#Century

Seaver Wang

wang_seaver

This is not remotely what the climate science literature says. Misinformation like that article is becoming extreme and prevalent enough that there's a rapidly growing need for earth scientists to

Leke Alder

LekeAlder

1. These are very interesting times and we live in Bible days. There’s a lot happening and I’d like to offer some perspective on unfolding events. #Illuminare 2. Let’s consider

Matthew Lloyd Roberts

MatthewLloydR

If you're hunting something architectural to watch from lockdown, an anonymous hero uploaded almost every Jonathan Meades documentary here: https://vimeo.com/meadesshrine - I wrote about Meades during my MA, so I

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The "contact tracing" apps don't do "contact tracing" - they do "exposure notification." Contact tracing is a labor-intensive shoe-leather process built on relationships and it is stubbornly resistant to au

Emma Dawson

DawsonEJ

Once more as an actual thread. #auspol https://twitter.com/dawsonej/status/1287185880550010881 Howard as treasurer left Australia’s economy in an awful mess. The Hawke-Keating government put in place reforms that spurred growth, lifted sc

David Schleicher

ProfSchleich

Ugh, this @davidfrum piece comes somewhat close to understanding municipal bankruptcy (and thus state bankruptcy) but then screws it up pretty dramatically. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/why-mitch-mcconnell-wants-states-go-bankru

Dr Doug McNeall

dougmcneall

Yesterday, I had a great opportunity to present the basics of climate science to a lunchtime learning club at a Big Company. I had 10 minutes! They were hearteningly engaged.Here

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Things are very dire. The world is aflame. Our political will is in tatters. But despite all this, there are leverage points, where a small intervention can have gigantic consequences.

Dr Eleanor Janega

GoingMedieval

I am the god damn plague/Renaissance police and I will be issuing citations anytime I see these takes on the TL. No. Absolutely not. I rebuke all of this. In

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

This is @PieterCoppens8 again, tweeting about my research on Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi this week. Let me share a case study on Qasimi today, on which I wrote an article that

Cengiz

CengizYar

When an oil bust takes hold in West Texas, no one is spared: Drilling rigs collect dust, barber chairs sit empty, students drop out of school and lines swell at

Zoë Goodwin

Drypetes

We have a new paper in @JournalSystBio delving further into my PhD @rbge_Science & @OxfordPlants w @pablomurod. Whoop! http://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2020.1751339Funded by a @NERCscience PhD studentship & grants from @LeverhulmeTru

Al Dente

six_2_and_even

We picked out an oak at the sawmill yesterday It needed to be dead balls straight – no propeller wind – because we’ll be splitting it, not sawing it. You

The Final 5 Campaign

Final5Campaign

Good afternoon! Today, we are re-upping our demand for IYC-St Charles to be closed in the next 90 days. In order to build awareness of this crisis affecting youth in

Bjorn Lomborg

BjornLomborg

Economic analysis from @ThunstromLinda and colleagues shows the benefits of social distancing outweigh the economic costs by $5.2 trillion(Paper available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3561934)https://thehill.com/policy/fi

River Mother Fucking Stark

WickdTransWitch

Seeing as how @FeministRoar wants to pretend trans people apparently didn’t exist in Nazi Germany, nor were we slaughtered during the Holocaust.So I guess there’s a legitimate need to actually