#Academic

I know that getting to the stage of negotiation is already a function of winning the lottery but I’m happy to talk candidly w/anyone abt this who is in the
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An image of @BarackObama getting upsampled into a white guy is floating around because it illustrates racial bias in #MachineLearning. Just in case you think it isn't real, it is,
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Ummmmmmmmm...https://twitter.com/thebookseller/status/1277903626204315649 You know what? I wanna talk about this a little more. (I know, I know, big shock. But.) I am a distressingly fast writer. I write like a college
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This If you work for a news or arts publication, and you want to cover a broader range of local games in Australia and NZ, here is a thread of
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1/9 I know that sometimes it's easy to be a bit flippant with the discourse around gender ID stuff, eg w/some of the dumb pronoun points, but this really is
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The polyomavirus SIMIAN VIRUS 40 (SV40) is a known oncogenic DNA virus which induces primary brain and bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma, and lymphomas in laboratory animals.A thread on induced illness,
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Thread on the Life and works of Dr. Richard L. Thompson sir (Feb. 4, 1947–Sept. 18, 2008), also known as Sadaputa dasa. Though he was related to ISKCON but he
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With the beginning of the academic year, senior residents find themselves in a teaching role for procedures. Seniors, make sure you discuss these things with your intern to set yourselves
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Let’s look at the word PANDEMIC itself.The suffix ‘-ic’ in English is an adjective suffix:ANGELIC: having the qualities of an angelCUBIC: having the characteristics of a cubePROBLEMATIC: posing a problemhttps://www.merriam-webster.com
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1/ Zoom academia may have intriguing possibilities I hadn't thought about. I tuned into #SHEAR2020 out of pure curiosity. I would never have entered that conference IRL. I am sure
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THREAD: In honour of the #ScholarStrike + #ScholarStrikeCanada we must talk about how sex work is studied and how sex workers in academia - specifically *Black sex workers* in academia
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I thought about the blog post by @claudia_sahm on the state of economics for a while. If you haven't read it yet, here it is: https://twitter.com/Claudia_Sahm/status/1288279714247913472. 1/ She describes an
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Just under the wire again, but I continue my annual tradition -- my 10 favorite economics papers published in 2020, ordered alphabetically[Was pretty tough this year; might have to do
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Last night, I read this deeply saddening and enraging report about Princeton Classics Professor Joshua Katz and the way he, in various positions of power at the uni, appears to
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If you read @SJAMcBride 's article this morning and you're confused, have a gander at this thread, Richard's thread and the conversation between Richard and Anurag.https://twitter.com/governmentalite/status/1283395262715764736 F
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Today, the #JPMCInstitute released a new insight documenting the impact of supplemental UI benefits on job finding, spending, and saving of jobless workers btwn April-July 2020. We find little evidence
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