#Reading

Have started recording mini-lectures for the big intro course this Fall. I actually really like PowerPoint's functionality for this. You can do video or just audio (I'm doing the latter,
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Just called parents back home in China, in tier 2 city. Said local 居委会 started to ask residents to prepare possible war between China and the US, such as tape
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Reading about exorcisms in Islam and it really drove home to me what makes Islam so thoroughly unappealing.Rather than explaining the processes and theology behind it, the entire article is
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“A Year of Siege: Politics of Annexation & Settler Colonialism in #Kashmir” First installment: Essays by Aditi Saraf & Omer AijaziEds. Ather Zia @aziakashmir, Mona Bhan @bhanbrogmo & meAssociation of
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There are so many laughable claims in that WSJ hitjob, but I'm going to focus on the first (of so many) things I learned from @juliaerin80 @triciaebarvia @TchKimPossible @nenagerman and
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#AcWriMo participants (current and would-be hopefuls): inspired by my friend @drpetra and others, I am going to share a #WritingTip per day over the course of the next 30 days
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A planet in another planet’s domicile or exaltation will be seen as an ally by the ruling planet. If it’s in another planet’s fall it’ll be seen as an enemy
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I thought I’d just quickly start with why I think I may have #ADHD. I’m keeping this separate from my main account for now as it might be a bit
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In spirit of humility and depoliticising Covid, here are things I’ve changed (and continue to change) my mind on:- Masks- School reopening- Importance of "luck" in between-country variations in severity-
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A thread:Dream transfer list for Roma this summer. With new funding and players to be sold we should have just north of 100 million. First up: Malang SarrI've talked about
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Tobias Figueiredo has received criticism in recent weeks, and rightly so.Below I will analyse the 2 goals he has given away from set pieces against Reading & Brentford. Along with
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// suicide--say "i" if school has ever made you suicidal or fucked up your health in some other way, i just want to see something i. way too many fucking
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Being stuck in remote teaching has me reminiscing about the good old times in physical classrooms, and I would like to share a story from early in my teaching career
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I think a lot about the "Tyranny of Structurelessness" -- the idea that, in groups that explicitly set out to abolish rules and hierarchies, even more unfair informal hierarchies tend
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How can I read academic literature quick(er)?Happy to share an academic #LifeHack I talked to my students about this, today, I thought others might find it interesting, too.I'll illustrate using
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I'm not an academic, I might be one day but for now my activism will be based on how I feel about my own personal experiences and the experiences of
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