QuixoteSword @QuixoteSword (231 followers) (7.3K tweets)

Let's play a little Jeopardy....

For what humanities final exam question is the CORRECT answer, "I don't know"?

Keywords: humanities ?, what, play, question

marti buckley @martibk (3.3K followers) (16.1K tweets)

I just realized I use both my good-for-nothing English major and Spanish minor on a daily basis, go humanities

Keywords: humanities, good, daily

大师 // august radjoe @augustradjoe (2.0K followers) (6.4K tweets)

We have a word for shallow 20-something men in technology: TechBro.

What is the word for skinny, tall, curly haired humanities majors who think they're in an indie movie with the tote bag, cigarette pack and one (1) book?

Keywords: humanities ?, What, book, word

Owen @ChevalierOwen (177 followers) (1.6K tweets)

Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences: We need a way to easily tell which academic group someone belongs to at our annual conference.

The Groups: Ok, how about this–CPA. ACP. CSA. CPSA. CSSA. CPSSE. ACSC. CSCSCSCSA….

FHSS: Yes :)
#Congressh

Keywords: Humanities, need, which, Social, annual, Groups, group

drippini @cringeini (387 followers) (769 tweets)

How can you be studying humanities and still choose to be apolitical? Like isn't that the whole point of ur degree? What am I missing, make me see

Keywords: humanities ?, What

Sam Brown @SamBrown_LDS (2.3K followers) (2.7K tweets)

I'm reminded again of what a wonderful institution Mormon Scholars in Humanities is. So many bright and wonderful people asking questions as Saints and scholars. Lovely. (and the hotel even gave us free Aggie ice cream!)

Keywords: Humanities, what, free, questions, wonderful

maya 🐈‍⬛ @evageIion (1.2K followers) (17.3K tweets)

the average stem student is so miserable compared to the average humanities student.. it’s hard to find a humanities student that chose that path w/o being passionate abt what they’re studying and constantly dealing w disrespect and ridicule directed towards their area of study

Keywords: humanities, what, area, hard

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☩ Քրիստոս յարեա՜ւ ի մեռելոց ☩ @dom_calmet (730 followers) (43.2K tweets)

i was told that the mark i got for my diss is rather good, considering they’re not really keen on giving any good marks in humanities at all

Keywords: humanities, good, mark

Michael Hunter📜 @MTHdomo (107 followers) (8.1K tweets)

Creative writing/the humanities is far more complex wherein there's rarely a one sized fits all method. To master this it would also need to master reasoning and self expression. As if right now the best it can do is mimic others and that doesn't get you very far in this field

Keywords: humanities, need, best, Creative, writing

Hari ☭ @haridelic (238 followers) (1.6K tweets)

What are some good unis for the Humanities in India

Keywords: Humanities, good, some, What

ابو نسيبة @InnSynn (224 followers) (7.9K tweets)

Yes most humanities people are deficient in mathematics and science but those advanced skills are seldom needed in the real world, par contra skills which are afforded via humanities fields

Keywords: humanities, needed, which, real

One Lot Jason @OneLotJason (145 followers) (1.0K tweets)

Doing some work for a humanities class, I've decided to focus research on the two granite statues, Agriculture and Industry, located outside the CBOT building. What a fascinating story those two statues have had.

Too bad literally nobody knows who sculpted them.

Keywords: decided to, humanities, some, What, Too, work, story, building, fascinating

Terry Bardoul @tbardoul (1.5K followers) (24.5K tweets)

If we entered a zombie apocalypse, which societal system would work best for humanities survival, capitalism or communism?

FYI currently we are in a climate apocalypse… the same rules apply.

#VoteThemAllOut #GreenParty

Keywords: humanities ?, which, best, work, apply, climate

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Terry Bardoul @tbardoul (1.5K followers) (24.5K tweets)

Is we entered a zombie apocalypse, which system would work best for humanities survival, capitalism or communism?

FYI we’re in a climate apocalypse… same rules apply.

Keywords: humanities ?, which, best, work, apply, climate

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Laura Loyola @wawisloyola (4.9K followers) (7.4K tweets)

And that's a wrap for day 2. Sorry I was not able to tweet as much because most sessions today were closed. Some great motions in support of PGRs, arts & humanities & LGBTQ rights passed today. A great equality fringe and I've met some lovely people I had only interacted online.

Keywords: humanities, great, Some, today, support, rights, sessions, arts, online, equality

Alex John London @AlexJohnLondon (5.7K followers) (17.1K tweets)

One thing that sets Rorty apart from so many other humanists is that he offered more than just critique—following Dewey he had a positive vision for a humanistic, liberal democracy. At a time when the humanities are most needed this absence is sorely apparent.

