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WediWelWel

My first #EritreanProfiles thread. This one will be about Weldeab Weldemariam, the father of #Eritrea He had 7 assassination attempts and diplomatically fought for Eritrea’s independence since the 1940s. All

Shaquise Elie

ShaquiseTeach

Reflections of a high school writing teacher on the day his AP Seminar students submitted their Individual Written Argument Essays. A thread. 1/ In a class where skills are its

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today's @bopinion post is about big cities, and why they might not bounce back triumphantly after COVID is gone.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-10/new-york-san-francisco-u-s-cities-will-struggle-after-covid-19 2/COV

Beth Popp Berman

epopppp

I cut 3000 words on the rise of economics in U.S. housing policy this week. In tribute (and since blogs are dead), I turned it into a very long Twitter

Stephen L. Young

SLYProfessor

When white Evangelical leaders discredit Christian support for #BLM with "Jesus came to save individuals from sin, not political change," this is #TheologyOfPrivilege. It's a dominant theology and long est.

Rachel Hewitt

drrachelhewitt

Right, I’ve been doing some reading (and writing) about young women’s experiences in public space, and it’s made me so angry and upset that I have to share a digest

Corrine McConnaughy

cmMcConnaughy

A list in no real order of academic work that my students this year found USEFUL for doing their own thinking and research.(Basically, this is an appreciation thread.) Administrative burden:

Robert Parenteau

MacroEdge1

1/N We should applaud @LHSummers recognition of the work neoMarxian economists Bowles, Gintis, Weisskopf, and Schor did on worker power...4 decades ago. Am willing to bet they are not cited

Dr. Waitman "One Shot Down" Beorn

waitmanb

[Thread] Hitler & Trump: A reasonable, nuanced comparison.I've been wanting to do this for a while, so let's look at their leadership/managerial styles in a rational way because there is

Dr Manu Saunders

ManuSaunders

This year's #EarthDay theme is climate action, but the Google doodle is promoting misinformation about #pollinators!I sat through 22 'facts' & 50% of them were specific to honey bees...just

Alex Gladstein 🌋

gladstein

1/ While doing research for my essay on the negative externalities of the petrodollar, I learned a huge amount. Much of it was shocking or surprising.Here's a thread with a

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread: Bogatyrs (1898) Painting by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov. A bogatyr is a character in medieval East Slavic legends, akin to a Western European knight. I would here like to talk

katy huff

katyhuff

Dr. Denia Djokic @deniadjokic at the @BelferCenter is beginning her seminar "Reimagining Nuclear Power Through Feminist Epistemologies". It's being recorded by the organizers. I'll do some live-tweeting about it in

Luca Fornaro

LucaFornaro3

Hysteresis strikes back! The view that deep recessions may damage future productive capacity, e.g. by leading firms to reduce investment in innovation, is gaining more and more traction in the

Michael J Barany

MBarany

A couple more thoughts on this bit of advice in response to @extremefriday 's call for suggestions for overhauling her department's math history course.Confining non-Western traditions to the past is

Annie 😷🇺🇸🇿🇦

the_anni3

Today I learned about something which I did not know about and we were never taught in our history lessons. The sysem of "Inboekselings". (Extract from Illustrated history of South