#Pandemics

small robots

smolrobots

My principal objection to going out to the pub atm is the same as it was when we got cocky over the summer: it just feels a bit grim to

Farhad Manjoo

fmanjoo

This is the whole problem; it tells the story. the billionaires collectively own the government, fleece it, shrink it, render it impotent. Then when gov fails, a billionaire steps in

özlem altınkaya

ozlem_altinkaya

"But if we’re going to have cities and the coronavirus, maybe the future is 1922, not 2022."https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/opinion/cities-density-coronavirus.html?smid=tw-share several counter-arguments on the urban density-COVID relati

bob jones

moderatedew

1/ An emerging narrative is that the UK wasn’t “ready” for the #coronavirus pandemic crisisIn order to address this sensibly we need to first ask what does “ready” mean in

Francesco Marconi

fpmarconi

Why the information industry needs to start developing *editorial algorithms* — a 10 point thread: 1. Humans are producing more information right now than we did at any point in

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

There are certainly a lot of anecdotal reports right now of employers not being able to find the workers they need, particularly in restaurants. But unemployment is still very elevated—particularly

noa-witheringly

noawitheringly

This is a note-to-self recap thread about some things I’ve learnt in the past month by reading (mostly specialists’ twitter accounts) about #coronavirus (-es) and related illness-es, and in particular

Krishnan Ram-Prasad

KrishnanRP

When I found out I'd got funding for my PhD, I was in the final round for a generic non-academic graduate job, and I had a real crisis about what

Nicholas Sarwark

nsarwark

There are a number of people who I thought were intellectually honest who have chosen to block people rather than consider that they could be wrong.We learn things during a

Sarah Stanlick, Ph.D.

SStanlick

My colleague @PackerLab has another smart take on our current situation in higher education and the critical need to become even more agile in the face of disasters natural, human-made,

Vangelis Tsiligiris

tsiligiris

Few thoughts about the impact of #covid on #highered in #uk [thread].So far, the discussion about impact has been concentrating on potential shift in the start date of the academic

PhillyCAFI

PhillyCafi

Notes from P. Sainath:- The very first thing that needs doing: preparing for emergency distribution of our close to 60 million tons of ‘surplus’ foodgrain stocks. And reaching out at

stuart mcdonald

ActuaryByDay

I suspected that today’s ONS life expectancy release would not be met with the usual fanfare, but I guess I hadn’t anticipated complete media radio silence.Still, it’s not the most

Zionspilger

PhilGarber5

I have a lot of confidence in science, not so much in scientists. Science is:a) a set of protocols for the systematic accumulation of knowledge of the natural order.b) the

Dr. Faisal Moola

faisal_moola

This beautifully written op-ed by David Suzuki is a masterclass on how environmentalists should be speaking to public right now. It is explicitly NOT prescriptive but speaks to common #values

Nanyingi Mark 🏀⛹️‍♂️🚴

Nanyingih

CORONAVIRUS #LOCKDOWN ?Thread #Lockingdown the entire population by assuming that anyone could be carrying the virus is impractical, the most pragmatic approach would be a more nuanced and data-driven approach