#Societies

Today I was watching a Ted-talk by Jamila Lyiscott of how language (foreign language(s)) is used in our systems to uphold social injustices, erase our cultures and traditions while also
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Vitamin C comes up again and again for those first hearing about the carnivore diet. I have several articles about it, as my understanding has progressed. Some of the more
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Why A/B/O or omegaverse isn't inherently transphoic - a Thread Before I start going into the nitty-gritty of the subject, I want to clarify a few things. 1) I am
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More broadly, the historical profession as a whole, and humanities generally, have relegated disease & disease history to a bad story about the way the past used to be. So
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1. Corona appears to have outcompeted influenza in a worldwide pandemic. It will become our new ‘flu’Most people will get corona, sooner or later. More than once. It will mutate
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New today is an awesome book, “A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution,” edited by @desilva_jerry and pub’d by @PrincetonUPress. In
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whenever men are outed as harassers there's always the subsequent conversation of "well how am I supposed to approach women then," and, disregarding the people who are just there to
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1. My new article out this week "Nature and the International. Towards a materialist understanding of societal multiplicity" in @GlobalizationsJ argues IR needs to re-include nature, while global environmentalism needs
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4/ The more we know about the mob, the more its core was a cadre of white supremacist ex military who really believed they were going to arrest Pelosi etc...
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THREAD: A huge number of people in the highly-populated Southeast Limerick suburbs of Monaleen/Castletroy around @UL are students or young professionals, many of whom don’t drive and/or can’t get their
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Thread1.The history of this day reveals the internationalisation of disability & disability policy in the twentieth century, and dates back to 1976, when the UN proclaimed 1981 the International Year
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The more I think about it the more angry I am that we are taught history as a series of politicians starting wars and kings beheading wives. There are SO
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Baby #2 is asleep Baby #1 is happily playing with trains after checking in on so time for coffee #2 and to read this by @Avery_Smit @FunakiHine and @LianaMacDonal13
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Why is Finland today an equal country? Is it something inherent to the Nordic culture, or is it a result of more recent institutional changes?We have something to say in
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Some more threads on human genetics. Firstly, as many people have noted, having a diverse group of scientists doing human genetics is healthy - it is healthy for *all of
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This next Thread will be to set the context for a lot of the discussions we will have. Its a discussion and don't have all the answers so we will
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