#Norms

18 reasons why you are not as smart as you think!Read thread This thread aims to expose you to some of the biases and flaws in your cognition. 1 -
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After a few weeks of doubling down on @covid_x it still blows me away that frontline health care providers had to become their own rapid response teams. Residents are now
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Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf This classic follows Orlando, an adventerous poet who lives for centuries and changes sex from male to female. The novel has been adapted many
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NYSED Board of Regents is about to approve a "Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Educational Framework" that perfectly illustrates what parents are up against all over this country. First, Chancellor's call to action.
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I was interviewed on Monday for an Inside Higher Ed piece about how the pandemic had affected women faculty. The resulting article distorted what I said so I requested that
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Difficulty discourse is back so here's a thread with links to two more threads where I discuss how what we think of difficulty is really a ton of different design
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Most of my education after the age of 6 was in an all female environment.Female classmates,largely female teachers,headmistresses,female dinner ladies etc. Apart from my dad&grandpa,&occasional male friends, most of my
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THREAD: Great piece by @Scholars_Stage What jumped out at me: "what spooks them more than American weapons and soldiers are ideas—hostile ideas they believe America has embedded in the discourse
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Just received my copy of Cynical Theories by @ConceptualJames and @HPluckrose. I’m gonna dedicate a thread to simply quoting things I find interesting, and I’m gonna try to ignore the
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Like many women in the church, plural marriage has been a difficult topic for me. For a long time I kind of put the concern on the shelf with faith
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A common mistake is to view elites as a unified block. A group of people who look out for one another. They are not. Elites are constantly trying to get
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Another GRA consultation. Have we not just finished one? What lobby groups are behind this. Note or doesn’t mention “women” once. This whole thing is because we are trying to
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I'm gonna tweet some things about Alex Morse but it's gonna be a little bit nuanced! This thread is not gonna be easily categorized into one of the two main
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[8th Thread: A glimpse of Personal Journey]The following is a personal thread I'm making after I'd a chat with one of my Canadian friends on our personal journeys in learning
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“Shut up, terf” and “punch a terf” rhetoric is nearly indistinguishable from anti-suffrage rhetoric. When people deride “terfs,” they frequently describe or portray them as ugly and middle-aged, because they
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Hello Ben,Just noticed this in my feed. Apologies for the delay.Terms like 'systemic racism', 'institutional racism' and 'implicit bias' have straightforward definitions that are fairly well-established.https://twitt
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