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"He's not just unprepared -- he's temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility." - @HillaryClinton, 2016Four years ago this country failed itself, bigly.We
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One of the greatest mistakes America ever made was failing to utterly crush the South after the Civil War -- dismantle its power structures, imprison its leaders, expressly disavow its
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1/In the German-language part of Twitter, the top-trending hashtag right now is #SterbenmitStreeck- an extremely heated discussion about the scientific work (incl. the "Gangelt study": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19
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When we lived in public housing my mom started a community garden to grow food to save money and to occupy the kids that lived there and the public housing
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TN stands recommends following the science. What science, you say?Well, the science that had been established for decades before it was hijacked by politicians.1/ Exhibit 1) Dr William Shaffner, professor
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Let's talk about how a scientist should make and then test a hypothesis.https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/1357804286432870400 When one makes a hypothesis, one should look for other, simpler hypotheses which could also explain th
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How to get more clarity in life?Strategies for thinking clearly (fuck meditation )//THREAD// What is clarity?The power of weighing every outcome of your decisions in a calibrated way Why?You were
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Update: I have ordered a cheapo copy of Damia and when it arrives PREPARE TO BE SUBJECTED TO ITS HORRORShttps://twitter.com/fozmeadows/status/1356888740715581443 Before I head off to bed, I just want to
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Two things can be true at once: 1. There is an issue with hostility some academics have faced on some issues2. Another academic who himself uses threats of legal action
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1. @Leigh_Phillips asks what we meant in the ecomodernist manifesto by the "planning fallacy of the 1950's."https://twitter.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1295755105182969857 2. Because 19 coauthors, there was a lot of back and for
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Today the @CCRB_NYC fired four of its most experienced senior staff, who just happened to be the people pressing the agency to do something, anything, to stop the unprecedented roadblocks
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Boris Johnson dies...His soul arrives in heaven and he is met by St.Peter at the Pearly Gates. Welcome to Heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there's
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Dear 2021 Debuts,It's your debut year, a wonderful and stressful time in your life. I may not be able to hold your hand in person (yet), but here are a
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Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19 https://politi.co/2FtvkWs  via @politico The health department’s politically appointed communications aides have demanded the right to review and seek changes to the CDC’s
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#AskAMM So many questions about comps--which makes sense because figuring out what to use feels like an evil task designed just to make you jump through even more hoops when
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Time for another #Econometrics thread!Today I want to talk about my paper with Jun Zhao (absolutely great PhD candidate from Vanderbilt ), "Doubly robust difference-in-differences estimators", which is now forthcoming
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