#GLOBAL

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

Global Justice Center

GlobalJusticeC

NOW: The @UN_HRC is reviewing the human rights record of the United States. The Universal Periodic review is a key forum to hold the United States accountable for its human

Dyna Rochmyaningsih

rochmyaningsih

Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience . I am giving my special shout out to these amazing young female scientists from Indonesia @ameliazein @sagitaninta and @SheraGoesBoing ,--A THREAD-- I knew @ameliazein when I read

Jonathan Birch

birchlse

Here are 10 philosophy articles I liked in 2020, in no particular order (a THREAD with links). 1: Do animals have a concept of death? @Susana_MonsO sets out what it

Economic & Political Weekly

epw_in

#EPWConversationsOur #TwitterTakeover with @PKashwan and @arpithakodiveri has begun!They will be discussing state accountability in environmental governance.Join the conversation and send us your questions in Hindi, Kannada or English, in t

Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Preorder SON OF THE STORM!)

IAmSuyiDavies

I always find the “Africa is better off from the results of colonization” arguments amusing. What do people think happened with African empires & their European counterparts prior to colonization?

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

New data from Novavax vaccine just showed that UK & esp South African variants are more problematic in real world than lab experiments suggested. Implications are profound for 2021 and

Michael MacKay

mhmck

Russia is at war with Ukraine. A tactic of Russia’s invasion, especially in Luhansk and Donetsk in 2014, was to send mobs to seize public buildings. The mobs were indoctrinated

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

imperialist: israelis shoot at palestiniansnot imperialist: Parts Unknown episode "Jerusalem" generates revenue for at least 5 u.s. TV companies, is shown primarily to a white u.s audience, & is celebrated

Sophus zu Ermgassen

sophusticated

Biodiversity offsetting 'markets' are odd & interesting. In places regulators under pressure to relax trading rules to make them work more 'effectively'. But we argue (in new BioCons paper https://authors.elsevier.com/c/

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Tonight, @MaajidNawaz & @simondolan are among 10 signatories on an open letter to the FBI and M15: it alleges lockdown policies result from a global plot by the Chinese Communists,

FPLNumbers

FPLnumbers

On to #GW15 [Thread]#FPL #FPLCommunity #GFCT Injury, suspension, COVID-19 GW15 Captaincy Options Salah LIV & MUN 11th-15th: Bamford, Mahrez, Son, Kane, Robertson EPL Attacking RankingsLIV averaging /gameLEE attack TOT

dammit, mux...♥️🖤💚

themightymux

let's talk about that "white people shouldn't lead the revolution" thing it's not saying white=bad. it's saying a white understanding, uninformed by Black and Indigenous and POC and Global

Julio Friedmann

CarbonWrangler

1/9 I echo the @vsiv comment - may all public reps be as clear & thoughtful as @SeanCasten and as good at their jobs.Of course, as someone cited in this

Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver

deepa_driver

#Wikileaks' revelations reshaped our understanding of the #Iraq war & cut through the simplistic image painted by military PR - a sunny picture of a well-meaning US army saving the

Greg Walsh

walshgb

My brother and I both own stock in Roper Technologies ($ROP) and we jointly read the company’s annual reports for the past 15 years (2004-2019). We did some additional background

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