#Academic

Dermot Feenan

dermotfeenan

I’m following up on this, reminded by the latest attacks on Professor Corinne Fowler (@corinne_fowler) and others in The Daily Mail and in other right-wing publications, and prompted by today’s

Milo Beckman

milobela

I just want to confirm that @farai's experience here is widespread - white editors squash stories about white supremacy.In 2017 @FiveThirtyEight greenlit a 3000 word feature on voter suppression from

enough is enough

EmilyGorcenski

This is a thread about how we need to do better than empty rhetoric.This is Anthime “Tim” Gionet, aka “Baked Alaska.” He is a known alt-right figure. On Jan 6

Dr. Simon ツ

goddeketal

1/ In this thread, I will talk about the principle of 'causality' and 'correlation' with respect to our immune system and the reputed #COVID19 pandemic and why we are on

Senior Oops Engineer

ReinH

Avdi is a great developer who I have learned a lot from, but I think he is exactly wrong here. A thread.https://twitter.com/avdi/status/1114181834353647616 A syntax error is an error, and errors

Kosmic Tonic, astrologers

Kosmic_Tonic

If you have a thick concentration of one element in your birth chart, you will probably notice a dearth of another. But subconsciously or consciously, it's also likely you'll be

Cécile Fromont

CecileFromont

So why do scholars sit on almost finished manuscripts instead of submitting them? And what does that tell us about the peer review evaluation system... A serious subthread to yesterday’s

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) A most unique man, and an American hero, Walter E.Williams died today. Born on March 31, 1936, Williams grew up without a father in the Philadelphia housing projects. His

corpse 🧟‍♀️ I punched your comfort character

zombiejerusalem

Tumblr was great at introducing social justice concepts to young people in an easily accessible non-academic format but the problem was that said young ppl were mostly introverted social outcasts

Katy Barnett

DrKatyBarnett

I just finished reading ‘Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science’ by @StuartJRitchie, an exploration of problems in scientific research. https://www.penguin.com.au/books/science-fictions-9781473564251 It s

Kim Tommy

KimTommy92

Performative allyship is one of those things that really gets to me. It’s been a while since I spoke of my own experiences with racism in academia, particularly in palaeosciences

Sam Sommers

samsommers

This may be an unpopular #AcademicTwitter opinion, but I think it’s problematic when we let undergrads call us by first name in class. It opens door to ambiguity and variability,

Anjana E Sharma

AJSharmaMD

Distraction from the news cycle: My favorite paper I've ever done is finally out, written with @MannZiva @UrmimalaSarkar!!! A thread...Recommendations From the Twitter Hashtag #DoctorsAreDickheads: Qualitative Analysishttps://www.jmir.o

Theo Morgan Lundie

TheoHML

The government has forgotten students, a thread.#forgottenstudents The only mention we get from the government is when we are used as scapegoats for hotspots in COVID-19 cases despite having been

Brandon Smith

brandon_d_smith

A thread on being a professional theologian in a Wikipedia & YouTube world:For 12 years I’ve studied Greek, Hebrew, biblical & systematic theology, ancient near east, second temple Judaism, historical

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

Today @ehaspel is out with a piece responding to my argument that support for children should be routed through allowances instead of care. He argues we should indeed earmark spending

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