#Authorship

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

Adi Śankara is arguably the greatest "historical" figure of religion India has produced, post BuddhaBut despite his historicity, v few biographical details about him are known definitelyIncluding details as rudimentary

Shaula Evans

ShaulaEvans

I had a great chat with a friend today about cultural appropriation--and now I'd like to open up the topic to you. How do you define cultural appropriation for yourself?

Ryan Huerto #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor

DrHuerto

As a physician, former teacher, LAUSD graduate, and ally of public school communities, I'm deeply disturbed by this piece from @TheAtlantic telling teachers to go back to work. Here's a

Dr Maddy Pelling

MaddyPelling

Thinking a lot lately about a new project on 18th-century #graffiti, the lives and voices - often hidden in plain sight - that it can reveal from the past, and

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

In "The Feeling of Power" (Asimov, 1958), ubiquitous computation causes humanity to forget the fundamentals of math, including how to count. A technician rediscovers it by studying computer schematics, and

arkancide_is_real

Arkancideisreal

@thelancet have published another paper to try to show that #hydroxychloroquine is "dangerous" (it's not).Here's why I think it's fakehttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanrhe/article/PIIS2665-9913(20)30276-9/fulltext#

Kim O'Connor

shallowbrigade

I’m already mad: the Kim O’Connor story Kirby’s likability immediate, palpable The founding of Marvel has a certain energy I just don’t know how you look at quotes from Jack

Erin Blakemore

heroinebook

At long last, my piece on sexism in research is live at @washingtonpost. (It will be in print on Tuesday.) A brief reporter's notebook follows. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/sexism-science-medbikini/2020/10/23/4ac00e0a-1229-11e

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

I have a favor to ask of you. I don't often ask readers for stuff, but this is maybe the most important ask of my career. It's a Kickstarter -

Wake up

enigmaoftruth1

THREAD: The Miraculous Language of the Quran, Evidence of Divine Origin. [Bassam Saeh] 1. This thread will present some key points and proofs from Bassam Saeh's great book on this

NYUAD Arts Center

NYUADArtsCenter

We’re about to live tweet a class visit from @taniaelk to a collection of @NYUAbuDhabi first year writing classes. One advantage of online learning is that we can bring even

Musashi Nair

Musashi_Nair

The world loves to attribute greatness to a long line of European mathematicians beginning with the Greeks/Romans without realizing that much of this 'history' was conjured up from thin air

Tim Grant

timgrant123

OK here goes for today’s paper for the #FLReadingGrp Bamman, Eisenstein, & Schnoebelen (2014) Gender identity and lexical variation in social media. J. of Sociolinguistics I’ve read this paper *a

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

I promised y'all a thread on female teachers of Torah throughout history. Here it is, neither comprehensive nor complete. So not really teachers of Torah, but in my tradition, there

Quinn Dombrowski

quinnanya

So glad I saw this and actually bothered to calculate what 17:00 London time works out to in California! Live-tweeting to commence shortly! Especially excited about this talk since

Royal Irish Academy Library

Library_RIA

This week we’ll look at the Library’s oldest manuscript : The Cathach #Cathach Written in Latin. The Cathach is the oldest extant Irish manuscript of the Psalter and the earliest