#Global

So I had some interesting conversations over the last few days about the future of the oil industry in California and I wanted to highlight one key fact for California
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People need to understand how conspiracies become mainstreamed. All it takes is someone with a platform and trusted audience to tell them it's true. That's all it takes for good
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1. Jamaica has improved 5 places in Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) Country Rankings. It has risen from position #74 out of 180 countries in 2019, to position
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Tell a random stranger they should invest $36,000 for 1 of 21,000,000 deprecated beta software tokens with no use for anything & is slower, less convenient than a bank card,
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A brilliant talk that punctures current discourse on climate ambition in Scotland, setting out what's really needed, by @KevinClimate for @ScotClimateCA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jLK_K-LUmM Well worth watching. Otherwise, here&#
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Hi. The actual universe does not obey time translation symmetry, which means that energy is not conserved. Wow this blew up. People are really attached to energy conservation! All right,
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Late to the dissection of Xi's Davos 2.0 speech, but here are some observations - THREAD: As I listened, I noted how unsurprising the content was. It was aligned with
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the proliferation of sex work should be alarming, but not because it's sex work. sex workers are part of a growing trend of poor people engaging in gigs and side
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Alright here’s my thread on racism in U.K. academia... David Starkey edition. Last year, @AfricaJacs approached me to take part in this fabulous collection about “ethics in collaboration”. Almost every
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[1/N] IMHO research may be lagging behind actual policy developments on this front. Until now, most research has shown that disrupting the global supply chain is very costly for aggregate
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this is bad news - vague anti-riot/anti-mob legislation that simply doubles down on mandatory minimums.https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article248336730.html This is something that I fear will become commo
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Our 10 project pages for the CGHE Transition Centre through to 2023 are now live. Thread Project 1: Graduate Experiences of Employability and Knowledge (GEEK) Project, led by @paulashwin,
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Since it looks like I'm the messenger of doom, it's a good time to highlight all the good news about #coronavirus Thread1. Only 0.5%-1% of those who catch it die.
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I think it was bad for the humanities when we all implicitly conceded that the cultural archives to which we had devoted our lives were just a disposable scratch-pad to
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The word ‘only’ is highly problematic, but it is a word that is now used quite commonly to underplay the effect of COVID.‘The fatality rate in India is ONLY 1.x%,
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A thread: why seemingly small change can matter a lot over time. Why your actions now could mean a different world in 2100. Why we just have to keep on
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