#Academics

estair

estair

Today is my first official day as a tenured associate professor of law - cause for celebration and immense gratitude. In fact, I will spend today wavering between anger and

Daniel Schuman

danielschuman

With much respect to our learned academic experts, "legislative effectiveness scores" based on the status & importance of bills introduced by members is misleading and likely meaningless.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics

Priya Kunjan

PriyaKunjan

Just a little thread on COVID19 austerity and unis in so-called Australia. #savehigheredjobsCorporate universities strategising about how to ‘preserve’ the quality of teaching and learning during a pandemic are fundamentally

Rena Roussin

RenaRoussin

I'm probably fighting a losing battle in trying to get academics based in North America to stop saying "decolonizing" when they actually mean "work towards more equitable practices in our

Lydia⁷ IA-ish: Uni

Lydia130613

This is so patronising. ‘We can all learn from’ - we did not make the mistake. YOUR group made many, and are continuing to make them. Even when a lot

LALA

__Ayabulela

It won’t work out & here’s why: - Some students’ homes are not study conducive environments, hence they don’t live at home for the duration of their studies.https://twitter.com/anda_maneli/status/1248352796652515329 - A

Max Kwiek

mdkwaw

I have been co-organising a Theory Workshop https://sites.google.com/view/wecth/home for some years. The current COVID-19 pandemic has implications for seminar organizers and speakers. Some thoughts. 1/13 Webinars are popping up everywhere,

Erasmus zu Ermgassen

erasmuszu

I love academia - the freedom to research things I find interesting - but one of the main reasons I think of leaving is this. The publishing system is broken,

Andy Conway Morris 😷🧼🇬🇧🇪🇺

andymoz78

Thanks to science we have gone from identification of a novel, lethal virus to effective vaccines, falling mortality and at least one effective treatment in under a year.This was not

Jessica Remedios

jdremedios

Folks, I'm so happy that so many of you are having such positive experiences in academia. I really am. Now I want you to take *all* of that energy, and

Shego

spkhp

It’s been interesting to see how much of an impact peer pressure and herd mentality has on a student’s academics. And I’m not talking peer pressure to do drugs and

Whatifalthist

whatifalthist

In the ancient world, part of being a philosopher was living the life of a philosopher, or being virtuous, brave and the like. Now, philosopher’s just have to say pretty

Philosopher Kin

rogerahicks

Britain is not a genuine nation, but a mercenary "patron state" deceitfully posing as a nation, in order to legitimise itself, its ruling elites & the immense wealth & power

Gautam Kamath

thegautamkamath

When I was a naive starting grad student, I thought the goal was to publish as many papers as possible. Wrong for many reasons, but one: if people see a

Axel Folio, PhD, carries soup for the family

ISASaxonists

THREAD: So among all the usual inaccuracies to be found in a right-wing article about the term “Anglo-Saxon” (which there is no ban on its use – it’s inaccurate, misleading,

Gina Keithley

Gina_Keithley

1/ Slight hold up on the blog going live: I’ve been watching twitter closely the last couple of days - especially the responses to @SaveUoPLit’s tweet about all 3 Early