#Biases

Alec Karakatsanis

equalityAlec

This is a thread about how journalists decide what is “news” and what isn’t. Anyone shaping the news and anyone consuming the news should understand who decides what counts as

Paul Bradshaw

paulbradshaw

Are the BBC’s new social media guidelines as draconian as has been reported? Looking at the actual guidelines it isn’t quite so clear cut. THREAD! https://www.bbc.com/editorialguidelines/guidance/individual-use-of-social-media 2/ The gu

Dr Sonali Dutta-Knight #blacklivesmatter

TheBAMEGP

I’m just a normal salaried GP. Before Covid, I was like so many of you. Why was I even a member of the @RCGP?But #NHS staff were dying because they

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sugafltr

putting together a thread of information, explanations, and things you can do to support #blacklivesmatter : a disclaimer before i start that i am WHITE, and do not want to

Singto’s Whore⁸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

blwrecked

Every damn time I think we’ve passed this,someone makes yet another opinion piece about how “boring” SOTUS S is,how “annoying” Arthit was, etc.I already wrote this somewhere else but I

FCPUI

Rnb129

One of the achievements #Modi is mocked for highlighting is one that many of us take for granted - a bank account -As a nomad who lived out of suitcase

Wesley Yang

wesyang

NYC Chancellor of Schools Richard Carranza mandated training intended to purge Department of Education employees of the implicit biases endemic to whiteness https://nypost.com/2019/05/20/richard-carranza-held-doe-white-supremacy-culture-tra

sujoy

sujoy_shah

here are quick rebuttals for racist talking points: “Black people commit more crime”Well, if you have higher police presence in black neighborhoods than white neighborhoods, especially with a corrupt system

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update April 21: My focus on the Senate Bill, what it means and what’s next. The next bill. And I talked to my hero today about one of our

Health Nerd

GidMK

A new study has come out that hit headlines everywhere arguing that there's no safe level of caffeine intake during pregnancyI think it's worth a bit of a peer-review on

Heather Urry

HeatherUrry

I want to tell y’all about one of my most meaningful teaching experiences. Pull up a chair. I’ve been teaching experimental psychology since 2006. It’s the flagship research methods for

Not Quite Midlife

NotQuiteMidlife

Unofficial FinTwit podcast review thread I’m a hedge fund manager but solely my personal opinionsI subscribe to most money manager podcasts – listen to some (at 1.5-2X speed), read transcripts

sisboomba

iffy_syw

Dear Japanese people, STOP FETISHIZING MIXED PEOPLE and even if you're not Japanese, STOP FETISHIZING MIXED PEOPLE. FYI, saying "I want mixed babies" is NOT a compliment : a THREAD

sam D-2❔

gookiebun

I want to explain what's been going through my mind regarding the treatment of two members. Together and as individuals. I've held my tongue because I think speaking on the

madeline odent

oldenoughtosay

the personalities and stereotypes of Oxford colleges, as demonstrated by their christmas decorations: a thread. Balliol: timeless, classic, perhaps a bit old fashioned but who can blame them really when

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

"Case fatality risk" has various definitions, and it is important to know what it's referring to. This has resulted in substantial confusion when trying to compare influenza and COVID-19. It's