#Socio

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Increasingly, I am conscious of living in a new age, The Anthropocene: The geological era, where humans impact the entire biosphere through #climatechange and loss of biodiversity. Closely coupled with

Christopher T. Rentsch

DarthCTR

1/New study in @PLOSMedicine on racial/ethnic disparities in #COVID19 in US. Black and Hispanic people were 2x as likely to test positive than White people, even after adjustment. No difference

Glen Peters

Peters_Glen

THREAD: Are emission scenarios useful (& for whom)?A hard hitting & useful commentary on emission scenarios. Written in 2008, but the issues remain the same...1/https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/045016/meta Global chang

Rodrigo Zeidan

RodZeidan

In Brazil, employers report the race of their workers in wage reports sent to the government. In 2017, Cornwell and co-authors investigated what happens when workers change jobs. http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/52/3/719.short Workers

Mariëlle Wijermars

Marielle_W_

Getting ready for Day 2 of our virtual conference Automation and data-driven journalism beyond the Western world: Actors, practices and socio-political impact. Yesterday's presentations and discussions were so insightful and

Florent Schmitt

FlorentSchmitt6

Le crack : rien qu'à son évocation, on pense à des drogués marginaux qui troublent l'ordre public. Que cache cette représentation ? Quels sont les ressorts sociaux en jeu dans

Mohammed Shaham 🌹

mohd_shaham

Other than Sarojini Naidu and Jhansi ki rani (Lakshmibai) how many women freedom fighters do you know? From the first war of independence (1919) to the drafting of the constitution

Dr. TJ #ACNH

DrTJ433

So I wasn’t going to say anything but I tweet this in hopes of helping somebody with the message. As a professor (yes I’m a real Dr., but not that

sloane

sloanesloane

I feel like the idea of 'protagnist' and 'main characters' needs to be challenged more in stories, by authors and readers, especially as we get away from imperialisitc storytelling traditions.

Roshan Kishore

Roshanjnu

1/n: A slightly theoretical thread on the political economy of #farmersbill "passed" by the RS. In 1998 Utsa Patnaik wrote an essay called India’s Agrarian Economy & New Contradictions Following

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

wmnjoya

The same Kenyans who whine to the Education CS about lack of internet for e-learning are the same Kenyans who agree with the same CS that children get pregnant because

Dr. Betina Hsieh 謝原真

ProfHsieh

Good morning, Friends! It's #APAHM or #AAPIHM & I'm echoing friends who are quoting the amazing Sandra Oh that "It's an honor just to be Asian" today &

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

In his address at the 50th National Conference of the ANC, Nelson Mandela decried "opponents of change" who used "all manner of evil" to oppose transformation in South Africa. Also,

Shelley Laskin

shelleylaskin

Please join us for @tdsb Committee of the Whole beginning at 4:30 - click here https://www.tdsb.on.ca/stream/boardmeetings/livemeeting.html Agenda includes Reports From Trustees Appointed to @opsba and @TOPublicHealth, Profiles of Administr

Michael Roellinghoff

m_roellinghoff

Something that comes up repeatedly in 19th century documents related to Hokkaido is the idea that the colony was a "laboratory" and that colonial policies were "experiments". This was party

Blythe Gryphon

Blythe_Gryphon

"Tyrants do not arise in a vacuum just as tyranny does not spring on the world unannounced. It takes years of cultivation of special conditions in a society for a