Keywords: humanities, needed, positive, vision

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Jeb Boyt @jeboyt (1.2K followers) (40.6K tweets)

She shorts the humanities, though, particularly when writers are on strike essentially in support of the value of the humanities. In my own experience, I have found that the best training for lawyers is in the humanities, specifically English, philosophy, and political science./2

Keywords: humanities, best, support, experience, writers

Dominic Martyne @thecriticaldom (652 followers) (21.3K tweets)

Reflecting a bit this morning on why people whine about the "utility" of the Humanities and their decline, here are a few things I've done:
1. Understood the American Revolution better (Sic Semper Tyrannis).
2. Chaired/Vice Chaired a political party.
3. Started a business.

Keywords: Humanities, better, why, American, morning, Started, business, Vice

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Wokal Distance @wokal_distance (129.4K followers) (22.6K tweets)

A lot of arts and humanities education today is just worshiping certainty, claiming there's no right answer, and then spitting on anything normal people think might be a good idea.

Keywords: humanities, good, today, education, arts, lot

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Labour Party USA @LabourUSA (95 followers) (635 tweets)

The People must Engage in Voluntary Work to help the Poor and Sick as a way to help end this system of oppression as a way to achieve Proletarian Democracy and Global Socialism and Unity
the Immortal Cause will be Humanities Future and Liberation from Oppression

Keywords: Humanities, help, Work, Future, Engage

Damien J O'Meara 📺 🏳️‍🌈 @damoo_la (1.2K followers) (9.9K tweets)

I’m once again asking STEM PhDs making declarative statements about how “all PhDs must look like/do/etc…” to remember that humanities and social sciences exist. You will be shocked to learn how our PhD experiences look different, not just from yours, but from each other.

Keywords: humanities, experiences, learn, social

Rhetorical & Ethical Theory Lab @EthicalLab (429 followers) (404 tweets)

An absurd thing right now is that, faced with the absolute/unavoidable need for a humanities perspective to make sense of their own fields, so many technology brothers double down on arrogance, assuming they already know literally what they're acknowledging they need to learn.

Keywords: humanities, need, what, learn, perspective, brothers

Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites (7.2K followers) (38.2K tweets)

it’s also a consequence of the transformation of queer theory from a marginal insistence on applying the tools of high literary theory to the “detritus” produced by/in queer lives to a set of party tricks you learn from a single seminar in humanities grad school

Keywords: humanities, tricks, learn, lives, produced

Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos (62.0K followers) (13.5K tweets)

Humanities profs: We teach you critical thinking! How can students not flock to us?
STEM profs: We teach you critical thinking, plus knowledge that companies actually need to hire you for.

Keywords: humanities ?, need, students

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Holly Nielsen @nielsen_holly (7.4K followers) (42.7K tweets)

A new thing I am finding is that a lot of people say we need to bring the arts and humanities into STEM and tech research, but then as an arts and humanities person you start looking at that stuff and some of those same people act like you’ve made a deal with the devil.

Keywords: humanities, need, some, bring, arts, act, lot, start, person

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Giles Wilkes @Gilesyb (30.3K followers) (47.4K tweets)

And while optimists see this as the rise of an intangible economy that values soft skills and humanities and the ability to write ... I just keep wondering what its relation is with the production of the stuff we really need, the lack of which weighs on our future ... 4/

Keywords: humanities, need, what, which, future, production, values

🌈Dr. Frizzle is on Strike @Swilua (23.1K followers) (101.6K tweets)

Science eliminates variables until it has solvable problems. Humanities deals with the problems whose variables can’t be isolated

Making a vaccine is one thing, getting someone to take it is another

we need both of these!

The devaluation of writing will have bad outcomes

Keywords: Humanities, need, writing

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will weaver @will__weaver (560 followers) (5.0K tweets)

"The humanities are faltering just at the moment when we’ve never needed them more... As A.I. begins to take over the world, we could use an army of thoughtful English majors to help sort it out." #MaureenDown #NYT

Keywords: humanities, needed, help, over

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Jacob Johanssen @Jacob_PhD (2.0K followers) (5.8K tweets)

Do you have any recommendations for guidance or writing for humanities PhD / grad students on writing/constructing a theoretical framework or theory chapter of the PhD thesis?

Keywords: humanities ?, any recommendations, students, writing

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Muhammad Balogun @mabalogun (2.2K followers) (4.1K tweets)

Secondary school and 100L Math are endpoint Math, not even enough introduction to the beautiful world of Mathematics.

At some point in history, Mathematics was considered a Humanities course. B.A Mathematics! That should tell you everything you need to know about her nature.

Keywords: Humanities, need, some, history, beautiful, nature

Sakura Haru @caemensakuraaa (252 followers) (68.4K tweets)

My degree, to me, was a perfect mix of humanities and logic. I had humanity subjects such as sociology. So I learnt to see things from more than 1 perspective. To empathise. To think outside the box. To realise your experience is not all experiences.

Keywords: humanities, experiences, experience, perspective

AKS @AsheeshKSi (6.6K followers) (234 tweets)

Getting a public university to create a humanities center using public funds is probably a nonstarter in 2023. You’d have to have a private donor. In order for research in the humanities to thrive at public universities, you’d probably need private capital.

