#Language

Nikhil Pal Singh

nikhil_palsingh

1/Several years ago a big conflict opened up in a class I was teaching about the “N-word,” read aloud in class in passages excerpted from writers like Du Bois and

🌟Manpreet Bains

manpreetbains_1

Do we have a comms team in @NHSEngland or @PHE_uk working on a strategy around vaccine hesitancy?Crossing both 1) Routine eg. childhood imms 2) seasonal - 'flu + imminent C19

Dr. Neil Cohn

visual_linguist

I’ve been reading several research papers lately with drawing as a task, and it’s gotten me riled up enough that it’s time for a rant thread. The short of it:

Aja Barber

AjaSaysHello

I think we need to have a conversation about individual vs collective movements and weaponising progressive language for very personal gain. Because it’s effecting folks on a broader scale and

Agnes Callard

AgnesCallard

This got me thinking about how tech optimism feels performative to me--performatively upbeat ("what will Friday bring?!") & performatively naive (see @paulg on "earnestness" linked below)--and then I thought about

Pablo Naval-Baudin

pnavalbaudin

Brief anatomic-functional review of main white-matter tracts! Open Thread.Covering corticospinal, ventral and dorsal associative streams, frontal aslant, and cingulum.#neurorad #FOAMrad #neurosurg Dorsal associative stream. WHERE pathway. L

Pratham Prasoon

PrasoonPratham

The crazy and fascinating 25 year old history of JavaScript in one thread. December 1990: Sir Tim Berners-Lee develops the first web browser the world has ever seen. January 1993

Rober #KylieDisco

roberrgd

KYLIETHE "CITY GAMES" ALBUMA THREAD 1st What is the City Games album?It's a rumored album by fans before Body Language was announced, so it was fake obviously BUT writers and

Arbaab Eujayl | ⲁⲣⲡⲁ̄ⲡ ⲓⳝⲉ̄ⲗ

HatimAlTai2

Going to take the moment to talk a little bit about the Mahas Sawarid/Sawarda, because why not?A brief history of the Mahas Sawarda:https://twitter.com/HatimAlTai2/status/1348025743729594368 I've discussed the Mahas migrations of the

John Aerni-Flessner

LesothoJohn

So most folks on here know that I study #Lesotho but also live in the USA. I have a few random thoughts on how these two things intersect in the

ayantu ayana👩🏾‍🏫👩🏾‍💻

ThaAyantu

What Africans Commonly Overlook about #Ethiopia Contrary to popular perception, there is not one ‘Ethiopian’ Language, Culture, Religion or History. #Ethiopia is home to a multiplicity of peoples & cultures

Steven Hoober. No, with a "B."

shoobe01

Greeking is a 500 year old term that refers to any use of placeholder text or images in design, mockups, or samples. There are many more options for greeking than

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

(EVIDENCE) I post the below screenshots at 9:45PM ET so that the conspiracy theorists gathered in DC understand that total vote tabulation *does not always match* predicted outcome. The GOP

Liam Duffy

LiamSD12

Heresy alert: this is getting ratio’d because the mass hysteria makes it impossible to tell sincerity from culture war skirmish, but I reckon there are enough people who, rightly or

Mark Galeotti

MarkGaleotti

#Putin Accuses West of Using #Navalny to 'Contain' #RussiaVVP: "Our opponents or our potential opponents... have always relied on — and used — ambitious, power-hungry people"A short thread on this

Tony Shield

das_shield

I've been reading a lot of undergrad assignments, postgrad theses, research papers & a book recently. My overwhelming impression is that humans write poorly, so here are some unsolicited tips...

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