#Academic

Sofia 🧹

typeswitch

Types give you positive confidence, unlike tests. But how do you build confidence in the typechecker? By writing test for it...(Writing a typechecker is a bit like squaring the circle,

Elizabeth Stein

lizstein_

Today, @UWMedicine announced that it will no longer use race to calculate estimated glomerular filtration rate. This move came in light of concerns raised by UW medical students, including critical

Marie Thompson

DrMarieThompson

Idk who needs to hear this but we talk about sound/sonic experience being erotic *all the time*. And not just within the ivory tower! It doesn't mean the same thing

Empressor-Witch Florence Ashley

ButNotTheCity

Power doesn’t extend free speech to marginalized groups. I have a friend who’s facing multiple forms of academic punishment including a year of delay in their studies for standing up

こつよせ

be_wormholed

fun fact: While some foreigners who brag about "knowledge" of Japanese history, learning from Kurosawa films, criticize portrait of "pride" samurai in Ghost of Tsushima, JP people jokingly dissatisfied with

lil uzi veritas

polumechanos

I really believe in public scholarship, and I think a robust academic presence in public discourses is valuable and important — and that’s true even when I disagree with others’

Matt Salomone

matthematician

Second only to #COVID, this academic year will be remembered as the year of "Is a hot dog a sandwich?" in higher ed. And my working theory is that we

Made in China Journal

MIC_Journal

The revelation that Trump encouraged Xi to continue building concentration camps in Xinjiang should come as no surprise. Below are some readings on the linkages between the global war on

Alan MacLeod

AlanRMacLeod

In 1971 Noam Chomsky debated Michel Foucault on human nature. In 2021 a debate nerd on Twitch who didn't finish a music degree (Destiny) tells @profwolff, an economics professor of

James Tucker

JtuckerJames

1/ I've been tweeting about philosophy quite a lot recently. Here are some reasons why I think it should be taught as a mainstream academic discipline in schools... 2/ Humanity

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

1) There’s an under-appreciated point in this essay about one of those things the left and right fight over but actually agree on and are both wrong about: that reason

𝔸𝕥𝕖 𝔻𝕒𝕟 #studytwt

atedanknows

𝘾𝙀𝙏𝙨: Topics Studying for CETs? Don’t miss out on these topics!#studytwt #studytwtph #CETs These are just SOME of the topics (there are A LOT) that appeared in the tests from

Steve McRae ☢️📚😈😇

SteveMcRae_

*Atheist HAVE a Burden of Proof. Don't let them tell you otherwise.*Don't allow atheists in debates to say they do not have a BoP. It is epistemologically unsound and untenable

The Provost / سيدة الفتنة

MsEntropy

Some of many who can also pinpoint Neo-Nazi affiliations; don’t discount non-academic activists doing the heavy lifting - for years.@nezumi_ningen @LA_Kings_67 @AntiFashGordon @AllisonBetus @kathleen_belew @scottkernest @socialistdogmom @

Dr. Juliette McClendon

DrJulietteM

Should Racial Trauma be in the DSM? A thread.#RacialTrauma #RacialTraumaisReal #psychology #Academic #BlackMentalHealth 1/16 Preface: This is my educated opinion. There are valid arguments on both sides of this issue.

Joel Waldfogel

JWaldfogel

This week I did my first virtual seminar. It was a great experience. Hats off to the organizers! And it got me thinking about digitization and the IO of seminars.