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Amy 🦓

skepticalzebra

THREAD: The litmus test for policy should not be how much it advantages the most well off, but how much it disadvantages the vulnerable. Before covid, we cared about the

Mythological Africans

AfroMythHub

Hello and welcome to #FaustianFriday , the #AfricanMythology edition. What do you know about the Trickster archetype in African myths and folklore? #FaustianFriday #AfricanMythologyTrickster figures in African myths and folklore

Antonio Arellano

AntonioArellano

Sunday thread on wildfires, farmworkers and groups to support as the climate crisis rages on. We’ve all seen the orange skies, but did you know that farmworkers are still picking

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

What role does previous exposure to seasonal coronaviruses play in disease severity for COVID-19?New paper (great thread from @VirusesImmunity below) provides some evidence, but I don't think it can explain

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

This is a clear, accessible explanation--in the Economist, paywalled--of the paradox of Covid-19, and the reason no one should be reassured by the overall low case fatality rate: to the

BLACK CONSERVATIVE

blackrepublican

This #BlackHistoryMonth we remember the RACIST monsters who kicked African Americans out of their own Republican Party The Lily-White Movement The effort was largely successful in eliminating African-American influence

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

You've probably heard Zuboff's excellent coinage "Surveillance Capitalism" and perhaps you've read the paper it was introduced in, or the book that it led to. Today, I've published a response

MSF UK

MSF_uk

Hi @HomeOffice, as you’re well aware, last Friday a fire broke out at #NapierBarracks in Kent, a former military site your department repurposed as emergency accommodation for people seeking asylum.THREAD

Neil Gemmell

ProfGemmell

Tuatara genome published today. Hitting the keyboard briefly between interviews to update on the key findings of this project. This could end up being a long thread. Lovely summary here

Matthew Sheffield

mattsheffield

The next few weeks will be historic in this country. You will remember them. Plenty of people at Fox News are doing the right thing. But the far right wants

Liz Ananat

LizAnanat

NEW RESEARCH THREAD Congress is considering new legislation to help Americans still struggling during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. My recent survey w/@agpines of our sample of hourly service workers with

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

Here's a thread that contains my findings regarding the relationship between true infections, reported cases, test positivity rate, and infection fatality rate for COVID-19.Full write-up: http://covid19-projections.com/estimating-true-i

mrajshekhar

mrajshekhar

India's EIA Notification of 2006 itself was a massive dilution of its predecessor: the 1994 notification on environmental clearances for industrial projects. In this paper, submitted as a thesis for

David Pepper

DavidPepper

THREAD on Trump's Ohio Panic (and how you can help)Trump is angry. He's frustrated.Yes, he’s always that way. But he’s really angry & frustrated nowBecause he’s burning through $18M just

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

Today I read @paulmromer thread - particularly the part about schools (I recommend it!). And we need to talk about #SchoolReopening, from a scientific perspective. So here goes, with thanks

Bad China Takes

BadChinaTake

The Qiao Collective’s Xinjiang resource compendium is hilarious. I’ve been going through it and I’m truly impressed by how many obvious issues there are. Often, what they link to to

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