#Profession

A number of people asked me yesterday why I have been raising the issue of deportations so passionately. There is often an assumption that because someobe is deported that they
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Sitting here thinking about Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, and how the initial fantasy conceit of that book was a perfect example of taking an obvious joke and running with it
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#EconTwitter I want to take a moment today and list all the topics that economists study that aren't the stock market:- student debt- racial wealth gap- prison industrial complex- sex
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Don't trust easy stories. Here’s an explanation that clarifies what I mean by that a little bit.I started listening to veterinary podcasts, made by veterinarians interviewing other bets. There’s one
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Did a survey at uni of Japanese folks on how they felt about recent releases The Last Samurai, Lost in Translation, and Memoirs of a Geisha.Most: "Happy to see our
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I really hope that we can stop making the ridiculous argument that some Teachers shouldn't have to go back to work because they "aren't paid well enough". Let's examine this
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Thread: Y “Bronze Age?” Is conquering spirit the main attribute admired by @bronzeagemantis? Bronze Age on equal or lesser footing with Roman, Crusader, & Mongols as conquerors...no. Bronze Age has
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I disagree. And I am slightly disappointed with Mr Guha because he has not written the article wearing his historian hat. Serious Historians are not supposed to write opinions. Opinions
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Thread:Man Utd 6 - 2 Leeds Utd — Tactics. #MUFC #MUNLEE #MUFC buildup from the back only when possible in 2422 while #LUFC tried to press 4141. #MUFC anticipated high-intensity
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Important thread on Hypocrisy of Indian Journalists and media houses on how they dealt with Padmavat Issue & Red Fort Ruckus. For @sardesairajdeep Rajputs demanding Review of Padmavat are Vigilantes
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Yesterday, the CDC released new guidelines for schools. Clear, science-based guidance was long overdue, so everyone was agog all week. Did they get what they wanted? This is a long
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While I certainly applaud journalism focused on epidemiologists, journalists might want to survey American historians of medicine for their opinions about how we are doing.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/upshot/epidemiologists-virus-surv
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Oooh a sizzler here, from the lab of John Spertus!Could it really be true that we PCI docs are telling porkie-pies about whether our patients have angina? Full story here:(Hat
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Call it the Age of Aquarius, the New Age, the New Precessed Age, or the New Astrological Age, but: there is no clear way to calculate it;it’s an esoteric, not
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https://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2018/11/bribery-and-corruption-nhs-being-underreported2018"Bribery and corruption in the NHS ‘being underreported"The NHSCFA calculated that fraud costs the NHS £1.29bn each year, in its ann
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We are live-tweeting from our online panel deep-diving into our report on the impact of #COVID on journalism in emerging economies and the global south. We recently released our #COVIDReport
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