#Grapple

nikita doval

nikitadoval

I’ve been seeing a lot of jokes about the show on matchmaking and arranged marriages on Netflix and as someone who’s lived through this hell for most of her twenties,

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

OK, let's address these "why did we lock down if BLM protests are ok" takes. There are lots of pundits arguing this means public health advice is all relative to

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thekervincible

Story time #phdchat :Earlier this year, I was in brief correspondence with Maori scholar, Linda Tuhiwai-Smith in relation to her groundbreaking book "Decolonizing Methodologies" (details of whatever we talked about

David McIntyre

davidmcintyre76

Just wanted to pick up on a few comments re my piece on Warren Farm and #QPR’s academy last week. There were some great points made in response, not least

Brandon Bayne

brandonbayne

I'll likely have more to say about this problematic review in time, since I know something about both the histories being debated as well the reviewer and a co-author, going

Aron Lund

aronlund

Everything you need to know about the sanctions on Syria: who do they target, how do they work, what is the impact on civilians? Big backgrounder for @NewHumanitarian: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2019/04/25/briefing-just-how

Darcy Sprague

darcy_days

I want to share a long thread about a bad reporting experience I had last night. I hope it reminds someone to be nice (maybe decent?) to reporters. Or, maybe

Sean Tierney

sftierney

Here’s a thread about protecting student privacy while reporting new Covid-19 cases FERPA governs how to share student info. Like all laws, it requires interpretation. Generally, don’t release data (without

Joseph Britt

Zathras3

I understand @RadioFreeTom’s Cult of Inferiority theory. I’m not sure I agree with it. First, we should look harder at the outsized role played by fantasy in modern American life

Ryan Cordell aka Ryan Cordrell

ryancordell

The @rarebookschool annual report includes this great photo of David Vander Meulen, faculty there & in English at UVA. Seeing it prompts to to tell a little Saturday story about

Syed

gypsy_heart6

Excellent interview of ⁦@JonathanACBrown⁩ on his recent book, Slavery and Islam. Some thoughts: 1) He points out how much Islamic legal tradition borrows from pre-Islamic Roman & other traditions, but

Tim Pitt

TimPitt11

This graph from Martin Wolf’s piece today shows the terrifying economic impact of Covid – and why governments are rightly throwing the kitchen sink at trying to protect economies. Yet

Collins Belton

collins_belton

Haven't confirmed personally yet, but if true, this touches on the exact regulatory concerns I alluded to in last week's thread.Quick thread + caveats: 1) Assumes @AndreCronjeTech is right, 2)

hannah ✵ literary edging

jadedspring

some self-reflection on the appeal of soft lwj. vulnerable lwj. lets-himself-be-cared-for lwj. even subji. whatever you wanna call it: + what i adore about soft lwj is that he subverts

Jet (aka Courtney) Jacobs

CourtneyEJacobs

Going to spend the day watching all the movies that fall into my favorite micro-genre (the dudely corollary to the “manic pixie dreamgirl” phenomenon). I call it:The Manic Dreamboat Assassin

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/It's almost midnight here, and I'm finally getting around to:Coronavirus Tweets from the Experts, 5/12/2020https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/lists/coronavirus 2/Big outbreak in Latin Americahttps://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1260429828349