#FieldWork

Oliver Kim

oliverwkim

Happy birthday to Albert Hirschman, who would be 106 today.Hirschman—anti-fascist, resistance hero, later a development economist—may be the most interesting person to ever take up the profession. and blog

Dilip Mandal

Profdilipmandal

My thesis on why India is a ‘no invention’ nation. Please read entire thread. The mystery of not inventing or developing any public utility in India is not unique to

Edin Hajdarpašić

_edinh

In 1933-35, Milman Parry & Albert Lord came to Yugoslavia with 1000s of aluminum disks onto which they recorded oral poetry from waiters, farmers, coffeeshop patrons, village women. Their archive

Rian Thum

RianThum

In case you haven't noticed, this autumn has seen an unprecedented number of academic books on Uyghur history, culture, and politics. These are all studies that have been in the

Thomas Frederikse

FrederikseT

New paper ‘The causes of sea-level rise since 1900’ (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2591-3#article-info) just came out! We have shown that we can close the ‘sea-level budget’ since 1900. That means, that we can

Dr Natasha Dowey

DrNatashaDowey

Today our paper on the shocking lack of racial diversity in UK Geosciences is out @NatureGeosci: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00737-w@VolcanoJenni @BenFernando2 @GilesPalaeoLab Jacqui Houghton @seis_matters @jurassicg1rl Anya

Whaley Good Student

anthro_andrew

Behold, the start of my official #mammalwatching thread, where I'll update my mammal-related adventures from here on out (don't worry, I won't re-post anything! All new content!)Here's the first, Botta's

Wouter Vansteelant

WMGVs

Hey y'all. In a few days I'm off to Canary Islands for the 2019 Eleonora's Falcon #fieldwork!Internet comes and goes on the remote Isla de #Alegranza, but I'll try to

duane froese

tephrafan

On #fossilfriday I'm thinking about fieldwork since we cancelled spring/summer work for 2020 due to Covid. This is the first in 25+ years to not work in N. Can. In

Economic & Political Weekly

epw_in

#EPWConversations: Today, Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman (@mirzalibra10) will be talking about his article "Infrastructuring Floods in the Brahmaputra River BasinHydrocracies, Hubris, Hazardscapes" from epw_in's handle. We invite you t

Matthew Porges

matthew_porges

Rather than occasionally tweeting random updates, I'm going to put all the emerging information about the renewed conflict in #WesternSahara in one thread that I can update as things unfold.

UK NPM

UKNPM

In the rapidly changing context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we would like to provide some updates on how the UK NPM is approaching the crisis and taking forward our

Peter Moonlight

PeterMoonlight

I'm missing fieldwork, so thought I'd start a thread to see just how many plant families I can find in the garden and on some lockdown-complient wanders.I'll start today. And

William Colgan, Ph.D.

GlacierBytes

Instead of disappearing from Twitter for fieldwork for the next 35 days, I'll guide a virtual expedition, with an ice-sheet post every day for the next 35 days.Day 1/35 -

Tatsuya Amano

tatsuya_amano

1 #ISTC20 #Sesh7 OK here’s a thread on #languagebarriers. Yes you are in the right conference. This is still about shorebirds. What I mean is I will explain how language

Amy Cooter, PhD

AmyCooter

Here's a thread about one of the questions I'm getting that, because of the answer's complexity, isn't reflecting as well as I would like in some of the journalistic write-ups,