#Intellectual

J M Klinger

Prof_Klinger

1. This is a really incredible example of a PhD student whose fieldwork was completely derailed by COVID, who took the time not just to perform triage, but to radically

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Anarchohoodism

So, just want to clear up something I tweeted the other day about not being an intellectual. I’m not one in the sense that is regarded as the typical model

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

Aatif Rashid

Aatif_Rashid

I’m thinking about how much of one’s intellectual development, something that in retrospective feels so inevitable, often happens by random chance. In college, I remember having to decide whether to

Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys

CITMAuk

We know as a business owner you have plenty on your plate. We are passionate about ensuring everyone has protected their branding as a registered trade mark. Getting one is

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

Attention, Twitter. I need input. I now have a publisher interested in our project to produce a book in which black intellectuals summarise the work of their favourite black intellectual

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

HC_Richardson

Writer's Block.A thread for @alixabeth and others. This is not about writing problems in general: procrastination, frustration, stress eating, pain, and so on. It's for when you cannot remember how

Todd N. Tucker

toddntucker

This by Susan Sell on TRIPS is great:"The private sector activists displayed impressive framing skills in presenting their case to the government and their foreign counterparts not merely by making

L Harris

ladyduckpojok

So many sound bites and meaningless mantras in place of intellectual discourse these days."Your partner doesn't define your sexuality""Ppl are what they say they are""TWAW TMAM NBAV""Brexit means Brexi

Dr. Mansa Keita

rasmansa

Famous hereditarian Arthur Jensen found that

William Dalrymple

DalrympleWill

In 1227 Michael Scot, orginally from Melrose in the Borders, “the leading intellectual in Western Europe during the first third of 13thC” joined Frederick II’s court from Toledo, where he

Kaitlyn Greenidge

surlybassey

A weird thing about Britney Spears when she first appeared on the scene is that for many in media, she became this avatar of mass consumerism and a bunch of

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

The 2010s was an intellectual era, but not an era of intellectuals: rationalists, SSC, LW, NRx, etc produced popular teaching, but no great, lasting texts. Lots of (Thomas) Huxleys, no

Gennifer Hutchison

GennHutchison

Part of privilege is being able to treat questions like "should we try to reach out to unrepentant bigots in the interest of 'unity'" like an intellectual exercise. Bigotry isn't

Mentorshipzim

mentorshipzim

This next Thread will be to set the context for a lot of the discussions we will have. Its a discussion and don't have all the answers so we will

dan, simul doctor et docendus

thauma_idesthai

the fact that this piece casts "doing away with the label 'classics' altogether" as an existentially horrifying and unthinkably radical move tells you everything you need to know about how

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