The website and social media accounts for our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project Weaponised Pasts are now live, give us a follow! ๐ฅณ
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I grew up in SW zone 4 / 5. To me it's wherever you wouldn't preface with a compass direction. Mayfair yes, Chelsea & Kensington no. Southwark yes, Elephant & Castle no. Liverpool St yes, Shoreditch no. Kings Cross yes, Camden no. It's ephemeral but it's there, and you def say "go up / in to".
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Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her
Author, essayist, public speaker. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure.
Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Kay W. Researching in retirement. Blogs but rarely at The Past and other Places. Original discipline historical geography (PhD). Takes too many photos (kaysgeog on Flickr). Pedestrian non-driver. Edinburgh ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
https://thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply.
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
Building data science tools @posit.co, #rstats, parenthood โจ๐โจ
Science-ing, trying to improve science. Cognitive and perceptual psychologist.
Biases include @simine (๐), cats (๐ซ)
Mastodon: @alexh@fediscience.org
Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Center for European Studies @Harvard/ WZB Berlin/author of 'Tyranny of the Minority', 'How Democracies Die', & 'Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.'
Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it. -Nietzsche
I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics
More info in the pinned post.
Wandering philosopher. Purveyor of Platonic heresy, Kantian computationalism, and Hegelian minimalism. (he/him/it which speaks)
Journalist who mostly does Dad Posting. talk from time to time on @trashfuture.bsky.social and @10kpostspodcast.bsky.social
