#Ideas

Abigail De Kosnik

De_Kosnik

This is really important for media scholars: the narrative that Trump's supporters were merely unsophisticated victims of a talented demagogue repeats the "media effects" argument, which holds that media audiences

Xemmy Nu Year

UnclePetunio

Okay. So let's talk about that X-Men Vote.Yes, I'm going to do a thread to collect my thoughts. Because while I am typically ALL ABOUT fan involvement and fan voting,

Sam

LiveFromOdessa

Recently @nlw posted this image and lamented the fact that we are repeatedly let down by our elected officials. I agree, it's incredibly frustrating.However, what I'd like to do is

Zena Hitz

zenahitz

A few final (I hope) thoughts on the Battle of the Books. Some of my basic assumptions have been obscured in the heat of battle. I'd like to try to

Jin Russell

DrJinRussell

Simon Thornley, Sunetra Gupta, & a minority advocating for "herd immunity" while shielding high risk groups claim they've been silenced. But Gupta claimed in July that areas like London may

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/Woke teachers are ruining education.This elementary teacher, who doesn't know when America was founded, says she teaches her students about leftist protesting and activism but refuses to teach the actual

Yonatan Grad

yhgrad

New (short) preprint on B117: “Densely sampled viral trajectories suggest longer duration of acute infection with B.1.1.7 variant relative to non-B.1.1.7 SARS-CoV-2” https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37366884 Why is B117 more transmissi

Jessica Johnson

ejessicajohnson

How to meet a writing deadline: 1. Start by writing whatever you know. Sometimes this is just the title of an assignment or the bullet points you were handed by

Shira Buchsbaum

sbooksbowm

Sharing my model of the #FanfictionCommunicationCircuit, a refashioning of Darnton's circuit that places fanfiction production in tandem to traditionally-published books and elaborates on the production of creative reader responses! #bo

Dmitry Kobak

hippopedoid

OK, I'll bite.PHATE (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-019-0336-3) from @KrishnaswamyLab is like Isomap meeting Diffusion Maps: MDS on geo distances obtained via diffusion. Cool paper!So let's test it on: (1) MNIST, (2) Tasic20

David Perell

david_perell

MEGA THREAD TIMEHere are 50 ideas that shape my worldview.These are my guiding principles and the light of my intellectual life. All of them will help you think better, and

Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy FSA FRHistS

dramdarcy

Just received this thoughtful piece from a colleague and friend at Stanford (medievalists in the US are watching this shabby debacle with keen interest). It's by the author of the

Fangirl Jeanne

fangirlJeanne

I think this is a pretty good breakdown of shipping and does a decent job of pointing to how it can lead to conflict with other fans and even creators.Though

Alice Evans

_alice_evans

97% of CCP provincial leaders are male?https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/features/pretty-lady-cadres-china - excellent piece by @shenlulushenI’d add, patriarchal governance is reinforced by authoritarianism.It silences feminist

Brian Thorson

BGThorson

What if instead of going on staff rides to historical battlefields we went on staff rides to future battlefields? Throughout history, militaries have failed to envision the changing character of

Matt Clancy

mattsclancy

Innovators in big cities have long benefited from stronger “local knowledge spillovers” as compared to innovators in smaller cities and towns. But various evidence suggests this advantage has been eroding

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