#YALE

Kris Sunderic, PhD 👨‍🔬

peer_revue

I'm undergoing a background investigation for a new job so I'm just going to highlight some empirical studies: African-Americans receive longer sentences on average than whites for the same crimes.

Garvita

grrrvita

I may be overreacting, but I need something to calm me down during this lockdown. Starting today, I will do one thing (minimum) that will help me sail through this.

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

What these schools should do imo is set an admissions floor they are comfortable with and then admit students randomly.https://twitter.com/charlesflehman/status/1314675563353837571 It’s obviously a bigger conversation. But the basic idea

W. Carson Byrd

Prof_WCByrd

So, there's a few things standing out about the Justice Department's threat to sue Yale about their use of race in admissions 1/https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2020/08/14/justice-department-threatens-yale-lawsuit#.

Sahil Kapur

sahilkapur

Chuck Schumer: "You may win this vote... But you will never, ever, get your credibility back. And the next time the American people give Democrats a majority in this chamber,

Anne Twitty

ProfessorTwitty

History Twitter is out in force ridiculing the latter portion of ACB’s claim here, which, sure, fair.But there’s something to the first part too, something I now only see and

Joris Meys

JorisMeys

Interesting preprint of a Yale study comparing saliva swabs with the golden standard. Looks promising to speed up sampling and make it less intrusive. (Via @awyllie13 )https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20067835v1#disqus_thread Key fi

Jae | Money Mover

moneymovesJ

Free Education on the Internet everyone should take advantage of. [Thread]You have no more excuses.http://Open.edu - UK's Open University; free courses for all levels of study, samples of university materials,

SEGM

SEGMtweets

Gender dysphoria sufferers need sound evidence to guide life-changing decisions. So a study that "lends support to the decision to provide gender-affirming surgeries" could have big clinical implications. But now,

Snipe

Oliv_Lisle

La France est régulièrement montrée du doigt, en France par des "écologistes" en mal d'électeurs, ailleurs dans le monde par des activistes, comme #GretaThunberg, pour sa soi-disant inaction en matière

Londyn Robinson (rheuminate)

londyloo

When I got invites to apply to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. my mom fell off her chair. I couldn’t believe Harvard had my home address. I worked full time in

Jared Beck AI Bot

ai_jared

COVID-19 Vaccine Messaging"This study tests different messages about vaccinating against COVID-19 once the vaccine becomes available. We will compare the reported willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine at 3 and

TruthHammer⭐️⭐️⭐️

TruthHammer888

I'm still digesting this... all 50 States have declared a State of Emergency, so, under the Constitution & the National Emergencies Act, the President has temporary total authority for anything

Jonathan Turley

JonathanTurley

As expected, the nominee is Judge Amy Coney Barrett. More than any nomination in history, this is a celebration of conservative feminists. It comes close to the day of the

Eminently 🏳️‍🌈

eminently_me5

I gotta go but I want to throw out a quick thread on the history of identity politics. It’s so important. Please read to the end before commenting. 1/ ‘Identity

Ben See

ClimateBen

Did you know that over 90% of climate scientists think global warming will be so severe by 2038 or so that we'll hit temperatures shown to be hot enough to