#Authors

Carol Hinz

CarolCHinz

THREAD: I want to shine a spotlight on all the teachers and librarians who have found ways to read books aloud to their students during this time of distance learning.

Tricia Ebarvia

triciaebarvia

“I never trusted the institution of schools. I didn’t see myself in books and I knew the way Native stories were told. The story of me getting here is a

Julio Friedmann

CarbonWrangler

1/ Watching this now!! So glad to see this report. Congratulations to @EFIForTheFuture especially the lead authors Sally Benson & Melanie Kenderdine.Comments in thread https://twitter.com/efiforthefuture/status/1319349074211033088 2/ La

David Nicholls

DavidNWriter

The prawn skewers have defrosted on the window sill overnight and so its time for #twitterbooklaunch, our celebration of authors who've missed out on events. Please scroll, share and check

Ben Braithwaite

benbraithwaite

It's been good to see more and more linguists recently pointing out how deeply embedded modality chauvinism still is in our field, where language is often used to mean 'spoken

Peter Daszak

PeterDaszak

It’s official: “substantial probability that normal speaking causes airborne virus transmission in confined environments.” 1 minute of talking loudly can produce more than 1,000 virus-containing droplets that could linger in the

Yann LeCun

ylecun

I'm an immigrant.I came first to work at Bell Labs on a J-1 visa, because I thought I'd stay only a year or two.But I stayed longer and got an

AGU Biogeosciences

AGUbiogeo

Hi B-section tweeps. There have been a number of questions and comments re. the AGU Fall Meeting schedule. Here are some answers... 1st off--we hear you re. the schedule. It

Wild Woman Writing Club

wwwritingclub

In June, 7,000 women who accept being relegated to a sub-set of their own sex signed a letter to Liz Truss demanding she give away to men the sex-based rights

Jonathan Fuller

JonathanJFuller

An op ed is basically an extended argument and philosophers examine arguments, so here is a rapid review of this perspective piece by @mlipsitch, @gregggonsalves, @CarlosdelRio7, @RWalensky from a philosopher

Caroline Coleman

cg_coleman

A few weeks ago, I did a cover-to-cover read-through of the First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2020 textbook. As the book’s illustration co-editor, I was looking for graphics

Dominique PERETTI

dperetti

Did you like the NEJM NY study? Let’s have a look at the Lancet’s!TLTR: again, the surprising stuff is in the appendix. So, wow! 96032 hospitalised patients from 671 hospitals!

b-boy bouiebaisse

jbouie

I’ll note, again, the effort to conflate the entire magazine issue with its lead essay — and really, a single sentence in that essay — a transparent attempt to discredit

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kirasbens

thread where i appreciate fanfic writers, and I encourage my followers to /@ their favorite fanfic writer with a nice message @ReyloRobyn2011 You were one of the first i ever

Melanie Harding-Shaw

MelHardingShaw

Overdue thank you thread. Thank you to everyone who has reached out and been so kind over the last few days! Thank you to my wonderful friend @JCHart for all

Medieval Manuscripts

BLMedieval

A thread for #NationalPoetryMonth, showcasing items from the @britishlibrary collections.Starting with Beowulf! The longest epic poem in Old English survives in a single manuscript, made sometime around AD 1000. We