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So I think yall know my big research paper last semester was on the history of eugenics, the development of birth control and forced sterilization in the US. It was
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A thread on a journalism institution I deeply care about, the Dow Jones News Fund. @DJNFShockley, its heart and soul, is retiring after a 32-year stint where she played a
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One reason that academia is having trouble "solving" racism in their departments is because they treat interpersonal racism/microaggressions as "personal differences" instead of what they really are I also feel
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underrated anime that deserves more appreciation and love, a thread; pls, comments that says "what about .." will not be entertained, if d anime s not included on this thread
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I'm just going to put this out there -- but if we're going to teach anti-racism, we need CLASS SETS of anti-racist texts.We had class sets of Shakespeare for ages.
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1/Something happened. That wasn't supposed to happen. Or rather. Something didn't happen. That was supposed to happen. Eyes wide like saucers, they told me. Tears glistened in their eyes. Them:
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For those who wondered what would happen if a modern, angry-conservative party ever got elected in Alberta, you're seeing and feeling it now. The old PCs were entitled and out
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Warning – Long thread ahead - Harvard/MIT have just responded to the government’s reply from yesterday. The following thread summarizes the response. At 3 ET today, there will be a
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1) Montreal based #Covid19 thread: National Geographic hosts an airborne Covid-19 infection risk calculator designed by a research team led by by Jose-Luis Jimenez at the University of Colorado Boulder
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My university @NorwichUniArts initially pledged to offer third year students ‘Extenuating Circumstances’ regarding the assessment of their final hand-in. However, they have now u-turned on the original decision with little
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Want some insight into the evolution of macro but weren’t around in the 70s & 80s?Read Tom Sargent’s 1979/1987 “Macroeconomic Theory” (1st/2nd edn). h/t @GregWKaplan for recommending it!Intro and ToC:
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Ok so! I've been thinking about what it means to be invited to be an alt-ac speaker on a college campus.Inviting someone with a phd who's not a professor to
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The transition to Remote Instruction is SOOOO systematically difficult. A thread. 1/x#AcademicChatter Even now, when all instructors in my dept say they’re loosening requirements, most students feel they are working
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seokjin’s love for books ; a short but needed thread #JIN #진 #김석진 #방탄소년단진 seokjin said he read about 5 books during the cb and that inspired namjoon to read
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Math students at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario have been ordered to buy an external webcam and a means of fixing it over their shoulder so that proctors can
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Personal Venting Out Ahead- We're currently on a pandemic and I'm a person belonging to the below middle class in the Philippines, we're being locked down on our home, seeing
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