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Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

This is the excavation site under the #AcropolisMuseum in #Athens. While the museum displays the Classical era - the period most traditionally associated w/ Athens - the excavation below showcases

Ashton Pittman

ashtonpittman

NEW: Mississippi hospitals are resorting to "extreme measures" like cramming two people into single-person ICU rooms as critical #COVID19 patients keep pouring into already-full ICUs."We’re doubling up on ICU rooms,

Eric Rauchway

rauchway

On this day in 1992, President George H. W. Bush issued pardons for six men. Arguably, these pardons did more to enable future criminal presidencies even than Gerald Ford’s pardon

Janet French

Jantafrench

#abed news: The Alberta government is disbanding a group of 358 teachers, academics, Indigenous and francophone experts who were reviewing the new K-12 curriculum and rapidly assembling new groups of

Gideon Orion Oliver

gideonoliver

In this @GwynneFitz @Gothamist @WNYC scoop: NYC-local prosecutors, who made misleading public promises to dismiss certain charges arising from the recent George Floyd protests, are in fact dismissing only a

Kavita Krishnan

kavita_krishnan

Captain Bhoopendra Singh of Indian Army’s Rashtriya Rifles abducted & killed 3 Kashmiri men from their home, where they had just returned from grocery shopping and staged an "encounter". How

Chico Camargo

evoluchico

Thread time!"Google DeepMind's AI will change everything you know about biology and protein structures". Fact or fiction? 2018: DeepMind's latest AI program, AlphaFold, beats everyone at a very niche competition:

Egham Museum

EghamMuseum

What do we have here? Oh, just a MEGA Egham-based Twitter thread. No biggie What's it about? Erm, that time the people of Egham adopted HMS Orestes in March, 1942Well,

Jambavan

SirJambavan

Far from me to gain mileage over the misfortune of unlucky men .. but the Canadian PM must be worried about his friends in Asia and the inhumane treatment they

Sreejith Parameswaran

SreejithDr

It is exactly #25years since I entered Government Medical College, #Kottayam, Kerala, as a medical student, on 12th September 1995! From a timid (& lean) lad all of 17 years,

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

First, I want to say how impressed I am with the work @StatCan_eng has been doing to keep us informed, and help us get *better* informed with regard to policy

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

When covid struck Florida, @GeoRebekah - a data scientist working for the state - created a dashboard to help people in the state follow the disease's spread as Republican Governor

Rizwan

Rizwow

Arundhati Roy writes in her book 'Azadi', "Fundamentally, India is in many ways still an empire, its territories held together by its armed forces and administered from Delhi, which, for

THE CITY

THECITYNY

1/ Last week, the rules around evictions in NYC changed *again.* This time, specifically for people with nonpayment cases. So for this week’s rent update, we’re breaking down what these

David Corn

DavidCornDC

1. It's been overshadowed by other matters (the pandemic, impeachment), but @realDonaldTrump's betrayal of the United States related to Putin's attack on American democracy should not be overlooked or forgotten

Jens Nordvig

jnordvig

Where is the US 2nd wave heading? There some bad news, but also some better trends to pay attention to. Hence, this is an attempt at a 'balanced thread' (so

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