#Academics

Becca Harrison

BeccaEHarrison

Ok I'm still seeing lots of tweets about the PhD/title thing. So. I do think news media and in fact anyone we ask to call us Dr should do it.

Ryan Fedasiuk

RyanFedasiuk

Let's talk about this @thetimes report today, which says "almost 200 British academics are being investigated" for "helping the Chinese government build weapons of mass destruction."It's HUGE news, but please,

Osaretin Victor Asemota

asemota

When I was growing up, my mum used to do something that I later had to make her correct. She used to set low expectations for doing chores and I

Dr Soumitra Pathare

netshrink

THREAD: for academics & researchers wanting to influence policy makers. Mostly India specific advice. Based on my reading & experience of doing this stuff for > decade now.At the end,

Will Oremus

WillOremus

An interesting thing about the Facebook Oversight Board is that it has managed to take all the infighting about access, embargoes, and corporate stenography that has divided tech journalists for

19thnews

19thnews

In 2019, Nevada got the United States' first majority-woman legislature, and when the session begins Monday, nearly 60% of its 63 members will be women.For the first time there, or

Masked Hoeliboi_69

maskedholiboi69

I get nervous speaking to a lady I find attractive. Subconsciously place them on a pedestal (not proud of it of course).But I’ve notice that anything (academics, finances, goals, HVM,

Helen Victoria Murray

HelenVMurray

Rather than berating students who clearly don't know the origin of the tuition fee structure, could we possibly point them towards our government for the direction of their ire? It's

Jess Butler

jessbutler284

Yesterday I enjoyed talking at a Big National Funder's workshop on research integrity.Goal was for Funder to listen junior academics talk frankly about ways to improve research.It was an interesting,

Matt Emerson

M_Y_Emerson

I get that Christians are (rightly) wary of elitism. Christian scholars are not any closer to or more in tune with God than a fellow believer in the pew. And,

Beth Prusaczyk, PhD, MSW

bethp_DI

A thread for my fellow white academics: like many of you in the past couple of months, I’ve joined (sometimes voluntarily, sometimes involuntarily) many an anti-racism, equity, diversity, etc. workgroup,

Farhana Sultana, Ph.D.

Prof_FSultana

Few women academics, and rarely women of color academics, make it to full professor by age 40 (if at all, because of toxic institutional racism). Imagine how they feel... https://twitter.com/timminglab/status/1278623270820929537

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

Can you do cool research at Google Brain? Honest answer: no. You will be on the cutting edge of machine learning, yes—an engineering discipline whose basic goals are set by

Haidee Kotze

HaideeKotze

I’ve seen lots of indignant tweets on #AcademicTwitter about receiving review requests from journals over the holidays. Here are some reflections, from a journal editor (who is also an author,

Dr. Jonathan Malloy

JonathanMalloy

My thoughts in the @globeandmail on Erin O'Toole + 'cancel culture'. His defense of free inquiry at universities comes as he leads a political party that has spent the last

Nelson Flores

nelsonlflores

Some people have asked how to do this. There are many ways. My way is to focus less on collecting data from racialized communities and more on treating historical and

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