#Academic

Very much appreciate top brass at Swedish universities holding the line on freedom of speech, in light of recent campaigns of targeted harassment of faculty and staff. /1 The Chancellor
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it's my last day being paid as a postdoc so I've got some academic bridges to burn. THREAD: 1. seminar snack lines (possibly extinct but just in case): one cookie
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To understand economic phenomena we must analyse human action, rather than material objects and their properties.Inanimate objects are dead matter. It is human reason shaping humans’ actions that rearranges matter
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These articles will have a profound effect on most people but is this the truth? What can you do to protect your brain from this kind of damage? https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackierocheleau/2021/01/29/researchers-are-tracking-covid-19s-long
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Round-up of some excellent #OpenScience, #ResearchIntegrity and #ResearchCulture pieces that came out in 2020 “The COVID-19 response illustrates that traditional academic reward structures and metrics do not reflect crucial
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Powerful to re-read now Sylvia Wynter's "No Humans Involved" (written in 1992 in the wake of Rodney King), not just to ponder what has & has not changed, but also
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Our relationship with the animals has always been pivotal to the Jurassic franchise. JP was a story of our ignorance. The real terrors, the Velociraptors, were criminally abused animals. Kept
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To students considering an Econ PhD: this is why the PhD program rank matters. It shouldn't, but it does.Departments *will not* hire you if your degree is from the "wrong
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I am sick and tired of of people who proclaim anti-renewable nonsense as fact and get away with it.I think @mattwridley misunderstands @borisjohnson's green agenda on all 10 points but
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I am so frustrated by the conversation around the government’s attempt to use the COVID economic crisis to engineer the subjects chosen at degree level. Students get two significant pieces
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This week @evolvingseas highlights Black scientists in #MarineBiology #Evolution & #Ecology. Discover exciting research & potential collaborators/mentors, diversify syllabi, identify award nominees & more. Join discussion w/ ret
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In a week of high drama in Istanbul centred around Boğaziçi University - a feeder institution to the countries business, academic & political elite - allegations of students blacklisting other
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Jesus: Truly, I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom
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This correlates with the second post How One Man Conned the BeltwayThe billion-dollar “Black Budget” demands secrecy. That made it a perfect target.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/sunday/garrison-courtney-spies-contracts.html
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a series of tweets about taylor’s storytelling were posted that outlined the idea that writing about love saving you from trauma is something she should leave behind. the tweets further
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I watch #StartUp due to curiosity of how much StartUp and Technology world are incorporated into the story. Turn out this work is also a social commentary hidden in a
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