#Intellectual

Lura Groen

lura_groen

White men, when we say we don't want you to write all the blogs and books, it isn't because we don't think you have unique and interesting things to say.

Tony Tost

tonytost

First of all, there just isn't that big of a market for original material. It's incredibly hard to sell an original spec script these days. It seems everyone wants a

Maryam S. Khan

MaryamShKhan

1.Research thought of the day: if your original research question, and along with that your preliminary biases & conclusions, hardly shift during the process of thinking, collecting data, analysing sources,

Aaron

AyAy_Ron69

10 Lessons from a billionaire. 1. When you stop looking for the approval of others, you can continue to move forward in the things you believe in 2. Success is

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

Conaw

The Zettelkasten. "It's like the GTD for intellectual progress" What it is, and why you want one. (thread) First -- Why GTD doesn't work for intellectual workGTD is all about

Donald Welsh

DonaldWelsh16

A few thoughts this morning. If you get your C19 news from a:1)TV anchor with no science background in 30 second bites;2)newspaper who sponsors content and has their best sports

Max Ajl

maxajl

To take a slight different tack than the legitimate dismissal of China as a settler-colonial state ... this has been building up for decades now in academia. How? A very

Kate Kirkpatrick

philosofemme

Since it’s Jean-Paul Sartre’s birthweek and #Christianity is trending on Twitter, here’s a little thread about why Martin Luther King, Jr. thought Sartre was wrong about freedom. But first, a

Jane Bernal 🌈

SJaneBernal

Expecting the Unexpected. When death is expected, people can plan for it, think about what care they want when dying, where they might die, make a 'bucket-list', use Palliative Care

Mr E

VEverettmfl

Been again reflecting a little bit on how language teaching evolved away from the parroting of transactional phrases in the 90s and some of the people who have been on

Tim Minchin

timminchin

If someone writes an article you disagree with, here is an option that a lot of you seem to have forgotten: read it, then have some thoughts about it. Then

Freeman

freemanchari

1. I respect pple with PhDs. Academics have their place in this world. The purpose of academics is to increase our depth thru research & patents. The purpose of innovators

Jonathan Hopkin

jrhopkin

I think what is missing from this freedom of speech in universities debate is the question of the government's motivation. Nobody in their right mind believes this government cares about

deonandan

deonandan

Got politely invited to publicly debate hardcore anti-vaxxer. I declined. Some will call this cowardice. Here are my reasons. Thread:'(1) vaccination science is a matter of facts, not opinion. One

Dr. Hilary Green

HilaryGreen77

A short thread on books to read instead of a certain report. Du Bois's last chapter of Black Reconstruction is quite appropriate. As a Harvard PhD, I think that he

Tyler Wittman

tylerwittman

*Bracketing* the political context of this tweet, it doesn’t hold weight historically. The “fathers” were quite culturally and geographically diverse, and all brought different intellectual tools to the task. We

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