# \#twitter

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## [Pledging to leave Twitter](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/pledging-to-leave-twitter/1050)

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**Author:** [@rebecca](https://onscienceandacademia.org/u/rebecca)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [January 2, 2021, 8:40am UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/pledging-to-leave-twitter/1050 "2021-01-02T08:40:53Z")

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How about creating a pledge on FOK to leave Twitter? Ping @cooper @cooper.smout (btw Cooper, do you want me to merge your two accounts? if so, which of the user names do you want to keep, cooper or cooper.smout?).

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## [Academic colonialism](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/academic-colonialism/250)

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**Author:** [@rebecca](https://onscienceandacademia.org/u/rebecca)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 20, 2020, 6:49am UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/academic-colonialism/250 "2020-02-20T06:49:50Z")

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When discussing mine and others suggestion for the SIPS unconference to at some point in the future be (co-)hosted in Asia, for example at IGDORE on Bali (we’ve offered to do it for free), I today came across the term “a…

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## [The Twitterization of the Academic Mind](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/the-twitterization-of-the-academic-mind/178)

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**Author:** [@rebecca](https://onscienceandacademia.org/u/rebecca)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 1, 2019, 7:21am UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/the-twitterization-of-the-academic-mind/178 "2019-04-01T07:21:53Z")

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One important reason why we are launching this forum is that Twitter and Facebook are not really suitable forums for scholarly debate, in particular not for sensitive and difficult topics. In The Chronicle of Higher Edu…