#Folk

Today's #ResearchTip is if you see someone complaining they're blocked by an academic, don't reply to the academic telling them this was unfair while tagging the blocked person in. If
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This whole motivational slant to "free time" during this lockdown/quarantine is a farce. A significant % of people are furloughed, don't have job security and are now possibly working 2-3
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Honestly I guess this is a good time to talk about my journey as an LGBTQ+ person of color... Where to even start... Lets start from the beginning I guess.
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I just...Literally the moment I introduce myself--"hi I'm Kate and I use they pronouns!"--I have, by some folk's reckoning, already begun a "social/political" discussion at work.OTOH, I can't *not* introduce
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Tbh I’m still pretty upset over the discourse regarding an off-hand remark about the whiteness of archaeology and how that intersects with the discipline’s role in colonialism - I saw
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The brain is an enchanted forest, neurotransmitters and hormones are nymphs and dryads in the folk mythology of industrial man Dopamine, spirits of compulsion, they attend you whenever you feel
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Saying "housewives don't make financial contributions in homes" is wrong.Domestic care work and child care work (esp. early child care), are valuable by ANY metric, whether time/resource input, time saved
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I'm going to regret asking this I'm sure but...what *are* "women's hard won sex based rights"? I ask this as someone with an MA in the history of gender and
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There's so much to unpack in this story by Stan Grant.First, it's easy to reject the premise: "What do coronavirus, the rise of authoritarianism and the retreat of democracy have
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[THREAD]: Regarding #OUSTDUTERTENOW I have read the transcript of this speech and from what I understand is that President Duterte was addressing the “Left” (the communists; the NPA) not ordinary
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I’m still working today but it’s less manic so I have a bit of time for reflection. What have I learned over the last three weeks? 1. Councillors play an
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I need to get something off my chest about how the #AnimalCrossing community is being treated, and sort of the current state of animal crossing, and I'll keep it
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So excited to share my first first-author paper with @TownrowLuke @Chloeiwright & @AmandaMSeed! Out now in animal behaviour and cognition’s special issue on ‘Folk Physics’ http://animalbehaviorandcognition.org/uploads/journals/28
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Want to see how much of the freshly printed money different companies got from PPP? A couple buddies launched http://DontDelete.com  yesterday Just search a company name and see how many
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1/11 @tlsibanda here is a thread on the Yaos in Bulawayo. The Yao form a significant and if not the most fascinating group of the Malawian migrant population in Zimbabwe.
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Inspired by a thread by @E_VonH_ here’s a small list by my favourite musical pieces from Korea. I’m not into Korean pop or kpop exp for @BTS_twt but I love
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