#Policy

GeorgeJulian

GeorgeJulian

New @ScotLDO research looking at (premature) mortality rates of learning disabled children and young people. Gut churning stuff. Mortality rate 12 times higher for those who are learning disabled. 12

Cem Karsan 🥐

jam_croissant

1/xThe party’s almost over. But you’d never know it. Nobody wants to go home...It’s been a hell of a party, but I won’t be sticking around much longer. As discussed,

Caitlin Melidonis

cait_melidonis

1/6 #HumWild1 #DICECON20 Governments and NGOs from the global north have had substantial influence over wildlife policies across Africa – so how does this impact local communities who live &

Jerusalem

JerusalemDemsas

The economic and political debate over targeting the third round of stimulus checks is heating up -- so I wrote an explainer for @voxdotcom.https://www.vox.com/22270492/1400-stimulus-check-2000-income-inflation Firstly, what are these check

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌

RachelBitecofer

1. When I hear @clairecmc talk about Dems learning to talk to the Piggly Wiggly crowd, I hope she'll want to join/help w my moderate messaging electioneering overall for Ds

Nicholas Drummond

nicholadrummond

THE BRITISH ARMY & THE INTEGRATED REVIEW (Thread)I've repeated the need for Army to have two deployable divisions. It’s what previous SDSRs advocated before Iraq & Afghanistan. It’s what most

Jake Sherman

JakeSherman

G’morning from the Capitol, where we’re about to have a pro forma session in both chambers during which nothing will get done. This begins at 9In the meantime, here’s what

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jnchien

Can't talk about neocolonialism in Africa without bringing up Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group (FGS), which uses paramilitary security forces to "make it safe" for the continued flow of Chinese

Wim Thiery

WimThiery

In our new @NatRevEarthEnv paper, we review the history of the iconic @IPCC_CH Burning Ember diagram, and report the methodological advances applied in the recent #SRCCL and #SROCC reports.http://go.nature.com/2FfWHn4 (free-to-read:

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

Should we pay people for getting infected? Should we increase fines for rule breakers? Incentives are key for controlling epidemic & getting it wrong can backfire. So far, the government

Siberian Fox

SilverVVulpes

The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation https://sci-hub.do/10.1146/annurev-psych-081920-042106 Gonna do the usual screencap highlights of half the paperFirst, because some people are still unaware, it's generally accepted that k

Imar Y. Koutchoukali 🌐 🐿

koutchoukalimar

Last week I tweeted this. One of the comments argued that the origin of Arabic qamīṣ < Latin camisia is hypothetical. It reminds me of people sometimes say "well [proven

Daniel Clark

HEDanielClark

It's another Friday evening, so lets have a look at the coronavirus data for Devon and Cornwall, and after three weeks of cases rising, the number of newly confirmed cases

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

I disagree that Trump ran as an "economic populist" in 2016. He called for tax cuts for the rich, opposed increasing the minimum wage (@PeterBeinart says otherwise), & called for

Conspiracy Mill

conspiracymill

Hot off The Conspiracy Mill!US laws & values dictate that "debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust & wide-open." So why are US tech companies restraining political speech &

J Picadillo

JdogPitler

[Thread]Jewish Ritual Killings have been occurring for over thousands of years. It has been documented since the Prophet Jeremiah wrote the message given to him by God to warn the

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