#Desirability

Noah Sasson

Noahsasson

NEW PAPER led by @DesiRJones: non-autistic (NA) adults often hold negative implicit & explicit biases about autism that create barriers for autistic people and harm their personal & professional well-being.

George

FFigureFBust

Why diets and weight loss can fuck people up. Obviously the idea of weight loss is often super problematic. It’s seen as a route to happiness, health, desirability. It’s something

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

This is indeed a very *simple* claim. But it is not one that can be credibly defended as accurate. Are @LBC presenting this as polemical commentary or as a factual

Jeff Samuels

JeffSamuels16

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY.A thread.I have always been ambivalent at best about HMD. I have never participated in it. I avoid the use of the word holocaust ('burnt offering' suggestive of

Lyall Taylor

LT3000Lyall

A lot of people are confused about China's economic model. Is it socialist/communist or capitalist? The answer is that it is a hybrid that doesn't comport easily with the simplistic

Sour Widows

sourwidows

we stand with survivors everywhere. don’t think for a minute that the abuse of teens (esp girls + non cis ppl) in music today is limited to Burger Records and

Janine Francois

itsJaninebtw

*LONG THREAD* Really interesting to see people talk about mixed-raceness /colourism w/o any historical analysis that situates why some DSBW feel the way they do. Is this not generational? Class

Gustavo Noguera

nogboersner

2020 was the year I explored International Macro (in a very broad sense) the most; and for someone trying to start a serious path on Macroeconomics I found it to

Pavlina R Tcherneva

ptcherneva

Are you scared of the the #JobGuarantee?Have you heard that it's hostile or antithetical to welfare or unions? Let me try to help. 1. The JG is a missing piece

Kostas on F.I.R.E. 🔥

itsKostasOnFIRE

Overconfidence Bias and InvestingHow irrational optimism and overconfidence can destroy your investments/THREAD/ 1/ Overconfidence bias is one of the cognitive psychology biases.It entails our tendency to have a misleading and

Amber Peterman

a_peterman

Super interesting paper by @ccullen_1 now @wb_research WP - for all those #VAW #GBV measurement geeks!Compares intimate partner & non-partner SV measures in #Nigeria & #Rwanda: face-to-face audio CASI

Amberite's Eschatological Cabaret 🌈⛥✡⛧they/them

outliersgeorg

The answer to "people shouldn't Do A Sex in public" + "some people kink on nonsexual stuff"ISN'T "then that stuff is inherently sexual and shouldn't be allowed in public" or

Michael Merrick

michael_merrick

At some point we will need to talk about degrees and QTS 1/ It is pretty much creedal orthodoxy to say teachers need degrees. This is for various reasons, but

Etienne Lehmann

EtienneLehmannE

I take the opportunity of posting the slides of my short (9h) course in optimal tax theory for a thread to discussWhat are the most important and policy-relevant principles to

Zalika U. Ibaorimi, M.A. (THE FINAL GIRL)

thinglygrammar

Thinking through Dr. Mireille Miller-Young’s ‘A Taste for Brown Sugar’ (a thread for new readers of Black Porn/Sex Work Studies) As a feminist methodology within the fields of Women, Gender

Curious Kiwi

QuriousKiwi

[1] Netflix Thread - Strange Pizza TweetsThe recent @Netflix controversy about a film called ‘Cuties’ started with the films description & English poster:“Amy, 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance

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