#Students

It should be Illegal Actually* for Classics articles to include untranslated sections of Greek and Latin, because it's pretentious and inaccessible, and that's my spicy take du jour.*the legal ramifications
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So I just finished Thoughts & Prayers by @brainbliss and I...loved it. I haven't done a thread about a book in a long, long time! So here's why I loved
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A slight detour on the 'Shaw supported eugenics" thing, with RADA students apparently calling for Shaw's name to be removed from the academy's theatre. It's true, yes, that Shaw was
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Here's my @guardian piece carrying on the campaign to set up a new Epidemiology-Macro crossover quango doing regular forecasts and policy simulations for government.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/30/covid-economy-bri
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Tip for students: As almost all colleges have moved to on-line instruction, a lot of you will be facing open-book exams. Here's how I write them and what it means
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Advice for early phd students1. Invest in your cohort! Ya'll are in this TOGETHER. These folks will mourn rejections, show up for endless practice presentations, push you to apply to
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I see we're back on Hymes, so I'll share some additional sources about harassment and sexism in tenure decisions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/165eBQn0xS7HT5--Ek370PNHScMt-Ml2iWMa6IclrpaM/edit?usp=sharing https://twitter.com/y
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Coping with #COVID19 related stress as a #JEENEET student:Dear Students, as you are worried & anxious about the upcoming exam, it's better to focus on your wellbeing and avoid self-destructing
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I guess South Aftica has seen an overwhelmed health system before. People have lay on the floor in corridors of hospitals when sick and needing care. Black and poor people
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During my first six months of living in upstate New York, I had a 90-minute commute to work. The school I taught at helped me arrange a car pool where
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Sephardic wizardry allows me to peer into the future, though my distance from God (medium great) only allows me to see nearby... I see boxes of stripper clips, I see
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A few thoughts on the EEF’s updated guidance report for KS1 (Y1/2 ) literacy regarding recommendation 4.I am happy with what is said in the second picture. I hope many
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A few photos during Spanish flu in 1918. People had good judgment. #Masks4AllOfficials checking cleaners wearing masks.1/9 A few photos during Spanish flu in 1918. People had good judgment. #Masks4AllPolice
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Most of my Twitter feed is currently having different conversations about the conduct of one person. I have my own stories and my own sets of screenshotted messages I could
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Tonight's @MetroSchools Board of Education meeting is underway. Follow along with me for updates (but be easy on me, it's only my second day at the @Tennessean). Background: MNPS Director
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@nyuniversity: an MCC tenured professor spent an entire class period telling students that wearing masks doesn’t prevent the spread of COVID-19, and that hydroxychloroquine trials were made to fail so
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