#Berkeley

This week I learned about ME/CFS when I sent a 2-line email to my PhD advisor Joachim Hermisson. Me: “Hope you & your family are well. Could you send me
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There's pages and pages of fun on fast trains in our new report. But you're a busy person! Here are some highlights for you in a THREAD. If it whets
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The Gainesville Sun is running a disparaging piece on me in tomorrow's print edition. This thread summarizes my response, or you can read the whole thing with links to references
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10 facts you might not know about Katherine Esau (pronounced EE-saw), the grande dame of botany, plant anatomy and phloem (1/n) 1. She was born in the Russian
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Philosophers in hell, a potentially colloborative thread: Timothy Williamson: is an envatted brain. Periodically reminded of this, only to forget it shortly afterwards. Hilary Putnam: exiled to twin earth, forever
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I analyzed CDCR's plan to release prisoners and #StopSanQuentinOutbreak. Thread.https://www.hadaraviram.com/2020/07/11/unpacking-cdcrs-covid-19-release-plan/ The plan feels like an effort to navigate btwn curbing the pandemic and avoidi
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Another tiresome and utterly predictable jeremiad about the history profession that misses the innovation that has remade the field in recent decades.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-31/max-hastings-u-s-universities-declar
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Penti Linkola gained notoriety for his refusal to accept the logically fallacious though widely-held belief that anyone who is concerned about ecological overshoot must adopt a completely vegan diet or
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1) Does racism and bigotry increase during economic downturns, and decrease during good times? The belief that racism and economics are deeply connected, and that broad economic solutions can dissolve
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The way the Right has seized on "postmodernism" in "academia" as this massive... thing... is so dissonant with my experiences as an academic. I learned about various postmodern/poststructural theories, foolishly
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Remembering Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha on his martyrdom day today. Kartar Singh was born in Sarabha, Ludhiana in 1896. He was the only son of his parents. Shaheed Bhagat Singh
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1/15 Hello! I’m a PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley, finishing up my thesis on deindustrialisation & its impact on communities across the UK. Motherwell had been at the centre of
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Thread: How academia manufactures consent and shapes students’ and scholars’ thinking 1/xI have spent most of my professional life in academia (apart from a five yr stint running a non-profit,
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This month, in honor of Black History Month, we wanted to highlight 17 Black chemists you might have missed in class: Winifred Burks-Houck was an environmental organic chemist and the
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I have read @JesseJenkins's piece, @JulianSpector's write up of it. Having nerded out on this topic for several years now I just can't let this one go both b/c I
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Ten @IllinoisStateU Redbirds that are perfect candidates after whom to name Watterson Towers' houses, a thread: Dr. George Pruitt '68, M.S. '70, L.H.D. '94: @ISU_BSU's first president, and the president
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