#University

Alex

staunchmarxist

Former labour leader Clement Attlee, who is often talked about as a great socialist leader within the party. The very opposite was the case, he was a staunch anti-communist and

Gareth Harney

OptimoPrincipi

1) A stranger than fiction Roman ring mystery thread: this enigmatic Roman gold ring was found in a ploughed field near Silchester in 1785. The square bezel has a portrait

Peter Kirwan

DrPeteKirwan

This is an interesting read on the myths/problematic maths that underpin the ‘grade inflation’ narrative, but I want to add a further perspective on why proportions of grades are up

Katie C

katiewaldroup17

@NC_Governor Keep schools online until there's a vaccine. You know this pandemic is disproportionately affecting BIPOC, and opening schools will widen the gap. Students, staff, families, and communities are not

Fabio Rojas

fabiorojas

1/ Social theory without superheroes: Why should teach theory, not canon. This thread is based on this nice interview by @kylethegreen https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2021/02/06/fabio-rojas-on-theory-for-the-working-sociologist/ 2/ In so

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Hi everyone! I'm Christopher Rose (call me Chris). I'm a social historian of medicine, and I specialize in the history of 19th and 20th century #Egypt. I normally tweet @khowaga.

Spressassaurus

AirRickSpress

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone. On a day like today I think the entire NBA needs to re-evaluate their teams and reference one of Christmas’s longest dynasties - Santa

J.A. Miraj

DeseretMiraj

Until comparatively recently in Islamic history, it was perfectly normal to show the Prophet Muhammed, either fully or with his face hidden. Even when I was a fundamentalist, Muslim I

Allie

Evangel66755149

"Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Boston performed a Google trend analysis showing searches for "teen porn" more than tripled between 2005-2013, and teen porn searches reached an estimated 500,000

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djneuronnerd

Real talk: during PhD interviews, a presentation about a minority science program talked about how “Asians” are well-represented in STEM compared to Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals. It disheartened me

David Greene

davidgreene

I’ve been reading lots recently about the interaction between First Amendment law and free speech principles with respect to online services in light of the events of the last few

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

So that's the thing!Basically as soon as Anglo colonizers rolled into a place, they actively destroyed wild protein sources... because they didn't own them.So we literally have no idea how

Peter Adkins

peteradkins17

All sorts of feelings about Arcadia going into administration. When I was 18, my first proper job was as a deputy manager at the Burtons store in Banbury. The pay

Elinor Elliot

ElliotElinor

Covid hasn't broken universities - the systematic evisceration of higher education by so-called "free-market" extremism has. Covid has just exposed the giant con like nothing else could have.https://www.theguardian.com/educati

Dean Burnett

garwboy

Seeing this picture doing the rounds lately, the one of Johnson 'Doing Science'I'm not being facetious here; in my experience, that's exactly what media types call it, "Doing Science". It's

Goofrider 🏳️‍🌈

goofrider

Remember a while back there was a lot of chatters about how "China is leading in AI innovations"? Whenever I hear that I always roll my eyes. I don't know

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