#Academics

Lee Jones

DrLeeJones

This is a crass and mentally deficient position from my union.Universities cannot be "the care homes of a second #COVID19 wave" because they are nothing like care homes.1/21https://twitter.com/ucu/status/1299811608491823104 #COVID

Bitter Spice

mikers86

It’s been one year since I was tossed from my PhD program. Yes, somehow only a year. Feels like several. I considered doing a thread about “things I’ve learned” but

Lucy Bull

lucy_bull

As the next #MScNPAPH cohort starts at @UoBrisSPS, some of us new alumni have been reflecting on a Year Well Spent - & what we wished we'd known. Buckle up,

Austen Allred

Austen

This is a tweetstorm about things that have surprised me having started a school, coming from a non-educational background 1. Students’ brains are broken by our existing system. We’ve been

Michael Foran

michaelpforan

A few people have reached out to me to offer words of support on the state of the academic job market - also to share some true horror stories faced

Stephen Punwasi

StephenPunwasi

"Slashed in the face, beaten with a beer bottle, cuts up and down his arms, and cigarette burns."No need to investigate, this was "heart failure." Here's a quick thread on

Sanjay G Reddy

sanjaygreddy

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/03/david-graeber-anthropologist-and-author-of-bullshit-jobs-dies-aged-59?fbclid=IwAR3W9q9KJO3kQdj-9uA-_C0QE-2GA9vgQB3cUwN0dNWykCXlrFiRlJI_AVA I had reason to recall & cite Graeber just a few da

Siddharth

svaradarajan

Freedom of speech/press is guaranteed by India's constitution & applies to all, regardless of their politics, ideology or manners. Constitution allows 'reasonable' restrictions but not violence. So no room for

Jason Kint

jason_kint

I know I’ve been saying this for more than a year but Facebook needs to take Twitter and Google’s lead and ban microtargeted political ads until they can fact-check and

☪︎ 𝙋𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙩 ۞

PsychologyDoc

Our economy is built on a requirement for perpetual growth and because no one wants to find out what happens when the growth stops, we’ve just kept piling on debt

Stephen Diehl

smdiehl

Let's talk about the phenomenon of "mathcoins" and how fancy tech and academic obscurantism is used to defraud the public into buying scam crypto investments. (1/) Cryptocurrencies are nothing

Kevin Munger

kmmunger

New preprint from @andyguess and me! We attempt to unify disparate literatures and establish "digital literacy" as a key concept for online social science.Further, we find that MTurk is uniquely

Saoirse, Matryoshka Lesbian (She/They)

lisaquestions

This point has been made before, but the GC movement is, collectively, a fascist movement. GCs fit 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, and 14 very closely, and

Doctora Malka Older

m_older

Every quarter I donate 10% of my royalties from my novels to non-profits that work in areas related to the themes in the books. Thanks to everyone who bought a

Kevin M. Kruse

KevinMKruse

I'd really rather stop talking about this, but the video at this link has nearly 10 million views now, so ... buckle up.https://twitter.com/prageru/status/996165540161830912 Here's the link to the full video

Pagey

thepagey

Been thinking about this, virtue & value ethics, contexts in the Army and Britain today. Feels like many of us could start thinking about what are you prepared to give