#Reputation

LRB Bookshop

LRBbookshop

would anyone like to hear my poet laureate conspiracy theory it's about former poet laureate sir andrew motion, and his claims about how the laureateship affected his own writing. motion

Lewis Atkinson

LewisNHS

Interesting discussion w/ colleagues todsy about home/remote-working & the #NHS approach to that in the future. Prompted me to recap the great work done by @FlexNHS @workingfamUK & the evidence-base

Delphinium Days of Ox

HisNameIsOx

"I don't know how to make friends", "I always feel like a satellite", "Why do my connections never last" - these are statements I've read a lot on my feed,

Maj Manik M Jolly,SM

Manik_M_Jolly

The most common word you’ll hear next to ‘Intelligence’ is - Failure ! It gives all involved and also scholars and domain specialists special joy and alibi to pin down

Anna Baggins

BagginsAnna

Well, that made me chortle.On the subject of "chortle"--coined by Charles Dodgson, prolific writer of children's fantasy books and mathematical textbooks--it is an exemplary verb.More about CD/LC ahead;CW for: CSA

sai priya

priya_27_

At the risk of talking about syphilis as little too much: Why did Englishmen and Royalty wear powdered wigs? According to William Clowes, an “infinite multitude” of syphilis patients clogged

Lou is not “short for Louise”

AM_Lou43

Rewatching #Bridgerton and I definitely have feelings about how the IR pairings are treated... (Spoilers) First off, seems like it’s a huge stretch for anyone in Shondaland to believe

alexis nedd

alexisthenedd

I’ve been re-listening to the Hamilton soundtrack lately and I’m newly obsessed with the characterization of the Marquis de Lafayette. For context, Gilbert de Lafayette was demonstrably, historically, a COMPLETE

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

I've just seen that Cyril Mango has died, after a long career. A moment to recommend his delightful 1963 paper “Antique Statuary and the Byzantine Beholder” (https://doi.org/10.2307/1291190 ). A thread of

Geoff Burns

geoffreyburns

A Note on Wherabouts Failures:If an athlete has 3 whereabouts failures in a year, we as a society MUST view that as a positive test.If an athlete is taking drugs

Medical Axioms 🇺🇸

medicalaxioms

Nature is a bad teacher. 1/ She teaches with punishment. Not positive reinforcement. 2/ Don’t take your insulin, lose a leg. Don’t take your blood pressure meds, have a stroke.Skip

Deri Hughes

DeriHughes

1/ A lot of people ask me about starting their own consulting / advisory firmMy #1 advice - pick a niche within a niche within a niche. Yes, you are

Melissa Ryan

MelissaRyan

Some day an investigative journalist is going to write one hell of a book on the Neoreationary movement, its influence in Silicon Valley, and the funding and influence it clearly

David Frum

davidfrum

The story about the Russian bounty was reported by NYT/WashPo/WSJ. That doesn't mean it's certainly true. But it does mean that very credible people in US intelligence service are angry

CS530 Andy Devonport

WYP_Op_Matrix

@WarDiaryF82 @warsmatter Today, around 120(?) of us were flown by SeaKing from HERMES onto Ascension Island forming the advanced leave party, then by VC10 CrabAir to Brize Norton, instructed to

R. P. Schwartz

Doc_RPS

You Do Not Get To Pretend To Be Surprised, And If You Do, We Damn Well Do Not Have To Pretend To Believe You, A Thread: There are no surprises

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