#Workers

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

What fraction of populations are exposed in huge #COVID19 epidemics & what drives transmission & exposure?Serosurvey from Spain finally published!Tons of major findings here & I haven't seen a detailed

ACLU

ACLU

A HISTORY OF US POLICING: A THREADThe modern system of policing is rotten to its core. Here’s how we got here. In the early 1700s, the Charleston slave patrol

Amaan

amaanbali

Very Very Important Thread on Christian Missionaries and the Rapid conversions of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims in India. Before breaking it down into smaller parts and pieces, I want to

Ravi Kant ∞

LegalKant

Beipanjiang Bridge, spanning the Nizhu River in #China at a height of 565 metersWorld's Highest Bridge and one of the greatest engineering achievements Completed in 5 yearsIt is over 200m

Uttara

cradle1112

These are tense times for all of humanity. The world is on the edge. In the midst of all the anxiety, with our medical professionals investing immense time, effort, essential

jkdegen

jkdegen

Seeing a few questions on Twitter about the #WritersReliefFund from ⁦@writerstrust⁩ and ⁦@twuc⁩. Let’s see if I can clear some things up.https://www.writerstrust.com/programs/canadian-writers-emergency-relief-fund There have been far more application

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

AbdulElSayed

I support #MedicareForAll. It's why I supported @berniesanders. It's why I co-authored "Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide" w/ @micah_johnson_.And it's also why I agreed when Bernie asked me to

Undefeated_Faith

Shaad_Bajpe

Thread on #MangaloreDCcheatedNRIsDistrict administration @DCDK9 of Dakshina kannada utterly failed to treat the expatriates fairly, who returned from dubai yesterday. It is pathetic that the officials themselves were harrasing the

Dr. Erin L Thomas

ErinLThomasPhD

. @ellmcgirt recently asked me how I thought Corporate America was doing against 2020 #antiracism commitments. After the week we just had, my greatest concern is that orgs aren’t as

Torrance Coste

TorranceCoste

Some context for the ongoing debate around old-growth logging in BC. @WFPCompany, the biggest and one of the most controversial logging companies on the coast, made $53 million in the

Tyler Green

TylerGreenBooks

Over the last couple weeks, art museum staff - especially at SFMOMA, Philadelphia and the Guggenheim - have highlighted how too many art museums are acting like corporations, not charities.Let's

Brad Shapiro

btshapir

And now, as promised, a thread on my new *working* paper (feedback welcome): “Promoting Wellness or Waste? Evidence from Antidepressant Advertising” (link) 1/22https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3130327 DTCA is controversial. Opposition h

CA Department of Education

CADeptEd

Virtual media check-in with State Superintendent @TonyThurmond:https://www.facebook.com/CAEducation/videos/1090548041328535/ State Superintendent @TonyThurmond: Today we intend to talk about reopening of schools in the fall, in the context

Hugh Weber

hughweber

The past couple days have been beyond our wildest dreams, but today was a fairytale. I’m not sure I can fully capture what we just experienced, but I’ll do my

Linda 'Scooby Doo' Hayden 🧜🏻 she/her

LindaOkaythen

Let's have a little look at some of the scandals we have had over the last 5 months. Just to refresh our memories as to how much failure we have

Michael McFaul

McFaul

Trump's had 4 years in the job. Time for a foreign policy report card. THREAD 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/23/trumps-foreign-policy-report-card-is-full-failing-grades/?tid=ss_tw Climate change: F. Trump withdrew fro