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The EU’s top science funder @ERC_Research today accused its departing chief Mauro Ferrari of being “economical with the truth” in his account of the breakdown in relations at the agency
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It is truly depressing to see straw men arguments like this from academics. This is a straw man so massive that, were it to be set on fire, the crew
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Watched Zafar Mirza's interview last night. @OwaisTohid asked some very pertinent questions but the answers by health minister didn't inspire much confidence. Here he talks about curve flattening in five
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@nsitharaman says coming from south India, i know some people were wondering what aatmanirbhar means and translates the word into 4 south Indian languages. Have to give it to this
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Location data secretly gathered from smartphone apps is potentially flawed, biased, untrustworthy or even fraudulent.Overview of data harvesting companies who claim to help fighting the virus by providing data on
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I didn't want to say "I told you so,"but it's been 9 episodes and basically no one has confronted or acknowledged the fact that he experiences chronic pain.For some reason
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I'll be live-tweeting the #ioedebates latest talk starting in five minutes discussing the 'somewhat' debate-creating line 'What if... we got rid of GCSEs?' - should make for some interesting opinions...
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How bad will climate change get? Sometimes things change so quickly you hardly notice, and over the last year, amidst climate horrors and climate suffering, the good news has come
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Thread: The anatomy of this #ObamaGate stuff is so emblematic of….everything. It’s really something to watch it in real-time. The gist is that the right-wing media, and not just the
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Thread (1/13) According to both the Daily Mail and ITV, Prime Minister Johnson said that rather than Institute a further lockdown, he would prefer to see “bodies pile high in
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ALA Copytalk this afternoon is addressing Fair Use, Controlled Digital Lending, and COVID-19. The impetus is the need to address Emergency Remote Teaching. The key is the emergency basis since
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A quick thread on race, PPP covid relief, and Chicago. TL/DR: Yesterday, after dogged pressure from watchdogs and transparency advocates, the Department of Treasury released some data on the recipients
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1/ Flow state takes time.I remember acknowledging that at the end of a @flowdotclub session a couple of months ago. It was 10P on a Thursday and I was working
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Now is a good time to remind us that the evangelical movement is up for some long overdue payments.If the last 4 years have done anything, it is to expose
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1 of 19It occurs to me that I may not have formally shared what I think Donald Trump and Gen. Flynn are pulling off right now as I type.So, let
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A few thoughts before tomorrow.It's been an incredible privilege to serve as a local councillor for Bridge, but, in my role as opposition spokesperson for education and children's services, I've
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