#Discourse

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

1. Orwell’s 1984 opens with Winston Smith writing in his diary about a film he’s seen. “One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in

JOSHUA

JournoJoshua

A major study led by a lifelong Republican finds no evidence that professors are deliberately giving conservative students bad grades.https://psmag.com/ideas/no-professors-arent-discriminating-against-conservative-students Wanted to give my

DCPetterson

dcpetterson

Republicans have been working hard, for forty years, to demolish the federal government. In Trump, they found a wrecking ball to accomplish their dreams.The lack of any sane response to

Slava Malamud

SlavaMalamud

I was interviewed by the Voice of America's Russian service last night. It was hard to find any other Democratic-voting Russians with any name recognition, I guess. They asked me

Tim Vogels

TPVogels

@BozelosP & I wrote a thing on the 'status quo et quo vadis' of "Talking Science, online", out today @NatRevNeurosci. Also, of course, about @worldwideneuro & @neuromatch conference (COI) but

Yogi Jaeger

yoginho

A little thread on maybe *the* false dichotomy in evolutionary biology: self-organisation vs. natural selection… Let’s start with Lewontin’s minimal conditions for Darwinian evolution: (1) phenotypic variation, (2) inheritance,

Megan Milliken Biven🖖💫🐊

BayouTerrier

I am very relieved that I'm not the only one discouraged by the discourse surrounding this article. The environmental establishment's unwillingness to win over labor undermines every single one of

steven t. piantadosi

spiantado

The ideas in the @Harpers letter were destroyed on Twitter yesterday. Here's a thread/meta-thread. Yesterday, a variety of public figures, from @jk_rowling to Malcolm @Gladwell to @SalmanRushdie signed a letter

Jens Boman

JensBoman

Okay so listen to this. The latest excuse for Sweden's failed pandemic response is not the strategy...Nonoo..Neither is it a failure of those responsible for the pandemic response.Apparently the latest

Siberian Fox

SilverVVulpes

The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation https://sci-hub.do/10.1146/annurev-psych-081920-042106 Gonna do the usual screencap highlights of half the paperFirst, because some people are still unaware, it's generally accepted that k

AJ

AhmedWJanjua

The term Fifth-Generation War has become a favorite acronym in Pakistan with media, politicians etc , without the majority imbibing its true meanings,partially due to its evolving nature & the

Dr. Amy Tan-*Racism is a public health crisis*

AmyTanMD

Wasn't going to post this. But given all the discourse that I saw on both TV & social media on Canada Day re the denial of all forms of racism

Eric Block

FortySixAnd2wo

Closegap is software for children in school, which claims to “reimagine mental health for your kids”. First of all, who are you? And what makes you qualified to say something

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

caitoz

Unelected Officials Override The President To Continue Wars (But Only Kooks Believe In The Deep State):"That is the direction we should all be looking. Not at who's president, but why

Eminently 🏳️‍🌈

eminently_me5

2008What happened? Three simultaneous things: 1. The tea party, the fruition of decades of low-key local work by the cultural right wing, burst onto the national scene. 2. White people

tamara k. nopper

tamaranopper

Relevant to the horrific killings in Atlanta, I think more discussions of the yellow peril myth (the racist idea that East Asians are taking over the U.S. and endangering “Americans”)

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