#Academia

Karen Hao

_KarenHao

Ok a bunch of people have been in my replies asking, "Are you arguing that we should stop developing AI?" "Are you saying we should be Luddites?"No, I'm not at

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NomeDaBarbarian

"Is a virus alive?""Is Pluto a planet?""Is Louisiana Creole a language?"Y'allI don't think you understand exactly how many conversations in Academia are just "Is a hotdog a sandwich" for peopl

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

The most powerful pic in the Internet now!Aryan invasion theory has been punctured by the Rig Veda, Harappan archaeology & Saraswathy hydrology. But here is the DEADLIEST blow from Genetics!The

Isra Black

israblack

Teaching has finished for T1 this year (in terms of contact—a lot of marking to do). It's been ridiculously hard. Thanks to our students for the bright spots. And colleagues

AutisticSciencePerson

AutSciPerson

Helping with accessibility and disability activism is a lot like academia. People say that the more you learn, the less you think you know.Well, the more that you do within

Nicolette D'Angelo

nicohhhlette

On what “burn it all down” really means, where it comes from, and why the predominant reactions to Sarah Bond’s original tweet from academics are willfully ignorant and reactionary. Thread.

Heidi Tiedemann Darroch

DarrochHeidi

The question from students about what courses I'm teaching in the fall when I have no response. This year's better than some--good backup plans--but it's also absurd and sad that

David Hirsh

DavidHirsh

[thread about antisemitism and sociology]People are calling on the @BristolUni to do something about its antisemitic Sociology professor. Quite right. But what about The School for Policy Studies itself at

Joe Pilot, MD

JoeSilverman7

Moreover, they *want* him to die. You think maybe I’m being extreme? Hyperbolic? Ok, let me prove my point.Let’s start with a man who’s simultaneously the creepiest and most honest

hydrocarbon woman.... NOT!

HCWoman

Working on power2X in academia, I heard this a lot: with more RES deployment, we will have abundant clean electricity, it will cost nothing and we could do all these

Doug~Lass🌲MacArthur

Momewraths

Remember all those years American schoolchildren had to take cover under desks for fear of bring murdered by nuclear attack from the Soviet Union?If only someone had warned us about

Peter Murray-Rust

petermurrayrust

1/ we are adding Python3 to our tools in the OpenVirus project https://github.com/petermr/openvirus . NOT abandoning Java (and the help that @RemkoPopma 's picocli has given us ). But I

Kelly Mistry

TactileAlchemy

I have been debating if adding my voice to the BA/SB narrative mix would be valuable. After a lot of reflection, I decided to share my story - I hope

The Rude Pundit

rudepundit

You've probably seen the screenshot of the sexist first paragraph of that wretched shitpile of a "column" in the WSJ by Prof. (not Dr.) Joseph Epstein. The whole thing is

Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR

yesnicksearcy

Lots of upset Hollywood Stalinists calling my representatives and demanding to know why they still represent me.This is how they work, people. But since I'm already rich, they can't hurt

Jennifer Polk, PhD

FromPhDtoLife

If you'll be on the job market, for any job, there are a bunch of important things to do beforehand.In academia we don't think too much about them. When it

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