#Mitigation

Jess Berentson-Shaw

DrJessBerentson

Why I think the public service needs a values frame to make policy discussion is this: there is already a values frame in use, it is the water we swim

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

It is remarkable that you have idiots like this "Prof" @BallouxFrancois who conflate additive risks with multiplicative ones (fat tailed), a mistake your grandmother wouldn't make.https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/129

Robert Smith

RobertS27014990

Today I had a sentence hearing in a really serious case involving a difficult plea in mitigation. It was my first bit of proper advocacy for weeks. It reminded me

Will Saletan

saletan

For four days, we’ve watched Republicans lie about Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus.Now it’s time to tell the truth. This article documents everything he did to multiply the death toll.

Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD

TracyBethHoeg

This morning, I testified as an expert physician epidemiologist on COVID in schools for a House of Representatives Round Table. It was a fascinating and productive experience. To me, the

invited for all time

ejptacek

From watching a bit of this I will say it feels like CTU is skating past the very real harms to young kids, esp those with special needs, and I

Vanessa Parra ✨⚡️⭐️

ParraV

Today, @UN @antonioguterres is releasing a report on gender-based violence in this crisis. A few thoughts off our GBV analysis released last week taking a look which women, girls and

kevvyg and the Wrong Opinions

kevvyg

Been trying to relax this weekend, but infosec never sleeps, and this one is just so bad. Gonna take a minute to break it down for folks who have F5

Elson Tong

elson_tong

If you want a sense of how certain Hong Kong magistrates are bulldozing rule of law, read this from Fanling magistrate Don So: Refusal of bail to a 13-year-old for

Kalera Stratton

nisslbodies

Folks in biomedical academia, especially public health: Please stop inventing exceptions for your own fields. We recognize stress and overwork as serious health problems. OUR workers are not an exception

Thomas Spencer

ThomasASpencer

1/nYesterday Xi Jinping announced that China would peak its emissions and work towards net zero emissions by 2060. What does this mean for India? A short thread on why India

Glen Peters

Peters_Glen

THREAD: N₂OWe have a new paper in @nature on nitrous oxide (N₂O), five years in the making!Like many GHGs, N₂O concentrations have been stable for thousands of years, but that

Jennifer Cabrera

jhaskinscabrera

The proper response to COVID isn't determined by science; it's a public health policy issue.Science and data can tell us who is at risk and the magnitude of the risk.

Richard Waite

waiterich

Can increasing carbon sequestration in soils—through practices broadly referred to as regenerative agriculture—be a leading climate solution? Our read of the evidence suggests that soil C sequestration has limited potential

(((Alex Gilbert)))

gilbeaq

There is an argument that advanced nuclear is not a credible climate solution because it won't be deployed in time.Three notes on this... First, the advanced nuclear industry (and the

Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony

lackingceremony

Over the past year, I've started playing a competitive miniatures wargame, and it has had a huge impact on my emotional growth - something I definitely wasn't expecting!I've noticed myself