#Histories

Rex Douglass

RexDouglass

Today I'm going to be live tweeting:"Predictive performance of international COVID-19mortality forecasting models"(Friedman et al. August 26, 2020)What looks like a great evaluation of covid model performance over long periods

David Tobin

ReasonablyRagin

Since mass internment camps in #Xinjiang emerged during 2017, English-language discussion of the region has grown enormously. This new interest in a place so familiar and intimate to many of

Debra Thompson

debthompsonphd

Others have pointed out that this is the epitome of shallow understandings of racism - that being called a racist is worse than actual racism - but it’s also about

Alison Collins 高勵思

AliMCollins

This is an excellent illustration of the challenges educators face in addressing racism in schools. “Few schools have leaders willing to openly and effectively challenge systemically racist structures.”https://link.medium.com/AKdsj6SdW9

Helen De Cruz

Helenreflects

This is utterly fascinating. Why did the UK react so slowly, in spite of seeing the pandemic unfold in other countries? "British scientists assumed that such drastic actions would never

stephen thecatamites

thecatamites

feel like one way people write about AAA games from a progressive angle is to convert them from a single instance of Bad Labour (exploitative, hierarchial etc) into a smorgasbord

rose

thefairestrose

My hot take: the characterization of Judaism as a religion like Christianity or Islam (rather than an ethnogroup) has caused the Jewish community more harm than good. (Thread) This claim

Dr. Cassandra Quave

QuaveEthnobot

I am a child of the 1970s, a casualty of poisons used during the Vietnam War. While #AgentOrange was intended to brutally strip the forest trees bare of their dense

Mike Dawson 👑☕️💈

mike_daws

In recent years I've published many short pieces online, giving me lots of material to do nice end of year "round-up" tweets about. In 2019 I was less productive in

Cuchallain - Donghua Reviews

cuchallain

I don't like white people who refuse to try to view non-white media through a non-white lens. If you don't like it or understand it, that's fine: Just don't watch

Julie Hardwick

DrJulieHardwick

1/n When our students show us the future. @UT_HistDept's Haley Price on her @ransomcenter research using the 1st English edition of Machiavelli's, Florentine Histories. The format for her Honors thesis

Peter Olsen

TheWhaleShark

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/viking-was-job-description-not-matter-heredity-massive-ancient-dna-study-shows?rss=1Modern historians know this, but to repeat for the rest of you:1) "Viking" was a job, not a people2) The N

Jerry Pham

jerry_pham

AN OFFICIAL RANKING OF TYPES OF STREET NAMES[a thread]Like on your personal favorite! Numbered streets: 9/10. Classic and makes for easy navigation, but maybe a little boring! NYC gets a

ScotArchaeologyMonth

ScotArchMonth

While we wait for the videos, we'll tell you a little bit about the @StobsCamp...The Camp is located approx. 4 miles south of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, and due

星星之火，可以燎原

_tanwho_

It sounds almost cliché at this point but reading and really absorbing revolutionary theory is incredibly important in informing praxis. Though the world situation seems dismal, there are centuries of

National Trust

nationaltrust

Caribbean mahogany furniture was the height of 18th-century fashion, but this luxury material came at a human cost. Mahogany trees were felled by enslaved Africans in dangerous virgin rainforest and