#Years

Paul Millerd

p_millerd

1/ Meant to get around to a review of @AliAbdaal's course which I took in November. I know it was the first cohort so I'm sure the next iteration will

Guns, Ganders, and Goats

MENA_Conflict

From a recent question... rifle grenades (and their modern day replacement).It was asked what the difference between a rifle grenade and grenade launcher was. Functionally? Little. Both launches a grenade

Amy 🦓

skepticalzebra

THREAD: The litmus test for policy should not be how much it advantages the most well off, but how much it disadvantages the vulnerable. Before covid, we cared about the

Tripti Lahiri

triptilahiri

If you’ve ever wondered how it is that Hong Kong managed to occupy the mindspace of so many people and governments around the world, including yours, then read our new

Piper Huguley

piperhuguley

THREAD: On this weekend of #fathersday and #JUNETEENTH2020 I have thoughts about George Floyd's horrific lynching and #blackromance (something that people have also been discussing, that is a

Curse

cursedsalad

1. Jewish Bolsheviks engineered a genocidal famine from 1932 to 1933 called the Holodomor. Ten million people died. Despite this, the US officially recognized Russia as a state just months

Rick Morton

SquigglyRick

Remember when Scott Morrison called the Royal Commission into aged care and I asked him about cuts to the aged care funding instrument and he denied it? Well have I

Adam Coogle

cooglea

#SaudiArabia will host the virtual #G20 summit from Nov 21-22, bringing together leaders of the worlds largest 19 economies + the EU to discuss global issues. Here's a thread

RealScientists | Counts

realscientists

1It’s been amazing getting to interact with you all here, & before I leave I want to share a story about my favourite recent archaeological discovery!CW: skeletal remainsThis story starts

Emma Hilton

FondOfBeetles

In Humans, Sex is Binary and Immutableby Georgi K. Marinovhttps://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12129-020-09877-8.pdf Dr Marinov is postodoctoral researcher (genetics) at Stanford.Second paragraph."A disclaimer: I am not a ten

Shanthi Robertson

ShaKRobertson

1/6 For year's end, a thread of a few 2020 papers from emerging researchers that I really liked, mostly on migration/youth/temporality. Starting w/ @kayathiea's very lovely ethnography of backpacker farm

Rose Hayes prescribes denazification, stat

rlyeh

I watched the inauguration in a corner of my screen, while simultaneously in a work meeting (with the camera off to hide my tears).I take real joy in this moment

Brendan Fischer

brendan_fischer

We’ve been saying for a while that the broken FEC is to blame for dark money.A DC circuit decision today in a @CREWcrew case affirms that this is true.The decision

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

So a bunch of people who are trying to make a point about "liberalism" and "cancel culture" are going around, re: Paul Krueger and asking, "Where is the evidence? What

Mark Pedroli, Esq Ⓜ

MarkPedroli

Today Judge Jon Beetem ruled ("Confide case") that former Mo. Gov. Greitens wrongfully redacted phone numbers, a practice that Gov. Parsons and many others in gov continue thru today. No

Sai Padhy

sai_padhy

1/ We are officially 8 days away from @JoeBiden taking office Wondering how a Biden presidency could affect your wallet? Let’s talk about some main points within his proposed tax

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