#Vocabulary

StuckInTheMiddle

StuckIn48403550

I've been grumpy all day, so I've decided to be grumpy about education. A Thread. What is the purpose of school? Is it "developmental outcomes"? Children grow and develop whether

Brianna McHorse, PhD 🏳️‍🌈

fossilosophy

I get asked fairly often, usually by science PhD students, about transitioning from academia to data science. Here’s a thread of the things I say most often. Caveats: I

The Reading Ape

TheReadingApe

This is a really interesting question and, in essence, asks what reading comprehension actually is. Beck et al. (1997) argued that it has historically been viewed as the extraction of

Michael C. Frank

mcxfrank

On the "stats in psycholinguistics debate" (aka "back to ANOVA?"), I get the frustration. It's totally annoying to have to work to understand the vagaries of Stan rescaling and convergence

🇺🇸Mr. Wednesday

MrWednesday11

1) HOW TO RESISTGo out and buy this book now. It's a handy short field manual on what to watch for an how to counter would be dictators. This thread

🦎 Alex 🚫

AlexAlicit

A thread on why the word "dysphoria" is a cop-out and a laughable concept that has no solid definition. How it is simply an excuse and often used to

zev handel

ZevHandel

I like thinking about familiar things that turn out to have surprising back stories. The modern Chinese second-person singular pronoun 你 (Mandarin nǐ, Cantonese nei5 or lei5) is one of

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ademrudin

i am reading about the rocky flats nuclear weapons plant and these "key milestones" give you a taste of what is to come the tl;dr is they made plutonium "pits"

Mangy Jay

magi_jay

I'm not sure that I agree with all of the framing in this document, but the underlying ideas are well-founded. research indicates that students who are ESL &/or are "non-standard"

Kayla Ritter Rickels (she/her)

KRitterRickels

My Final Week Farewell Reflection | A Thread:When you leave a position, you sure hope that you leave the work better than you found it. There's been so much progress

schmoo

samuel_ernest

I think a lot about the relationship between theology and religious studies and the subjects we study and the complexities of a field like theology where you are supposed to

Let Toys Be Toys

LetToysBeToys

How childhood gender-stereotyping damages boys: a THREAD for #InternationalMensDay In recent years, the toy industry has heavily segregated toys for boys & girls with the latter becoming VERY pink #InternationalMensDay

Chad Pergram

ChadPergram

1) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Filibuster staying in the Senate – and why “Budget Reconciliation” is the Democrats’ Next Parliamentary Gambit 2) Pay close attention to the language of

Elin Videvall

ElinVidevall

The word #Microbiome is derived from the word "biome", i.e. a distinct environmental habitat, in which microbes occupy and are part of. A Microbiome is therefore a spatially distinct environment

Donald Norman

dnld_nrmn

Trumpism has always been deeply and darkly spiritual. It has animated a segment of people prone to religious belief—their Christianity is an open question to me—to become their worst selves.

Adrian Lee Oliver

AdrianLeeOliver

Thread: 15 years ago, the realization that influenced all of my intellectual life was witnessing how incompetent people usually are at solving problems, despite having top-flight education from top-tier universities.

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