#Communities

Dru Riley (Trends.vc) 📈

DruRly

A thread: Trends #0026 — Drop Culture 1. ProblemWe are status seeking monkeys, as Eugene Wei says. 2. SolutionBrands manufacture scarcity (and status) to drive sales.Constricting supply amplifies

Sam Wang

SamWangPhD

News reports are saying the Census's reapportionment numbers are a gain for Republicans, a loss for Democrats. A short thread on why this is not entirely true - and why

Dave Kang

daveckang

1/(Warning - rambling thread): I like that magazines like FP are asking about racism and Eurocentrism in IR. But almost all the scholars - while POC - are from US/European

Rory Palmer

Rory_Palmer

Quick thread...I said yesterday that it appeared Govt didn't have a full strategy ready to go for activating local lockdowns. Nothing I've seen since has changed my view. #leicesterlockdown This

Dr. Jennifer Provencher, wears a mask

jenni_pro

Actual question for academics - what do you think the role of government scientists is? I get asked to do a lot of things by academics and I am interested

Kensy Cooperrider

kensycoop

In 2012 my collaborators and I showed that the Yupno of Papua New Guinea understand time according to topography, in terms of uphill and downhill. But there was a question

Shared Learning Group on Involvement

SLGInvolvement

There’s lots of evidence that #involvement in #research studies adds value. But does #PPI in research add value for charities? Our @slginvolvement project (https://bit.ly/3nda2O2 ) found 10 ways this happens. A

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ICARXSWALLS

LEBANON: why are protests happening and what happens now? WHY THE ANGER WITH THE GOVERMENT?The ruling class of Lebanon has not changed since the country's civil war ended 30

Mark Charles 2020

wirelesshogan

We cannot build a nation where "we the people" truly means "all the people" until we de-center whiteness. Here's a thread where I break down what that means and why

anoukelynou

anoukelynou

A plea for understanding to all the #BeKind male blue ticks eg @jonronson @billybragg @frankieboyle I'm surprised you haven't asked yourselves why there has been such an increase in the

lolitataub

lolitataub

Why are so few VC dollars going to underestimated founders? Nepotism Lack of meritocracy / old-school pattern matching Homogeneous pool of investors Inability to see opportunity in problems/solutions observed

molly 🌊

heymoonme

THREAD OF UNPROBLEMATIC YOUTUBERS/CREATORS THAT DESERVE ATTENTION (some of these are small channels some of these are not) starting off with this channel: it’s very niche content but i

ilham🇲🇦

xoxoIlham

IMPT @NYCHA (NYC Projects/Section 8) COVID-19 THREAD: As we are urged to stay home to slow the spread of COVID-19, the importance of living in humane, breathable, clean, sanitary conditions

Alec Karakatsanis

equalityAlec

THREAD: a fact more people should know is that police have **wanted** body cameras for years. they had a problem though: cops couldn't get hundreds of millions of $$$ in

Mister Sir

MrSir____

I saw a tweet saying what happens if we defund the police, so I gonna try my best to answer that in a Trinidadian context. I’m no expert so I

Heidi Cuda

Heidi_Cuda

REALITY CHECK—China owns our debt. We have no manufacturing jobs, a decimated middle class. In many communities, public schools devolved into holding cells due to lack of middle class support.All