#Policy

Nisha Thampi

NishaOttawa

1/ @SickKidsNews released guidance today about school reopening. Colleagues, mentors +caregiver advocates among co-authors. I was not involved in its development, and can appreciate concerns raised re: content and comprehensiveness.

Ben Yong

BYMYong

Spads. What do they do, why do they exist? Prompted by comment . There are a no of common complaints: 1. They don’t do anything; 2. They do too much;

Lawrence Freedman

LawDavF

Given allegations about early UK response to Covid-19 I’ve been looking at minutes of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG). This to the main Scientific Advisory

City Atlas

cityatlas

1 - yes crazy but true2 - interestingly, economists of Nordhaus's type have no concept of dread (I asked the late Frank Ackerman)3 - which, I think, means they have

Hassan Javid

HassanJavid_

1. The Sehat Sahulat Program – Some thoughts, observations, and questions. 2. The Sehat Sahulat Program (SSP) has been heralded by the government as an important step towards providing universal

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

Thread@nytimes gives us more comedy gold about @realDonaldTrump.The Nostradamus [sic] of presidential elections tells us that Biden will win.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/opinion/2020-election-prediction-allan-lichtman.html Here are th

David Hsu

d_hsu_work

Last week @mitceepr released a paper by @darrylekane and I modestly titled "Building the energy infrastructure necessary for deep decarbonization in the United States". Findings might be interesting to #climate

Paul Behrens

DrPaulBehrens

Now that my book is out, I thought I’d explain what it’s about and why I wrote it… [a thread] It’s hard to keep two fundamental things in mind: 1)

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

wmnjoya

The role of the government, this Anglo-American contraption which gives us grief, is to contain us so that a few royals who don't work survive on our work. Unless we

François Matarasso

arestlessart

1. There is lot of good writing about #Covid19 and its effects, as people imagine what could or should change. Art and culture are key to how the pandemic is

Anne Applebaum

anneapplebaum

Good morning! 24 days to go until the election - which means 24 days to think about how you can help make sure it is free and fair, and what

Alyssa Milano

Alyssa_Milano

A thread of all the things the Democratic Party has done to make the world a better place. Let’s start here: 192019TH AMENDMENT: WOMEN'S SUFFRAGEUnder the leadership of Democratic President

Carissa Byrne Hessick

CBHessick

This passage from @AWeissmann_ in the Atlantic is astounding. The idea that prosecutors “cannot ignore or invent facts” to ensure that a defendant receives a certain sentence is so entirely

Mackay

mackaymiller

“Who gets to pilot the Mech?” A thread on the Leviathan, robot anime, energy systems, and economic coordination rights. 1/n Our energy systems are mecha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecha — giant cyborg machines

Moebius Stripper

moebius_strip

https://www.straight.com/education/ubc-announces-changes-to-event-bookings-in-response-to-concerns-about-hate-speech Some thoughts on this. I'm on record* as saying that universities are under no obligation to rent space to any yutz who

Brandon O’Brien, virtually @ CoNZealand

therisingtithes

I wanna say a thing that I said yesterday in a Zoom barcon with other, much smarter folks like @SarahPinsker & @BenCKinney: we need to do a better job of