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Daniel Zhao
DanielBZhao
Some anecdata on mask usage in my neighborhood in SF:- Mask (inc. any kind of mouth covering) usage has increased from ~20% (Mon) to ~40% (Thu). Nice!- Thu n=~200, I
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Asma Khalid
asmamk
Going over my intvws from Michigan, this quote caught my ear. A guy who didn't vote in 2016 - who was hand-delivering his ballot more than a month before Election
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🎮 Dr. Gwednesday Addams #BLM PLEASE VOTE!!!!!!
gweezlouise
I know faculty mean well when they let gut decisions dictate research choices, likely drawing from years of experience and expertise. But it puts students in a really bad position
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Anupam Gupta
b50
"purely legal thing" and "own sweet time" got me thinking. Quick thread. So the idea that if you're rich, you must have made your money illegally is widely accepted in
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St. Rev ☯️🏴😻
St_Rev
I really want this to be true -- I had that vicious bronchitis in January -- but I really doubt it.I also don't want it to be true, because I
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Erin justice breyer please retire Ryan
morninggloria
My working theory is that nobody actually reads conservative “bestsellers.” Here’s why:https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-minions-are-scamming-their-way-to-top-of-the-bestseller-list 1 it’s well- known that their place on the best
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Jennifer Kim
jenistyping
We should be more concerned and vocal about how brutally people are getting burnt out by remote work right now. Remote work *can* work in theory, and it's the future.However,
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Guy LeCharles Gonzalez 😷
glecharles
Did Sargent commission this article for the @washingtonpost from Bezos?!? The "conservative in a Midwest diner" approach to outlier library patrons is so blatantly skewed it's comical. #EbooksForAll https://www.washingtonpost.com/techno
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Teresa M. Bejan
tmbejan
1) Academic colleagues I otherwise admire have a tendency to, well, *sneer* when the issue of ‘viewpoint’ diversity comes up as below, especially when it comes to conservatives. I have
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Sparrow/Liz (semi-hiatus)
UntoNuggan
[covid vaccine]I know people are concerned about "vaccine hesitancy" and the pandemicBut let me just say this: if I found out scientists knew someone died as a result of the
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Daphne Keller
daphnehk
In platform content regulation, operational logistics are everything. That’s cropping up, inevitably, as the EU copyright filter wars heat up again this fall. 1/ You may recall that Copyright Directive
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Elizabeth Stokoe
LizStokoe
A thread on the 'quality’ of F2F vs online interaction.While ‘communication is key’, what we know about communication, inc. online, often rests on stereotypes or anecdata. So when it comes
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Lev Mirov (semi-hiatus)
thelionmachine
If anyone has ever recommended the book "The Body Keeps The Score" to youPlease be aware the first chapter contains vivid descriptions of Vietnam war crimes and veteran PTSD, as
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Dr. Akil Bello, MPA, MBA, PhD, DDS, Esq, PiMP
akilbello
Let's explore the biggest lie the testing agencies ever convinced America of: "without the SAT ACT, I would have never gotten into college, graduated, or had any future" (thread) You
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Alyssa Rosenberg
AlyssaRosenberg
As I mentioned here, I'm taking some time to commission and edit pieces for @PostOpinions. A ton of you pitched me after I made that announcement (I owe many of
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Whitney R. Robinson
WhitneyEpi
Reading this article (in which I'm quoted near the end), I realized why I have such a strong visceral reaction to some of the negative coverage of @ProfEmilyOster's work on
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