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Reading for Meaning (A Thread)You were taught how to read aloud as a child, but you were probably never taught to read for meaning. Reading for meaning means reading things

Melanie Sage 💻👨‍👧‍👦

melaniesage

People ask me, how do you use #AcademicTwitter in a way that results in friendships, presentations, publications, grants, etc? Networking here is a lot like elsewhere, but I do have

I_was_a_cat

AssezAimable

The reaction from friends and acquaintances when they ask "what is your daughter studying?” is always amusing.Art, she’s studying art.They give me an empathetic look and some condolences. It dawned

erica robles-anderson

fstflofscholars

Fewer classes per student. Collaborative teaching. 3-4 week courses. Class sizes of 12. 2 instructors. Run it 4x per semester. Online or hybrid. High touch. Emphasize community aspect of academic

Kirsty Rolfe

avoiding_bears

I am not going to get involved in Discourse but... how do you not know about research assistants in academia and also can people stop being like postdocs only do

Aaditya Thackeray

AUThackeray

The decision of the HRD Ministry of Union Govt, and the UGC is absolutely absurd and probably from an alternate universe. I urge UGC to not make this a silly

Karlo Basta

KarloBasta1

1/ I'm retweeting this because it resonates with thoughts I’ve been having over the past few days about how class and social privilege play out in academia. And especially the

Abigail Thorn

PhilosophyTube

In case anyone needs it, here's the system I used to come top of my year when I did my philosophy degree! 1/6 Do the Week 1 reading in Freshers'

Walter M Chesnut

Parsifaler

1) FURTHER REFINEMENT: Thank you for bearing with me. This is difficult.HUMAN ACETYLCHOLINE DEFICIENCY DISEASESARS-CoV-2 induces a progressive (fatal?) autoimmune disease which destroys Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors. The disease is indu

Arunesh Mathur

aruneshmathur

In a new paper, @jonathanmayer, Mihir Kshirsagar, and I investigate a question that has been challenging researchers and policymakers: what makes a dark pattern, well, "dark"? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.04843.pdf [thread] There

evidenceBase

evidenceBase_IM

Results from @WomenSpinouts 70% of UK University Spinouts are from @RussellGroup institutions13% of Spinouts have a woman on their founding team80% of Spinouts have all-men teamsRoyal College of Art has

Allum Bokhari

LibertarianBlue

"Global elites" is a misunderstood term. They aren't primarily the politicians. They're the NGOs, corporations, media conglomerates, academic institutions, pressure groups and bureaucrats that shape the views and policies

Stephanie B Wheeler

StephWheelerUNC

A week before my entire household contracted #COVID-19, I asked in a departmental leadership mtg why we weren’t talking about #burnout at all - the agenda was dominated by stressful

Adam Kranz

adam_kranz

A proper framing of "design" in terms of cultural evolution is primarily an academic question, but it also has political implications.https://twitter.com/adam_kranz/status/1271921000695898119 As @Evolving_Moloch summarizes in this

Josh Siepel

JoshSiepel

Delighted our @CreativePEC systematic literature review of creative clusters, is now out: https://bit.ly/32d7IhI We read 355 relevant academic papers on creative clusters! A quick thread on our findings, and how

Christa Marie

HeyChristaMarie

Can we talk about how anxious behaviors are often rewarded in academic/professional settings?I'm consistently early. I double check everything. I invest a lot of time into planning ahead.It looks like

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