#Academic

Mersh

terrorsperg

Dude this show fucking *SUCKS*. And this isn't coming from an ideological place. The old Tim and Eric was actually funny. But these Leftist casualties of TDS are legitimately broken

Lincoln's Bible

LincolnsBible

Military-grade propaganda, tailored to individual grievance (a design to hijack reason by inflaming untreated emotional wounds), & delivered via the most powerful comm tools mankind has created... works.Like magic.We’ve been

David Finsterwalder

DFinsterwalder

Something that pisses me off is how pseudo-sceptical Vitamin D is treated. Take for example this @thetimes article. They write: There is no evidence that it does prevent Covid. This

Alexander (he/they)

alexthelow

I want people to realize that when I advocate against ABA that I’m advocating for an overhaul of the system. I am well aware that ABA is the ONLY service

Jorge J Rodríguez V

JJRodV

Which is why the prices of these conferences—especially around registration fees—is so jarring. I know many young scholars who go into debt to attend academic conferences for an interview, or

Askeladden Capital

AskeladdenTX

Hi COVID Twitter - I’m back(ish).How likely is a second wave? How big would it be?Let’s talk about seasonality and herd immunity so that you can better interpret models and

t r e s

trcbtst_

(1/n)I once tried to voice out my concerns including personal and academic matters that hugely affected my mental health but I got, "Nagpapaapekto ka e, sinong talo?"(non-verbatim). I have a

Daniel Kaufman

Yozarian22

Magic the Gathering development demonstrates how weak expert review is compared to crowdsourcing. A thread: 1/5 Wizards of the Coast releases new MTG sets every couple months or so. They

The Grant Repository at Proposal Analytics

GrantRepository

Everyone in #academia knows the struggle of getting a #grant through peer review – but despite how crucial it is to doing research, there’s very little research on how grant

Bea Caicoya

BeaCaicoya

Naomic Novik on fanfiction: "The magic of fanfiction is that you don't have to please anybody but yourself. It makes you value your own desires, and to figure out what

Sarah Hudson

sarahhudsonuk

Incidental finding of dilated aortic root/ thoracic aortic aneurysm – what should you do? Fully-referenced thread covering when to intervene, how to follow up and what else to think about1/n

Teresa M. Bejan

tmbejan

1) Academic colleagues I otherwise admire have a tendency to, well, *sneer* when the issue of ‘viewpoint’ diversity comes up as below, especially when it comes to conservatives. I have

Paolo Medina MD

LopaoMD

It isn't really about "internet connectivity" or the "adoption of blended learning" or "pass/fail vs numerical grades" or "mass promotion". The core issue(s) here even go beyond medical education. It's

Claire Lehmann 🚀

clairlemon

The President of @Princeton, Christopher L. Eisgruber, has condemned this piece of writing by their professor, Joseph Katz, & the administration is apparently "looking into the matter further"https://twitter.com/JohnHMcWhorter

Jude Enright

judeenright

Dear @Ofstednews ... ... I listened when you told us how to teach outstanding lessons, even graded teachers accordingly, you trained me how to do this .. my MSc dissertation

Michael Curzi

michaelcurzi

Half the people bitching about rationalists just want to rescue them lol. The other 80% are irritated at smartness signals without apparent worthiness to wield that power, and nerds are