#Historical

I'd like to share something with you @jkenney. I'm adapting the words of my wife, @GenOlivier, for Twitter because this is too important not to share with you. Her words
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NEW(-ish) PAPER: Understanding recruitment limitations in a critically endangered species: The story of the iconic Cape cedar (Widdringtonia wallichii)Open Access: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01062 The Clanwilliam cedar has been in
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Alright, since "Jeremy" wants the smoke, it appears I'm going to have to roll out a thread about how his team's sophistical posturing on topics like intersectionality engenders just enough
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I've seen a few evangelical brothers & sisters saying "not all evangelicals!" this week (and the Trump presidency more broadly) by pointing to examples of individual, apolitical acts of individual
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Thread:Over the past 24 hours, Wiley has:Called Jews “cowards”, “racists”, and “snakes”.Told Jews to “crawl out from under your little rocks and defend your Jewish privilege.”Posted an Instagram photo claiming
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It was not a good day for the CPS yesterday. Its annual #VAWG report showed that the number of convictions and prosecutions have fallen to the lowest level since records
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We are collaborating with @MainStProject on a series of #WpgHomelessnessFacts to help inform our community, undo harmful stigma and stereotypes, and build understanding. Fact #1: Housing is a Human Right.
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Here is a great collection of resources for doing online research and a thread with a few thoughts https://docs.google.com/document/d/1clGjGABB2h2qbduTgfqribHmog9B6P0NvMgVuiHZCl8/preview?fbclid=IwAR33NUEbgWya6fFJFAlDVFNfcjS2sthf62l0hqnFyeOo
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More misinformation, and this time the "doctrine of radical behaviourism" is invoked. I'll quote it again: "A stimulus-response formula has no answer, but operant behavior is the very field of
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Just like to make a thread explaining details about LoF.Let’s start with Wuxia.What is Wuxia?Wuxia is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artist in ancient China.
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Some comments on this Bloomberg article about India's farmer protests, and its use of historical analogies as well as concepts from development economics.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-10/india-s-farm-protests-have-p
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“Bar Association” is one of the best DS9 episodes, and deserves to be remembered as one of Star Trek’s greatest allegory episodes. It’s amazing the way the story manages to
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1. Oh my God. They're the descendants of or they are mimicking the Amorites, aka the Canaanites...some of the most wicked people to ever walk the face of the earth,
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Wafula Buke gives 10 REASONS why the kikuyu nation deserves sympathy rather than condemnation as they wander in Ruto's political darkness.1. The Kikuyu gave us a global trade mark when
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Did the aghribat al-'arab ("crows of the Arabs") write on their blackness? A short thread...https://twitter.com/AntarIbnShadad/status/1011510642656923648 Lists of the aghribat al-'arab, or "crows of the Arabs," a
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v1 of my thread on Sicilian Jews:The historical Sicilian Jewish community at its height was one of the most numerous in the world relative to its host population (at ~5%
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