If you're gonna listen to any speech about #Ukraine 🇺🇦, let it be this one. The Kenya ambassador to the UNSC perfectly explains how people across Africa understand Ukraine, and what the Kremlin's acts of aggression mean in our post-colonial world.

"Carlson impugned the patriotism of Alex Vindman 🇺🇸, who came to the U.S. at age four and earned a Purple Heart in Iraq. Vindman “believes you have a moral obligation to defend his homeland." In case anyone missed the dual-loyalty smear, Carlson added..." thebulwark.com/father-carlson/

Of all the "COVID-recovered" people who are kindly emailing us to participate in our study (meaning they had COVID >12 weeks ago and feel recovered), only about 1 in 5 are actually passing our screening questionnaire. The rest actually have persistent symptoms. #LongCOVID

As someone born & raised in Odessa for roughly 1/3 of my life, who spent the other 2/3 in America, I know that most people don’t know much about Ukraine - which I get, I have many blind spots, so I thought I’d tweet some little basic things in case it helps make it real 🧵

What the fuck is wrong with The Associated Press this is so far beyond the bounds of appropriate

After one of my CNN appearances, one of the anchors asked me off-air why I had confidence in Ukraine's army to push back agains the illegal Russian military onslaught. I used a bit of "battlefield math" to explain my rationale. 1/16

I know I’ve tweeted a lot about the blatant racism and xenophobia that has been brought to light by the crisis in Ukraine, and I know a lot of you want to default to “now isn’t the time”. But it is, because governments are actively broadcasting their bias for white refugees.

I'm taking a graduate-level stats class for the first time. I now understand why all the stats people are mad at all the deep learning people.

The day after Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 announced his party will eliminate the 13¢/litre provincial gas tax, Lethbridge gas stations raised their prices by 15¢.

Male violence against women and girls starts with words. If you see it happening, have a word with yourself—then your mates. #HaveAWord

Thank you Russia at the United Nations for your letter dated March 16. Please see our suggested edits below. #StandWithUkraine #RespectTheCharter

1/20 Tomorrow Alexei Navalny, the leader of the Russian opposition, will be sentenced. The prosecutor's office asked for 13 years of imprisonment. Below is a thread about how Alexei’s trial went and what he is accused of. Please share.

Peter Zeihan Peter, the map you reference shows that Ukrainians suffered deaths = 16.3% of their population, while Russia suffered deaths = 12.7% of their population. BOTH have very high threshold of tolerance for suffering/death. Your conclusion that Russia wins based on above not convincing

A year ago, a non-academic friend listened to a talk I gave. I thought it went great. My friend disagreed. She said that academics are experts at making interesting stuff boring—and that we should all take a speech class. So I did. And here are 6 most useful things I learned.

If you can afford to buy Twitter, you can afford to pay your fair share in taxes.

Nobody on £200,000 a year should be telling anyone on £20,000 a year that they're greedy

So all of this to say: There is trauma in the running. There is trauma in the running. There is trauma in the running. And we have to do more. (21/21)

Aaron Swartz would have been 36 today. Aaron committed suicide after being sentenced to 35 years in prison by US authorities for transferring and sharing scientific articles from JSTOR.