#Academic

Deepika Singh

Deepika_Theias

Saw a picture circulating which has @ReallySwara with @BhimArmyChief on the stage of protest site. I'm so outraged to see Swara taking up the space which belongs to dalits (men

Tab Combs

DrTCombs

Creating data for public use is fun.What's not fun? When commercial entities take that data, repackage it, and trot it out as their own without crediting their sources. Cite your

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

The policing tactics that killed #BreonnaTaylor -- such as no-knock warrants -- are due to a decades-long intertwining of US police departments with the US military.[THREAD] In this thread, I

Shantanu Gaur M.D.

shangaur

1/Curious about the links between #overweight, #obesity, and #COVIDー19?Let’s go one layer deeper than the headlines.Here is a summary of the data so far reported in accepted manuscripts and pre-prints

cfryar

seefryar

US-based academics, if there’s been a recent uptick in “complaints” about academic jobs on your TL, know that that uptick is likely bc of national strikes of UK university workers

Julian 🏳️‍🌈

julianrunes

For those who are unaware, pedophiles are using softer language to normalize their relationship with minors as academic and thus acceptable. They are calling themselves MAPS (Minor Attracted Person). Make

Andy Matuschak

andy_matuschak

Fascinating Ostrom-inspired framing for online community governance, replacing monolithic permissions (“admins can hide threads”) with richer policies that can be proposed & evolved by the community (eg “threads reported by

Selene

airportlights

I chose neurology because I get to work with some of the least well understood diseases that create the most ignored patients. The fate of the disabled brain has EVERYTHING

Dr. Alex Ketchum

aketchum22

I think it is a mistake for academic writers to not see themselves as writers. I think this is part of an overall issue of scholars seeing themselves as apart

Ted Cruz

tedcruz

1/x Important article, worth reading in full. WHO IS the “important person” at Harvard who called trying to silence this brave Chinese dissident? The following are 100% verbatim quotes from

Legally W(h)ining

WineAboutLaw

One of my students emailed me earlier to apologize because she is "trying to focus" but her assignment is going to be late, & she wants to know if she

Tom Bowell

thomasbowell

Not only kept my job but got a pay rise too. Insanely lucky and I'll never forget that.https://twitter.com/politicalmoses/status/1305755192567230464 I've no proper GCSEs either, I was exceptionally lucky to land a

Dracze

Dracze

In the presentation on Batman and queerness I did at cons and academic conferences, I keep touching on how Schumacher's Batman movies harkened back to the intentional camp of the

Cory's Book Jewellery

Coryographies

Hey everyone, as it's my #craftiversary week, I'd like to share the story of Coryographies! Grab a tea and I'll tell you a tale... (pictured: vintage photo of young Cory

Wodens Witegestre

WodensW

All the ‘Zeus isn’t a rapist, it’s a metaphor for transcending interactions with the gods’ is such absolute bullshit. Zeus WAS a rapist. Yes, heroes transcended. Yes, the morals of

Dieter Plehwe

DieterPlehwe

@critical_policy @JenniferDodge1 @kabraun60 @clemencepinel Reading Clèmence Pinel's sharp book review of @LinseyMcgoey 's great book The Unknowers I am wondering if there is a contradiction between the following two statements.