#Academia

Surprisingly good piece from @koxinga21 on how FDA roadblocks to rapid development of tests, drugs, and vaccines are finally being re-examined in the light of the coronavirus crisis.So much of
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As promised to @deborahjsloan and @jlush2 last week here is a thread on the 8-step process we @MRC_LMCB have successfully used to drive a cultural change to promote EDI in
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The fact economists (and apparently an economic anthropologists) think this upends our development narratives is not so much an individual failing as emblematic of how disciplines/disciplinary conversations can hold us
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I just discovered (thanks @hunrachel) about the growing gap in publication submissions in the past month since the covid-19 started (links below). Moral of the story is: we need to
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1/n THREAD | Aryan Invasion Theory debunkedLot of people have asked about 'Aryan Invasion Theory' (AIT) and where it stands today.An effort to bring various pieces together.Please read on 2/nAIT
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Reality has a well-known leftist bias. If you want to convince people that inequality, high carbon emissions and austerity are good for them, you need to get them to abandon
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I received this email last week from a postdoc @JohnsHopkins. It has been a rough week for me reflecting on this. This is another example of racism and hostility towards
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One of the most comprehensive advices/ recomm for Pak by @FaheemYounus Chief of Infectious Diseases at US uni. Summarizing his policy suggestions in Twitter thread as under:-https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/amp/642330-a-fragile-system Acknowledge the m
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— bigbang as their aesthetic kwon jiyong — baddie choi seunghyun — art hoe dong youngbae — cottage core lee seunghyun — kawaii kang daesung — coffee shops kwon
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et c'est reparti pour un tour https://twitter.com/sIamdvnk/status/1094716789139886081 1- One piece - Sabo 2- Slam dunk - Shinichi Maki 3- Kimetsu no yaiba - Tengen Uzui 4- Gintama - Okita Sougo
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several months back, the danes undertook a large, randomized, controlled mask studyit has been completed for some timethe lead investigator says they will publish it "as soon as a journal
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In these weird times, I have actually considered learning COBOL. It feels like a legacy sort of language because there are certain things that we've come accustomed to that aren't
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It never fails to baffle me how some people are prepared their whole life for the academy, while most of us literally found out about what a PhD was in
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first impressions of bnha characters: a thread Yuga Aoyamahe looks like he plays minecraft but he doesnt know how to play. like he just punches a tree and calls it
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(On "manufacturing consent") The concept is that the media propaganda model apparatus exists in order to insure that the people of America are on board with a decreed pre-determined agenda
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cr: The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang The Poppy War twt, please bear with me sometimes books can trigger depressive episodes for me, so i take breaks and
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