#African

Kevin Bird

itsbirdemic

Last week @dr_appie stated the current consensus in human genetics that polygenic scores can't be compared between populations. He was met with some bold claims from the race science gang

Alex Zielinski

alex_zee

Hi Portland! I see a lot of you are getting interested in how our police bureau works. As someone who’s reported on Portland cops for a few years, I’m THRILLED.

Kweku Opoku-Agyemang

Kweku_OA

[Parent honoring thread] So proud of my Mum right now. Not just of what she's achieved, but who she is as a person. When she was Minister of Education, she

Noura Abul-Husn, MD, PhD 🧬

NouraAbulHusn

How can genomic screening be implemented in diverse populations?Our new study in @GenomeMedicine explores this in the ancestrally diverse BioMe Biobank @IcahnMountSinai in NYC https://genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073

Ford Fischer

FordFischer

Tonight I filmed in the "Black House Autonomous Zone" or "#BHAZ," the protest area near the White House.There was no violence, but one interesting incident: A conservative guy trying to

James Aycock, data nerd 📈

firstresponses

Memphis/Shelby CountyCovid Wk-In-Reviewtl;dr* hospitals are filling up, field hospital & overflow ER being prepped* crisis: 266 cases/day (28.4 per 100k)* cases -2% over 1wk, but tests -13%* cases +134% over

Ashley Kirsten Weed

AshleyKirstenW

Today my students discussed the debate re: Black American education between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. du Bois (we are so close to finally starting Quest of the Silver Fleece!).

James Wigderson

jwigderson

This is not a parody. PragerU really believes this crap. So let's just dig through these deep piles of doo doo. 1/10https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1341059245572145152 “Statues of great Americans” - statues of Lee,

Jamwanda

Jamwanda2

Implats records FY2020 revenue at R69.9 billion https://www.miningreview.com/news/impala-platinum-records-fy2020-revenue-at-r69-9-billion/ GOOD MORNING ZIMBABWEANS!!! You woke up well?? SINCE I NOTICE SOME IN OUR MIDST HAVE LITTLE UNDERSTAN

jade

divanificent

The past couple days have seen some really interesting perspectives and I wanted to further map out some of my thinking within the coining of the phenomenon “Wakandafication” (which has

scott simkus

scott_simkus

NEGRO LEAGUE STATISTICS (a thread): There is a stigma associated with stats from Black professional baseball. This stigma dates back to the 1970s and 80s, and it goes a little

Girish Nadkarni, MD, MPH

girish_nadkarni

So grateful and excited for R01 funding from @NIDDKgov to study genetic and environmental modifiers of #APOL1 genotypes in racial and ethnic minorities. This grant especially is close to my

Safiya z ⵣ

safifesse

So often fantasy costume/character designers lean on the Vaguely "Oriental" costumes that end up looking uninspired and directionless, when there's SO many cool designs you could create by studying a

No Quarter Will Be Given

chaedria

I think these stories are beautiful but problematic. I see why ppl often believe that Southern AA culture is open to shared diasporic ownership and it is not. Its ubiquity

Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Preorder SON OF THE STORM!)

IAmSuyiDavies

I always find the “Africa is better off from the results of colonization” arguments amusing. What do people think happened with African empires & their European counterparts prior to colonization?

Miss Conceptions

MConceptions

Some telling anecdotes that provide some good news for those who are feeling pessimistic and down in the UK just now.These anecdotes (from other countries & continents) indicate a turn

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