#University

Dr Ashish A Malik

ashish_a_malik

Today Jim Prosser retires from an active career. Thread.His work is well known but just wanted to highlight some of his achievements with help from @graemepaton007. It was a pleasure

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Japan knew it was airborne and changed policies early. “in rooms with dry, stale air—people coughing, sneezing, & even talking & singing, emit tiny particles that defy gravity—able to hang

Marissa Jackson Sow

MarissaEsque

Colonialism required racial classification. The idea that France has no history of racial classification is patently false and a-historical, and it’s colorblind policies have never been able to obscure its

Jonece Starr Dunigan

StarrDunigan

It’s @ReverendWarnock & @ossoff 1st day as U.S. senators for Georgia, giving Democrats control of the upper chamber.I never want to hear about the South being a lost cause again

Dana Mirsalis

danamirsalis

It was lovely to get to talk to @olliemox about modern Shinto! As promised, a bibliography with additional sources: (1/15)https://twitter.com/CJS_Uea/status/1362341997428826112 For more on the sticky issue of the concept of "religio

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Outbreak of 69 #COVID19 cases in 2 schools, plus 20 at daycare centers in one Danish city—all #B117. “Something going on with the infection of [ variant] #B117 among children

Arvind Narayanan

random_walker

My university just announced that it’s dumping Blackboard, and there was much rejoicing. Why is Blackboard universally reviled? There’s a standard story of why "enterprise software" sucks. If you’ll bear

Nathan Kalman-Lamb

nkalamb

Our rage at the harm college athletes have been subjected to this summer finally runneth over in this new @EndofSportPod piece for @chronicle/@ChronicleReview.https://www.chronicle.com/article/Canceling-the-College-Football/249198?key=O01RV

𐐝𐐮𐐾𐐮𐑊𐐰𐑌𐐻𐐨

sigilante

Well, I finished teaching the first #urbit course at a university. Here's what I learned.Course mirror:http://davis68.github.io/martian-computing When I conceived of this idea in Fall 2019, I really thought that things

Dr Peter Olusoga

PeteOlusoga

We really need to talk about research papers. (Most) research is important. And broadcasting findings to the academic community (and beyond) is important too. I fully understand that. But we

Mustafa Arkan

AlogailiMustafa

1/LONG THREADDoctor is derived from Docere, which translates into “To Teach”.  Therefore, it’s a title that only reflect the highest teaching capacity, at a university. By NO means this word

Mentorshipzim

mentorshipzim

1. My name is Bhekusizi Dlodlo and I’m an Electrical Engineer. I hold a BEng Electronic Engineering degree from NUST. Im currently practising in Australia but I worked for about

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

A thread about the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development. There are a lot of candidate vaccines in development, but we still have a long way to go. Vaccines work by training

Pen #ACAB #BLM

KasHalfFull

A @khanacademy SmartHistory video just came up in my YouTube recommended. I watched EVERY single one of those back in 2013 so now I’m rewatching them and reliving childhood memories.

Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

KHayhoe

It amazes and saddens me how many people are willing to let some of the richest multinationals in the world off the hook when it comes to carbon emissions and

Mar Hicks

histoftech

This is the worst way forward with AI. It is unethical to fund or publish scholarship like this.https://twitter.com/forcriticaltech/status/1275402019130478595 #defundAI if it’s gonna be like this (& it’s already shown us

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