#Academia

Sophie Ross

sophierossuk

@SMcDonaldFCO's reflections on the diversity of today's @foreignoffice inspired me to share the story of Sir Horace Phillips, whose autobiography I have been reading. He was the first British Jewish

Brendan Keogh

BRKeogh

(Thread) Academic labour is notoriously hard to measure. I have tried to rectify this over the last few years by keeping close track of how many hours I work, and

Courtney Craven

CyclopediaBrain

I *may* have mentioned that I'm reading The Person You Mean to Be by @DollyChugh? A few times, maybe? But I've been thinking a lot about the idea of working

Mina Park

meenrz

Many @ubcspph faculty have signed this letter in response to the news released by @jarmstrongbc and @GlobalBC about holiday travel to #Hawaii by our director, Prof Peter Berman. It has

Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

Nick_Carmody

There's an interplay between "collective narcissism" & "American Exceptionalism" that creates resistance to learning. Learning requires voluntary intellectual subordination: an admission the "teacher" k

Penguin 🐧

DaPixelPenguin

If you’re not convinced to watch Gintama, or you’re burned out from hearing it so much on Twitter, here’s a thread to get you motivated to watch it. What is

C Cawley

RejectIdeology

The real danger in politics now is not fake news but 'fake facts'. Media, state sector, the civil service and politics are dominated by Arts Graduates imbued with the denial

Pen #ACAB #BLM

KasHalfFull

A @khanacademy SmartHistory video just came up in my YouTube recommended. I watched EVERY single one of those back in 2013 so now I’m rewatching them and reliving childhood memories.

Alex Holcombe

ceptional

Peer reviews are, slowly, becoming more portable. A limited number of publishers are allowing authors to take reviews (typically received with a rejection letter) from one journal to another. I

Eric Walter MD🌹🚴💊

Grateful_Doc

A few thoughts on the recent controversy surrounding @norman_c_wang, his paper opposing affirmative action in academia, and what I see as a double standard in some views I've seen shared

Michael Lin, PhD-MD

michaelzlin

Fellow academics, when are we going to start fixing our urgent structural problems that strain family bonds and present ongoing barriers to diversifying our educational and scientific leadership? You wonder,

Rod Graham

roderickgraham

***We may be thinking about speech - #freespeech and #hatespeech in an analog, retrograde way. Here is a very long thread that I am too lazy to turn into an

Axel Folio, PhD, Mad Marxist beyond Thunderdome

ISASaxonists

THREAD: Let’s talk about the #classstruggle &racism. When we discuss #racism, things can be uncomfortable. 1 thing that comes up in discussions about racism is: “what abt class?” #medievaltwitter #shakerace

evidenceBase

evidenceBase_IM

Results from @WomenSpinouts 70% of UK University Spinouts are from @RussellGroup institutions13% of Spinouts have a woman on their founding team80% of Spinouts have all-men teamsRoyal College of Art has

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

Adam Kranz

adam_kranz

A proper framing of "design" in terms of cultural evolution is primarily an academic question, but it also has political implications.https://twitter.com/adam_kranz/status/1271921000695898119 As @Evolving_Moloch summarizes in this

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