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This is a @staceyabrams appreciation thread. Everyone is showering her with praise today and I want to join in by sharing a few personal stories about her. Here’s a pic
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Twitter will one day be used by social scientists and writers to tell the stories of history. So keep posting those where you were tales. I was at the airport,
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On this day, as one Canadian to another, I want to express my profound shame, regret, sorrow and horror for the crimes our govt committed and are complicit in against
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Okay homotopy theory thread, or "how topologists tell spaces apart". This is completely general, you don't even need to know what a function is*, and there's cool stuff from the
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Cracking PM interviews: Just collating a couple of points from some conversations over the last few days(thread) 1. Don’t spray paint your applications and wait for luck by chance. Play
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THREAD: Cycling on a budgetIf you've been following the commentary from talk radio hosts, opinion columnists and anonymous twitter accounts, you could be forgiven for thinking cycling is a hobby
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They derailed a fucking train. In Boucherville. They laid tracks down in the middle of the street and drove it a kilometer. Deisel electric locomotives are just big generators. They
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Just to unpack today's announcement a little.PHE has been operating for the past 7 years to provide a huge range of functions. Health protection is of course a key part
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So I wrote this end-of-year thing for @NiemanLab, and one thing I didn't put in it was an underlying revelation about terminology, particularly about narratives and claims and how we
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How I Went From 154lbs To 108lbs! Okay I get a lot of questions asking me about how I lost weight, what meals I ate, and stuff like that, so
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People need to trouble their liberal (mis)understanding and (mis)use of identity. Here's an example:Tomasa Yarhui is an indigenous Quechua political "voice" from Bolivia. She's also a center-right Christian Democrat, here
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THREAD 1/ Yesterday a 3rd FBI raid on the Chinese owned Saipan casino & on Gov Ralph Torres office took place. There are direct links between Saipan & Mar a
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1/ This is coming later than most #BlackintheIvory stories, as I was trying to submit an @NIH grant on time. I did not - submit it on time - but
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What's up! I'm vacation! Let's talk about why board games get cheaper the longer they've been out and why it's important to pay full price vs discounted. Righto! So I've
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"UG'S 1ST PREGNANCY SCARE"It was "Man Utd vs Chelsea" and he invited the boys over to watch the game but just when Drogba was in on goal to score,she walked
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This is John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). Although it doesn’t look remotely controversial today, when it was exhibited at 1884 Paris Salon, the public were so shocked & disgusted
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