#Blog

Centre for Cities

CentreforCities

#LevellingUp was central to the #SpendingReview. The Chancellor's statement mostly emphasised infrastructure & capital, but the 122 page document highlighted skills & job creation will play a central part too.Key

Mj

manas_saloi

A list of questions to ask/things to ponder on during year-end reflection.1. Are you on the wrong bus?https://seths.blog/2018/08/the-wrong-bus/ 2. What does your Odyssey plan look like?https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1077&v=WQWiLZ1M6xw&

Lorna Richardson

lornarichardson

For archaeologists thinking about researching links with nationalism/pseudoarchaeology in online spaces, I need to flag that there are numerous safety measures you need to take before you start work. You

Jill Filipovic

JillFilipovic

This will surely be my most-hated tweet of the day, but: What is the strategy behind showing up at lawmakers' homes to protest or (obviously worse) vandalize them? I understand

Gina Bates

hilltopgina

Speciesism thread No3. Vivisection10 facts out of 100s1. It is estimated that at least 192 million animals are used for scientific purposes worldwide.#EndSpeciesism #govegan 2. This figure includes an estimated

Carwil Bjork-James

CarwilBJ

#BoliviaEnCrisisA comment on the six-day blockade campaign by labor and peasant allies of the MAS:Every strike is a test of the mobilizing capacity of movements involved & the power of

Siim Männart

siim

Decided to graduate from using a meditation app to sitting in silence for an hour every morning.I'm 3 weeks in, and it's been a great upgrade to my morning routine.

Prison Policy Init.

PrisonPolicy

THREAD: The process of reentry after prison or jail is always inordinately difficult. However, during COVID-19, it's gotten much, much worse. (1/7) People who have been to prison are ~10

Ant Breach

AntBreach

London rents are changing in odd ways. I'm moving into a 2 bed BTR flat with my cousin in Lewisham Station, and we've got a month of free rent and

Joseph Nelson

josephofiowa

Why does @OpenAI's CLIP model matter?https://openai.com/blog/clip/ Traditionally, training a classification model (a "thing labeler") relies on collecting a lot of images of your specific thing. This is effective, but br

Dr. Lisa Iannattone

lisa_iannattone

Is Denmark the first Western country to go for #COVIDzero after a huge wave? Maybe. Unlike Canada, they know that loosening restrictions now is ill-advised. Despite the numbers being “low”,

Littlefoot

LTF_01

A profile of the founder of my former department written by a member of my graduate cohort. I TA'd for Dr. Bryant for a year when he was sent to

Dana White

ItsDanaWhite

Homeless Black Lives Matter too. Many of them are LGBTQ and / or young people. I was one. I’ve known many others.Defund police and reallocate resources to community needs like

Michael Leachman

leachma2

There are a lot of big problems with the Senate Republicans’ newly unveiled #COVIDRelief package. Among the biggest: it has *no new fiscal aid* for states & cities, whose revenues

Gabor Cselle

gabor

Frequent organizational changes lead to thrashing. This is often underestimated by senior leaders in large organizations. "Thrashing" is a computer science term that describes an overloaded system with processes constantly

Yoco

Yoco_ZA

[THREAD]: Taking your business online this year? Here's 5 key metrics to help track your performance 1: Conversion rate.Shows you how many people who visit your site actually buy

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