#Social

Duncan Reyburn

duncanreyburn

A thread on the psychology of disgust & the culture wars. Our engagement with the moral order is affected/mediated by our disgust response, much like our enjoyment of wine is

Andrew

thebookdad

I've seen a bunch of discussions today about how reviews are for reader's and tbh that's not completely true. Imho, reviews are for EVERYONE. Follow me on this...(1/8)#Read #Review #BookTwitter

Infojivi Meghnad 🔗

Memeghnad

We want to be a first world developed country like America, but we will never be one because of this one prickly little thing our loudmouthed conservative masses seem to

Oregon Historical Society

OrHist

As Oregon enters into new state-and county-wide restrictions due to rising COVID-19 cases, we continue to look to history to better understand current events. Thanks to historian Dr. Kimberly Jensen,

Paul Johnson

echrso

It seems a lot of LGBT - and particularly trans - people are struggling with their mental health at the moment. This isn't surprising since, as we've seen, homo- and

disinfect ur GLASSES 🤓 keys+wallet+earbuds!

turtlebreads

i think wwx’s general “obliviousness” is sometimes overstated in fanon bc in a society upheld by courtesy and convention, there was no reason for wwx to believe that the illustrious

Freedom from Torture

FreefromTorture

MESSAGE FROM THE BARRACKS.My name is Omar. I lived in the barracks for two months.Today I'm using Freedom from Torture's platform to speak to you directly about the crisis of

Jacob Mox

JacobMox

My fellow writers at @herhoopstats have told countless stories about basketball players--in college and the pros-- using their voices for change, including the need for everyone to get out and

Capel Lofft

CapelLofft

Do people in the social sciences and humanities (esp. history) ever get bored by doing PhDs/research on the 'race/gender/colonial' aspects of x or y? I certainly get bored of hearing

Ian Mulheirn

ianmulheirn

How quickly might life get back to normal? Would faster vaccine rollout speed it up? Our new @InstituteGC paper looks at what the government's plan might mean for easing restrictions,

Jill U Adams

juadams

I’m sad today. My son will not join us for Thanksgiving. 1/Thread It was his decision, not mine. I thought we could both be extra cautious, essentially self-quarantine for

Keeper Of The 100

mrbigbrowndad

digital latinx post-mortem: one oft neglected component of the failure of digital Latinx (mitu, remezcal, latinshmatin, et al) is the way in which social commoditized ‘cool’ and made brand access

Alistair Coleman

alistaircoleman

With many prominent anti-vaxxers and anti-vaccine groups kicked off social media, it seems misinformation about the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial is less (oh-ho!) viral than usual, but make no mistake that

Luke Huizenga

huizengard_

[BIG THREAD] MeWe, the “anti-Facebook” social media platform, is overflowing with anti-vaccine content. What’s worse, administration are distinctly aware of this, but choose to do nothing. The philosophy behind MeWe’s

Hans Fiene

HansFiene

Yesterday I talked with the folks at @IssuesEtc about Gina Carano's firing. Let me revisit something I said there: https://issuesetc.org/2021/02/11/0421-lucasfilm-fires-mandalorian-actress-gina-carano-for-social-media-posts-pr-hans-fien

Alex Kaschuta Reality Czar

kaschuta

People depend on norms to guide them through life. Humans are mimetic creatures - more often than not, we default to the level of informal norms. Norms work, and the

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