#Response

Columbia YDSA Tuition Strike

columbiaydsa

President Bollinger finally acknowledged the demands of more than 3,000 students supporting the #CUtuitionstrike. To no surprise, he explained that despite Columbia's $11 Billion endowment, the school could not afford

Bob Elder

southernphd

A lot of folks who know my first book have emailed me about this insightful piece by @DavidAFrench on how the fusion of southern honor culture and evangelicalism explains our

Lockdown Myths

LockdownMyths

1) A thread containing links to articles & people that throw doubts on whether lockdowns were necessary & whether the world overreacted to #COVID19. RT if you found this useful.

🇧🇧 Ethereal Bisexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

So we should stop shopping Sephora because they not only are owned by a billionaire who could have kept all employees paid this spring but they fired people who went

Irulan Atreides

Atrieides

THREAD 1) Recent Аzeri propaganda campaign, “Аrmеոiaոs have a gеոе for schizophrenia & other mental disorders”, is a narrative often gloatingly thrown in the middle of heated debates as

Jonathan Shecter

SheckyGreen

Q: What's it like to be in a Las Vegas casino during COVID? A: Bizarre... and likely dangerous.A few of the major resorts on The Strip reopened two weeks ago,

Alexandra Paulus

ale_paulus

Yesterday, a cyber operation on Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (#TSE) made headlines - on the day of Brazil's municipal elections, the first time Brazilians went to the voting booth after

Mzala Tom

tlsibanda

1. HOW MZILIKAZI BECAME A KING A thread....The Khumalo originated with Khumalo kaMntungwa who settled around the Mkhuze river in Northern KwaZulu-Natal. Mzilikazi was born of Mashobane kaMangethe who is

RAC

RAC

2020......what a year it's been. Here's a retrospective thread of a few highlights The first several months were primarily dedicated to putting out my third studio album 'BOY'. https://rac.lnk.to/BOY I couldn't

Diálogo Chino

DialogoChinoEN

After a turbulent transition period in the midst of a pandemic, @JoeBiden takes office today as president of the US. What can we expect from the new administration? What opportunities

Ian Dunt

IanDunt

Last PMQs before recess. Enjoy* it while you can.*You won't enjoy it.https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/3fd0441f-65e3-473e-be95-4f06674c3e71 Starmer leading on Russia report. That's impressive. His instinct will have been to stay

Canadian Forces in 🇺🇸

CAFinUS

This tree from Nova Scotia is now in Boston Common.The Nova Scotians send one every year.Why? It's December, 1917. Canada has been at war for more than three years. But

Robot Hugs

RobotHugsComic

hey twitter - there's a lot of good awareness now about the fact that all users can add image descriptions to twitter for people who use screen readers. Here's some

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Big news today about another vaccine candidate. Take home messages:-It's safe-It's immunogenic (neutralizing antibodies and antigen-specific T cells)-It's a good size (n=1077 patients, 543 of whom got the vaccine vs

Dickie Bush 🚢

dickiebush

The CLEAREST thinker on Twitter: @JamesClear (no pun intended)He's known for Atomic Habits, but his wisdom goes far beyond behavior change.I spent the last few weeks going through his best

El Sandifer, Rationality Expert to the Stars

ElSandifer

I’m quoted in this, which does about as good a job overviewing the topic as a New York Times profile can be expected to.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html Major oversights in it as I

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