#Academic

Start-of-semester thoughts:Teaching NLP is quite depressing, and I don't know how to do it well. I am torn between the two perspectives:1) Teach the interesting problems. Why language is interesting.
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WHOAH!! So much for no smoking gun. The #RussiaReport is utterly damning about the failure of the intelligence services to protect our democratic processes. 'In response for our written request
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Academic search committees doing fly-outs: PLEASE remember to ask candidates whether they have any food, personal or other restrictions that might dictate the time and resources they require during their
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I woke up today thinking about cultural capital in elite educational settings. I'm always inspired by @tony_jack's work, but today I was thinking about grad school/law school context. If you're
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I emailed my students’ families this before spring break and again before the long weekend.If the work is too much, just make sure they read for 20 minutes a day.Maybe
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Woohoo, new ⁦@DissentMag⁩ issue just dropped. I join some great thinkers with a piece on the hustle economy. I have to thank @moiragweigel for the invitation to a Radcliffe workshop
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Short thread re: Amy Coney Barrett. The US Constitution is a COLONIAL document: written by colonists, written under conditions of colonialism. Despite its surface claims, "originalism" strikes me as anti-historicist
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giftedness doesn't existhttps://twitter.com/SteveMillerOC/status/1389457676548014080 here's what giftedness is: it is only this and not anything else.The schools are overcrowded warehouses and it's known that there are not enoug
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Disabled PhD students are affected by the COVID-related issues currently facing all PhD students, but to a greater degree. [1/7] Disabled students are disproportionately likely to experience financial hardship, to
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#PeerReview #ConfirmationBias @JeffreyUnerman article on Risks from self-referential peer review echo chambers developing in research fields: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2020.100910I find this important for #DiversityandInclusion #TrustInPeerReview
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yesterday, in response @RandPaul, fauci claimed there is no cov19 cross resistance from previous covid exposure.he referred to an un-named paperi am not sure, but believe this may be that
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New preprint: Here we report quantitative prospective longitudinal testing from @nba players, staff and vendors & consider how these data can be used to improve diagnostic and surveillance testing algorithms.
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Just got a WhatsApp text with a link to a petition asking for Irish universities to partially refund domestic, EU and international students because of the covid-19 crisis and subsequent
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Academic writing is wild bc you’ll read four articles just to write one sentence. Anyway, here’s a thread of resources I’ve been using to speed through this review I’m working
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In relation to a discussion below, I have decided to show a letter I wrote with responses to a letter received from Prince Mark. I received this after telling him
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I don't see a lot of "non-traditional" scholarship from non-academics (I'm talking college educated scholars) under a lot of these hashtags about citing folks. Including those directed toward Black women.
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