#Academics

Goldie Blumenstyk

GoldieStandard

23 days ago, I wrote my first newsletter about the Covid-19 crisis, predicting it could be "black swan" moment for higher education as we know it.https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Coronavirus-Looks-Like-a/248219 At the time, I

Rajesh Thind

RajeshThind

England's A' Level results are a perfect microcosm of our society: the more privilege you already have, the more benefit of the doubt you get going forward. Lazy Kid at

Pyramids & Progress

Egyptology_PP

On this #internationalwomensday, we would like to put a spotlight on one of the few female Egyptologists in the early history of Belgian Egyptology: Marcelle Werbrouck. #pyramidsandprogress #IWD2020 #trowelblazers

Kyla Wazana Tompkins

kwazana

Dear first-generation graduate students: I’m thinking of you today. Here are some things that I wish someone had told me when I started graduate school. /1 a. Every encounter from

Anna “mal crossing” Marie 🏳️‍🌈

ThatAnnaMarie

While I was still scrambling to give my undergrads at-home tasks for the first weeks of lockdown, I knew they needed a break, so I gave them just one assignment:Write

Molly Gerlach 👑🐝

molly_gerlach_

Tuition fee refunds, deferrals and the marketisation of education: a thread on coronavirusIf you had your education interrupted this past year, you might be considering asking for a refund on

Andreas Fulda

AMFChina

We need to talk about Germany. Let's start with an inconvenient truth: German governments, both past and present, have consistently prioritized trade with China over other enlightened German national interests,

Francesca Christmas

francescaxmas

Having a go at a thread, based on the #modelmusiccurriculum debate. Have spent the last few years researching with music teachers (MTs)across several different countries. This not a report on

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superioryena

✧∘*ೃ˚When Asymptotes Meet Annyeongz AU ˚⋆✎ˎˊ-Ahn Yujin is the most popular sweetheart in Seoul Music Academy for three years, until Jang

PNW Selina 🗽🇺🇸

PNWSelina

Choose Democracy describes itself as "a crew of organizers, activists, trainers, academics, & concerned citizens preparing for the scenario of a coup in 2020." Still haven't heard anyone srsly articulate

Isak

IsakDuPreez

A thread of some highlights from the "independent report" commissioned by #kwasizabantu. Just before the weekend, a glowing "summary of findings" was released. After the weekend, reasons for delaying the

DM Steve

DeeEmSteve

This "disadvantage" section of L5R is taking a lot more emotional labour AND time. And it doesn't help that a lot of pushback is "it's not that bad" or "you're

Jeremy Olshan

jolshan

THREAD: In honor of Shakespeare’s birthday today, I’m going to share a true story about the Bard and Donald Trump… Stick with me on this. It was March 2004, my

₿urger

BurgerCryptoAM

1\ Thx to @Kripfganz for the discussion on several relevant statistical properties of timeseries after the panel discussion. Now, I'll have to write a follow up article that again invalidates

Sajjad Rizvi

mullasadra

A thread on #IbnArabi in #SouthAsia people consider the main conduit to be the #Chishti Sufis and their ethical principle of #sulh_e_kull which is assumed to be an expression of

Mohsen Goudarzi

MohsenGT

Islamic literature on the Qur’an reports many textual variants that do not conform to the ‘Uthmanic skeletal text (rasm), often attributing such variants to Companions of the Prophet who allegedly