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Emmitt Y. Riley, III

@DrEYR3rd

Author of Racial Attitudes in America @OleMiss PhD, @MVSUDEVILS and @JacksonStateU Alum. Associate Prof and Dir. African Am. Studies

Tennessee, USA Katılım Nisan 2009
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Emmitt Y. Riley, III@DrEYR3rd·
Today my grandmother joined the ancestors. Rest in Power. You held on until I got to say my good byes! I am devastated but I will carry your legacy with me everywhere I go. #QueenKatherine
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Christopher Webb
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline·
If you lost your job because of DOGE, this will enrage you. They built a whole-ass political crusade around “DEI,” then sent a staffer into a deposition who couldn’t even define it. His name is Justin Fox and his assignment was to help flag grants for elimination based on a term he struggled to explain under oath and kept saying he needed to refer to Trump’s EO. 🥴 Justin sounds mediocre at best.
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Emmitt Y. Riley, III@DrEYR3rd·
Let me see what academics are complaining about the rise of AI? This seems to be a constant discussion on this app. Folks care more about that than they did the dismantling of DEI.
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Brian Tolentino M.Ed
Brian Tolentino M.Ed@TolentinoTeach·
If you haven’t taught in a classroom post-Covid, you don’t know what it is like to teach the modern student. The students have changed. Teaching has changed. You have to be in the classroom daily to understand what I mean.
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Dr. Saga Helin
Dr. Saga Helin@helin_drsaga·
Peer review was supposed to be science’s quality filter, but somewhere along the way it started acting more like a bouncer who only lets in the regulars. It’s slow, it tends to favor established labs and familiar names, and it gets uncomfortable around anything too unconventional. Papers loaded with mountains of data tend to cruise through, while bold ideas that actually challenge the consensus get stuck in limbo or turned away at the door. The irony is that where a paper gets published almost never determines its real worth. What actually matters is what the scientific community does with it afterward, whether people cite it, argue with it, build on it, or use it to blow up a long-held assumption. That’s where the value lives, not in the journal’s logo. A major survey a few years back found that roughly 70% of researchers think the current system is fundamentally broken, and it’s not hard to see why. Publicly funded research hides behind paywalls, editors chase whatever topic is hot that month, and the whole incentive structure pushes toward safe bets over genuinely risky and potentially important work. Science has always been complicated and deeply human and full of ego and inertia, but the conversation is shifting.
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Emmitt Y. Riley, III@DrEYR3rd·
All of this!
Iñigo San Millán@doctorinigo

For decades, peer review has been treated as the gold standard of scientific validation. Yet many scientists know the reality: the system is far from perfect. Peer review is broken and sometimes even corrupted. The process can be slow, inconsistent, and vulnerable to bias. Reviewers are sometimes asked to judge work outside their true expertise. In other cases, they may be evaluating ideas that challenge the very paradigm in which they were trained. And occasionally, reviewers are simply competitors. Ironically, the most prestigious journals can also be the most conservative. Truly new ideas are often met with skepticism, while safer work that fits the current narrative moves more easily through the system. Increasingly, papers are judged less by the originality of the idea and more by the volume of data, the sophistication of statistics, and the beauty of the figures. Science risks becoming data-rich but idea-poor. But there is an important reality to remember: journals do not ultimately decide the impact of scientific work. Impact is decided later, by the community. By the scientists who read it, test it, debate it, and cite it. In the end, citations and ideas determine the legacy of a paper, not the impact factor of the journal that first published it. Science has always advanced by questioning assumptions. Perhaps it is time we also question the system that filters scientific ideas.

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ɠɧıʂɧ@rirokpik·
Never apologize for your Black thoughts Never apologize for your Black loyalty Never apologize for your Black motives. Never apologize for your Black history. Never apologize for your Black pride. Never apologize for your Black skin. Be strong. Be proud. Be unapologetically Black
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Dr. Allison Wiltz@queenie4rmnola·
One of the privileges of being White in America is to express frustration with identity politics while benefiting from a system that rewards whiteness.
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Chris Towler@blkprofcct·
Ida B Wells WEB Du Bois Geronimo Pratt Sojourner Truth Bayard Rustin Fannie Lou Hamer Angela Davis Diane Nash Bobby Seale Kwame Ture James Baldwin Shirley Chisholm Ralph Bunche Asa Phillip Randolph Medgar Evers Martin Delany Mary Church Terrell
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Teach your kids about; Marcus Garvey Malcolm X Assata shakur Patrice Lumumba Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Nat Turner Harriet Tubman Huey P Newton Thomas Sankara Toussaint louverture Fred Hampton khalid Muhammad Muhammad Ali

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Thursday@ennui365·
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Dr. Allison Wiltz
Dr. Allison Wiltz@queenie4rmnola·
Black people, keep receipts. White people are going to try to blame this all on Trump when he’s gone. But we know they’re the ones who’ve empowered him
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Deadly Law
Deadly Law@DeadlyLaw·
Moved the International Law book to the fiction section in the library.
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Victor Shih
Victor Shih@vshih2·
I highly recommend this article to students of authoritarian legislatures. This is the gold standard for theoretical contribution and data collection tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
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Preston D. Mitchum
Preston D. Mitchum@PrestonMitchum·
When people say “identity politics,” they mean “Black.” A clear and complete dog whistle.
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Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs@JeffreyASachs·
Faculty at Texas A&M need to get permission before including any "race or gender ideology," content related to SOGI, or any other "controversial topic" in any of their classes. Here's the process they're supposed to use to get that permission.
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