#Implications

1 The tweet below from the amazing @itsafronomics inspired me to write a short thread on the subject of university endowments and how they can or cannot be used. Here
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There’s a lot of speculation about if/when/how Israel will annex the West Bank. Please listen to the voices of Palestinians, who are most directly impacted by this & have explained
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In times when things feel bleak, you aren't able to leave your home, and formal mental health care is beyond your reach (either geographically or financially), mental health helplines can
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This "disadvantage" section of L5R is taking a lot more emotional labour AND time. And it doesn't help that a lot of pushback is "it's not that bad" or "you're
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Excited to share a preprint of a two-part (real world & 360-degree video VR) study I did with @hugospiers & @whereaminow at @ucl and @uwaterloo on the cognitive/emotional impacts of
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Tweetstorm 1/: Yesterday, I watched 3 hours of Seattle Council debate on the 2021 Police budget. What struck me is how ill-informed Council is on what patrol officers actually do.
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I woke up super early and was going through my queries because none of the pets wanted to hang out with me (and also capitalism) and I wanted to talk
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THREAD PART II of II: To mask or not to mask?Now to explore modern day implications regarding airborne spread...1/15 First let’s officially define contact vs airborne.Contact spread includes large droplets
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‘Epidemics are social as well as biological phenomena.’ My @nature piece on the importance of social science and humanities in tackling our big global challengeshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00064-x Very helpful crowd sourced list
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I was quoted earlier in the Washington Post story on pandemic pods. I’m quoted saying, “Most parents will act in the interest of their child and you can’t tell them
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Most critiques of Afropessimism I have read have been bad faith This does not mean there can be no valid criticism, and that even bad faith critics dont have some
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MIT researchers 'infiltrated' a Covid skeptics community a few months ago and found that skeptics place a high premium on data analysis and empiricism."Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe
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Pakistan released it’s new political map. Let’s discuss it in depth 1/n As I said in the previous tweets this map has put both the nationalist and realist sides of
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What happens to hospital income, use, and quality after a hospital is acquired by a private equity firm?We and others have speculated about this - now, we add data to
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Right. Dame Nancy, @OfficialUoM, are you paying attention? A thread. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/JamesBSumner/status/1313519359239901190 The full quote that you excerpted from was "In many cases, there are essentially no benefits of in-pers
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Besanko J’s recent decision in Burgess v Cth [2020] FCA 670 is a landmark in the intersection of migration and tort law. But in this thread I want to discuss
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