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I feel like #LGBTQinSTEMDay and #PolarPride Day is probably a good opportunity to poke my head above the snow and post a bit about what my research in the Arctic
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The left isn't in an ideological bubble. There are too many white people in too many places with too much power to avoid being exposed.When I say the Trump right
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The @UVALaw International Human Rights Clinic filed yesterday an amicus brief over the continued detention of the “#Guapinol Water Defenders.” Eleven international human rights organizations and legal clinics co-signed the
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Thread. Many are discussing student debt forgiveness. (e.g.@MattBruenig) One question is if forgiveness primarily benefits higher income households.tldr; Survey of Consumer Finances is a key data source for determining who
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New paper providing evidence of the Covid Safety Mullahs having indeed become a cult. (Ahem, I may be using terms beyond what the authors use.)h/t @jpr41411 1/ “We
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Story of MDR ( Merchant Discount Rate)Let’s suppose you buy a box of chocolates for ₹100. You don’t have cash on you. So you decide to pay using your SBI
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A thread on keeping nutrient-dense food stores for disasters and outbreaks. One mistake I see is a total focus on sheer caloric density. Calories matter, but so does health. You
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I've just finished @ProfEricAdler's Battle of the Classics. It is well-worth the read, a book that can be read profitably both by those with a passing interest in the fate
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1. Corona appears to have outcompeted influenza in a worldwide pandemic. It will become our new ‘flu’Most people will get corona, sooner or later. More than once. It will mutate
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That thread on abortion, Christianity & the White supremacy blind spot is going to take me a while today. I'm feeling sick and need a clear head b/c it's complicated
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This is roughly what the population density of the Balkans looked like right before the Slavic invasions. The region was severely depopulated and only real area of interior settlement is
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global health policy in 2020 has centered around NPI's (non-pharmaceutical interventions) like distancing, masks, school closuresthese have been sold as a way to stop infection as though this were science.this
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Hmm, not really. Look at this:https://twitter.com/melissagrelo/status/1339772726475706368 This corresponds to a prevalence of 1,583 cases per 100,000 asymptomatic individuals. It is extremely high for an asymptomatic population. There are c
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I just wish I knew what an online harm actually was Funny to see the online harms bill positioned as a blow against big tech when it will give them
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Incredible that in all these ‘left’ conversations on ‘Black antisemitism’ Moishe Postone is frequently cited yet never properly referred to as a zionist who believed all calls for “abolition of
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It's time for a long twitter thread on the nature and limits of the evidence for the ancient world!As you may be aware, compared to even something like the European
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