#Humanities

Emma Dawson

DawsonEJ

Why I’m weary tonight: a thread. 250 jobs cut at the ABC, 70 at the National Gallery. 600 supermarket workers at Woolies made redundant because robots are cheaper, after risking

Moebius Stripper

moebius_strip

I am absolutely fascinated by the diversity-industrial complex, which is booming even in These Uncertain Timeshttps://twitter.com/tsn_pr/status/1272959565215272961 Way in 1988, which is practically the dark ages and certainly not 20 years

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today in @bopinion, I discuss why America has been producing too many PhDs in recent years, and what we need to do to solve the problem.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-04/america-is-pumping-out-too-many-ph-d-s?sref=R8Nf

Christen #Democracy❤️🤍💙 Rexing (she/her)

christen_rexing

There was a Tweet asking which was your most influential class in college. I really had a hard time thinking of one class. As a #firstgen student, the opportunity to

Erika Lee

prof_erikalee

Great question #sschatreads! 1/ I like to tell my students about my own journey. I hated history in high school. My introduction to US history was in summer school, taught

Christie

ChristieNold

My advisory students have figured out how to play an in-person version of among us. They create task cards for each other and have a system for the imposter.I love

Stephen T Casper

TheNeuroTimes

While I certainly applaud journalism focused on epidemiologists, journalists might want to survey American historians of medicine for their opinions about how we are doing.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/upshot/epidemiologists-virus-surv

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

1) Dreaded thread on why I think the response to postcritique is so vitriolic. Short version: Because literary studies is a discipline in search of an application. 2) Before I

Sameerā Kashyap❄

not_sameera

My caste story.Me and my brother has studied from a Central government school. The story is when my father was posted in a small district of UP. The region is

Regina N. Bradley, Ph.D.

redclayscholar

Also had a few panicky grad students hit me about publishing, so I wanted to share these thoughts too about publishing as a humanities scholar.1. My diss was five chapters.

Cody VanZandt

CodyVanZandt

(1/n) I spoke to yet another advanced CS+English double major at a DH-y uni who was thrilled but SHOCKED to hear that humanities data science (HDS) is a thing.Anecdotally, CS+HUMA

Sarah Osten

sarahosten

The central rationale for these cuts at @uvmvermont and @UVMcas is that students just aren't very interested in humanities classes, and therefore we shouldn't offer them anymore. This is disingenuous

Idaho Joe 🕊🎗️🗽⏳💚🧡🖤 Cup o' Joe

IDJoe4Congress

Behind your little $600 check.... 1. $300,000,000 for Migrant and Refugee Assistance pg.. 1472. $10,000 per person for student loan bailout3. $100,000,000 to NASA,

Jonathan S. Pumpkin Pies 🥧

jsench

This is the humanities core of liberal arts education. Logic (embedded in philosophy), composition/writing (rhetorical structures & patterns), awareness of what happened before & how it worked out (history), how

Dr. Indu Viswanathan

indumathi37

I once found myself in conversation with a dude who called himself Indian American and Hindu. He was one of those MBA-types. (Hazards of living in New York.) When he

James Hannam

DrJamesHannam

A recurring theme on my timeline is how many people do PhDs in the hope of an academic job that doesn’t materialise. I want to give the humble doctorate a

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