#Risks

Brad Zubyk

Bzubyk

Thread alert: Communications lessons governments must learn (BC edition)1. Drop the slogans and rhymes - People want hard information. If you want continued buy-in, you need to trust your citizens

tashmcgill

tashmcgill

ESSAY WARNING: New Zealanders are cold. It was 15 years ago I interviewed a group of population health researchers and professors at @AucklandUni and began to grasp the true broken

Patrick Lockwood

PsychPLockwood

Public Intellectual take 3Psychological Theory of Everything™Thread:1. D/t randomness and chaos, humans/minds, need to be multidimensional and need to be in a constant state of flux and re-balancing in order

Y.

LocsWithoutKeys

HERPES: An educational thread for the dumb, nosey, and sexually active... It is an STI not an STD. a virus infection (Long term)Herpes Simplex. Two typesHSV-1 *cold sores* if you

Catherine Baksi

legalhackette

Shadow justice minister @DavidLammy asks lord chancellor @RobertBuckland how he can turn up in the House with a straight face after voting (in support of the Internal Market Bill) to

Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢

jennycohn1

F#ck. Total internet blackout on Election Day in Belarus. Weird how Trump never complains about new internet-connected PRECINCT equipment (eg., ES&S ballot scanners & Knowink or Tenex e-pollbooks 4 activating

InProportion2

InProportion2

1/5Important comments from statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter:* The risk of coronavirus for the young is “staggeringly low”,* the government’s handling of Covid-19 is “embarrassing” 2/5* Gov's treatment of statistics was

Anthony Clark Arend

arenda

THREAD on Just War and Fratelli Tutti. 1/ First, Read @PrawfBainbridge's thread. Second--spoiler alert--I agree with his conclusion.https://twitter.com/PrawfBainbridge/status/1318655976640184320 2/ In Fratelli Tutti @Pontifex discusses

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

Nine weeks into Beijing’s lockdown and there seems to be a real bifurcation in how the consumer side of the economy is responding. I went out to get my hair

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

Will Bynum

WillBynumMD

As I've interviewed URiM students about their experiences of #shame in #meded, I've learned some things about my white male privilege: - I’ve never had 2question whether I belonged or

David Evans

DaveEvansPhD

A quick thread-guide to @CGDev's coverage of #COVID19 & gender so far:"Playing the Long Game: How a Gender Lens Can Mitigate Harm Caused by Pandemics" https://bit.ly/3cefGJs by @modonnell1231 [1/8] "How

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

Older people have been hit from both sides by the Covid-19 pandemic and the recession:Nest eggs are wobblingRetirees could run out of savingsWorkers face heightened health risksAges 55+ have very

Chris Blattman

cblatts

As the school year kicks off & grad students start signing up to see profs, here are some thoughts about planning your research. To me, the 2 questions PhD students

AKA Jack❄️SnΩw🇺🇸WASH🦠YOUR🦠HANDS

jacknielsenN7

ICYMI essential workers in healthcare, logistics, food production/distribution, are still working, but are not treated fairly. Last week, Amazon workers struck. This week, truckers demonstrated against an 81% rate cut.#NoCheapFreight#DontHaulCheap

Richard Lewis #FBPE

cyclisethecity

An interesting perspective from @rossatkin. However he makes a number of assumptions that, to my mind, demand a response.1) the idea that cyclists want infrastructure on any street with ‘more