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Soviet psychologist, known for his work on psychological development in children and the creation of cultural-historical activity theory.

Austrian-British philosopher, academic, and social commentator. Rejects classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favor of empirical falsification. Introduced critical rationalism as a philosophy of criticism.

Sinologist, linguist, jazz pianist. Author of "A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language," Penguin Books. https://amzn.to/38rGZ2q

senior research scientist @google brain 🧠

on brief Twitter hiatus • author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer’s English • he/him/his #CopyeditingProTip

Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. Best known for his popular 1980 novel "The Name of the Rose" and his 1988 novel "Foucault's Pendulum".

Studied Greek, Latin, philosophy, and economics at Balliol College, Oxford. Earned a PhD in linguistics and Sanskrit under Noam Chomsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Founder and lead of Reasoning Team in Google Brain. Opinions my own.

Author, writer, and copy editor for The New Yorker.

Early care & education reporter for @EducationNC. Sign up below for my biweekly newsletter, Early Bird, on #ece news & resources. 🐥

Writer, reader, data-lover, sweet potato enthusiast. I heart public transportation.

Researcher of onomastics and nordic languages. Ph.D.-candidate at the Norwegian Language Collections, UiB. Writes mostly about language. He/him/jotun