#Policymakers

OpenFuture

OpenFutureEU

0/After two decades from birth of the #openmovement, #Open is still a paradox: it represents a challenge to and a concentration of power. @creativecommons @Wikimedia @OKFN @mozilla @edri @internetarchive @communia_eu

Alison Blunt

AlisonBlunt

1) "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policymakers are pushing for unregulated gene-editing technologies, the rollout of bio-synthetic food created in laboratories, the

Luke Shoveller

LukeLJB

FUN THREAD:I’ve read this, he’s right (about the book, not the quality of my notes in the margin). Here are some more thoughts about the alleged ‘slipperiness’ of ‘cultural capital’.

Strikepod Systems

Strikepod

The implications of DARPA's AlphaDogfight for air warfare are obvious. But what is perhaps not so obvious, yet equally significant, are the implications for undersea warfare.[A thread.] Last month, DARPA

Muge Cevik

mugecevik

PHE surveillance report shows that while the number of infections is increasing mainly in 20-29, 30-39 ages in England, SARS-CoV-2 is spreading most in highly deprived areas - where people

Tom Bollyky

TomBollyky

I am a fan of @MaxCRoser & @OurWorldInData, but this thread is misleading (at best)Most of decline in mortality against infectious diseases in now wealthy nations occurred before widespread availability

Madeline Peltz

peltzmadeline

There's been a few pieces on Scott Atlas, Trump's new coronavirus "adviser." But I don't think they fully capture the extent to which he has been consistently wrong about the

Air Quality in India

airqualityindia

On #WorldCleanAirDay let us take a look at some of people/organizations/efforts working towards #CleanAirForAll in India A thread: @moefcc launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) in 2019 which has

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

Interesting fact about Mark Meadows: He doesn't believe in science. He doesn't believe in climate change and thinks the earth is 6,000 years old. That's right. The man who will

Frederic Guarino

fredericg

If you’re interested in geopolitical+tech risks, read @inafried @axios on #Taiwan https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-6801338c-9668-467e-b983-d74d182b5535.html?chunk=0&utm_campaign=axios_app#story0 Time to update/revisit my

Matto Mildenberger

mmildenberger

Exciting news! @MichaelAklin and my new provocation is out in @GepJournal. We make a simple but far-reaching claim. **Empirically, climate politics is NOT primarily about collective action or free-riding**. A

Jordyn Grzelewski

JGrzelewski

I first started hearing about this issue in Lakewood a few months ago. I called a source at a local housing org last week – she had just gotten off

Beau Sievers

beausievers

Re: scientific racism, this conversation between @rasmansa and one of the authors of the religion, violence, and IQ study is instructivehttps://twitter.com/EPoe187/status/1271271074320322561 Bo is careful to dodge the following implication:

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

Second-Order Thinking 101We live in a world of complex systems that punish simple, linear thinking. The greatest minds consistently use second-order thinking to solve problems.But what is "second-order thinking" and

James Talarico

jamestalarico

3 years ago I almost slipped into a coma and died. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.I paid $684 for my first 30-day supply of insulin. Some pay $1000+

Anthea Roberts

AntheaERoberts

A new piece from me that applies ideas from complexity theory to the cascading health, economic & social effects of #COVID19. I think we need to think about economic globalisation