effort among junior academics in the

Tomos Evans

TomosEvans01

Currently reading James Hankins’ brilliant Virtue Politics, and his rallying cry for the need to urgently address the vast neglect of scholarly attention of Neo-Latin texts by *specifically* Anglophone academics,

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