#Conceptual

jo, waymaker

justjogleason

#DIGNITYBABES - PHILOSOPHYLet's talk about the difference between modern and traditional astrology. If you've heard of traditional astrology but you're still not really sure what that means and how it's

Joseph Casillas

jvcasill

Do you like open science and reproducible research? Of course you do. You should read this thread. #openscience #rstats #academia #linguistics #phonetics I taught a graduate course (Spring2019) on

Tage Rai

tage_rai

Announcement! Job Opportunity! Please RT!!I’m leaving my post as editor for social and behavioral sciences @ScienceMagazine and they’re looking for my replacement. It’s a fantastic, important, meaningful job. Deadline June

Jeremy Littau

JeremyLittau

My intro course has been working all semester on the problem of disinformation in our media environments. Taking an ecological approach, we studied the business of media, platform histories, modes

Jay Rosen

jayrosen_nyu

A thread about a metaphor that increasingly misleads. I refer to the image of "exposure" as a description of what the press does, should do, or isn't doing well enough.

Dr Emma Černis

ECernis

If for some unfathomable reason, you don't want to read my ~80,000 word thesis (what do you mean, the pubs are open?), then please enjoy this Twitter thread version instead...

ye sun @ i only talk about vocaloid

Robotic_Reborn

please never, ever mistake my love for Hatsune Miku as something sexual or objectifying. my reasons for loving VOCALOID/Miku are about my gratitude and appreciation for its cultural impact and

Stephen Barlow

SteB777

1) @GeorgeMonbiot is entirely correct about humans having a weakness "that makes us highly susceptible to charlatans". I have spent a life time, 50 years of my life, thinking about

Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH

usnehal

Utterly irresponsibleAn *anthropologist* spreading vaccine hysteria (hate the word but she’s using the uterus to spread vaccine fear) NOT AT ALL controlling forprior COVIDb4 vaccinePerimenopausal included?!?This is why you need

Alexandros Marinos

alexandrosM

Machines are making beautiful things without even trying to. We ask them to make something that optimizes for our requirements, they give us something back that looks surprisingly like nature.

GeePaw Hill

GeePawHill

Another refactoring today: Use the observer pattern to invert an infelicitous dependency. In and of itself, this is a modest refactoring, but its smell often co-presents with others, and unravelling

Christine Counsell

Counsell_C

Thread with some bits from my @researchEdhome talk today in which I thoroughly indulged myself & talked endlessly about history, with special mentions to brill work of @SuzanneLPowell @jcarrollhistory @whitburn_robin

Joel Merriner

JoelMerriner

#Tolkien illustration MEGA-THREAD Alert!Lately I've been on a visual odyssey, happily tweeting key #LotR moments as depicted by two different illustrators. I'm not finished yet (haven't even reached Mordor) but

Tudor Girba

girba

The governor of New Jersey called explicitly for COBOL programmers to help with the development of the unemployment system:https://twitter.com/manicode/status/1246497036389793792This is how the software environmentalism crisis looks like. An explanat

D-M Withers

DMWithers_

I am chairing ‘A Look into the Trans Archive’ @britishlibrary 10 Nov 4-5pmAn hour long sprint through two centuries+ of Trans histories Feat: @christineburns, Dr Nat Raha @fullnommunism, Dr Clare

Tom Nicholas

TEGNicholas

People are still tweeting about the NYT's piece on the SPARC nuclear #fusionenergy release, so as a fusion PhD student I'm going to explain what it is and isn't...https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/climate/nuclear-fusion-reactor