#Academia

Simcha Gross

Simcha_Gross

A thread on Jewish magical recipe books, or grimoires, from late antiquity. Ancient and Medieval Jews possessed a variety of handbooks to harness the supernatural. 1 These include astrological handbooks

Brianna McHorse, PhD 🏳️‍🌈

fossilosophy

I get asked fairly often, usually by science PhD students, about transitioning from academia to data science. Here’s a thread of the things I say most often. Caveats: I

Vermanubis

Vermanubis

I think one of the greatest qualities of early game music (and music that follows it that tradition) was blithe irreverence for musical convention. Is this interval ok? Doesn't matter.

Laura Bronner

laurabronner

Interesting thread on what academics can take away from FiveThirtyEight viz. I've learned SO MUCH about viz from our amazing team. Some of the lessons that stuck with me:https://twitter.com/Kunkakom/status/1341062966397923328 1.

Jay Shelat

jshelat1

American exceptionalism is wild on the anniversary of 9/11. The attacks were not unprovoked. 9/11 was a tragedy, certainly, but it wasn't America's tragedy alone. We gotta decenter the US

Rachel Emas

DrRachelEmas

Regarding equity issues in public administration & policy, there are so many to learn from. Leading convos on equity in PA are @VCUWilderDean, @MaryGuy15, @JadeBerryJames, @SheRambl, & @urbanrambl_. From them,

Dr. Urso

richardursomd

How does it makes sense that the CDC, the FDA and the NIH which saw exactly zero patients for the year, are saying not to treat covid prior to hospitalization.

Michael Veale

mikarv

Important read @EmmaLBriant, calling out many significant methodological flaws w/ the Oxford Internet Institute’s (almost entirely non-peer reviewed) Computational Propaganda project. It’s not just her — its controversy within the

SciELO

RedeSciELO

Interested in #preprints? Here’s what our recent survey told us about perceptions of benefits & concerns among stakeholders (librarians, journalists, funders, research administrators, students and more). 546 responses were received,

Qaali Hussein, MD, FACS

QaaliHussein1

For my chief year grand rounds presentation, a mentor suggested that I use it as an opportunity to share my experience going through surgery training and having children. He suggested

Sonnet the Hedgehog

germyradin

This year I would like to start working with publishing companies to coach touring writers on performance. I’ve been acting for 25 years, teaching acting for 5, writing poems for

Bard

AlbionBard

The Right needs to stop assuming that, before the modern world, there was a spirit of universal objectivity, reason, rationality, neutrality, unbiased reporting, etc., in politics, academia, and media. It's

Hunter B Peterman

JordanBPeterman

Trump’s radical departure from the fundamental issues on which he ran in 2016 have left him helpless in the face of this onslaught. He failed to build an effective border

Florence of Deira

FlorenceHRS

I know exactly who needs to hear this. Academics. *Clears throat*: checking and writing emails is work, thinking about your research is work, planning and delivering outreach is work,

Jewish on Campus

JewishonCampus_

Thread: 1/ Dear Institutions of Higher Learning, 2/ We are told to ignore the swastikas drawn on the class whiteboards, the neo-Nazi Zoombombing, the vandalized religious spaces and the mezuzot

Ioana A. Cristea

IoanaA_Cristea

Thread rant about #hiring #promotion, #tenure in the academia #AcademicTwitter. Until recently I worked in a LMIC (Romania) university where I welcomed ANY quantitative criteria, number of publications, impact factor,

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