#Historical

Where did it all go wrong for #alevels2020? Timeline wise, we heard exams were cancelled (and I’ll come back to this later) and we were told “teacher assessments will be
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A couple of thoughts on $BMYRTFrom a 10’000 ft perspective it’s quite surprising that an approval of both products by their PDUFA dates isn’t the base case or overwhelming consensus,
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Thread. The news of a Kildare lockdown is extremely disappointing news for citizens and to all the small businesses who have followed the health regulations and restrictions in #Kildare.The high
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Unsure what's caused the uptick of interest in my work but some relevant threads if you'd like to understand my take on fandom racism and specifically on the ongoing discussions
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Dragons are real. Mermaids are real. Fairies are real. All multidimensional beings are real. Working with multidimensional beings thread Firstly before working with these beings. Your energy needs to be
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Happy final day of #PrideMonth2020! Many people don't know #LGBTQ scientists have been involved in ecology/ evolutionary biology since its inception. A thread! Strap in for some history including kicking
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It's been a while since I had a reason for a good viticultural thread, and I got one today from an amazing document that Morgan Twain-Peterson (@BedrockWineCo) sent me. If
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There have been great threads going around about memes with antisemitic origins and n4zi dogwhistles, so I thought as a very fed up Jew I'd make one on another important
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This didn't get as much traction yesterday as I thought it might, but I have some thoughts on this that people need to consider in thinking about how to integrate
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Tether, and how the the lack of audited financials *could* be a systemic risk for most crypto assets.A thread on the *potential* for systemic risk.1/ Let’s get a few things
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WR Height - Is it important?I’ve seen a few different threads and posts about this year WR class and their lack of height. So I thought I’d dive into it
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In 2017, Rutgers University's budget was $4.4 billion, with a taxpayer contribution of 24%. 49% of the budget goes towards salaries. NJ has the largest Hindu population by percentage of
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So this afternoon I was upstairs writing a lecture, and the post dropped through the letterbox. The most astonishing thing arrived. Hidden in amongst the bills and junk mail was
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Among other responses to my saying canonisations aren't infallible, someone objected that it would mean the liturgy was fallible. On the feast of St Mary of Magdalen, that's something to
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I found Rep. Jim Jordan's historical comments interesting. I didn't know (or remember) about Dem objections to Trump's electors in January of 2017. He was correct. Only Dem House members
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A collector looks at every book as a historical artifact. Each tells a different story. The cheap wartime paper of that 1944 copy of the Great Gatsby, fairy tales inscribed
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