#Terminology

Alonso Gurmendi

Alonso_GD

So, what is going on in Peru? A few months ago, there was a minor political scandal involving fake contracts for a singer hired by the Ministry of Culture. Vizcarra's

Kelsey D. Atherton

AthertonKD

There's probably an urgent piece to be written on this as insurrection vs terrorism, and especially the legal implications of both, but the terminology debate obscures the greater problem: police

VOICE CARE CENTRE

voicecarecentre

I want to redefine PLACEBO. “Placebo” is considered a dirty word, a trick, a word reserved to describe saline injections and sugar pills. Somehow, ‘placebo’ has become synonymous with quack

sophie.

SophieAyase

i don't know why i clicked on a trending topic that was obviously going to lead to bi lesbian discoursebefore railing against terms like bi lesbian and pan lesbian, consider

Some Hotel Guy

somehotelguy

1/ Breaking into any new industry, the jargon can be the hardest part.So... Let’s talk hotel classifications for you budding hoteliers out there! There are a lot of terms that

Cybermatron 🕷

Cybermatron

Aaargh! I hate being “Reviewer 2” but once, just once would I like to peer review a well-written, well-structured article that isn’t clearly just a chapter of someone’s PhD with

उच्छिष्ट चण्डाली-अ.त्रयी

AnvikshikiTrayi

Westerners appropriate Hindu darsanas to make it look like western. We know this phenomena too well. What might not be very obvious is an Indian appropriating/obscuring Western theories of mind/

Chris Moulin

chrsmln

Today I have stepped down from the editorial board of Memory. This is simply due to not having enough time to really make a go of it. Here’s a thread

Greg Muller (Dr Math)

Morilac

Watching music theory reckon with structural racism and entrenched white supremacy has me pondering similar issues structural issues in who we venerate in mathematics. We have our Schenkers, undoubtedly; Teichmüller,

Nick Rosenthal

nickrosenthal

I think "Nick's French-English cycling glossary" needs a thread of its own. A proper dictionary of bike racing terms ... picking up on things heard on French TV commentary for

Thomas Rid

RidT

Here's a high-res image of SVR headquarters (former First Chief Directorate, KGB) that I purchased for my book, by Marina Lystseva Also, a subtle point on terminology: exfiltrating data from

˗ˏˋ Jesse ˎˊ˗

jessethanley

Woke up to a long email thread with a Klaviyo Expert ripping apart @Bento. "I get the sense there is a lot of really good stuff under the hood -

Dr. Suzanne Wertheim

WorthwhileRandC

In 2020, I was hired to advise a national news organization on how to de-bias their language. One point I made repeatedly was that they needed to avoid what I

OldRailwayAccidents

RWLDproject

Just getting started at the @CHPPC_IHR seminar - Roland Quinault 'Policing late-Victorian Lambeth: a police constable's notebook'.Looks really interesting - incl that the everyday notebook belonged to Roland's gt grandfather

The Science Femme, Woman in STEM

piney_the

Here it is: I was successful in killing my dept’s woke statement on recent social unrest. This took several weeks and may have permanently burned some bridges, but I think

Mislav Marohnić

mislav

Tech folks, over the next few months we are going to witness a lot of projects—or at least their communities suggesting to—change their default branch name away from “master”. If

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