#Academia

Jedidiah Carlson

JedMSP

Out now in @plosbiology, @kelley__harris and I try to unravel what altmetrics and the fire hose of social media data really tell us about the potential impacts of research papers.

Joseph Casillas

jvcasill

Do you like open science and reproducible research? Of course you do. You should read this thread. #openscience #rstats #academia #linguistics #phonetics I taught a graduate course (Spring2019) on

Dante Malik

malik_dante

[Thread] There's a quote by Carl Sagan that tends to lend itself as a chilling prophesy foreseeing the crazy world we find ourselves in today. It's interesting how every group

Jes Battis

jesbattis

My school just approved a 4% tuition hike while also greenlighting hundreds of in-person lecture classes for the fall. This is primarily to make up for lost revenue, and it's

Jeff Guhin

jeffguhin

One of the worst parts of academia (and a lot of other creative careers) is all the damn waiting for things with pretty low odds but which you *just* might

Genome Canada

GenomeCanada

Wondering what scientists & public health partners can do with $40 million in #genomics to combat #COVID19 with rapid effect on public health decision making in ? Read on

John O’Brennan

JohnOBrennan2

The now concluded European Council summit produced an outcome that has been widely welcomed. But in one crucial respect it failed miserably – and predictably: in protecting the rule of

Surprisingly Articulate

most_articulate

Blackness isn't a fun theoretical exercise or a thought experiment--a space to demonstrate one's own intellectual prowess or a tool to prove one's political commitments. It is, of course, a

N'Golo ▂▃▅ Exo-Science.com

NgoloTesla

The Second Law of Thermodynamics is total BS.Materialists look at dead matter; thinking that the whole world functions like it; their microscopic minds cannot fathom anything beyond mechanical interactions gradually

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

OMFG.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0049124120914951?journalCode=smra The author is a cognitive neuroscientist who claims that "fat bodybuilding" made him understand and support fat studies. I hope he's writing the hoax I&

Judy Tran

JudyT__

During my summer break I’ve been reading to learn more abt history, politics, activism, BLM and education, & I thought maybe the #TAPUW community might appreciate some recommendations — here’s

Guillermo Rojas Hernandez

guillermokrh

@timnitGebru identified a huge problem w/artificial intelligence today: English text generators (language models) are built using online text from sources like Twitter. But there's so much abuse towards women, people

Protean City

ProteanCity

I'm gonna talk about My Hero Academia, Masks, and Protean City as I watch.If you're just here for Protean City, mute this thread I'll keep everything responding to this. I'm

balajis.com

balajis

The difference between a religious and secular society is that the latter is ostensibly predicated on scientific fact.The similarity is that most people in both societies rely on authorities rather

Amna || struggle era 🌊🕷🕸

amnaisfake

South Asian characters and the stereotypes they present/ don’t present (A Thread) I’m just listing every South Asian character I know of. I think this will be mostly kids shows/

James Treakle 🎬

JamesTreakle

A thread on #BoycottMSNBC, the reality of fake news, and the self-defeating nature of the Left-Right political dynamic: The liberal aversion to the term “fake news” is based entirely on