#Scholars

Dr. Jessica Sowa

sowa75

Quick Tenure and Promotion Thread. Like all #AcademicTwitter discussions, triangulate your advice, grain of salt, & all the stuff. I write a fair amount of T &P letters--probably inching toward

The Catholic Linguist

Vlinguist

You’ll see it in the headlines from time to time. It’s usually some variant of “which language did #Jesus speak?” or “is ISIS exterminating the language of Jesus?”. Scholars –

Per Bylund

PerBylund

Every year when preparing for my doctoral seminar I reread (among other things) Schumpeter's Theory of Economic Development (1934). I think it is a great book with lots of insights,

Conor O'Neill

conoraon

Govt opposition on basis of unpublished AG advice is interesting. In the 1980s, then-AG Peter Sutherland said the ban on goods from apartheid South Africa would breach EEC rules. Undeterred,

Peter Webster

pj_webster

My new book from @CUPElementsPBC is now openly available online for the next four weeks. The Edited Collection: Pasts, Present and Futures. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108683647 Longish thread to follow later. 1/ For

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

Islamic history is full of famous women scholars, scientists, and teachers who defying the odds shaped their intellectual worlds.A thread- Sutayta al Mahmali was one of the great mathematical minds

Byzantine Ambassador

byzantinepower

Re: Constantinople's walls: lack of systematicarchaeological work & linguistic barrier twixt local scholars & international scholarly community makes the situation complicated. The farce climaxes in the fact the Byzantine names

Dr Fish Philosopher Todd (Dr FPT)🐟

ZoeSTodd

As folks have noted, Butler’s commentary on interdependence really sounds a lot like Indigenous philosophy/cosmology. After a friend pointed this out, I purchased Butler’s new book on nonviolence: she does

DOUBLE THREAT

DoubleThreatPod

HAPPY THREATSGIVING! The holiday where @scharpling @julieklausner talk abt McDonald’s for 2 hrs! With McD’s scholars @connorratliff @ianabramson @justinpstrong and a roundtable with ex-McD’s employees @ApplePodcasts https://apple.co/3

Nathan Oseroff-Spicer

nathanoseroff

I decided to dig a bit deeper and see if any far-right conspiracy theorists had picked up on the Unification Church, philosophers of science and the International Conference of the

Boycott Pop-Kultur Festival

BoycottPKBerlin

[Thread]After a years-long human rights campaign, @popkulturberlin Festival is not partnering with or promoting the embassy of apartheid Israel this year, apparently for practical reasons related to the online-only nature

Spíosra 🍃

SpiosraFox

I'm honestly not sure. It looks to be a container? Would like to learn what it is and used for.https://twitter.com/JustSayXtian/status/1321272750405767169 This is used to keep track of one's place in

Alan Elrod

aselrod

Once again, the current GOP is an ultra-right, illiberal party that many international scholars see as having more in common with Poland's Law and Justice, Turkey's AKP, or even Greece's

Bradly Mason

AlsoACarpenter

A refresher: What is Critical Race Theory after all? As drawn from the explicit answers to this question given by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Mari Matsuda, Charles Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, Devon Carbado,

Nick Brown

sTeamTraen

This (very valid) point reminds me of a related question I have about the confidentiality of data. A short (I hope) thread. /1https://twitter.com/simoncolumbus/status/1263741877284716544 I am fairly skeptical of many of

Some Professor

ProfessorSome

On merit and the academic job market: a thread, in light of that silly article.First, of course there's merit involved. You have to be vaguely competent to get a job.