#Grad

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MorlockP

LOL, yes, members of the middle and lower class have no options other than to buy a $75,000 luxury vehicleMy household income is in the percent, and

American Horror Callie

DeathCab4Callie

PLZ RT. On paths through grad school and employment in STEM, a thread: #DisabledInSTEM #DisabilityTwitter #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #Academia #Science #STEM #DisabledInSTEM #DisabledInHigherEd #Science #Biology #physiology #Help #Me

Kristen Anderson

CatchKristen

I think one reason many VCs have a hard time TRULY believing in funding bias against underrepresented founders is that there's another thing that can disguise it: the sanctioned background.

🔥🦊 #Fireproof 🦊🔥

tekfox

I got a freaking promotion yesterday!!!!Last night I (mini) celebrated my third career promotion with some fox whiskey, ice cream and some tasty charcuterie. I'm so freaking happy and my

nikita borisov💉💉

nikitab

Ok I’m feeling attention starved so: one like = one fact about myself I bought a motorcycle in grad school and rode it across Death Valley in full gear one

Daniel Gonzales

dgonzales1990

GRAD SCHOOL SURVIVAL SKILLZ————————————————Daniel L. Gonzales, PhD(I spent 6 yr here so just trust me) 1. Your advisor is likely super dependent on their calendar. If you add “Pub evening”

Alex Pizzuto

ajpizzuto

OK, so, I've seen a lot of the "NASA detects parallel universe" stuff going aroundI've spent the last ~2 years of grad school investigating these detections, and wanted to provide

Londyn Robinson (rheuminate)

londyloo

Friendly reminder that over 1/2 of medical student’s parents make at or above 80% of American income bracket. 1 in 4 med student’s parents are >95%ile for income. (>225,000 annually)

🍁 Alisha Grauso 🍂

AlishaGrauso

Because @ChuckWendig asked me a few days ago, would you guys like me to tell you the story of the grossest thing that's ever happened to me and why my

e. thorkelson

unambivalence

feeling a bit crushed:David Graeber: I only knew him a little.His dad worked in a print shop, I read today. Like mine. Let's remember:Graeber was an anthropologist who had been

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

Anna Gifty is finally on Tik Tok

itsafronomics

GRE scores for the 2020 application cycle will DEFINITELY reflect how trauma disproportionately affects different groups, specifically Black people.Black applicants can't focus on studying for a test when Black people

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

A basic confusion has wrought so much destruction in American life.A lot of venture capitalists tricked themselves, and then others, into thinking that they are thinkers. They are literally just

Morgan Artyukhina

LavenderNRed

On #Lenin's 150th birthday, in addition to typical #readlenin overtures, I want to share something less often said abt the revolutionary leader: the person I found beneath the towering edifice

Rachael Tatman

rctatman

One of my research topics in grad school was fairness, accountability and transparency (FAT) in NLP systems. I've kept up with the literature.Here's a quick thread of papers I'd recommend

Emily M. Bender

emilymbender

On professional societies not giving academic awards to harassers, "problematic faves", or bigots, a thread: /1 Context: I was a grad student at Stanford (in linguistics) in the 1990s, but