#Assessments

Zeke Hausfather

hausfath

PNAS published a defense of the RCP8.5 scenario by the scientists at @woodsholeresctr. While I agree with parts of it, some parts are also a bit incomplete or problematic. Lets

Alex Cross

crossalexm

Today is DLD Awareness Day! People with DLD have difficulty understanding and using language. Humans use language a LOT in our day-to-day life, so DLD can contribute to difficulty in

Mary Ann Stewart

MAStewartMA

Oh, hey. I know it's been a while. I have some thoughts following yesterday's BESE meeting, our third zoom/remote public meeting since the Governor's emergency declaration on March 10, 2020.

MrsLeggEnglish 📚

MrsLeggEnglish

For many years I taught in a school where the students didn’t move, the staff did. We changed things around a few years ago but these are some of the

Yvette Cooper

YvetteCooperMP

1/ New @CommonsHomeAffs report finds that Govt decision to have no quarantine/border measures in mid March increased pace & scale of the pandemic in UK so that many more people

Ed O'Keefe

edokeefe

NEW @cbsnewspoll: Americans prioritize staying home and worry restrictions will lift too fasthttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-prioritize-staying-home-and-worry-restrictions-will-lift-too-fast-cbs-news-poll/ Only 13% say they would definitely re

Melissa Sweet

MelissaSweetDr

Please join me as I read @LancetCountdown report just released on health & climate change, tweeting out snippets as I go. It is 43 pages and has been making headlines:

Mayank Aggarwal

journomayank

A group of 291 conservation scientists & allied professionals including 12 former members of Standing Committee of National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) on May 12 wrote to @PrakashJavdekar expressing serious

Joseph Flaherty

josephflaherty

Your team probably isn’t “world-class” by conventional standards and that’s ok!Overselling a startup’s team, especially at the seed stage, can make founders look naive and counter-intuitively hurt their chances at

Natascha Strobl

Natascha_Strobl

Over the past days I've been exploring extreme right-wing sites from all over the world again. There are various approaches to Corona which I will detail another time. What stands

Foxglove

Foxglovelegal

Potential new case Klaxon!Thousands of A-level students get their “results” tomorrow. Covid-19 meant exams were cancelled. So, instead, their grades will in many cases have been generated by a hastily-built

GOPPouncer

Mellecon

Melle Rant: I don't think lockdowns are about saving lives anymore. I think there is a larger agenda at play. Before you slap a tinfoil hat on me and call

not a canary.

McDivergence

The big problem of the GRA "debate" has been a failure to stick to the issue. What started as "I'm concerned about how effectively safeguards can be maintained after reform"

James Kim

jameskimEDU

I hadn’t planned to comment on the UC’s decision to suspend the SAT/ACT as an admissions requirement. But I’ve been drawn into a couple debates about it already, so I

Derek Beaton (wears a mask and you should too)

derek__beaton

1/ Yet another @ONDRISTUDY preprint alert!Kelly led this all-hands team science effort that outlines exactly what the @ONDRISTUDY looks like at baseline, and goes into the breadth of neurodegenerative disorders

Sarah Mulhern Gross

thereadingzone

Teacher friends- lets extend grace to our students right now. Even if you believe due dates are set in stone normally, this is not the time to “teach kids a