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How is #London doing with the #ClimateCrisis?#Trees have their part to play @WandsworthTrees https://www.treesforcities.org/have-you-declared-a-climate-emergency @TreesforCities How bad is the tree crisis? @The_10000 http://www.rapidshift.n
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A Monte Carlo simulation paper on mixed-effects models by Park, Cardwell, and Yu (PCY) has just appeared, which offers suggestions for random-effects specification for complex designs. It seems to argue
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Too many people falsely assume "open #data" will "democratize" #science and its benefits, while the #Indigenous people most disenfranchised continually call into question these practices: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
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I have gotten a number of questions about why we should be angry at Dr. Fauci, the NIH and CDC. The answer is simple, early in the pandemic a decision
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DECOLONISING PLANNING: A THREADYas Beebeejaun @yasminah_b & I have been thinking about planning & colonialism. We know the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting the BAME community.* Is the UK planning
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Wikipedia was founded exactly 20 years ago, on January 15, 2001: today is Wikipedia Day, our birthday. I have been editing Wikipedia -- & writing, teaching and helping govern it
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Since there was interest in how I addressed this question, here's a thread on what I said in class. TLDR: if you're operating under certain narrow assumptions about what data
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1. @TinkerTricity proves how #QAnon works. An Anon pulls 1 string, another pops up. Another Anon pulls that string, another pops up. Before you know it, we've located possible #DeepState
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This is big. Seems the Sunday Times had to win court approval to publish. Here's the evidence provided by the experts to the court in the Keira Bell case.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/autistic-girls-seeking-answers-are-seizing-on-s
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"Turing’s children: Representation of sexual minorities in STEM" by @SansoneEcon and Kitt Carpenter A timely article to consider for #LGBTSTEMDay #LGBTQSTEMDay #LGBTQSTEMDay20 - a thread of some thoughts as I
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On #WorldAIDSDay, let's recommit to honoring the lives lost in this epidemic by fighting for those living with #HIV/#AIDS today. To ensure an AIDS-free future, we must end the stigma
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An exclusive new case study from @ShorensteinCtr’s @EmilyDreyfuss for the @nytimes charts just how difficult it has been to track platform companies’ content moderation these last 2 weeks.Why did Trump
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SolarWinds follow up. Very good tweet explaining what happened.https://twitter.com/weswilson4/status/1338328385198632962 Basically what this means is that SolarWinds itself was exploited. Someone posted an infected update as legitimate (dig
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A baseless, common misconception: Since young people grew up with the internet and spend so much time on their phones, surely they know how to evaluate digital content.A thread about
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As we approach our fourth hackathon, my mind turns to our first back in 2018. We had no idea how to run a hackathon! Here's what we got right
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South African science was crucial in helping UK discover its new variants; but then the UK govt claimed (wrongly) that the SA variant is more transmissible. No evidence to support
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