#Essays

Tracy Moore

iusedtobepoor

in nashville i had to endure when people from new york moved there to tell me which parts were cool, now in LA again i have to endure people from

BLACK CONSERVATIVE

blackrepublican

This #BlackHistoryMonth we remember the RACIST monsters who kicked African Americans out of their own Republican Party The Lily-White Movement The effort was largely successful in eliminating African-American influence

Chris Kavanagh

C_Kavanagh

Stepping back from the culture wars for a short thread on #Japan & #Religion. Believe it or not, this is my specialist area of research and as I finish up

Phil Christman🌹

phil_christman

I really like and admire this essay, although I’d add that we’ve imposed a guilt tax even on reading white canonical writers. People will emerge from Moby-Dick with an eight-point

Rachel Shelden

rachelshelden

As part of my final exam in the Civil War Era @PSUHistory this semester, I assigned an un-essay: they could choose to write a twitter thread, create memes, or make

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

Conaw

The Zettelkasten. "It's like the GTD for intellectual progress" What it is, and why you want one. (thread) First -- Why GTD doesn't work for intellectual workGTD is all about

Dr. Leanne C. Powner

LeanneCPowner

Empirical Research and Writing: A ThreadOne year I taught a heavy load of quant methods where a complete rsch paper was reqd by department. By the 2nd term, I was

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

I agree with this but consistently (as I assume Jim does). I think a warning and an explanation of the rules should happen the first time someone brings their religion

Sara Schaefer

saraschaefer1

In Hollywood, you can be fired or blacklisted because you "rubbed someone the wrong way" once 10 years ago. Because you broke some unspoken social rule you didn't know existed.

Anika Orrock

Anikadrawls

This illustration, from my book The Incredible Women of the AAGPBL, of Connie Morgan, Mamie Johnson & Toni Stone with their Indianapolis Clowns teammates is now available as a limited

Hugh Richards

HughJRichards

'GIVE IT A NAME' - a useful little idea to help students remember feedback. A short thread, with pictures!The idea: give the error a name and, ideally, a visual metaphor.

Sara Benincasa

SaraJBenincasa

I work on being measured in my personal life, but I understand superfan culture. I'm not even through the pilot of #IMayDestroyYou and I'm like "WHICHEVER ONE OF YOU HURTS

Onsi A. Kamel

onsikamel

"Academic writing does not exist in order to communicate with a reader. In academia, or at least the part of it that I inhabit, we write, most of the time,

Chenchen Zhang🤦🏻‍♀️

chenchenzh

Nüshu 女书 (women's script) is probably the only script in the world used exclusively among women. It's phonetic (whereas Chinese characters are logographic) and is based on the dialect of

dr. professor kashiwagi, esq.

kwamurai

weinstein is a kind of tragic figure. he’s not a sellout like harris, whose podcast became one more mouthpiece for nyt opinion years ago. for eric, any conversation short of

Mike O'Boyle

oboylemm

1/ Electric utilities are planning to build 235 new natural gas power plants in the next 18 years. This creates huge stranded asset risks, exacerbates climate risks, and portends electricity

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