#Academic

Starting January 1st, I'll be on an 80% leave from my academic position at Georgia Tech.I had to take this leave for personal reasons. You can read more about it
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Highlights of #MyBMCEducationBudget - A ThreadDuring the pandemic, our Virtual Training Centre teachers uploaded pre-recorded lessons on 40 YouTube channels in Marathi, Hindi, Urdu & English for Std. I to
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Alison Phipps suggests that women who think that men who commit sexual violence should go to prison, ideally for a long time, are “calling the manager” - in other words,
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Sigh. Where to begin?In our longitudinal study we showed that w each additional same gender mentor students had 2x greater chance of staying in the geosciences...But then again we didn't
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so, just a note about sea lions and why they suck. the sea lion claim is always that you have to prove thing x to talk about thing x or
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One of the authors of the Policy Exchange report on academic free speech thinks it is "ridiculous" to expect him to accurately portray an incident at Cardiff University in his
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The worst part of the Nate Silvery nonsense today is that every epidemiologist, especially every infectious disease epidemiologist, is exhausted right now. They’ve been worried and overworked since January. Everything
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Inspired by a conversation with @MelissaKrug1 , a thread: things nobody taught me about academic publishing in grad school. (And please add your own tips!) 1. Desk rejections are almost
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On occasion, folk who don’t agree with me & don’t know me take aim at my profession & suggest I don’t work, or don’t have a (proper) job. Not everyone
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The BPA are saddened to hear about the threat of cuts to academic jobs in the arts & humanities at Roehampton University. We encourage you to sign the open letter
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Regarding the FDA letter to revoke the EUA/HCQ for COVID, it was partially based on the drugs clinical pharmacology/dosinghttps://www.fda.gov/media/138945/downloadFDA concludes that current dosing would produce concentration well below EC50
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This is a GREAT listen for re: GCs doing a PhD. Great perspectives from some fantastic GC-researchers. One thing though is that they are all tenure-track academics. That is one
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Do we really publish too much?I think we do.Can we stop publishing too much?I'm afraid we -- as in, all scholars worldwide -- cannot.Why? A personal https://twitter.com/pardoguerra/status/1361775836882370560 To be clear,
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Had a chat today with my longest pal. We did our PhDs together in the 80s. I had a career in biomedical R&D, latterly founding a U.K. biotech. My friend
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It’s really academic at this point, but Trump’s veto bargaining strategy on the Omnibus/COVID bill is both a masterclass in how not to use the powers of the POTUS to
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A few thoughts about transfer in light of Covid-19:It is simply not the case that any scores exist within primary schools to take the place of transfer this year. Primary
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