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Thread rant about #hiring #promotion, #tenure in the academia #AcademicTwitter. Until recently I worked in a LMIC (Romania) university where I welcomed ANY quantitative criteria, number of publications, impact factor,
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I’ve been delighted to see the sudden surge in support for mandatory hotel quarantine (MHQ) in Ireland, with the aim of achieving zero covid. While it is, on balance, the
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False flag at capitol. Stay tuned I will do my best to describe the false flag in DC. From my own eyewitness accounts (being at the part in the Capitol
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So back in 1999, I'm a sophomore at Syracuse, and @davelevinthal assigns me a story for the @dailyorange on why the World Wrestling Federation can't hold a PPV-level show at
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My colleague @hazelcough was in charge of some pretty major changes to the Stripe Payments API. I really, really love the writeup; it touches on how we matured in our
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I just saw a video that has been circulating and it broke my heart. A foster mom recorded a deaf, language-deprived six-year-old girl struggling to communicate one thing. She wanted
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One of the really sick things that's developed within the culture over the last 10 years is the progressive disciplinarian obsession with 'learning' via humiliating defeat in order for ppl
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(1/n) On met régulièrement en avant les comparaisons internationales pour dénoncer l’excès de dépense publique en France. Il est vrai que le différentiel est particulièrement fort avec l’Allemagne. Mais comment
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Tech things to consider when delivering online teaching:1. Can your audience access it?Is there a simple link to access and does everyone have it?What will you do about last minute
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1/ Here’s a story for you. When we moved to England from Peru, it took my dad (in his 50s at the time) years to speak English AND feel comfortable
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hey so sometimes I don't feel like doing anything and I like to use an #ADHD hack I call the 'reverse pomodoro'. I'm sure I didn't invent this & many
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The reasons why your anti-MX7 tweets don’t make sense. A thread Meet the solo stars of 2020. The biggest international successes have come from soloists who are also in groups.
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1/ Recall acting sec Chris Miller’s heartfelt thank you to Pence, the day the Guardians name for @US_SpaceCom was announced? Miller, a former intell green beret, was visibly moved. LOOK
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There's some bizarre analysis floating around that everything is peachy. No, it's not. Infection is spreading to the elderly and if things don't change pronto, we're going to be back
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This has gone too far, and I'm not hiding anymore.It's been 48 hours since the attacks by adamcy_'s community happened on our Twitch channel. I don't even care about myself
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My journey to Islam - a thread (very long thread, maybe get a cup of tea first) I was raised a Roman Catholic. My dad wasn’t really into religion, my
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