#Humanities

✨an honest to god mneme™️✨

thebittersnake

Anyway, some people took personal offense to this? And, against my better judgement, I'm going to try to explain what I meant by this statement? (1/n)https://twitter.com/thebittersnake/status/1327104594586071042 So, US society for

Sarah Haider 🚀

SarahTheHaider

I majored in humanities (Government / History). I had to take on loans to get my state education, which I'm still paying. Today, I work at a small non-profit.All of

Hyon S Chu

hyonschu

I don't care what artificial intelligence "can" do. What's more interesting and important to me is what artificial intelligence can't do (and it's a lot), because what AI can't do

shiv

bennedose

We read English and we are taught that knowledge is Goddess Saraswati. The English gyan about India on the Internet especially history is utter rubbish, but we are indoctrinated into

Nothing Never Happens: A Radical Pedagogy Podcast

RadPedagogy

this is a thread about the new report on how yale university has decided to restructure is graduate programs in the humanities. here are two teasers from the final report,

Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost

ghostofchristo1

I started getting a real sense around 10-12 years ago that the people entering humanities graduate programmes increasingly weren’t doing so out of affinity for the subject, but simply because

Adam Kotsko

adamkotsko

I think it was bad for the humanities when we all implicitly conceded that the cultural archives to which we had devoted our lives were just a disposable scratch-pad to

Christopher Pittard

CAPittard

Twitter: Hur hur, English Lit is useless.Also Twitter: Why oh why don't schools teach a subject all about the kinds of critical thinking and textual analysis that would challenge the

Scott Hames

hinesjumpedup

The grim Gaelic news shouldn’t really be a surprise, but the way it clashes with the prevailing mood-music kind of *makes it* confounding, and in a v suggestive way -

Hetan Shah

HetanShah

‘Epidemics are social as well as biological phenomena.’ My @nature piece on the importance of social science and humanities in tackling our big global challengeshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00064-x Very helpful crowd sourc

Deadlifting to Judas Priest in Capri Pants

SethLSanders

Just started reading the new Yale report on the future of its humanities grad programs. Its recommendations might freak people out but from my POV having run a small grad

Michael E. Smith

MichaelESmith

Rant: The “science problem” in archaeology. I am dismayed about the continuing low level of understanding of science among archaeologists. This was set off by reading Lars Fogelin’s nice open

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne 🐳

yudhanjaya

Few ideas:1) Don't have cronies with fake PhDs openly consorting with your political apparatus2) Actually fund public universities instead of buying more guns n' ammo. Pay lecturers well so you

C Cawley

RejectIdeology

The real danger in politics now is not fake news but 'fake facts'. Media, state sector, the civil service and politics are dominated by Arts Graduates imbued with the denial

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

It's time for a periodic reminder:stop using the misrepresentation of medieval past to excuse our deeply-flawed present. It's the cheapest of tricks to brand the failure to create a just,

Jacob Olivey

OliveyJacob

Here’s what (I hope) is a fair-minded thread about this...1). The ‘examification’ of humanities subjects (3-year GCSE programmes, excessive mock-mock-mocks, doing loads of lessons on ‘Question 4 AO2 practice’) is

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