#Scholarly

Elaine van Dalen

elainevdalen

A few days ago I tweeted a picture of a clock in Germany with an illustration of ʿAlī Ibn Riḍwān. Who was he?A thread on a pretty fascinating Egyptian physician.

A.B.B.A.D.O.N

morena_loape

The effects of social engineering has made me realise that culturally and ethnically, I recognise myself as a Mosotho but in African heritage and linguistics, Mosotho is a collective term

Nick Bernards

BernardsNick

IPE's vanishing Marxists, a thread.@clift_ben et al. just published this cool study on citation networks in IPE in @RIPEJournal. I've been thinking about this finding that Marxist work has largely

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

I had a three hour nap this evening and I am not tired enough to go to sleep yet, so I am going to listen to Paradis and write a

Gerg

Gergyl

#Banks250 Let's do this. Banks' journal is much more fun than Cook's. Two hundred and fifty years ago today the 26 year old is seasick, having just left the sexual

Emma Hilton

FondOfBeetles

In Humans, Sex is Binary and Immutableby Georgi K. Marinovhttps://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12129-020-09877-8.pdf Dr Marinov is postodoctoral researcher (genetics) at Stanford.Second paragraph."A disclaimer: I am not a ten

إبن الغُبيري 🏴

ibnalghobeiri

To be frank, I am very much against the idea of portraying the life and legacy of Sayed Muhammad-Bāqir al-Sadr as though it was all sunshine and rainbows, or that

Daigengna Duoer

daigengna

How, and why did a ger (yurt) develop into the largest and most important monastery in #Mongolia? Here’s my interview with Dr. Uranchimeg Tsultemin on her fabulous new book on

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The iron law of computing is GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out. Machine learning does not repealit. do statistical analysis of skewed data, get skewed conclusions. This is totally obvious to

Karl Sharro

KarlreMarks

A thread on the historic roots of why it's difficult for the UK and the EU to agree a deal. European culture is notoriously averse to compromise, largely because of

Terence Renaud

terry_renaud

Catharsis. A facet of the humanities jobs crisis that I've experienced & others might have, too, is something one could call professional depression. Aside from obvious personal depression, I'm referring

a house of tortured syntax

mienwhile

maybe today is the day to thread “xiyao & corpse!mom go to dongying” well, we’ve done the academia bit, and the tender consensual stabbing, so now it’s time for the

Alatar the Blue

Auslandsgruppe1

Here's a little historical context from Antiquity that I think illustrates and complements what Gandalf is talking about.In Plato's Ion we have a dialogue between Socrates and a professional rhapsode

Sue Fletcher-Watson

SueReviews

APA guidelines still recommend person-first language for writing about autism but I am trying to use identity-first nearly all the time now. We had a positive experience with a journal

Kevin M. Levin

KevinLevin

Yesterday I responded to a piece in the @TimesNewsOnline by @NDJ2ND that argued for the existence of black Confederate soldiers. It was only a screenshot, but the newspaper has since

Ronald D. Potts ن

RonaldDPotts1

Why am I a Christian? It's a long journey and I couldn't possible encapsulate it in a series of tweets. Here are the cliff notes.I converted at the age of