#Scholar

Implicit Bias. Good article on the nonsense of pretending it has a place in training and policy. Employing the wrong method for righteous, heartfelt reasons isn't helpful. It's the homeopathy
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Today for #BHM , I want to highlight a remarkable mentor and role model of mine: @PeterBlairHenry. His research mainly focuses on macroeconomics/development and the caliber of his work has
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While the Marxists and Liberal spend hundreds of hour pontificating of inequality in Shastras (which cannot be proved as it is not true), have you ever heard or seen them
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Some thoughts about navigating impostor syndrome--something I struggle with on the daily--based on my recent experience becoming a journal editor. Friends: a thread on "scholar mindset" and "editor mindset." I've
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The more I write for the general public, the more allergic I become to most academic prose -- even the kind that is "stylish" in its opaqueness. What to do?
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King of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan VS.“Scholar” Ahmed Ridha/Reza KhanThread SRK: handsome, amazing hair, jawline ARK: can’t decide between a Harry Potter joke or Steve Jobs joke SRK: King
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Today Jim Prosser retires from an active career. Thread.His work is well known but just wanted to highlight some of his achievements with help from @graemepaton007. It was a pleasure
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I consider myself well published: http://www.emmettmacfarlane.com/publications.php And my work has been cited over 200 times, according to Google Scholar. Sound impressive? Well... let me briefly talk about some of my
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I have always held the belief that the root cause for the current state of education is the quality (or rather the lack of it) of the school teachers at
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https://academic.oup.com/function/article/1/1/zqaa003/5851680 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32510172/  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7717147/ And voila!https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202101.0180/v1 SO many more
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What is saving?The number we "save" in our bank account out of the pay-check is just that - a number in a computerOur hope when we save is that the
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dear religious studies scholars who defend the field by pointing to anti-muslim, anti-semitic violence: this makes our field parasitic on those events. let's do better. just additional context here, the
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K Parasaran, 92 years old senior lawyer & an erudite Hindu scholar. His courtroom orations are often lectures in Hindu scriptures. He defended Ayyappa in Sabarimala case & Ramsetu earlier.
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The Little Voice in the EarYears ago, @CNN invited me to debate a liberal Bible scholar regarding the truthfulness of the Gospels in light of the recent rediscovery of a
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This is really, really dangerous.https://twitter.com/karenattiah/status/1288464078671949825 This push for a strong “white racial identity” comes from a really unfortunate misreading of the “I don’t see color, we’re all the same!
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Today marks three years since my friend and colleague Rahile Dawut disappeared into China's internment camps.Her only crime: being born a #Uyghur.Rahile is a highly respected scholar of Uyghur religious
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