#RESEARCH

If you're still telling grad students to save their best ideas for their second book, when you know they're statistically super unlikely to even have a first book, then you're
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That Black people experience high levels of gun violence in our communities does not make us less deserving of good and fair policing, it makes us more deserving. Imagine thinking
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Shabir Mahdi, one of our most eminent health scientists did a presentation to the Wits council on Friday afternoon. His presentation slides are available on this link: http://www.wits.ac.za/covid19/latest-news/test-test-test-says-wits-academic.html H
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I have been doing some research about Tech Companies and the general frustrations that comes with it. Basically, I looked at 120 Tech Companies on Comparably, Glassdoor, and Kununu, looking
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Autism Research1. Find something that autistics reliably do differently than the rest of the population.2. Make it tragedy3. Profit#AutismAcceptanceMonth c.f.https://twitter.com/SNeurotypicals/status/1245884754710290432?s=19 c.f. alsohttps://twitter
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1/ A little over a week ago, we learned that the Trump administration had ordered the Chinese government to close its consulate in Houston, accusing diplomats there of assisting in
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The process of approvals for veterinary tests is not the same for getting approvals for human use. This means that veterinary labs can develop tests for use with animals, and
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Software Engineers: at some point during this next week, some of you may make changes to production code or infrastructure. This thread is for you. You will do all the
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This is a prime example of everything that's wrong with the bloggosphere. It starts a clickbait title. Then 1 of them admits that they've muted the hashtag. None of these
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I want to add some linguistic resources to this. Linguists have been doing the work to explain what's going on here. I'll focus on vocal fry here, but get into
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It's Tuesday, it's trilobites, it's #TrilobiteTuesday at #Fossilympics20, it must be time for the #Triarthlon!Whether burrowing, crawling, or swimming is your strength, as long as you've got three lobes you're
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reminder to my fellow muslims that eating the rich IS NOT HALAL! we're not allowed to eat scavengers or anything that survives on carrion! sadly pork is also haraam, but
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It promises to be a historic week as the Spanish government will bring its new 'Democratic Memory' law to parliament. This law is designed to address the shortcomings of 2007's
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Why brothers should understand the deen. This is what our Ustaadh Kabir Al-asfar wroteA while back, my girls came in together and the elder said:كيف الله حدث ؟She was asking
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So...I just scraped new State Dept data on student visas (F-1's), and it looks like student visa issuance fell by ~70% from FY2019 to FY2020. This is an astounding idiotic
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The rally in commodity prices is not slowing down but after slowing down into March and April it is accelerating and getting broad based. It is no more only about
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