#Authors

In Bollywood’s imagination and in Indian media’s narrative a Kashmiri Muslim is always this old Shikarawallah or Tongowallah who can’t read his letters and some benevolent foreigner helps him/her and
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Do memory T cells induced by seasonal coronavirus infection protect us from SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or disease? I attempt to answer this question in this thread. Also at virology blog. (1/n)
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This preprint recording CA1 pyramidal cells during a virtual reality Watermaze task looks very interesting! "the majority of cells encoded path distance from the start of trials" I definitely need
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It’s a weekend, and I’m actually on holidays until August 17th, but I’m going to do a thread on the water disconnections in Nairobi RCT on Monday. I’ve already explained
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Reminder for @CoNZealand members: we're into the last hours of voting for the Lodestar Award for Best YA Book.Cast of Wonders has been thrilled to bring you short stories from
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So. Someone decided to say "other writers are your competition, you should remember that" and Author Twitter has gotten hold of it.Mostly everyone is avoiding a pile-on, though, which is
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Remember when writers used to be cool?Hemingway fought with rebel forces and in both world wars, and was a double agent for CIA working with the KGB.Lord Byron traveled the
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Recently (by that I mean over the past two weeks) I’ve been reading more indie novels written by Pakistani authors (Ali Sethi, Saba Imtiaz) and it’s really cool to see
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Novelists for poets: Jenny Offill, Rachel Cusk, Zora Neale Hurston, Elena Ferrante, Iris Murdoch, Brigid Brophy, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Fanny Howe. (I don’t mean to read women authors, I
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(1/10) Absolutely thrilled to share this article. It’s been a long time coming and is the product of some fantastic discussions and debates over the course of the past three
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Buckle up, kids—it’s time for a thread about how Audible Exclusive audiobooks (aka Audible Originals) hurt bookstores and libraries.https://blog.libro.fm/the-harmful-impact-of-audible-exclusive-audiobooks/ While http://Libro.fm  ha
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#OpenScience I am routinely encouraging authors of papers I am reviewing to share their data and materials. I have finally wrote a generic comment to be added to a review.
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As someone who has spent the better part of the last decade working on "just works" deployment (for Heroku) I've got some insights as to why this ishttps://twitter.com/searls/status/1344277289840873472 To support
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OK I got to the stuff with the trans boy in TLOU2 and honestly I think this side of the discourse has had a bunch of misinformation and exaggeration in
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New paper examining transmission of #COVID19 on trains as function of trip duration & distance (rows vs columns).Data are analyzed assuming transmission happens on train but key figure suggests transmission
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Academic journal editor here. It’s our job to read, interpret & then write to the article author advising them about how to revise. (One past editor taught us at the
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