#Policy

I often get worried how much exposure to toxic behaviour in academia affects ECRs and students, so think its time to share some lovely things that have happened recently in
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Rules of procedure - QMV and unanimity - exist for a reason. Can we really imagine a scenario where the frugals, knowing they'd be outvoted anyway, would become more cooperative?
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I've yet to share my experience of working unpaid at @AmnestyUK because I didn't want to distract from conversations on #InstitutionalRacism in our sector, bravely voiced by PoC staff. I
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Germany is extending its already impressive liquidity scheme for companies, this time #SMEs are in focus. #Covid19 /quick thread SMEs can now borrow up to 800k (or 3 months revenue,
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Have talked w/countless neighbors in past 24 hours who hold multiple things true: fiercely want justice for #GeorgeFloyd, understand outcry yesterday that resulted in damages/destruction to numerous businesses even if
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The UK government, and governing classes, are going to try to evade responsibility for the excess deaths caused by their action and inaction ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic. Here's how.Left-ish
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Policy would like to have a word. Respectfully this is an across-the-board false, revisionist canard and completely overlooks the failures and hardships of Obamacare in Montana.https://twitter.com/dparkermontana/status/1313914322918109185 O
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I know that this is not possible in all disciplines, but here is my grading policy for my remote freshman level humanities survey class for Spring Quarter 2020. Also, I
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Palestinian writers, thinkers, and analysts are erased from the U.S. news landscape. (see @mtnassar's investigation )That doesn't mean they should be absent from your feed or the pages you read.A
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Today I'm pleased to announce the Viral Emergence Research Initiative (VERENA), a consortium of virologists, ecologists, and data scientists working to predict which viruses could infect humans, which animals host
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Policy detail isn't the clearest, so here's a little thread of the policy commitments dropped or watered down in Labour's green recovery plan...https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-green-new-deal-jobs-30-billion
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Never post on social media:- identifiable photos of your minor children.- any photos or info with indications of where you live or where your kids go to school.- your vehicle
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1.Don't for a second believe that NZ drug classifications are based on science/risk/harm. In studies I have been involved we have administered all classes including, LSD, psilocybin (mushrooms), ketamine, alcohol,
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Our school is making us use this "online testing" software to prevent cheating. It just so happens that this software edits your computer's registry, has no privacy policy, has countless
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#MamataBurnsWBWith so much hue & cry in SM abt Bengal&Mamata, we are all missing a very imp.point How much outrage is there in WB itself?Practically none.Would any politician with national
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Check this out, especially if you’re #BIPOC!https://twitter.com/seagrant/status/1321119887792705546 1. You can be a fellow on the Hill working for a member or committee. Or you can work at an agency on
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