#Scholarly

PantsuitPolitics

PantsuitPolitic

Friends, it’s Supreme Court week on the Nightly Nuance, and I am overflowing with nerdy enthusiasm. To get you ready for our review of their recent decisions, let’s do a

Dr. Katja Thieme 👀

Katja_Thieme

Excellent thread.I'm very glad there's a scholarly piece now, extensively sourced, analyzing how Steven Pinker's media access allowed him to sway reporting on the petition to the LSA to take

Kiran Kumbhar

kikumbhar

What I wish to convey is that in the post-Covid world, India's elite are not suddenly going to be convinced of the towering idea that the underprivileged deserve the same

Amanda Schmitt

schmitt4545

A THREAD: My thoughts on conspiracy theories and dire health threats. First, the backdrop: I used to take just about any threat the anti-mainstream “uncovered” seriously. Radio waves, pesticides, you

Rita Konaev

RitaKonaev

I’m very excited to share our new @CSETGeorgetown report on Russia’s AI research: https://live-cset-georgetown.pantheonsite.io/research/russian-ai-research-2010-2018/ We analyzed 7,059 scientific papers published in English, with author

Professor Fleming

alwaystheself

I wish to clarify something about my critique of "magical thinking", because it involves a number of claims that I've actually never heard or read anyone else express before (the

Arun Agrawal

gotonura

There is no conservation without addressing poverty, injustice, marginality, and oppression. Conservation "successes" that ignore social processes and outcomes, that ignore people, that are built on repression are NOT WORTH

Funmi Oyatogun

funmioyatogun

10 questions I would like to ask about race, ethnicity, identity and racial relations.As usual, please stay on the side of information and kindness when giving your responses. This is

Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi, Ph.D

olumuyiwaayo

Writing the Statement of PurposeThe statement of purpose should convince readers– the faculty on the selection committee– that you have solid achievements behind you that show promise for your success

Kevin Wilson

KevinWilson42

I know some folks are confused about why I'm so proud of a tiny little game like Gentle Rain when I've designed so many behemoths in the past, and let

James Thompson

JamesPsychol

Experts, intelligence, racehttp://www.unz.com/jthompson/experts-intelligence-race/ Academia makes a tradition out of slowness: the last survey on this matter was in 1988. By this reckoning the next survey will be in 2052. No

Matthew J. Peterson

docMJP

People approach the American founding with outrageous arrogance based on shallow ideologies and their reading of a few secondary sources—but the preachers & politicians of the 18th and early 19th

m.k

LegendOfShabir

A thread. Plz bear with me. I have been on Twitter from 2016 under various anonymous handles.I don't think I should have be here before that to be called a

JackLeslieCamp

JackLeslieCamp

We have had a chance to read through this brilliant book by Bill Hern and David Gleave ⁦@pioneers_book⁩. It’s a great read, scholarly but accessible. It has info on black

Latif Nasser

latifnasser

This year has been unrelentingly bleak, so I want to tell you a real-life Cinderella story that started almost exactly ten years ago today. (A THREAD) In the summer of

Martin “Black Lives Matter” Pfeiffer 🏳️‍🌈

NuclearAnthro

As most recently discussed in depth by @luke_j_obrien, the nuclear release procedures for NATO in Cold War were byzantine & slow. Given US stress on promptness of lower yield W76-2