#Dynamics

Speaking of Bannon, I know the official left position is that liberals basically hallucinated him and Putin entirely, but I really remain convinced that we are deeply lucky that Trump's
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What are the key persuasive strategies used by populist nationalists?A mix of advocative (we the people) & conflictive (discredit & blame elites & 'dangerous others' such as the Left, Muslims
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Since 96% of US catholics are apparently heretics, time for a related thread:THE ROMAN INQUISITION, WITCHES AND PAGANS: A THREAD NO ONE EXPECTED (First boring note: I mean roman
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1/ Tonight I want to talk about an issue I have seen play out many times and seen discussed privately many times and yet which is VERY touchy for people
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Inspired by this tweet, I present: how to relate the Ob/Gyn rotation to your medical students interested in other specialties, a thread:https://twitter.com/toxicologist12/status/1361722601576534020 First things first: will you be taking car
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There's no doubt I'm disappointed by the decision to nominate a recently-retired general for Secretary of Defense, but I'm also not surprised. My research suggested it was likely --
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Only an insecure citizen will vilify a period of history, as rich and complex as #Mughal rule.This demonstrates a vacuum of confidence and an inherent inadequacy in their own ability,
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What is the economic cost of not going to #ZeroCOVID? Some countries are enjoying normal life, minimal restrictions except limitations on international travel. Domestic economies are thriving and even tourism
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I'm excited to see our Karnataka sero-prevalence study out in @JAMA_current today. This is part of a longer chain of surveys we've done to track and understand COVID in India
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A thread on the misuses of "self-identify". CN: transphobia, including screengrabs of tweets.I've been thinking about the use of "self-identify" in transphobic circles, and how it's usually an equivocation that
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During lockdown, I’ve had to look for music away from gigs. I’ve mentioned BBC Sounds a few times. I’ve also been looking around Bandcamp more. Recently, I stumbled across Transylvanian
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"A fuel leak from #Safer would be far more catastrophic than the recent spill of over 20,000 tons of diesel in the Ambarnaya River in Russia or even the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska."My latest
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Tonight in #PortlandRiots, rioters decided to target a Multnomah County office building at 501 SE Hawthorne for vandalism & arson. This site had not been targeted previously.https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/protesters-gat
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Today Google @DeepMind announced that their deep learning system AlphaFold has achieved unprecedented levels of accuracy on the “protein folding problem”, a grand challenge problem in computational biochemistry.What is this
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Yesterday, I tweeted appreciation for an article about SaaS by @jaminball , saying it "taught me more about tech businesses than a year of business undergrad". His content is not
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People are asking me to issue some corrections to this thread, and, while I'm kind of in a rush, here are a few:https://twitter.com/muslimico/status/1287761398584549383 The claim that the Safavids "force-converted" the
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