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Some more #rightwhale news: Today, @pewtrusts filed an emergency petition with federal regulators, demanding they take action to protect the critically endangered species asap. "Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act,
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1/7 We spend a lot of time thinking about how we might salvage a concept of freewill, perhaps as an account of freewill as a limited agency operating within different
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Time for a regular reminder that logarithmic transformation is often necessary in biology for biological (and not just statistical reasons).. .thread 1/x @KerkhoffLab https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022519308006681?v
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The viral response to my tweet on #PrinceHarry has much to do with our collective outrage at the injustice of racism by proxy, heaped on Harry thru Meghan. Perhaps bcos
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Whenever I talk about being susceptible to marketing and cults, it should be noted that I basically once joined a lowkey cult for three weeks so I don’t just talk
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Marcus Junius Brutus and Marcus Antonius crossed paths with each other in more ways than just being on two different factions after Caesar’s assassination and we should pay more attention
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About half way through this and it's essential listening if you want to better understand radicalisation from YouTube, the rise of the far right and how pernicious this whole thing
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One of the more interesting—& tragic—facts of history: In the years immediately preceding the Russian Revolution, Tsarist Russia was, in fact, improving—& on a grand scale. While Russia had lagged
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ok so fuck that new detective anime thats outhttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/10/national/japanese-novelist-sparks-outcry-south-korea-insults-comfort-woman-statue/ i forgot to CW for this but warning for mentions of sexual violence in the ar
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One of the things about this whole situation that I think must be absolutely maddening to epidemiologists is how people persist in thinking and talking about this virus as if
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A lot of what people call identity politics are really politics concerning representation. nOT TO Keep going on about this but identity politics were created by Black feminists to center
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A set of straight questions on Tablighi Jamaat and the drama that being stirred up around them: (1) if criticizing any organization deemed "Hindu" is not demonization of Hinduism, criticizing
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Hey, um.Do we maybe want to think about reasons why noted white guy and video game legend Tony Hawk might be cooler about memes joking about fans killing him than
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Only 1% of the population donates blood through the @theSANBSWhat is preventing South Africans from donating blood? To be eligible to donate blood, you need to:• be free of any
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Thread: I had to go to Best Buy for a curbside pickup this afternoon. When I got there, the parking lot was full of pro-COVID activists (I don’t know what
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I've just read chapter about LOTO 'interference', including pushing for harsher action on Livingstone. Are we going to get acknowledgement that loads of folk now waving this report kept demanding
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