#HUMAN

Melissa Gira Grant

melissagira

If people are going to blame Kamala Harris for being involved in taking down Backpage—AND SHE DESERVES IT—you also have to blame the entire Senate Judiciary and the National Association

Flint Dibble 🍖🏺📖

FlintDibble

[ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD] One of the most pernicious racisms I see regularly is the myth that Africa has been an unimportant place in human historyBut the archaeology of Africa is incredible.

Steve Spalding

sbspalding

After reading a bajillion articles on GameSpot, and spending more time than I usually do puttering around WSB and FinTwit, I think a lot of journos are seriously mischaracterizing this

Evan Smith

evanishistory

Having written at length about the debates about free speech on campus in Britain (as well as elsewhere) and the history of 'no platforming' in particular, here's a few thoughts

Manoj Kewalramani

theChinaDude

Thread: There’s been talk about the abrogation of Article 370 being responsible for the current standoff at the LAC. So in this thread, I am going back to my newsletter's

Mamadou Sow

MamadouSowICRC

ThreadOn the 31st anniversary of the release of #Mandela from prison, I am pleased to share again a peak into our work in South Africa during apartheid, with few #exclusive

Kate Klonick

Klonick

When you report a piece for two years & then write it up in 8000 words, there are obviously lots of things on the cutting room floorBut this isn't

Fae

faeriezilla

So Shin Godzilla. To start off it's a solid 8/10. I definitely just needed to separate it from the weirdass fandom war between it and the Legendary stuff and just

Luke Skinwalker

JayOdjick

This will be a bit long so apologies to those who dislike massive threads. Just something I've been thinkin about a lot lately. So, I wanna preface this by saying

Finn, Declan Finn. BA, MA, Author

DeclanFinnBooks

A #Writing threadIf you don't know Otto Penzler, he is to murder mysteries what Burroughs is to the Pulp folks, or Asimov to the post Campbell SFF. He's edited more

Dr. Daniela Witten

daniela_witten

The new cover article in @NautilusMag is about the sordid history of eugenics in the field of statistics. I had a conversation with @aubreyclayton a few months ago, when he

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Australia - like many English-speaking countries - is full of lovely people who somehow manage to keep electing far-right, genocidal, climate-denying governments of surpassing administrative incompetence.1/ The most likely explanation:

Hon Prof Colin D Butler BMed, MSc(epi), DTM&H, PhD

ColinDavdButler

Editorial (open access) Journal of Human Security, published Dec 18, 2020 http://www.librelloph.com/journalofhumansecurity/article/view/johs-16.1.53 I briefly make case that “gain of function” (GOF) research (ie “serial passage” of

Ben Williamson

BenPatrickWill

Digital technologies are political machines of higher education post-pandemic reform. New report by me and @ahogie out this week on edtech, privatization and Covid. It's a bit long, so thought

Aniyia (🗣 Anita without the T) ❤️

operaqueenie

Shout out to all the folks who found LOVE in 2020. I was just sharing some things I’ve learned with someone close to me, I want to impart a couple

JefimVogel

JefimVogel

Despite COVID, emissions are still way too high. To limit global warming to 1.5 C, we need to *rapidly*(i) decarbonise energy use AND(ii) reduce energy use AND(iii) decarbonise land use

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