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yungneocon

Without stepping too much outside of my wheelhouse, As I am not a demographer or historian of biostatistics, I wanted to do a synthetic thread on ‘population’ & its role

Lukas Hensel

LukasHenselEcon

My partner and I traveled from London Heathrow to Beijing yesterday. Given the current #COVID19 situation, I thought that I would share my experience of what traveling to China is

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

My statistician/data-science friends all tell me that if you're using a spreadsheet, you're not doing science, you're courting disaster. Real analysis requires Python, or, possibly, #julialang.https://arstechnica.com/science/202

Jes Battis

jesbattis

I've been writing about medievalist YA--i.e., YA (& middle-grade) books set in versions of the Middle Ages or that engage with the Middle Ages in some way. Here's a list

Ray Corrigan

raycorrigan

Some @OpenUniversity folks have been discussing recording of tutorials. 1/https://twitter.com/eLizHartnett/status/1008595373236129792 We have to remember the importance of dialogue for learning. Dialogues and personal support are critical f

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Ticketmaster is a runaway corrupt monopoly. They forced out or gobbled up every ticketing company, then merged with Live Nation and monopolized both venues and promo, to the vast detriment

𝑶𝒍𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒆 𝒅𝒆 𝑺𝒕-𝑮𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒂𝒔 ⚜️ (🇬🇷)

LaMarquise___

LES FEMMES DANS LES GUERRES DE VENDÉE (1793-1796)De nombreux mythes, et notamment celui des « amazones guerrières », entourent les femmes ayant pris part aux soulèvements de l’Ouest royaliste contre

Alok Bhatt

alok_bhatt

Howsoever hard media's "Arial washing powder" -@ShekharGupta -tries to wash dirty linen of Tablighi Jamaat in his "washing machine" - @ThePrintIndia - fact remains that TJ's invisible hand in working

mason moore

MasonMargiela12

1/N the genocide of Black Americans: A THREAD 2/N "The United Nations, on December 9, 1948, defines genocide as any killings on the basis of race, or in it specificities,

Brandon J. McKoy

Brandon_McKoy

When the unprecedented wildfires raged in Australia last year, it was shocking to see much of their elected leadership fall short of sending necessary relief quickly & still denying basic

Aaron Akpu Philip (MSPH)

AaronAkpuPhilip

𝘾𝙊𝙍𝙊𝙉𝘼𝙑𝙄𝙍𝙐𝙎 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝘿𝙄𝙎𝘼𝘽𝙄𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙔: 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙉 𝘼 𝙋𝘼𝙉𝘿𝙀𝙈𝙄𝘾-A threadIn 2011, the World Bank and the World Health Organisation (WHO) teamed up to produce the "World Report on Disability". This was the

Zinn Ed Project

ZinnEdProject

#tdih 1964 James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, & Andrew Goodman were tortured and murdered by KKK with help from deputy sheriff in Neshoba Cty, Miss. They had investigated burning of a

Porte parole EJLC 🇫🇷

MickaEJLC

Le monde occidental part en vrille. Nos démocraties libérales sont menacées.l'extrême gauche (et l'islamisme) représente une menace majeure, comme avec le communisme ou le national socialisme. Cette fois elle a

GreGORY Maupin

GJMaupin

I mean, people, there is an *entire* Disney musical about this.https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1317514065477074945 Say what you will about Disney’s personal politics, the company made a ‘60s musical in which the Harrison/Clevelan

Angry Staff Officer

pptsapper

Reading the "Black Codes" passed by southern states during Reconstruction, placing freed people into conditions as close to slavery as they could make themSherman should've mowed the deep south like

Tim Dunn

MrTimDunn

I have been asked an interesting question. Why does London’s Moorgate tube station have a mix of “traditional” bar-and-Circle roundels... and weird diamonds? Well... (1/6) The Metropolitan Railway, or “the