#Meritocracy

Meister

NotJustMeister

Specialty coffee has a meritocracy problem: We’re trained to believe that only producers whose coffees score 86+ are “hardworking,” “passionate,” “progressive,” or “committed to quality.” This is patently false. 1/9

G.C. Pieters, PhD

ProfPieters

To students considering an Econ PhD: this is why the PhD program rank matters. It shouldn't, but it does.Departments *will not* hire you if your degree is from the "wrong

Carol Thomas

First_2_Fifty

1/5Today we salute these genuine pioneering women of football:- SUE BUCKETTSHEILA PARKERWENDY OWENMORAG KIRKLANDJEANNIE ALLOTTJANET BAGGULEYPAT DAVISEILEEN FOREMANSANDRA GRAHAMLYNDA HALEJULIE MANNINGMARGARET (Paddy) MCGROARTYSLYVIA GORESUE

Maya Contreras

mayatcontreras

1/ I just spoke to my father-in-law who is a psychologist. I asked him 'Why are so many white women reacting in this way'? He talked about the 'chronic unwanted

Alex Usher

AlexUsherHESA

1/ For my UK tweeps this AM, I want to walk everyone through the Canadian* system of university admissions, just to show you how low-stakes this process can actually be.*most

john milbank

johnmilbank3

James Hawes notes that Harry Potter turned round the fortunes of public schools. Their products now over-dominate acting, media, sports, Oxbridge. But have state schools and universities learnt from this

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

realchrisrufo

The virus of critical race theory is spreading to all of the national laboratories.In new documents from Argonne National Lab—which handles national security and supercomputing for the federal government—a whistleblower

Rod Graham

roderickgraham

I guess this is meant to be a scare tactic: "equal treatment is equality of outcome." But people are (thankfully) becoming more sophisticated about this. No one expects we all

BPPA STRICT SENIORITY preserves white supremacy

academicworker

I’m going to share a story of community. Of helping people they don’t know. I think it’s beyond help. I think it’s love & care because we all have intrinsic

Megan L. Killian

megankillian

I don't know who needs to hear this but a PI's success is not measured by the number of trainees that go on to pursue academic careers. A trainee's success

Lafayette Lee

OrangePartisan

1. Some thoughts on the @GOP and the rise of a “diverse, multi-ethnic working-class party”Thanks to the American left’s unrelenting consolidation of cultural power, words like “diversity” and “inclusion” feel

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

As the opportunity structure began to burn in recent decades, the Democratic Party stepped up with a solution: upward mobility via education, help to "make it if you try."But an

Aidan Smith

aidan_smx

Cute propaganda. In reality Bezos's mommy and daddy gave him $245,573 to stop Amazon from failing in 1995, but you'd never know it from listening to our right-wing mainstream media

Stephen L. Young

SLYProfessor

Let's talk briefly about that pervasive discrimination that enshrines unfairness in the United States and that the 'Mainstream Media' does often fail to discuss: Affirmative Action ... for White people.

Jack Schneider

Edu_Historian

When we're talking about "good" schools, it's important to consider what we mean by "good."(Thread) Let's imagine that my mentor @DLabaree is right, and that there are three major aims

lcamtuf

lcamtuf

Thread: the subject of online harassment is pretty interesting to me - because I know I used to be a problem to others back in the day.It started in the

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