#Academic

DR. Waitman Wade Beorn (Amputate to heal)

waitmanb

[Thread] I've been inspired by a couple things this week to share a piece of my current book project on the Janowska concentration camp outside of Lviv, Ukraine.In particular, it

Max Ajl

maxajl

To take a slight different tack than the legitimate dismissal of China as a settler-colonial state ... this has been building up for decades now in academia. How? A very

Michael J. Kane

Kane_WMC_Lab

Brief thread (1/n): New paper by Grice & colleagues, who've been making this simple but profound point for several years: It's theoretically informative to analyze/report how many Ss show the

josh grubbs

JoshuaGrubbsPhD

Just saw that a commentary I wrote is now live.The original paper (Lewczuk et al., 2020) is a really interesting work that was actually a pre-registered replication of a previous

Spinoza's rose

Spinozasrose

HIstory lesson: Hebrew press report on 14 November 1929, on 1929 Hebron and Zafed massacres of Jews by Palestinians:https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/dhy/1929/11/14/01/article/17?&srpos=3&dliv=none&e=-------he-20--1--img-txIN

Hallie Rubenhold

HallieRubenhold

The way we frame true crime stories reflects the values of our own society, as much as the period in which a murder took place. Dr Crippen brutally murdered his

Johanna Winant

johannawinant

On another thread I was chatting with some of you about essay prompts, and how I don't give them. I was asked for more detail, so here it is --

Andy Matuschak

andy_matuschak

I’m fascinated by experiments using quadratic funding to provision public goods (good overview from @mattsclancy: https://mattsclancy.substack.com/p/optimal-kickstarter). Could this mechanism fund research—and in particular, tools for t

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

Let me show you why this white-centric hyperbolic fear is mired in white supremacy.First of all, the notion that being more inclusive renders black people as “other” fails to recognize

Mattie Bowen

mattieebowen

Grad school app season is (mostly) over, and since academic twitter is going nuts about the idea of paying research assistants $15/hr...Let's talk about how expensive it is to be

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

Boris Johnson has just talked about a massive expansion of rapid result home testing kits which seem to be the saliva tests made by Innova.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/28/10-of-englands-population-could-be-tested-for-covid-19-

Oran Doyle

oran_doyle

I think this is a correct read of the situation. I also think it is positive that Gov will not go against AG advice. Will try to explain why 1/https://twitter.com/conorucclaw/status/1350228482387832832

christine 🦉// advertising worker yachi kin

bokkuatsu

Part love letter to HQ, part analysis, part brainrot shitpost, As I looked back and rewatched the anime and reread the manga, I got to (over)thinking:Colors are meant to evoke

Andrew Leach

andrew_leach

Government at the speed of business? Our #ableg "business" is facing a crisis, the information system designed to provide key information to decision-makers has been broken for weeks, a new

Enrique 🎧🐈

Garou_Hidalgo

John Pilger went to China, saw that everything looks identical to a capitalist nation, and asked the Chinese if China is capitalist.This response is very good. https://twitter.com/Garou_Hidalgo/status/1259265278204153857 Chinese Communists

Heather Campbell

HeatherC_YYC

I was prevented from saying all the things that needed to be said in relation to these incidents. I’m a co-chair of AARAC, and although I have the ability to

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