If you're an academic (and can prove it with an ORCID), consider signing a petition protesting the University of Ghent's suspension of a postdoc for exposing academic misconduct, a blatant violation of academic freedom (as always, regardless of your agreement with all of the whistleblower's views). https://t.co/bkZ98z609Q https://t.co/UrjFnA93Sk
Can you imagine deleting 66,000+ problematic tweets? Why does the BJP repeatedly elevate some of the most misogynistic, sexist, communal, homophobic, racist, vile and uncouth voices on the internet to run its social media machinery, in other words the greatest scums of the earth?
Schools don't have teachers, hospitals don't have doctors, water has uranium, air is polluted, deforestation is at an all time high, the rupee is at an all time low, petrol prices are at an all time high, manipur is burning and after being the world's second-largest sugar exporter, we are now an importer. But yeah, let's talk about Vande Mataram.
The @JaipurDialogues is run by @Sanjay_Dixit , a retired RAS officer .
This officer who spent decades in service with zero standout achievements now sits on X, scrutinising an upright officer’s follow list like a schoolboy checking who liked whose status.
@Tukaram_IndIAS is doing real work in the FDA , cleaning up systems, taking on vested interests, and delivering results. Jaipur Dialogues , on the other hand, is reduced to “he doesn’t follow Modi on Twitter, therefore let’s question his ideology.”
When Dixit's biggest contribution after retirement is running a YouTube channel and playing online detective over follows, maybe the mirror needs to be turned around.
Judging a serving officer’s integrity by his X following is not analysis. It’s the intellectual bankruptcy of people who have nothing else left to show.
You can do all the good things in the world, you can save people from consuming adulterated food but if you don't follow PM Modi you can be labelled as "anti national"🤡
Another platform rushing to rehabilitate Cofnas as the “victim.” The masks are coming off. This is bigger than one academic: it is a network defending racial hierarchy and calling it “free speech.” Now we stand together and fight it together
How can information regarding CEC's visits all over India be kept secret from RTI as "personal" ?
Does Mr Gyanesh Kumar Gupta pay for these trips from his pocket?
@SaketGokhale
Those such as myself who pointed out a power network behind Cofnas were ridiculed as conspiracy theorists. Now the big, stupid US state at the centre of the network wades in like Biff Tannen to threaten a Belgian university wanting rid of a postdoc 'race scientist'. Dark times.
Cuando la universidad de Yale expulsó a David Graeber, el antropólogo más influyente de los últimos 50 años, el gobierno de EEUU no dijo nada. Cuando una universidad belga expulsa a un académico racista de tercera división, el gobierno de EEUU amenaza con sanciones.
Cofnas himself believes low quality work doesn't justify a position at a top University. So with that in mind, he shouldn't mind if he's suspended from university given the feedback on his academic work.
1/ Yesterday Cofnas was supposedly an independent academic exposing corruption. Today the U.S. government is publicly threatening to review its relationship with Ghent on his behalf.
Meanwhile, in Uttarakhand, the SIR takes a predictable turn
Just 5 BJP-linked men across 5 constituencies filed 6,500 objections seeking to remove voters from the rolls. Every single voter they targeted is Muslim.
https://t.co/v1mjspZzke
It appears @nathancofnas is about to receive the kind of scrutiny he thinks applies only to others (and other races). Soon everyone will know that he is a complete academic fraud.
A classic case of incentives degenerating into an absurd farce. 🤦♂️
The crisis: Students are opting out of Delhi University's 4th-year UG courses due to severe career concerns.
The "solution": Allow them direct entry into a Ph.D. program!
But what if this incentive fails to retain them? What's next? Will a 4-year UG degree with a 7.5 CGPA make you eligible to become a lecturer?
@UniOfDelhi #DelhiUniversity #HigherEducation #HEI #Academia #FYUP
Arnab looked like an idiot. @Rhiyahir did not cry. Did not capitulate. She spoke gracefully. Arnab the sycophant was abusive and defensive. In Journalism , you question people in power. You punch up the weight. This coward only sucks to the powerful.
First privacy of bahu-beti was cited to deny CCTV footage of polling stations, now privacy of CEC Gyanesh Kumar is being cited to deny details of official visits undertaken by him and the public money spent!
This is EXACTLY why the govt amended the RTI Act through the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act- in the garb of protecting personal information, shield public servants from accountability.
Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act was amended through DPDP to expand the scope of the exemption to prevent disclosure of ALL personal information. Earlier the RTI only allowed denial of such personal information which had no relationship to public activity or interest.
@Neiphiu_Rio@PemaKhanduBJP Sir, post something on the government plan & policies in improving the interstate relations.
Say-Connectivity issues between Mon, Nagaland & TCL in AP.
Happy birthday can be done on the phone!