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- These are not the drones that are looking for you. (And no, I don't buy this argument.) http://t.co/SKEifVak 4 hrs ago
- What's the Frequency, Google? https://t.co/2fHu6K4Q 4 hrs ago
- Want! MT @mariekshan: ...Terminator-style glasses stream real-time info to your eyeballs http://t.co/OQcjmvZi 6 hrs ago
- @barrywellman Yes. But the flaneur also makes the everyday strange, and to enjoy that strangeness... i.e., does sociology. 1 week ago
- "The death of the cyberflaneur" http://t.co/A1kE5pKE (Anyone who has seen my email .sig will know why this title disturbs me. :) #fb 1 week ago
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 2 weeks ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 2 weeks ago
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And I Blog…
Certainly not the first time a Twitter thread has led to a bumper sticker: michaelzimmer: Right now: I supposed to be working on a journal article (tenure), but instead I’m writing a blog post (impact). halavais: ∴ impact ≠ tenure RT @michaelzimmer: I supposed to be working on a journal article (tenure), but instead I’m writing [...]
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A pass
I don’t care about grades. It’s not that I hate them, but I do hate that students seem so captivated by them. At least at the undergraduate level, and for students who were aiming for law school or med school, where the GPA seems to have a strong effect on admissions, I kind of understood [...]

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