#Academics

Fuck your corporately sponsored and shilled #BlackLivesMatter movement. People don't seem to understand why I'm against #BlackLivesMatter , agree with conservatives, & support gun rights...Yes I'm black but
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Renamed my methodology 'messy-dology' because, well, it's messy. Then saw this 'The necessity of mess is honored explicitly by indigenous research methods which may not assume individualism, linear time,
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I honestly don't know how any academics are holding it together right now. I feel like everyone I know that actually cares about their students and their projects is in
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The U.K. government is ending many forums for labor, NGOs, academics, and environmental groups to advise on trade negotiations.The chemicals advisory group is one such that’s been disbanded EU rules
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JK Rowling deleted her first tweet immediately after Stephen King clarified his response it should be said that Stephen King still retweeted JKR quoting Andrea Dworkin (gags) - but it
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Was waiting for more data (don't trust exit polls), but looking like Trump got larger share of some minority groups across country (Lumbee Tribe, Mexican Americans in S Texas, black
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(CW) For the last two weeks my timeline has been almost exclusively filled with messages about Serenity Integrated Mentoring #highintensitynetwork the work of @StopSIMMH and the campaign to #StopSIM. Here
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I'm finding that most fellow academics have very little idea about the pricing and access-levels of ebooks, so I'm gonna share a few things I've learned as a librarian responsible
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A friend of mine who’s not yet 30 yrs is pregnant with her 3rd child. First 2 kids have different fathers who don’t even take care of them. The latest
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I know lots of academics are struggling right now with doing research. This is not just because of circumstances (online teaching, fear, job uncertainty, job loss for some of us,
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You'll get nothing from me for the next 8 days except #UCUstrike. I'll explain why I and thousands of other university staff are striking here. Long thread, because there are
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A timeline of how i met my girl -a thread that i didnt put any real effort in- August 9, 2019My teacher asked me to tell the mayor of humss
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thinking about the young PI who said they only tried to hire international postdocs because they work harder & have fewer personal distractions. i'm sorry but a lot of y'alls
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Now that academics are going through a steep learning curve working with tools like zoom, teams, etc., isn’t this an excellent preparation for post-crisis conferences? Let’s reduce our flying, and
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Explosive allegations from the family lawyers for #BreonnaTalyor linking her killing to City of Louisville efforts to buy up property in an area planned for a major redevelopment.Police hasten displacement
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1. A thread why we are in this mess: It's simple really, as @hector_drummond has repeatedly pointed out, scientists are just as venal and compromised as anyone else./ 2. Basic
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