#Institutions

Here's a thread listing all my online writings on the topic of self-identification, gender ideology, science and ethics (or lack thereof) behind these concepts, the consequences of allowing ideology to
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In order to truly understand the role systemic racism players in a label with a white roster, or a website that primarily covers white artists, in highly diverse music scenes,
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1.) When I was in DC, doing deep research on the issues around spygate and trying to understand the depth of corruption within the legislative and judicial branches, I ran
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Had a novel story. Had senior PIs in the field read the draft. Several advised to submit to "big" journals. So I did. All rejected (so far). They argued for
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Thread: The idea here seems to be that China's 5,000 years of history somehow is going to help it get a vaccine quicker than the US, because it has a
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Vanessa Guillen’s murder is a misogynist atrocity yet wholly banal. In Long Beach, California, a “popular” high school Spanish teacher, Pedro Tepoz-Leon, murdered his student, Mayra Mora-Lopez, an undocumented student
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The reason for my sadness: I’m a hood nigga who desperately wants to be part of Jewish life, and there is no space for me anywhere. And I don’t know
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Trump Records Shed New Light on Chinese Business Pursuitshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/trump-taxes-china.html?smid=tw-share Trump spent a decade unsuccessfully pursuing projects in China, operating an office there during his first r
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It’s cute that you all think “if there were women on this #abed curriculum panel, it would be so much better”But that’s not how institutions and systems of power work.
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1) In this thread I'd like to bring attention to "Hexagon Theory" as it relates to XRP. There are some people out there newer to the XRP space who haven't
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I am working on two new research projects, one of which studies PRC 'influence' in multilateral institutions. @columlynch in @foreignpolicy has another great piece on PRC fielding a candidate to
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I have volunteered at a homeless youth outreach program for many years now, and one of the things they teach us before we're ever allowed to interact with homeless youth
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The people of Sengkang, Aljunied, and Hougang have elected the Workers' Party. In turn, all eyes are now fixed on the alleged partisanship of the People's Association.Quick thread on that
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No trust, no use - mostly holds true in a society that builds upon democratic values and institutions. Strong collaboration btw the government, science/Edu, NGOs, & *good* sci-comm to involve
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Even as debates over cancel culture have swept the nation, free speech defenders have disagreed about what, exactly, cancel culture is, and what it means for freedom of speech.For some
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I’ve been talking with a lot of my friends over the last week about how we can help. Everybody wants to help. But I’ve heard a lot of my well-meaning
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