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Ilhan Omar's dad, Nur Omar Mohammed, was a Colonel in the Somali Army during the regime of Siad Barre, a dictatorial warlord.He passed away in Minneapolis of Covid in 2020.What
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On Wednesday @CMO_England said that social distancing measures could be in place until the end of the year. What might that mean for the economy? A thread… This thread is
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As I’m scoring fellowships I have some suggestions for those writing one, now or in the future: 1- Make it easy for the reader to find the info we need.
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mindless behavior. A THREAD. let's start with this classic. and let's talk about GROWN MAN BEHAVIOR. if y'all could see how I reacted the first time I heard this on
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The global discussion around debt relief for low-income and fragile countries during #COVID19 is gathering momentum. There are various dimensions to the current debt situation, especially for #Africa. Here’s a
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I find this 'local food systems vs. high degree of specialization and globalization' debate absolutely fascinating right now. Particularly because I can see both sides of the argument. Here are
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Today @resfoundation published a short evaluation of whether the Conservatives and Labour will manage to meet their fiscal rules if they win the election. Link below but here is a
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The most popular stats book in the 2nd half of 20th century was "How to Lie with Statistics". The #COVID19 portion of Trump's @axios interview should be titled "How NOT
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To understand why this is encouraging vaccine news, note that this is a *cluster* (overdispersed pathogen) *among the elderly* (vulnerable population) *who live together* (allows high attack rate). So way
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Now that it's September I finally need to get off my butt and start contributing to the world at large again. That means being productive.I give you: My personal homebrew
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Personal Thread on COVID-19, Masks and Deafness #deaf #masks #NHS #OTs @elly_chapple @Claire_R123 @GeorgiaVineOT @OT_Expert 1. I am a hearing aid user & lip reader. I need both to be
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New OA paper (with @JeffBrunstrom @corferesearch @LizWilliamsRNut @Dr_A_Johnstone @EmmaJStevenson and Ant Watson) exploring protein consumption/purchasing in ageing adults using survey data and supermarket loyalty card data https://nutritio
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Do you like open science and reproducible research? Of course you do. You should read this thread. #openscience #rstats #academia #linguistics #phonetics I taught a graduate course (Spring2019) on
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Reading this has been on my to-do list for a couple of weeks, given there is a non-zero chance this will happen. Will give some thoughts once I've actually read
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Let’s talk about the zinc. This supplement has gone viral together with #hydroxychloroquine and #azithromycin hype, and has been promoted without scientific evidence. threadhttps://twitter.com/Ami_Magazine/status/1258326610719145989 Most
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Time to make an ongoing thread of my AP Art progress so I make sure I don’t do this all last minute :) Okay so I started sketching out the
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