#Sciences

Ileana Almog

IleanaAlmog

Pandemic-related school discourse illuminates the fact that public schooling is conceived for the adults' benefit, not the kids'.Thread, tagging fellow parents of young kids and folks with an interest in

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

A thread on the modelling and analysis used to suggest scenarios for what *could* happen if we do nothing. And commentary on this slide. The slides that were presented in

Berna Devezer

zerdeve

This preprint provides an important critical evaluation of metascientific approaches to replications and how the underlying motives differ from other approaches to across multiple fields. Should be a key reading

Paul Franz

Paul_Franz

This op-ed is a great example of the wrong-headed scientism of school-must-open-now advocates.A thread.https://www.vox.com/2021/2/15/22280763/kids-covid-vaccine-teachers-unions-schools-reopening-cdc The article starts with a gesture towards

Alex Bryant

alexbryant_

The anti-trans rhetoric masquerading as philosophical inquiry and political philosophy in our field is both intellectually vacant and manifestly harmful. From an academic perspective it is an embarrassment to the

Rethinking Economics India

rethinkecon_in

On #RethinkingEconomicsIndiaNetwork, we would like to give a huge shoutout to some of the most amazing economists who dared to explore the ‘unexplored’ territory of this vast field; through our

Bren

MomentsWithBren

Some scholarships to apply for if you are interested:1. Emile Boutmy Scholarship in FranceFr those looking to undertake a bachelor’s, master’s or PhD degree from the Science Po University in Paris.Application Deadline:

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Some people are super confused about RaTG13, one of the most closely related viruses to SARS-CoV-2, because of how sparse/disjointed its descriptions have been in interviews and papers. I'll try

India Wants To Know - Panel Quiz Show

IWTKQuiz

Shakuntala Devi is often described as "India's most famous woman mathematician". Her biopic led discussion like what does a mathematician do? Is mathematics all about performing massive computations? Or is

Dr. Warren Cardinal-McTeague

WCM_Botany

#LandAcknowledgements (or Territorial Acknowledgements) have come up quite a few times on Twitter and in person this week, so while it’s fresh I thought I’d share my perspective/practice in relation

el gato malo

boriquagato

critical race theory is, quite literally, weaponized stupidityit is the mistaking of arbitrary dogma for objective factit presumes that one aspect of culture (racism) is so powerful that it creates

vakibs

vakibs

In this thread, I will discuss how to translate the names of chemical compounds into Indian languages. As of now, the names are being copied from English, including the names

MMitchell

mmitchell_ai

"didn’t meet our bar for publication ... It ignored too much relevant research".He says of our paper, with over 128 cross-discipline citations. And so fires one of the authors. 2020's

Nothing Never Happens: A Radical Pedagogy Podcast

RadPedagogy

this is a thread about the new report on how yale university has decided to restructure is graduate programs in the humanities. here are two teasers from the final report,

Henrik Berglund

khberglund

Very happy to see “Opportunities as Artifacts and Entrepreneurship as Design” in print at AMR!Written with @Marouane_gbg and @yashmanso, I hope it will prove useful to scholars and (by extension)

Dr. Asatar Bair

asatarbair

Who is the working class? A thread on Marxism and class theory.In the wake of the election, accusations are going back and forth about which party is focused on the

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