#Academics

Priyamvada Gopal

PriyamvadaGopal

So the news from Cambridge, which someone asked me to comment on, is beyond tedious. A government-ordered regulation suppressing protest (under the guise of free speech) has been pushed through

Sana Saeed

SanaSaeed

I'm glad the NYT finally acknowledged and issued a "correction" for the abysmal ethical and journalistic mess that was Rukmini Callimachi's 'Caliphate' series. It is not, however, enough. The series

Discourse Hacker

Shudraism

A friend of mine, a college prof. learns from sources that his mentor, a university prof., has been offered a powerful admin position by BJP. The prof's dad is a

Doug Gay

DougGay

A pdf of Seán Patrick Griffin's report for the Labour Party (Corbyn/Leonard era) 'Remaking The British State' is available here. A real mixed bag it is - predictably it is

/'ɛstɛr 'sɛnɛʃ/

eszter_szenes

Important thread about just how discriminatory academia's international mobility requirement is: it disadvantages so many talented people, but most often (as usual), women with carer responsibilities.https://twitter.com/caffeinatedkrys/

Taylor Spears

tcspears

I don't think people grasp how much Covid-19 is accelerating a pre-existing trend towards deglobalization. The speed of this change has acute impacts on people with family arrangements that were

Markus Eichhorn

markus_eichhorn

Fraggle Rock as a metaphor for academia: a thread The dynamics of the Fraggle Rock universe revolve around the interactions between Fraggles, Doozers, Gorgs and Silly Creatures. Each has

Allie Beth Stuckey

conservmillen

What we desperately need is more people willing to say no. A thread We need people in HR who will say no to pointless woke policies. We need companies that

Steve Schmidt

SteveSchmidtSES

I’m straight Seb. I have a gay sister and lots of people in the LGBTQ community that I love. You hate them. That is why you are affiliated with a

STARSurg

STARSurgUK

1/9 In 2020, it shouldn't need to be said that #blacklivesmatter , but it absolutely does. Racism & the systems perpetuating it continue to affect Black #medstudents and doctors in

Krystal Vasquez

caffeinatedkrys

I'm frustrated today, so please humor me with this rant. Why does academia/STEM assume I'm able to pick up my life and move to whatever state or country for a

Aimee Surprenant

sgsdean

My former student (now Asst. Prof.) is Blind. He did all the ‘content’ easily-learned to program in Python & R, did research, analzyed data, wrote papers. But, when it comes

Maya Forstater

MForstater

A lot of evidence was published by @Commonswomequ Its worth reading the additional evidence of @Docstockk Rosa Freedman and @ProfAliceS side by side with @alexsharpe64 They both talk about the

Timothy J Lombardo

TimLombard0

The 1776 Report is nothing more than propaganda and bad history. But here's one thing I haven't seen anyone say about it yet: students are going to hate it. 1/

Emma Louise Backe

EmmaLouiseBacke

I’ve recently sat in on a lot of admin meetings in my department that weren’t run well. Reminder that this is a skill we don’t learned as academics & we’re

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

So @amitkgupta84 heard me claiming that Academe, Journalism, Big Tech and Entertainment are the four areas that have become both the most bizarrely ideologically intolerant *and* constitute our traditional sense-making

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