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Celebrating Dr Gaokgatlhe Mirriam Tawane- the FIRST Black Woman to receive her PhD in #palaeoanthropology in South Africa in 2012! She is currently the Curator of Plio-Pleistocene palaeontology at @DitsongMuseumSA#DiversityInFieldWork
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As restaurants re-open (again) around us, I'm seeing so much confusion (again) about this.Mostly I see: "Why is it okay for hair salons/clothes stores to open, but not restaurants?"Thread
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Never forget that the oldest & continually operating university in the world was founded in Morocco by a young Muslim woman named Fatima al-Fihri. She used her inheritance to build
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Did you know in 2017, NYC became the first city to formally introduce environmental justice into city decision making? Local Laws 60 & 64 establish an agency taskforce & independent
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Wow, okay folks. So this evening @wweek published a extremely brief piece "reporting" on a statement we sent specifically to press earlier today. They claim that in said statement, we
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A SMALL BIZ (1/7)Yesterday I converted my first lead into a client A bit of a hiccup on the proposal because I am still learning @mydubsado and creating
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OHA Director Pat Allen speaking at today's news conference: "I want give you an update on how we ramped up to reach @OregonGovBrown's target of 12,000 vaccinations and our plans
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Why did @jrf_uk decide we must focus on reframing poverty? It started with the change we want to make in the UK: solving poverty. That requires large scale, long term
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"Who's the foreigner dressed like a Taisho era gentleman?" I thought. The answer came as something of a surprise. Blow me down if it isn't Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. It's unlike many
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Happy Veteran's Day!If you were a vet and impacted by DADT -- usually in the form of discharge that wasn't Honorable -- there are resources out there to help you
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Have spent the last couple of days looking what most distinguishes the 139 districts represented by Republicans that objected to the certification of election results last Wednesday. Some of my
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Given the uniformity surrounding the reflationary trade next year, its worth exploring which pillars of this thesis are most vulnerable. One area of concern is the recent turn in
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Dear @postandcourier. This ain't it. Signed a loyal subscriber.https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-turn-charlestons-john-c-calhoun-monument-into-a-teaching-tool/article_7cf500f6-b004-11ea-81c6-4f5e75f07272.html I
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LIVE TWEETING DEWINE FROM HOME TODAY, where my lovely wife has made my workspace just a little more inviting. Nice!Follow along for today’s thread... Today's briefing will begin with another
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New: the Brexit red tape mountain gets real. The latest headache... rules of origin 1/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/brexit-red-tape-reality-dawns-on-firms-bracing-for-origin-burden?sref=yMmXm5Iy It's one of those is
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I was saddened to hear today that we lost Prof. Brian O'Brien, who died peacefully after a long and productive career. He was principle investigator of the Apollo program's Dust
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