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  • SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
    10/15/19

    Academic Twitter's Gender Imbalance

    Female academics have about half the followers of men on Twitter and wield otherwise diminished influence there, according to a new study. The analysis pertains to medicine, but women across fields say the findings ring true.

  • SOURCE: CNN
    8/28/19

    Bret Stephens launches a foolish Twitter war

    by David M. Perry

    Being called a bedbug just isn't a big deal. Writing to a provost about the actions of an academic on Twitter, which Stephens said he did because "managers should be aware" how "their people...interact in the world," is the big deal. 

  • SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
    5/15/19

    Tenure, Twitter and Taking Her Board to Task

    Historian at U of Minnesota "celebrates" tenure with a scathing critique of her governing board's recent actions against a building-renaming proposal. She says she couldn't have risked these statements without job security.

  • SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    12-16-2018

    How Kevin Kruse Became History’s Attack Dog

    A few years ago, the Princeton historian brought his scholarship to hostile territory: Twitter. It made him famous and sent a message to the field that a serious scholar can also throw punches.

  • SOURCE: Newsmax
    12-14-17

    Victor Davis Hanson says Trump Must "Retire as Twitter Champ”

    “Why should Trump still care what a minor journalist tweets about him to get much-needed attention? Why does the president need to keep pounding increasingly irrelevant former FBI Director James Comey, who has been reduced to tweeting anti-Trump slogans?”