#Attitudes

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

My thread about Islamic responses to antiquity provoked a lot of conversation, so I thought I'd do a follow-up thread to clarify a few points. I'm grateful for the questions,

Rachel Ball

MrsBallAP

A thread for my 2021 reads in case people are interested. A mixture of fiction, history, education and autobiographies. 1. Wow. Strong start. Absolutely amazing book. Completely heartbreaking at times,

Petra Guasti

PetraGuasti

Excellent review of The Light That Failed by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes by Esther Kovats & Katerina Smejkalovahttps://www.ips-journal.eu/regions/europe/article/show/east-central-europes-revolt-against-imitation-4205/A thread 1. Krastev &

Zaddy Aang 🧦🌐🔰🌹

SocksxMC

Okay, so I’ve seen that Ben Shapiro video about “ackshually people want to be non-white now” has people citing examples about minorities having to “speak white” as a counter-argument. And

Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH

usnehal

Both/and. The issues of manipulation of our reality is true. That said, I have seen some of the most educated and supposedly intelligent so-called skeptics engage in high school types

Matt Davidson

md_ptbo

Haiti has reportedly rejected the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine that was to be provided to the country by the @WHO.Wondering what to make of that? Here are some points to consider.https://haitiantimes.com/2021/04/08/haiti-rejects-covid-19-va

Rain Mason, PhD, BLM, ACAB 🦊

500livesasafox

The myth of the mentally ill witch in textbooks of abnormal psychology: a thread on history, ideology, the status of the occult within clinical psychology, and why I am skeptical

Kevin M. Kruse

KevinMKruse

Oh, man, @kilmeade is *so* close to getting it. I'll see if I can help him understand why "that narrative flipped" in the 1960s.https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1144569693044391942 First of all, yes, the Democratic

The Slothmare Before Christmas

CaseyExplosion

Hey folks, today lets talk about Cyberpunk, Japan, and the 80's. Have you ever wondered why Cyberpunk as a genre is so steeped with Japanese imagery and references? Well it's

Andrea Danese

andrea_danese

New Danese & Widom @NatureHumBehav paper ’Objective and subjective experiences of child maltreatment and their relationships with psychopathology’ is out @KingsIoPPN @MaudsleyNHS @CUNY - see THREAD belowhttps://www.nature.com/articl

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

This is my super thread on why prison programs & humane conditions were evisxersted, their relation to mass incarceration, How cost,profit, instrumental,economistic nor conspiratorial reasons can account for it, and

Political Farm 🇺🇸

politicalfarm

Democrats are so rude to our First Lady. They are also Dense and have no clue what they are talking about. They criticized her dress tonight like total morons. But

Jessie Wilkerson

Dr_JessieW

Dolly Parton said Black Lives Matter. That’s important. (a thread)https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country/9432581/dolly-parton-country-power-players-billboard-cover-story-interview-2020 She knows that her stating BLM is powerfu

Ben W. Ansell

benwansell

MERITOCRACY IN THE NEWS @David_Goodhart and Michael Sandel have both written provocative new books about the trouble with 'meritocracy'. Both argue that non-graduates have been undervalued and that graduates in

Kevork Oskanian

DrKevorkO

It’s time to point out why exactly an Azerbaijani military takeover of #NagornoKarabakh itself - i.e. not the territories surrounding it - would almost certainly result in the massacre and/or

Michelle Cohen, MD

DocMCohen

The history of public health is also the history of women in health care. Let’s take a moment to reflect on how the discipline of public health arose out of