#1980s

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Today in pulp I look back at the world of Soviet women's fashion!It's not all berets, but it mostly is... #TuesdayThoughts Now you may think that fashion and the Soviet

Iraq Tweets 🇮🇶

Iraq_Tweets

The Drying of Mesopotamia’s Marshes // Thread: Located in southern Iraq, the Mesopotamian marshes are fed by the merging Tigris & Euphrates rivers and their tributaries. Here, the ancient Sumerians

DogTrainingPlanet

planet_training

When I see tweets like this one, I understand that some people are just trying to troubleshoot a problem instead of providing a long-term solution. i've tryed to express it

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

This Julian Coman Observer piece calls on the English left to engage with English identity, which I welcome as it is overdue. But a foundational premise of the piece -

Dan Hirschman

asociologist

Much like credit scoring, the history of job evaluation systems seems super relevant for contemporary discussions of algorithmic bias. (From a 1980 EEOC hearing on job segregation and wage discrimination.)

Ammar Kazmi 🇵🇸

AmmarKazmi_

.@zarahsultana is absolutely correct. Cuba has a long and proud history of medical internationalism, and the Henry Reeve Contingent deserves accolades for its remarkable work.A thread on just some of

Raise Your Voice

RaiseURVoiceNI

Thread 1/14: Channel 4’s #ItsaSin is hugely popular and has received rave reviews. It follows the lives of a group of friends in London, starting in 1981, as AIDS is

Carley Lake

Carley_Lake

Thinking of buying stuff today? Here's a thread on the history of #BlackFriday (the name was first used for a Wall Street scheme…) & how you can support retail workers

SayedHosseinQazwini

Shqazwini

[Thread] A brief overview of the political theories held by contemporary Shi’i jurists, including wilayat al faqih. Wilayat Al Faqih (WF) is obviously the most well-known and controversial Shi’i political

Chris Jones

EnswellJones

In Canada, or in Ontario at least, you have to wait a year after the birth of a child to get a vasectomy, in case you want to chop your

timberwraith

timberwraith

Speaking as someone who was raised by racists to be a racist, this misses the mark.Racism is a cultural phenomenon. When one is surrounded by racists from one's earliest years,

Rebecca Shapiro

ShapiroRebecca

Excited today to get started on the first of three awesome guest lectures for third year Mycology #MICR3090First up: Historian @stuartmccook from @UGuelphHist on the history and societal implications of

Jen Heemstra

jenheemstra

One of the biggest mysteries of Covid-19 has been why some people become very ill, while a large number of people who are infected show no symptoms at all. It

Sam Schotland

archives_Rx

Today’s primary source is William A. Dunnagan, “Why I Stopped Being a Family Doctor,” Look, 21 Aug. 1956, 35-37. It’s a goodie! His rationale: not “abreast” of medical developments, (2)

Ronan Lyons

ronanlyons

Delighted to share on @thecurrency the results of some of my research over the last few yrs on Irish housing prices since WW2. The paper on which it's based is

Sarah Kellapatha

saararrr

This week marks 36 years since the Sri Lankan military carried out organized massacres and forced evictions of Tamils living in the Manal Aru region, for the sole purpose of

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