#Academic

Prof Sandra Lapointe

mslapointe

Paris ENS is France’s top school and agregation there is highly competitive. This year, due to COVID they cancelled the orals, only had the (anonymous) written exam. As a result

Joshua Broggi

JoshuaBroggi

1/A thread on supply and demand in higher educationOne function of a university (not the only function) is to match supply (teaching) and demand (students). Universities are brokers. Accreditation gives

Christoph Gruetzner

ch_gruetze

A magnitude Mw3.8 #earthquake woke up residents in NW #Slovenia today. I've done a lot of field work in the area for the #SPP2017 (http://www.spp-mountainbuilding.de/ ), so here's why this event

KDDK

Kaetrena

1/ Please don't report your new anti-racist activities to your BIPOC colleagues for their approval. It is an additional emotional labor for us. You're going to make a mistake, so

Marco Rogers

polotek

A lot of white people need to be deprogrammed. It felt weird to use that word at first, but I honestly think it’s the right one. Like they’re mostly okay.

jiang cheng fuckers rise

absolotus

lwj’s a TA, wwx’s a junior, they don’t even share classes so there’s no conflict of interest that they’re dating;except. wwx still has a juvie record from high school and

Sarah Temkin

temkins

"Gynecologic oncology is a unique subspecialty of medicine in that physicians provide surgical and medical care for women w malignancies of the female genital tract" - are gender and subspecialty

Alec Karakatsanis

equalityAlec

1. Police are what protects the property of people who own things. In the US, this means something specific: white elites stole the labor and land of Black and indigenous

Justin B. Dimick

jdimick1

1/One of the side effects of social distancing/isolation is that we may double down on existing relationships. What implications does this have for our most junior and most vulnerable who

Robert Parenteau

MacroEdge1

1/N We should applaud @LHSummers recognition of the work neoMarxian economists Bowles, Gintis, Weisskopf, and Schor did on worker power...4 decades ago. Am willing to bet they are not cited

abhilasha joshi

RhythmicSpikes

1/n Happy to share these #ActionItems aimed towards creating #Inclusive #Kind and #Humane #academic spaces, with a focus on #STEMinIndia We got together a few weeks ago triggered by @Samatha_Mathew’s

جنان المرزوقي

JAlmarzoqi

بما أن شهر ابريل هو شهر التوعية باضطراب طيف التوحد، فجهود الجميع متجهة للتعريف باضطراب التوحد وأعراضه ونشر فكرة تقبل اختلاف الطرف الآخر والاندماج معه وهي جهود وأفكار رائعة نرى

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

wmnjoya

"You didn't mention...I didn't hear you say..."I often find panels on Kenya at international academic conferences frustrating because of this response.THREAD Here's the formula.Someone presents a paper on Kenya. At

Aaron Tay

aarontay

I always get too fancy when doing basic scholarly academic things. e.g recently I needed to look up literature on stud preference of ebooks vs print, a normal person would

Julian Togelius

togelius

I understand you're annoyed about that rejection from NeurIPS. As an AC, I can confirm that I recommended rejection for a bunch of perfectly adequate papers. They were just not

Dr Gaetan Burgio, MD, PhD.

GaetanBurgio

From the last couple of days the hype over the Chloroquine (CQ) and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) treatment for #COVID19 has bothered me a lot. So I have decided to dig into