#Books

literallies ☾

reallynotjin

i get so peeved when i see internet talk about 'dark academia' in terms of just an aesthetic of dressing like a rich but depressed male white botanist who smokes

Dr William Tullett

WillTullett

Here’s a positive thread about some of the excellent books out there on smell histories. It’s an exciting, growing field. Let’s start with @smellosopher new book Smellosophy - which starts

Tess Fowler

TessFowler

I know what you're feeling right now. You're not wrong. But I'm telling you its ok to hope. The sun rose this morning on so many freshly rebellious hearts. Why

Pollyanna Sanderson

PrivacyPoll

I want to highlight and summarize my takeaways from one of my favorite articles published in January on the topic of privacy: "A premature Eulogy for Privacy" by @EvanSelinger: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-premature-eulog

Dr. Habeeb☪️

DocProdigy

The famous French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was a Muslim & wished to implement the Shari'a law in France and rest of the Europe.This is recorded in a number of historical

Travis Seifman

toranosukev

Thank you to everyone at @ucsc_omi for an incredible program today on the Koza Uprising which took place on Dec 20, 1970. Deeply moving, thought-provoking, and educational. I learned a

Linda Bauld

LindaBauld

Don't know any of the details regarding this decision, but a few thoughts on this from a research perspective (Thread) 1/9https://twitter.com/bbcscotnewspr/status/1304338513870098432 Mass media is a powerful tool to promote public

Rafael Higonnet-Faithfull

RafFaithfull

Short thread:In this interview Liam Bright favoringly cites the work of Otto Neurath as the beneficial fruit bore by the Vienna Circle.I think that this is an interesting window onto

Liam Bright

lastpositivist

Here's a pet sociological theory about culture warring, followed by a quasi-black-nationalist call to rid ourselves of it. There is, at present, some sort of internal fight among many white

☀️ Dayman (ah-ah-ah) ☀️

HLMacfarlane

Possibly long thread ahead! I thought I'd address a few points for why I think self-publishing is great, even if your ultimate intention is to get picked up by an

meredith kahn

m_kahn

- avg price of a new car is now $40k- avg price of a used car is over $27K https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/average-new-car-price-2020/But yeah, "bikes are expensive."#a2council But wait, there's more! The average

Just Paul

doghandleruk

2011 - Project Griffin: Half day, 3 coppers from Surrey Constabulary complete with dummy devices, graphic descriptions of bombs and real world.2015 - Project Griffin: 2hrs in a classroom with

Martha Wells

marthawells1

So this year is starting off great. (Yes, that's sarcasm.) My first novel, The Element of Fire was published in 1993 by Tor Books, long before ebooks. When it went

Success Theory

MySuccessTheory

It is okay not to be happy about where you are todayBut it is not okay to stay unhappy and do nothing about itYou need these 10 Success Theories!///THREAD\\\ To

Annu Jalais

AnnuJal

I'd like to start a thread with all the times women or POC #academics have felt erased when their work has come out in the media (news / online articles)

Kyle Sammin

KyleSammin

If you hate Ulysses Grant, you hate the United States of America. This iconoclasm may have started with the Confederates, but now it clearly knows no limit. The mob will

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