#Scholarly

The venerable @OmairTAhmad, in a recent thread, perfectly analyzd differential attitudes of privileged Indians to Covid in 2020 & 21To his point that India mishandled d first, but it was
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Academics with kids, when isolating at home. Academics with no kids, when isolating at home. Academics who’d been on strike now looking at emails, when isolating at home. Academics who’ve
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Several hours later and I still feel repulsed as well as infuriated by the transgression of the Saudi Arabian government against our dear brother Abu Anas ‘Abdur-Raheem al-Huwaiti. For this
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#ProustTogether 1/25THREAD on the event at Albertine bookstore in NYC live with Paris and Proust specialist Jean-Yves Tardie who published a Cahier Proust, Editions de L'Herne.I watched it this evening
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I don't believe we should be setting students work during this time for various (probably/hopefully obvious) reasons.But as a graduate teaching assistant I have to prepare my students for the
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[THREAD]Did Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab innovate the 10 nullifiers of Islam? We often hear this claim by opponents of MIAW that he innovated these 10 nullifiers and how these
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Thread: If there’s one area of history that is subject to myth & fantasy it has to be the Irish Celts. They have suffered from being viewed romantically. However, if
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US Senate Intelligence Report in passim without providing any evidence or citing any sources referred to US, Israeli & Italian documentaries & social media posts concerning testimonies of 7 Georgian
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Thread: If there’s one area of history that is subject to myth & fantasy it has to be the Irish Celts. They have suffered from being viewed romantically. However, if
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A very short note on the science of translation Translation is a nuanced discipline, and it takes a lot of research and effort to do a good job This
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THE HISTORICAL BACKDROP BEHIND DAI GYAKUTEN SAIBANA heavily condensed rundown of Japanese history relevant to understanding DGS, which I very strongly urge you to read if you don’t have basic
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[Thread]I was appalled and devastated when I came across some tweets a few days ago. I could never have imagined that such a putrid attitude could ever be prevalent among
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1/ The next hot-button issue in #COVID19 debates: the relative importance of #antibodies versus T cells in #COVID_19 immune response.(If you're thinking this should be an obscure, wonky, data-driven debate,
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A reporter has posted a new trove of IS documents online, mostly combat unit intake forms, w/o redactions. This release makes me viscerally uneasy & uncomfortable. A thread about grey
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A very long thread about Jeffrey Flynn-Paul’s Spectator essay on the “myth” that the U.S. and Canada are built on lands stolen from Indigenous nations.https://bit.ly/2ER0ozt  Karl Jacoby and I pitched
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Last week, @hssonline & @SocHistTech announced that this year's joint meeting in New Orleans had been postponed due to #COVID19.Many people, including myself, were saddened by this decision, even though
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