#Academics

Overwhelming expert evidence against Cashless Welfare Debit Card (CDC).CDC is a triumph of ideology over evidence. The problem does not exist & the solution does not work. It's part of
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WARNING! I'm serious. Please RT. Protests are being used to incite violence for Trump/GOP/Russia. I was worried and now I'm sure. Read the thread.#MAGA2020LandslideVictory #BidenHarrisLandslide2020 We all should stop
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Been seeing this critical "code review" of Professor Ferguson's COVID modelling in quite a few places today. As I am a professional computer scientist, I thought you might want to
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Forgive me the density of this post. It’s a long thread because some things just can’t be said in shorter ones.For decades , I have repeatedly—and to the annoyance of
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I don't claim to be an expert on how to achieve structural policing reform. I have no such expertise. I have, however, sued law enforcement several times, under several different
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Thread on Research Fraud by Leading Scientists in ChinaPeer reviewed research by Chinese scientists not trusted1/x Immunologist Xuetao Cao is one of the most important scientists in China. The Academician
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I don't post about my personal life a lot but today we finally had our court date to finalize the adoption. I've found that academics, who make up a lot
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Thread about China #NeverAgain or nah. The Great Leap Forward, Social Revolution, Red Guards and blackholes. Let's begin... The GREAT LEAP FORWARD and the CULTURAL REVOLUTION have been sucked into
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This is the funniest fucking graphic omg. And is such horseshit. The Cosmists, founders of the Soviet space program & its scientific basis, were anarchists. The poverty lifting stats apply
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Writing in @matthewstoller's BIG newsletter, @samhaselby makes the case that US elite universities - the Ivies - are a cartel that uses its monopoly to reproduce its monopoly, to the
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#TottenbruhSpotlight Graham Potter - Fluidity In Motion [THREAD] Before I speak about his managerial career, I must mention the academics that Potter completed before leaping into his career in Football.He
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Out now in @plosbiology, @kelley__harris and I try to unravel what altmetrics and the fire hose of social media data really tell us about the potential impacts of research papers.
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Announcement! Job Opportunity! Please RT!!I’m leaving my post as editor for social and behavioral sciences @ScienceMagazine and they’re looking for my replacement. It’s a fantastic, important, meaningful job. Deadline June
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On 20/5/20 @nspcc gave evidence to @inquiryCSA @ the #ReligiousOrganisationsandSettings hearing. It was asked its position on #MandatoryReporting & again rolled out its unviable proposal (not #MR) that mistakenly purports
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Some ideas on how to get out of the highly damaging fight between EU26-EC-EP and #Cyprus over the #Belarus and #Turkey sanctions. Thread. 1/ First some background on each side’s
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White supremacy & epistemic colonialism in design discourse, scholarship, & practice: a basic primer (thread) Historically, design scholarship, like design practice outside of the academy, has upheld white supremacy and epistemic
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