#TODAY

Ladies and Gentlemen and distinguished collies*, even though my primary use of this platform has been to clown on leveraged credit, I actually put on my macro hat today, and
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Hi everyone. I wanted to go back and revisit the “David Goldberg” “Project Zyphyr” issue. You can look this up but basically Goldberg was an invented personality who told us
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THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS. Myth??1. No serious historian will doubt of the existence of the man called Jesus. Many in the Christendom believe the gospels are the literal word
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A current research project + an upcoming visit to the #Acropolis have got me thinking about #access, ramps, & paths in #Athens Although the city's design + hills often push
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Today marks exactly a year since I first saw this masterpiece – and it changed me forever.Thread: Here's why you should watch MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE too, with a few
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Middle East Watchers: The Trump Administration will likely designate the Houthis in Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization in the coming weeks. Their goal is to weaken the Houthis, weaken
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China’s strategy vis-à-vis Central Asia’s elites is undergoing an under-appreciated change. Beijing is shifting from working exclusively w/ the region’s incumbent leaders to support for pro politicians & even making
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OK, something from the wayback machine: I did this little animation test (checks notes) 11 years ago. I wanted to play around with different ways of animating cartoon characters that
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In recognition of #Juneteenth as a day that honors Black freedom & Black resistance, community bail funds across the country freed 100s from jails. The struggle for liberation continues
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Some pictures of beautiful synagogues that were destroyed by the Nazis 82 years ago today during Kristallnacht, a thread:Obvious trigger warning for mentions of the Holocaust and Kristallnacht. This synagogue
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I know this is a bit self-indulgent with all that is happening but....YA BOY GOT A DISTINCTION IN HIS MASTERS!Confirmed by Durham exam board last week. Big thank-you to @CMSPioneer,
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- Happy #Parisversaire!Thehas a LONG way to go to ensure #climatesafety for all but today we're celebrating the 5th Anniversary of the #ParisAgreement.Where is change happening? Where does more to
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Today, @sensanders, @aoc, & @repblumenauer introduced a bill to require @POTUS to declare a national emergency based on climate change. The bill is well-intentioned, but it reflects a crucial misunderstanding
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Cable SPIKING... or “shooting cables” as one of my old instructors used to say. What is it? Why do we do it? How do we do it? [THREAD] Once upon
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THREAD. I fell in love with landscape history in 1984 when I read this book: the author explained, through worked examples, how maps (on rainy days like today) & explorations
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New preprint out. We investigated whether we could detect evidence for genetic recombination in #SARSCoV2, and found none to date. We used (slightly tweaked) standard statistical genetics methods, extensive simulations
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