Four widely believed numbers that claim to be scientific but which actually aren't:

[bullshit 'scientific' numbers megathread🧵]

You think you have not achieved something when you see some people in front of you,then there is someone who is dreaming of reaching that point where you are.
Humans continue to want more.

One problem with some of these “gender war” arguments on Twitter is that both parties are arguing to “defeat” and “one-up” the other party rather than understand and meet at the middle.

It’s why the extremes are highlighted as the common situation. Nuance be damned

Said it before that there is nothing to cheer about all the population expansion projection for Nigeria. Its an headache that should keep us awake and planning for how to harness that demographic change so it doesn’t become a disadvantage

Again, population is only an advantage if you’re investing in their quality. Otherwise, you just have a vast number of poor, uneducated, desperate people in a concentrated area. It’s now a disadvantage, potentially a looming crisis.

One of my graduate students dropped by my office, exasperated, and said, 'I don't know how to innovate. So, how can I do a PhD?'.

I erased my whiteboard and began listing strategies for generating new research ideas. They left reassured and excited!

As #professors , we mentor

People dey do business and chase profits una wan dey saddle them with the title of messiahs and deliverers.

We gon' learn

We are glad to have represented Segun who was in prison for 6years and secured his freedom. Segun is one of the over 600 indigent and wrongly imprisoned individuals that we have secured their freedom at Headfort Foundation. his wife’s pastor referred his case to us and we took it

This is a healthcare interaction map for the US. I can imagine what this looks like for Nigeria (definitely less complicated), but has anyone visualized that before and can share it?

Once again, people, don’t rely on these AI detectors as arbiter on what is AI generated or not.

They don’t work as well as they are marketed.

I am still mind blown that we couldn't all come together to say 'owing salaries is bad. Yes running a business is tough but so is living'.

I understand silence, I mostly chose it myself due to proximity but God.

We are so screwed.

Our generation might be worse than the last!

Major difference would be incentives and funding?

People will just come on Twitter and tweet easily verifiable fallacies as facts and people would be lapping them up 😅

Our Fundraising week at Headfort Foundation for Justice is here again, the week runs from May 20th- 27th, 2024. We hope to do more this quarter through you, which is why we are soliciting for your support during this period. We hope to reunite more families, while also ensuring

A masterpiece

The military did irreparable damage to our national psyche. That's why a quarter century after they left, we still cannot countenance that the laws of the land should apply in interactions between soldiers and civilians.

The Chinese Communist Revolution consolidated its power by taking land from the elite. In the following generation, the previous elite once again reclaimed their social advantage.

This is not an isolated phenomenon: A Thread on the persistence of status 🧵

Hope Renewed

“Data compiled by the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) shows that 69% of people in prisons across the country are awaiting trial”

This is why the work that Headfort Foundation for Justice is important. There are thousands more like Segun. Please support them.

The issue is not that she felt entitled to his affection because she 'shot her shot'? 💀
Does every man who reaches out to you in your DM deserve a chance because he has taken a shot at you?

Why is the lesson here not to discourage that kind of entitlement??