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RedBull in a China Shop

upupdowndown

The GameStop stock valuation brouhaha with r/wallstreetbets is really illuminating about the power and reach of trolling and its IRL effectstrolling is an initial expression of nihilistic irony poisoning that

Vanderbilt Microbiome

VuBiome

Hi #Nashville: Last week, we anticipated a possible shift in #coronavirus trends. Today, there is some evidence that increased adherence to mask wearing , etc. may be paying off.The 7-day

Joe Cirincione

Cirincione

An insane president able to launch nuclear weapons. An incoming SecDef paid millions by weapons contractors. Both big problems. Both just the tip of the iceberg. I tried to

RohanJivan

RjArsenalBlog

MATCH REVIEW THREAD: Arsenal 4-1 Rapid Vienna. Arteta's men continued to impress in the Europa League with another convincing performance. In this thread, I provide an in-depth match review. Likes/RTs

Inclusive Lafayette

inclusive_laf

On December 14th, the Lafayette City Council will review a draft letter that calls for CA’s Housing and Community Development Department (HCD) to reduce its Regional Housing Need Allocations (RHNA)

Sara Nović

NovicSara

Hi Deafies (and everybody). It's time to talk about privilege. I've been thinking a lot about Adichie's talk "The Danger of a Single Story" and how it applies to the

Alfred Twu

alfred_twu

For half the cost of a new @SFBART tube (which only adds room for 50,000 workers during rush hour), we could build publicly owned office towers in the East Bay,

Margot Cleveland

ProfMJCleveland

5/ A decent man doesn't LIE MULTIPLE TIMES saying that Trump called neo-Nazi's "fine people." And Biden did this to create racial division. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_didnt_call_neo-nazis_f

Scott Coffin, Ph.D.

DrSCoffin

Should society invest in #plasticCleanup? Which is better- collecting plastic from rivers or the open ocean? What happens to the collected plastic?A thread:(1/6)https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1355502020426412032 Hohn et al. (2020) estima

Sex Workers Archival Project

ArchivalSex

Throughout the 1970's, multiple landmark cases were tried in the US that (re)defined relationships between gender, sex work, & criminality. The first of several we will be highlighting is that

Rick Honkter

honkter

A quick update about what people like to think of as "the market": three different multinational insurers confirmed to me over the past weeks that they are not making any

Judith Schmitz

_JudithSchmitz

Happy to share my first first-author manuscript as a post-doc on @biorxivpreprint with @silParacchini and @f_abbondanza conducted at @StAndMedicine.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.22.215376v1 We report behavioural and geneti

Fʀᴀɴᴋ Lᴏᴠᴇs Aᴍᴇʀɪᴄᴀ 🇺🇸

FrankRamblings

My diabetes kicked my ASS this week. For those unfamiliar, let me explain what it’s like to live with a chronic autoimmune disease. (1/x) So what exactly IS Type 1

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

It's Death Day!There's some cautious optimism here. The data we have suggests deaths came down a lot in the last week or two. Vaccinations are staying ahead of new infections.And,

Adam Jentleson 🎈

AJentleson

The filibuster was not part of the original Senate because the Framers knew exactly how it'd be used- they saw McConnell coming. The filibuster represents Calhoun's vision, not Madison's. Calhoun

Mira Hurley

mira_hurley

@Charlescarilla - This is a tweetstorm aimed solely at you. A tweetstorm because I appreciate your vision of deploying blockchain technology in a useful way, rather than talking about pies

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