#Pretty

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 317Today was medical grand rounds: brief summary below but worth watching for latest on vaccine distribution in SF, current state of the pandemic, & the
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Curious about how we study tiny #chameleons, why we look at their #genitals, and how minuscule #animals can change the way we understand the world? Here's a T H R
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I keep talking to engineers who are antsy to get to senior and beyond, frustrated that it is taking so long. And I've encountered one very, very widespread blind spot
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Michael Pittman is a player I am often asked about and people seem surprised by my answer and I am surprised by their surprise. Is he bulletproof?Lets find out! Pittman
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For reasons I might be less likely to want to tweet controversial things right now and so might stick to sensible safe topics for a while....No, fuck that, lets do
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It's one of my favorite holidays today. Happy White Shirt Day! 84 years ago today, working-class people in Flint, MI emerged victorious from the Flint Sit Down Strike. #FlintSitdownStrike #Flint
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In the following thread - like I used to do in a previous life - I'll try to explain what's going on politically in #Italy (not an easy task, tbh)
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"He's not just unprepared -- he's temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility." - @HillaryClinton, 2016Four years ago this country failed itself, bigly.We
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1/ So You Wanna Live in a Van Down by the RiverA how-to-do full-time RV life guide for those of you who want to cast off the shackles of stationary
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I offered testimony to the @OregonState Board of Trustees regarding impact of in person learning on broader Benton County community. I shared alarming projections re: increased deaths & infections
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Quotes on Steven Gerrard. A thread. "There was a point when Gerrard was the best midfield player in the world. It is unusual to get complete midfield players who can
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I think I need to work on not apologising for talking about someone who profits off the choicest bits of a culture that isn't theirs. That's a very important thing
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Why filling in the Law Commission consultation matters. Looks like a simple streamlining & consolidation of “various reforms”. Don’t be fooled. The devil is in the detail. Lots (I mean
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Two weeks ago, a cargo ship ran aground in our lagoon, right by Blue Bay, a protected Marine Park.Today, the ship is flooding the lagoon with oil. Everyone's devastated.There are
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The judge is giving Giuliani *lots* of rope.https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1328776597894295553 ... and Giuliani is arguing at length about fraud, lack of access by Republicans to observe vote-counting and other issues that the
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Excited (and nervous) to give a Zoom lecture today to a 5th-grade class about astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia and its legacy! It’s impossible to talk about any aspect of scholarship
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