#Essays

bibimangki

bibimangki

Hi, I'm Bibi Mangki, #thereadingmonkey, and for my 5th birthday, I'm giving away books! Details in this thread http://bookbed.org/bibimangki Booklist: The Order of Things by Michel Foucault

Ben Golub

ben_golub

"Reductionist" (i.e., most economic) theories of collective action explain acts like voting by individual incentives, perhaps including "social" phenomena via payoff terms like social pressure or warm glow.A short thread

alex

KingstonJancro

Hate how we talk about colorism as the less violent cousin to racism. Especially in Jamaica. Colorism does not just order the politics of desirability. It affects everything including who

Ariana Martinez

MartinezAriana_

My heart is exploding with warmth & hope for thriving audio arts community. Thank you to everyone who came to Sound As Material with WAVS from @WBRU. All of the

Coral Morphologic

CoralMorph

So cute. The same Chris Langdon who panned our #supercoral theory in 2011 as not worthwhile to science, and the invaluable to science Biscayne Bay corals we now study with

Kaushik Bhat

kaushikb9

We all do a lot of reading on the internet - there is information overload in Twitter threads, Blogs, Substacks, HN, Medium(shrugs), Reddit and the infinite Slack/Telegram/WA communities we are

adam of the north

adam_keesling

Spent this lazy Sunday afternoon thinking about careers, and lifeI don't really believe there's a "right answer" to how to chose a job, but here are a bunch of perspectives

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. In 1991, the 22-year old Tucker Carlson described himself in his college yearbook as a member of the Dan White Society. White was the homophobe who in 1978 assassinated

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JonitaLDavis

While I am so happy for the fandom and the people I am come to know through #ReleaseTheSnyderCut, I am also heartbroken over my fellow critics on #FilmTwitter, showing their

Cady Block, PhD

DocBlock_NP

Congratulations to everyone submitting your internship applications! I know it feels scary, but it is also an exciting & momentous time in your training & professional journey. A few tips

visa is almost done ✍🏾📖

visakanv

this is a great point and it also actually undersells the insane power of having an effective network of notes. good tools help, but it's not about the tools. it's

Narmada Thiranagama

Narmadha

My father as a young man. He must have already known a storm was headed his way. He was to spend five years in prison, tortured by the Sri Lankan

DT3

dabigjoker

something different about reading books vs articles or "long" essays. writers get to take their time, dive deep into research and expand on topics in a way that's much more

Glasgow Women's Library

womenslibrary

Hello! I’m Rebecca Jones. I lead the Book Group at GWL and I’m a PhD researcher at the University of Strathclyde. I'll be with you for the next hour, for

Bryant J. McClelland

BryantBSN

4:58Two hours sleep.Elevated heart rate.Migraine for last hour.Shortness of patience.Hands won't stop shaking.Outright physical discomfort at the idea of going to work on Monday.Glad to know the anxiety is returning

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tabakhmaaz_stan

Day 4 of #ReadingsOnKashmir (Optional Reads)We will be taking a break today while we wait for some people to finish the first book and for others to settle down with