#Disciplines

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Writivism

Good morning. It is a Sylvia Tamale day. Decolonization and Afro-Feminism will be launched today. 9am EST, 2pm WAT, 4pm EAT. https://facebook.com/events/s/decolonization-and-afro-femini/752516101987766/?ti=cl RIGHT ON TIME @firozem welcomes

Un Empiriciste

UnEmpiriciste

Dans notre discussion avec @EcoSceptique, je mentionnais cette étude qui montrait que les baisses importantes de taxes sur les riches augmentent les inégalités et n'ont pas d'impact robuste sur la

Janet D. Stemwedel, Philosopher Queen 🏳️‍🌈☠️

docfreeride

Can we talk about this article (published today, simultaneously in a number of journals)?Because I don't think it's doing the work its (many, many) authors hope it will.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-020-0529-x Overall, this

J. Sanilac👳

surrealSanilac

AB HOMINEorPRACTICAL EPISTEMOLOGY: HOW WE REALLY KNOW THINGS, AND HOW THE MEDIA USES THIS TO ABUSE OUR JUDGMENTa thread byJ. SanilacSecond Edition "Epistemology" is the philosophical study of how we

Ramsey Ess

RamseyEss

I read a lot of non-fiction. When I read something surprising, I recount it for everybody who will listen. This thread will be a digital version of this: a rolling

Johanna Ray Vollhardt

JoRayVo

The volume I edited on The Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood is finally published! Table of contents in the link below and here a long thread with very short summaries

Jenny Schuetz

jenny_schuetz

One reason (pretext?) why people often oppose affordable housing in their nhood: they expect it to look ugly. Like Robert Taylor Homes. To which I say, ok boomer. My 4th

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 149Grand rounds today: https://youtu.be/Ew2MEF4XX8w . As we hit Covid’s 6 month mark in the U.S., we’re desperate for innovative approaches. Today, I decided to focus on

Bradly Mason

AlsoACarpenter

A refresher: What is Critical Race Theory after all? As drawn from the explicit answers to this question given by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Mari Matsuda, Charles Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, Devon Carbado,

Rhianna Pratchett

rhipratchett

As a number of game writers have received the same blanket email asking ‘how do I sell my great story idea to EA?’ I thought I’d put together a thread

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

अहमद अंसारी || احمد انصاري

aansari86

White supremacy & epistemic colonialism in design discourse, scholarship, & practice: a basic primer (thread) Historically, design scholarship, like design practice outside of the academy, has upheld white supremacy and epistemic

Patrick Lockwood

PsychPLockwood

A thread for @C_Kavanagh a critique of the critique of @jordanbpeterson. See their podcast (@GurusPod), which I’m exploring, here:https://twitter.com/C_Kavanagh/status/1314600549031899136?s=20 1. They briefly critiqued my prior podcast fe

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

Public health is a wide-ranging discipline, which has been defined as "the science and art of preventing disease”, prolonging life and improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed

Alice Wickenden

AliceWickenden

// live tweeting of the below @SRSRenSoc event we start with @SLevelt introducing us to the Utrecht psalmer and tracing its provenance -- despite being once owned by Robert Cotton,

Wealth Health Money

1WealthHealth

Powerful Life Lessons From The Book: “The ALCHEMIST“ 65 Million Copies SOLD A Fable About Following Your Dream Book Review (Thread) Fear is a Bigger Obstacle Than the