#System

#CriticalRaceTheorists will often cite racial disparities as evidence of racism. You might think that this claim is just naive or simplistic, but the real reason for this assertion goes far
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Today's talk is with neuroscientist #KarlFriston of @ucl, who will offer a heuristic proof suggesting that life is an inevitable emergent property of any weakly mixing random dynamical system that
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Being a PhD student during this pandemic has left me completely jaded and questioning ‘what is the point?’ and ‘is everything performative?’ Thread 1/? In the next 10 days I
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It is simply wrong to downgrade young people in schools just because their school results from previous years didn't match up. There are many reasons why results change and for
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I’m receiving a lot of questions about my experiences in foster care from people who have watched my podcast with @BenjaminABoyce ! I’m not sure if I can keep up
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THREAD on @NewDiscourses & cynical interpretations.I've got a critical essay about one particular chapter of Cynical Theories on the way. But since it won't be out for a bit, let's
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Because my immune system screwed up my nerves, I've been continuously in pain for nearly 30 years. As a kid, I'd always assumed I'd be a father. I love kids.
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Today I just want to shout out my favourite safety tool: Resistance Rolls in Blades In The Dark. The fact that they're not bolted on but built in to the
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New: government confirms it is ploughing on with academy conversions, despite coronavirus: https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/146286/government-confirms-it-is-ploughing-on-with-academy-conversions-despite-coronavirus.thtml The situat
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Look, let’s face it - NOBODY likes to queue. But that doesn’t give ANYONE the right to cut queue, which is a slap in the face of the the folks
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You cannot apologize your way out of racism. Like nearly every single white person in America, I was raised by “nice people” who also happened to be racists. I was
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1/5 Today is #WindrushDay. It marks the day 72 years ago when the Empire Windrush ship arrived here at Tilbury Docks and gave its name to a generation of migrants
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What Trump is saying abt mail-in voter fraud is the essence of the prosecution Jeff Sessions leveled against our clients in Perry County, AL in 1985 that led CorettaScottKing to
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Yesterday I said with regard to @pareene’s take about making things work that to improve bus service we need to make government more technocratic & less responsible to people who
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So I’m in isolation. Again.From a close contact in my classroom. Again. I’m teaching online. Again.To kids who are now forced into learning from home when they chose in-person school.
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As an ER doc for 20 years I thought I'd seen it all: outbreaks, death, you name it. But this #pandemic is the worst. Due to mass layoffs, millions will
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