#Research

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

On 23 September 1984 the BBC broadcast the apocalypse: the story of nuclear war and its effects on the people of Sheffield. Filmed on a shoestring budget it still causes

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

We urgently need to focus on ventilation. Six months into a respiratory pandemic, we're still not given sensible and practical guidance against short-range aerosol—airborne—transmission of COVID. I wrote about the

Natasha

natasha_faroogh

I find reading to be a stress reliever & I want a way to record my learning and share it - I realize reading/having the time to do so is

Centre for Social Injustice

Punishthepoor

A plea to all domestic abuse survivors and their allies alarmed at the proposed inclusion of parental alienation in the Domestic Abuse Bill.Journalist Sonia Poulton has broadcast an interview with

Nick Hinton

NickHintonn

A conspiracy thread: Tesla and Time Travel Nikola Tesla was a Serbian inventor most famous for giving us alternating current technologies, something the modern world could not exist without. He’s

Hiroko Tabuchi

HirokoTabuchi

SUVs were the second largest cause of the global rise in carbon dioxide emissions over the past decade, eclipsing all shipping, aviation, heavy industry and even trucks:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/01/suv-conquered-america-c

Deplatforming Hate

Fight__far

With lockdown giving people more time on their hands, many have taken to online bullying as a pastime.So, I have started a thread on cyberbullying, why people abuse others online

Mike Thompson

MikeTPhD

Two different editorials were published in @CircAHA and @JAMAHealthForum on the push for home-based cardiac rehab (HBCR), so I figured I would do a quick #CQOSpotlight on the topic. I

Devdutta

Devdutta96

Please please please take your cyber security seriously even if you don’t consider yourself a high risk person. Here are a few easy things to start with. 1/n Switch from

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

WORRISOME—Key things on new VUI-202012/01 #SARSCoV2 mutation:—Likely more infectious, possibly up to 70% faster transmission.—R0 increase of ~ +0.4—23 unique changes, many in spike protein.—Comprises 62% of recent London

Michael Luo

michaelluo

Earlier this year, I read @lawrence_wright’s new thriller about a global pandemic, “The End of October,” and was dumbfounded at its prescience. Now he’s out with the definitive account of

Evan Hill

evanchill

In 2020, armed groups and individuals confronted racial justice protests with guns at least 100 times. Our new video shows how police officers often gave these groups a pass, and

Angel "this will get better" Saavedra

PolPsyProf

Plug below: Many people are trying to understand the reliably conservative 25-35% Latinx vote. We've all become fascinated by a very well-written history book about this third of a diverse

Airbag Moments. 😷🇺🇸 STOP THE BIG LIE

airbagmoments

Charleston, SC is considering taking down some confederate monuments.Richard Bodek, a local history prof, wrote a brilliant letter to the editor of the Charleston paper that is such an effective

taha

KhanStopMe

The single most important paper written about the post-9/11 era is "The epistemological crisis of counterterrorism" by Richard Jackson's in 2015.Here is what he said, a thread: Jackson identifies the

Wirecutter

wirecutter

( unofficial mini-thread) Things to keep yourself busy at home while you wait for the election results:https://wrctr.co/2GqyTNZ Everyone should be washing their pillows a couple of times a year

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