#Historian

Cyril Ritter

CyrilRitter

Claiming to take decisions based on science can be just as wrong as not trusting science. Politicians need to combine science advice & political choices & take responsibility for it.

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

Another 4th of July, another demand from conservatives (in this case, a NeverTrump conservative) that Americans embrace a simplistic, filiopietistic understanding of the nation's history or else the sky will

⚡ reboot hq ⚡

reboot_hq

our talk with @cmcilwain last night on his book Black Software was absolutely fascinating. the genesis of McIlwain's project was a quest to trace the digital origins of BLM. but

Matt J Robertshaw

mattjrobertshaw

A YouTube history of a YouTube historian—a thread.I only got around to making the first Sleeper Hit History last summer when I was a restless PhD candidate stuck at home

John Bull

garius

Saturday's @theipaper (h/t @glennmoore7) had a rather apt description of Theresa May."Cool line" you say. "Wonder who the general was?"Meet General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. The no-fucks-giving, putch-refusing, Hi

Pseudoerasmus

pseudoerasmus

Some comments on this Bloomberg article about India's farmer protests, and its use of historical analogies as well as concepts from development economics.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-10/india-s-farm-protests-have-p

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

Are you an art historian/humanities scholar who wants to do more public engagement? Here's a thread with some of my thoughts/advice. Please add more! Make it easy to contact you

Amish Mulmi

amish973

Mao's 'five fingers & palm' theory regarding Tibet & Nepal, Sikkim, Arunachal, Bhutan & Ladakh is popularly put forth as examples of CCP's territorial designs south of the Himalayas. However,

sasha

sashaplot_

Just like the plastics industry, which spun decades-long myths about plastic waste being recycled (it isn't, for the most part), the real estate industry is banking on us blaming climate

for the self abolition of the proletariat

thecoleslaws

I am going to make this thread as a piece of self reflection and to thank a comrade for educating me when I misrepresented the conditions in their country but

Ketan Shah

Thinkerks

Year 1497, in his Lisbon palace King Manuel I (called 'the fortunate') was finishing his dinner and was washing his bland food down his lily-white throat sipping Porto wine when

PEPPERLOND💚 #ACAB - NUEVA CONSTITUCIÓN

nbpepperlondono

This is a thread based on @alokvmenon 's instagram post. (...)Book Report: Making Sex: Body and Gender from Geeks to Freud - Thomas Laqueur (Harvard University Press, 1990)People often deploy

Women's Voices

WomenReadWomen

Women archers competing at the World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan.According to Adrienne Mayor, historian at Stanford, author of "The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World,"

Fake History Hunter

fakehistoryhunt

The Pedlar is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, made in around 1500.Although historians long disagreed, these days it's generally accepted the painting shows a pedlar, a man symbolic for sin

Dr. Jessica DeWitt

JessicaMDeWitt

Okay @cpawssab, y'all keep circulating this 'Fact Check: 13 Truths and a Lie About Alberta Parks Changes,' which actually contains two lies.https://cpaws-southernalberta.org/fact-check-13-truths-and-a-lie-about-alberta-parks-cha

@MartySilk

MartySilkHack

Earlier today I went down a web wormhole and learnt that Brisbane's Nudgee Beach used to have neighbouring bayside suburb called Cribb Island, affectionately known as "Cribby" to locals.Credit: .@BrisbaneAirport

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