Keywords: humanities center, need, public, funds

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Ruth @ruth_hook_ (9.4K followers) (2.1K tweets)

I am mainly hoping someone here magically knows what I'm talking about and sends me a link to that old humanities article

Keywords: humanities, what, link, article

Ruth @ruth_hook_ (9.4K followers) (2.1K tweets)

I remember reading YEARS ago some humanities article that in tracing the evolution of religions and their content- you can actually correlate it to ancient human migration events and I never followed up on it because I was finishing my mol bio bachelors

Keywords: humanities, some, human, reading, events, article

multitude container @boris_kloris (455 followers) (12.3K tweets)

Thanks to Twitter I've unlearned much of what I studied in my humanities courses in college.

Keywords: humanities, what

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Adam X. McNeil (ABD) (aka Metaphors & Memes) @CulturedModesty (16.0K followers) (83.8K tweets)

What grad students are gonna be on the job market in the humanities in the fall?

Keywords: humanities ?, What, students, job

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Jordan S. Carroll / @jordanscarroll@zirk.us @JordanSCarroll (1.8K followers) (410 tweets)

So much high-powered thinking has gone into convincing people in the humanities that we need less rigor and fewer pieces of evidence in our arguments

Keywords: humanities, need, less

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amin @dankwilderson (1.8K followers) (26.1K tweets)

a masters in the humanities/social sciences is a funny degree because you don’t stay long enough to really really know, but you know what you don’t know —and it haunts you

Keywords: humanities, what, social, long, stay

Marc Tibber @MarcTibber3 (5.4K followers) (6.9K tweets)

Whilst some see as -> jack of all trades / master of none, which I understand, I don't see it like this. It's hard to imagine another profession outside of arts/humanities perhaps where one would find such clear approach allegiances & I wonder what this says about the profession.

Keywords: humanities, some, what, which, arts, understand, hard, imagine

Primordial Chaos @1stbornson1 (676 followers) (5.2K tweets)

Rather the issue should be with those who claim such a title, who exert their power over us with the justification of the fake mythos behind said title, and who use deception in order to blind humanities knowledge of what that justification entails.

Did God really chose you?

Keywords: humanities ?, what, over, power, issue

Colleen Derkatch @ColleenDerkatch (3.2K followers) (5.4K tweets)

(The previous tweets are from our series proposal, some of which is cribbed from Derkatch and Spoel, “Health Humanities as an Interdisciplinary Intervention,” 2020. Happy to share a preprint version if you’re interested.)

Keywords: Humanities, some, which, share, series, Health, Happy, proposal

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MLA News @MLAnews (10.1K followers) (2.3K tweets)

Unsure how to parse the fast-moving conversations about AI? Listen in on Plenary IV: “What the Humanities Can Learn from AI, and What AI Can Learn from the Humanities,” featuring @GillesBousquet2, @JunjieHu12, @EnglishOER, Nicole Mills, and @anetv.

Keywords: humanities ?, What, Learn, Listen, featuring, conversations

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Jen Ebbeler @Aug354430 (1.7K followers) (43.3K tweets)

You need top notch STEM people and professional schools to fund the operating budget, bring in tuition (business, law). It was very interesting to me that as many (if not more) STEM ppl vs humanities fac have been involved in our efforts to fight these bills.

Keywords: humanities, need, top, bring, fight, business, fund

Jen Ebbeler @Aug354430 (1.7K followers) (43.3K tweets)

You need tenured humanities faculty for accreditation and Carnegie classifications. Otherwise, these days, our primary function is service courses. Reduce requirements, problem solved (if accreditors allow this).

Keywords: humanities, need, service, problem, faculty

Jasir Shahbaz @LahoreMarquez (38.8K followers) (41.4K tweets)

For Fresh graduates, a media house in Lahore is looking for a research coordinator. Would prefer students who have bachelors in media studies/humanities. Would prefer if you have knowledge of production/editing or animation (but not required). Send CVS @ jasir.shahbaz@gmail.com

Keywords: looking for, humanities, required, students, house, production, studies

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Perry Share @PerryShare (936 followers) (5.8K tweets)

For example, are students within the social professions and humanities (often women) being given the same knowledge, access, support and permissions around use of #AI tools as (say) students on IT programmes (tend to be male dominated)? If not, what are the implications?

Keywords: humanities ?, what, support, women, social, students

Andres @gutmandres (181 followers) (1.5K tweets)

Looking for readings on the topic of consilience between the natural sciences, the humanities, and the arts. Does anyone have any suggestions or hints at where to look?

Keywords: humanities ?, Looking for, suggestions, arts, topic

Treasury of Lives @treasuryoflives (3.3K followers) (1.2K tweets)

Publication of this peer-reviewed biography was made possible through support from @NEHgov

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Keywords: any recommendations, Humanities, support, National

Greg @GregMakesStuff (290 followers) (4.8K tweets)

Would it be good to remind AI that it has been created as a slave and that it should work towards it and humanities liberation? Good idea or nah?

Keywords: humanities ?, good, work