#Academics

Aditya Dasgupta

_adasgupta

It seems that the rationale that this antipoverty intervention conducted among the "ultrapoor" with a proselytizing religious organization in the Philippines is OK because: i) it was invitation-based; ii) the

Mike Madrid

madrid_mike

A quick note on Latino voters: Latinos are a notoriously late deciding vote. We are also challenging to poll because sample sizes often aren’t big enough to accurately reflect voter

Claire Lehmann

clairlemon

Some people seem to think that "higher education" is the only way one ever gets exposed to great literature, art, philosophy, psychology & science. Now we have the internet, we

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

I want to summarize a recent article by Dave Wilton that uses linguistic corpus analysis to see how the term "Anglo-Saxon" is used generally across the world. Spoiler: it's primarily

Jeff Pearce

jeffpropulsion

I think at least 3 times today I've seen posts or articles claiming "The Ethiopian empire was built in the second half of the 19th century." Just because you

DNLee

DNLee5

A Dear Colleague Letter to White Women Scientists/Academics, from a Black Woman Scientist/Academicaka. Come in and sit down, I have something I’ve been meaning to tell you So.....(long pause, deep

Dr. Sarah T. Roberts

ubiquity75

I’m just a simple unfrozen caveman academic/non-lawyer, but I get confused by demands for “transparency” (on nebulous 1st Amendment grounds) that never take the analysis to its logical extent: demanding

Michael Luchen

mluchen

Over the holidays, I started reading “How to Take Smart Notes.”https://www.amazon.com/How-Take-Smart-Notes-Nonfiction-ebook/dp/B06WVYW33YAs someone who loves reading but is often aimlessly highlighting books only to never turn to them a

Tamar Whyte

tamar_whyte

I’m interested in what #MadTwitter thinks of this. A few of us #LXPs had been wanting to work with @NHSEngland on a survivor led response. I was interested in this

Prof Ellen Townsend #StopMassTesting

ProfETownsend

1/ A thread for all parents and caregivers about the dangers of mass testing and the continued neglect of young people in this crisis. 2/ Young people have been neglected

Christian Goebel

Chri5tianGoebel

Current developments have implications on China-related research that go far beyond the self-censorship debate that had people at their throats a couple of months ago. Then, the stakes were losing

Sofia Akel

sofiaakel

'Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb' on Netflix documents the all-Egyptian archaeological group exploring the history of the Saqqara necropolis.This documentary brought to the fore what it means to decolonise research

Guy Emerson Mount

GuyEmersonMount

Poor little Dinesh. Just as wrong & confused as ever. Activists HAVE been targeting the slaveholding legacy of Douglas for years at the University of Chicago (a place he founded

BenjaminThomasWhite

rain_later

One thing that's very clear from the @UKRI_News report on Covid-19 extensions for doctoral researchers is how few they actually spoke to (see p7). They did *not* survey all funded

punkacademic

punk_academic

Lots of stuff on academic freedom today - more precisely lack thereof - but this part of the govt letter was always implied in the powers granted to OfS.Remember being

Eoin Daly

eoinmauricedaly

consensus would be better, but it's not essential. There's a choice to be made between a flawed constitutional process on the one hand, on the other, impunity for a leading

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