#Officials

Professor Ian Donald

iandonald_psych

1. The #coronavirus pandemic is a life-threatening emergency that shares a lot of similarities with other events, many of which become disasters. What we know about behaviour during those events

Jaskirat Singh Bawa

JaskiratSB

18 Indian Army soldiers died in an ambush by an outlawed group 5 years ago. This group had received supplies and support from a neighbouring country, and at least some

DRI International

DRI_Intl

Starting the @columbia_ncdp Q&A:@ChloeDemrovsky: What makes a mega-disaster different from a regular #disaster? @jeffschlegel: Disasters so large they disrupt the systems designed to respond to them Where human development/activity also

Alex Wickham

alexwickham

NEW from @AlbertoNardelli and meCoronavirus hit the UK & Germany days apartThis analysis shows how the two countries responded differentlyDecisions delayed by a few days — and how the countries

RCSLT policy

RCSLTpolicy

Last week @RCSLT Chief Executive @KGadhok sent @MattHancock an evidence base highlighting why #dysphagia assessments should be considered an aerosol generating procedure: https://bit.ly/2VDiQB3 https://bit.ly/2W5aUI1 https://bit.ly/2VDja2

Karen Vaites

karenvaites

Here’s the issue with the mess in NYC right now...What we need is a *hard reset* of outdated norms: – 3% threshold agreed in July – any single-metric trigger for

Student Solidarity at OSU

SolidarityatOSU

Last Thursday, @OhioState sent out an irresponsible “public safety notice” that claimed OSU students were the victims of a “hate crime”. The email identified the alleged attackers as Black, while

Wallace Kantai

wgkantai

One day someone will write THE book about perhaps the most devastating pandemic to ever hit East Africa. No, not Covid or even the 1918 flu, but the twin rinderpest

laurence norman

laurnorman

As @SecPompeo Pompeo visits Israel and the incoming govt preps to take office, Europe has started to consider its moves if #Israel pushes ahead with annexation. That work has gone

Matt Bevan 🎙

MatthewBevan

A little story we ended up being unable to squeeze into America, If You're Listening that is relevant today:Six months before the 2016 election, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who

csarc_to

CSARC_TO

Two more nooses have gone up with Anti-Black graffiti at an @EllisDon worksite at the @MGHToronto. Enough is enough. Join us this Friday, October 9 at 7:30 AM to #ShutDownHate

Erik Voeten

ErikVoeten

Imagine how the IMF would manage a global financial crisis if it didn't have its own pot of money to disburse to countries in trouble. That's kind of how the

StefanieFriedhoff

Stefanie2000

So, the triple whopper of 1) the Peter Navarro op-ed, 2) the CDC being stripped of it's role as the COVID data collector, and 3) director Redfield saying spikes in

Montana Skeptic

montana_skeptic

1/ Spent some time this evening catching up on past issues of Grant's Interest Rate Observer (@GrantsPub). A few observations...https://twitter.com/ttmygh/status/1285229899146461184 2/ The biweekly publications found their way to me lat

Rachel Esplin Odell

resplinodell

With due respect to Jeff's view, I'd like to offer a few pts of correction:1. India's position is actually more restrictive than China's. India requires consent for military exercises &

Brad Lander

bradlander

Spent some time reading about "what comes next."Short story: We're not close to ready. We're not prepared for how long, how invasive, how economically catastrophic it will be. And we