#Hypothesis

Ben W. Ansell

benwansell

MERITOCRACY IN THE NEWS @David_Goodhart and Michael Sandel have both written provocative new books about the trouble with 'meritocracy'. Both argue that non-graduates have been undervalued and that graduates in

Keir Giles

KeirGiles

On UK academia and Russian disinformation. Over the last 24 hours, reactions to @RUSI_org's defence of @ReframingRussia have similarly been "mostly negative", not least in response to @JEyal_RUSI's signal boosting

Jason Crawford

jasoncrawford

Robert Gordon's *The Rise and Fall of American Growth* is one of the key texts that established the “stagnation” hypothesis. It's also a tome, weighing in at over 800 pages.I

Max Nathan

iammaxnathan

There's a lot of chat about that a shift to remote working triggering 'the end of big cities'. Or more realistically: big shifts in some kinds of work out of

Nicole Barbaro

NicoleBarbaro

I feel like doing a brief live tweet reading thread of this paper: A Validity-Based Framework for Understanding Replication in Psychology https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10888683209313661/ Juicy take on why replication attempts

Harvard & UCL Well-being and Health Course

wb_harvard_ucl

As our summer course is fast approaching, we are excited to spotlight some of our faculty's research exploring the links between mental wellbeing and physical health over the next few

DANIΣL

danielvelez

The Truth About BaldnessA deep dive into the underlying causes of hair loss and the reasons why young men are balding earlier than ever nowadays, debunking the prevailing dogmaBased on

Prof Lynda Boothroyd

drboothroyd

It’s time for my facial masculinity rant – or “how frustrating it was to be right all along and still wrong in ways I hadn’t expected”.1/ In 2002, as a

Ahmed Shaker

shakerr_ahmed

Recent archaeological discoveries challenging the neo-sceptical paradigm [The following thread is based on Schoeler G, Vagelpohl U, Montgomery, J. The Biography Of Muhammad: Nature And Authenticity. New York, NY: Routledge;

tantum

QuasLacrimas

btw, for ppl interested in translation, here is a more technical version of Wyatt’s argument: (1/?) 2/ Translation is an art if you’re translating Proust or La Fontaine or something.

Mike Dunford

questauthority

Dr Eastman's views on the 14th Amendment are, to say the least, far outside the legal mainstream on this issue. However, while he might be a fringe voice, he's a

Dipesh Gopal

DipeshGopal

1/THREAD about why race is in the @NICEComms hypertension (blood pressure) guidelines and why it should go: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng136 @MedCrisis and I read #AngelaSaini's book "Superior" and were horrified at

A. I. Adamu

isasquare

Time for some Fun Facts.The genius of the Renaissance age, Leonardo da Vinci.Why is he such a genius? Could it be that he had some disease/condition that helped him?And why

Meng Weng Wong

mengwong

So, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is controversial, but it remains a valuable idea. My junior colleagues are several weeks in to reading http://haskellbook.com and concurrently doing the odd bit of coding

Carina King

CarinaTKing

Let's talk about #Herd_Immunity, given some recent interviews on the #COVID19SWEDEN strategy have talked about this being 'a result'... is this achievable, sensible and acceptable? 1. #Immunity: Do people get

Crystal moth

Prolapsarian

Since I barely sleep these days, here's a thread on things you find out if you read all the SAGE papers that the government just published: Like many texts, you