#Biases

Emebet

EmebetGAbate

Why I’m unreasonably optimistic about my #Ethiopia is b/c of HUMAN CAPACITY!1/ Having worked on conflict affected counties, I came to learn the fact that human beings have special capacity

Dr Tanvir Hussain 💙

tanvir_h

Thanks to the EDI village of people across the country who helped. Following an @EPSRC Fellowship interview in Jan, the decision is out--not quite what I expected. It came just

Daniel Sohege

stand_for_all

Thread: How we use language is important. I think most people would agree with that. As an autistic individual I sometimes misconstrue meanings or intentions based on how other people

Osaretin Victor Asemota

asemota

In 2008 well before there was an Andela, we found Africa but the Asians had found it first. An Indian company called Harvest-IT was the reason Swifta failed the first

Jason Lyall

jaylyall_red5

Recent scholarship has called attention to how Western-centric biases shape our understandings of war --- including which belligerents & wars matter for our studies. A quick thread, drawing on data

Mark Packard

mdpackard

What's different about the 'Austrian' school of economics? Perhaps the most fundamental difference is a belief in subjective, rather than objective, rationality. But what does this mean? [A thread] Homo

plain simple mason

klausnkrieg

SO let’s run with the sentiment I expressed here and apply it to this extremely bad-faith response to my tweet : https://twitter.com/klausnkrieg/status/1295818595163938822 right off the bat we have dukat stans

Patrick Gildersleve

pgildersleve

Happy 20th Birthday to @Wikipedia. It has been a real privilege to study this wonder of the web over the past 4 years of my PhD.I've noticed a flurry of

🌿 ꪜ𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚌 🌿

vegix

#WhitePrivilege is the Republican rioting terrorists thinking they are above the law.#WhitePrivilege is Donald Trump and his enablers not facing harsher and more immediate consequences.#WhitePrivilege is 37% of inmates being

Marc-André Argentino

_MAArgentino

1/ Many of my threads have been hyper focused on content related to QAnon but there is a larger environment in which QAnon flourishes, as well as through wish QAnont

Alex Steed

alexsteed

One of the dangerous things about believing QAnon to be some outlying phenomenon is that they are just very open about something many do internally without knowing it, and they

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schizoideee

Does Gilbert Ryle’s distinction between knowledge-that and knowledge-how solve Mary’s room?For Ryle there exists an often-neglected distinction between the two possible forms our knowledge may take. Firstly, there exists knowledge-that,

Michael Hobbes

RottenInDenmark

This story gives useful context to the NYT piece about the girl getting her college admission revoked for saying the n-word. If we're concerned about kids' lives being ruined for

Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

xandvt

The current guidelines aren’t real safety measures: they aren’t substantial or evidence based. But the job of managing the outbreak currently falls almost entirely on a confused public We’re made

Amit Shekhar

funandflight

Anti-muslim sentiment is the strongest unifying force for andh bhakti===============================Over the last 6 years, I have lived a dual life. A non partisan, neutral opinion guy with little interest in

GabeSnow⁷𝗘𝗡

gabesnowttv

This is my ever-growing #KPop Journey A THREAD My First Group was BlackpinkI heard DDU-DU-DDU-DU while watching an FBE Reacts video & down the rabbit hole I wentRosé

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