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Vvicibox.bsky.social

Politicians @UKLabour @LibDems @commonwealthsec you are the enablers. Forget your traditional framework; global disaster is here. Stop relying on academics, I know its cheap. You need professional scientists to focus 24/7 to holistically manage this environmental transition.

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FFhellkitty.bsky.social

“He named the crater Chicxulub specifically “to give the academics and NASA naysayers a challenging time pronouncing it after a decade of their dismissals.””

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JGgiffordhead.co.uk

I accept these points. Although there is a bit more subtly here. Legal academics sometimes fairly criticise lawyers & judges for not engaging with their works enough. But I don’t think that is sustainable if their writings are inaccessible to lawyers who are not academics. Where I draw the line ...

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mrsoup.bsky.social

I only pick up on this because a lot of those names are doing good academically sound work too. But perhaps the gap is a matter of willingness of academics to be known on YT etc?

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FPferguspeace.bsky.social

oops I have been away but yes I agree! and "if radical academics held actual industrial power, they'd probably waste it and go out in a blaze of self-satisfied nihilism" is a reading that is.. I suspect not intended, but pretty interesting

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JGgiffordhead.co.uk

Yes. That’s very true. The teaching used to bother me as an undergraduate. But to criticise the tutorial / supervision on the basis that it may not be the best idea if the academics aren’t committed to and good at teaching seemed taboo since it supposed to be the jewel in the crown of Oxbridge.

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JGgiffordhead.co.uk

Argh... I bought an academic book which I thought would be very interesting. Fairly expensive because it is an academic book. But it's so badly written it is just infuriating! And this was recommended to me as an interesting book. How do any academics put up with this?!

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DLdouglaslucas.bsky.social

First guilty plea--money laundering, trafficking--in case of selling women for rape including out of an apartment complex near D.C. Authorities: hundreds of clients: elected officials, tech execs, military, academics, lawyers, more. Blackmail factory? reuters.com/world/us/wom...#OpDeathEaters

Woman admits to running US brothel network
Woman admits to running US brothel network

The client list includes elected officials, business executives, doctors, military officers, professors, lawyers, scientists and accountants.

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NFnews-feed.bsky.social

@TheEconomist: Sweeping changes at a Chinese think-tank coincide with efforts by officials to press academics not to express gloom about the country’s economy. Staff should have “fear in their hearts [and] caution in their speech”, the academy’s president has said 👇

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