Thomas M Wilson @t_m_wilson

Nonfiction writer on ecocriticism and the cultural history of rewilding. Librarian. PhD, Literature and Environment, University of Western Australia. tmwilson.org Perth, Western Australia Joined June 2011

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Neil Renic @NC_Renic

4 months ago

Modern academic: “my heavily qualified argument marginally advances the sub-discipline” 19th century academic: “my treatise, inspired by yesterday’s walk, revolutionizes philosophy, religion, and music. My critics are intellectually and sexually disordered”

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RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9

5 months ago

95% of all plastic in the world’s seas and oceans comes from 10 rivers, 2 of which are in Africa and the rest are in Asia. The great lie of modern environmentalism is that anything we do in the West will make a difference as long as Asia and Africa continue to pollute like this.

Lomez @L0m3z

5 months ago

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Allan Bloom @AllanBloomNotes

5 months ago

"The only reason for a serious human being to be in a university is for love of the truth ... Only a pygmy would think a university worthy of conquest, but jobs there do feed bellies and the petty vanities of the vainglorious."

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Brandon Warmke @BrandonWarmke

6 months ago

Reminded of what Martha Nussbaum wrote about Judith Butler’s intended audience

Carole Hooven @hoovlet

6 months ago

Reminded of what Martha Nussbaum wrote about Judith Butler’s intended audience https://t.co/KO29wPpcJW

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S. I. Rubinstein @si_rubinstein

6 months ago

I really hate being asked about my 'research methodology'. I read books & then I write about them.

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Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt

6 months ago

What many teachers are saying: "it's like you are interacting with them briefly in between hits of the internet, which is their real life." Get the phones put away, and stop putting internet-connected devices on students' desks.

Johnny @j00ny369T

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ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa

6 months ago

HOW SOCIAL TRUST IS ERODED - A VISIT TO INDIA 🇮🇳 🧵 A few years ago now I spent some time in India. One of the more lasting impressions I have from that period was the degree to which the low trust environment there (of a kind) wore me down mentally and transformed my attitude…

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Nicholas Drummond @nicholadrummond

7 months ago

This is the best summary of the current geopolitical situation I have seen. Sir Alex Younger was head of MI6 between 2014 and 2020. Really worth watching.

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Thomas M Wilson @t_m_wilson

7 months ago

Why does this keep happening in India but not China which has a similar population and mass use of trains? abc.net.au/news/2025-02-1…

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7 months ago

— Ernest Hemingway

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La femme merveilleuse invisible @larwoolf

8 months ago

"By the age of 70, he who doesn’t read will have lived only one life. He who reads will have lived 5000 years. Reading is immortality backwards." Umberto Eco

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Thomas M Wilson @t_m_wilson

8 months ago

@MadmanFilms @perthfest Last night there were around 300 Samoan community members at the Somerville theatre in Perth, proud of their culture in the new film Tina. Go and see it this week if you can. Beautiful film. The power of singing together.

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Westminster Abbey @wabbey

9 months ago

Today's verse from the Great O Antiphons is O Root of Jesse, recorded in the Abbey's 13th-century Chapter House: 'O Root of Jesse, which standest for an ensign of the peoples, at whom kings shall shut their mouths, to whom the Gentiles shall sing come and deliver us, and tarry…

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Jake 🇺🇸 @omni_american

9 months ago

In academia there's a lot of fuss about decolonizing your syllabus and eradicating Eurocentrism. But my experience suggests that what we once called "Western Civ" is a foreign country to many college students. Sure, they were born in America, speak English, use iPhones, have…

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Brandon Zicha @ProfBZZZ

9 months ago

My fellow academics. We are not an eccesiological aristocracy unaccountable to the public, nor are our disciplines such authoritative magisteria that scholars can not raise critiques across domains. If your abstract reads as absurd to colleagues, write a better abstract/1

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Kristen Rudd @kristenrudd

9 months ago

I am begging people who hate literature to stop teaching literature and go do something else.

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Mark Rutte @SecGenNATO

9 months ago

Russia, China, but also North Korea and Iran, are hard at work to try to weaken North America and Europe. To chip away at our freedom. They want to reshape the global order. No, we are not at war. But we are certainly not at peace either.

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International Documentary Association (IDA) @IDAorg

11 months ago

Australian filmmaker Gabrielle Brady lived in and traveled around Mongolia for 18 months, returning to the country eight years later to visit some of the herder families she had stayed with. Seeing their new lives formed, 'The Wolves Always Come at Night.' Read Amarsanaa…

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

9 months ago

We learn more from reading on paper than on screens. 54 studies, 171k people: we process print more deeply than digital content—as long as it's informational rather than purely narrative. The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books.