#Papers

The Guardian released an article saying to mitigate the worst of climate change, the US and UK need to reduce meat consumption by 90%. But all I ever hear from
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Apparently, even though PostMedia is owned and controlled by conservative political interests, it must have a "left leaning bias". We're just supposed to ignore the fact that since PostMedia was
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Today I'm going to be live tweeting:"Predictive performance of international COVID-19mortality forecasting models"(Friedman et al. August 26, 2020)What looks like a great evaluation of covid model performance over long periods
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The LNP has said it will list Labor last on its how-to-vote material at the 2020 Queensland election. That is they are recommending voters complete their ballot papers giving preferences
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Lots of cool #NBERday papers today!We'll focus on two papers tackling a big question:Q: Does the US have a politically neutral civil service?A: No.#NBERdayhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w28673  https://www.nber.org/papers/w28665 
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ThreadI have been following a group of friends who are first responders & in frontline of management of C19 patients in EU & USThe understanding we are gaining everyday in
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Current evidence on immunity for #COVID19.My *non-expert* overview(replying to comment by @taaltree & would love help/comments from actual immunity expert: @florian_krammer or others)Threadhttps://twitter.com/taaltree/status/12832338636
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Things I do that leave the criminal justice system ‘hamstrung’:* cross-examine vulnerable children with skill and care, agonising over every word to ensure their fairest evidence is given.* sit with
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I know exactly who needs to hear this. Academics. *Clears throat*: checking and writing emails is work, thinking about your research is work, planning and delivering outreach is work,
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The NHL just announced a lot of Diversity and Inclusion measures. It's a lot to unpack, but most of it seems focused on listening and learning. https://media.nhl.com/public/news/14300 https://twitter.com/PR_NHL/status/130158852467685376
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Why, seriously why print this? It’s nothing more than the worst attempt to damage a government I’ve ever seen. The government haven’t withheld PPE! So saying this now, is all
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I think about this often Mostly because the Senate... For anyone upset about this/with the way our system is woefully unresponsive to the people, I have a post coming soon
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Why are we still keeping diaries of children in foster care? For children who are in the care of the state, they are measured, monitored and recorded to an unfathomable
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Other old world communist survivors had said “head for the hills/mountains/rural areas.” My grandma (loud mouth fiery polish woman) was visiting and feeding my Russian/Jewish grandpa at a prison camp
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Back on the MPs today, and fixing up (probably) the most confusing one-term record of all, Charles Bradlaugh. Since I have had to work out out a timeline for this,
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1/People sometimes ask me how I form my ideas about the world! Well, folks, there are basically two ingredients: Song lyrics, and data. Just read a bunch of papers and
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