#Rationale

Kathy Rastle

Kathy_Rastle

I’ve spent 25 years studying the neurocognitive processes in reading, and thinking about how they relate to instruction. I wondered what I could learn from ‘Closing the Reading Gap’ by

Tom Forth

thomasforth

Personal news Klaxon as they say --- thanks for all the tweets, I'm going to be moving to London on January to split my time between Centre for Cities and

Josh Greenberg

1JoshGreenberg

THREADHOW WE GOT HERE: PREFACEThis thread contains excerpts from the preface of “How We Got Here: The 2020 Political Crisis and the Future of Social Change.” The preface describes the

isaac Samuel

rhaplord

#TriviaxtThread on economic dynamics of slave trade: why most west african states exported enslaved ppl and why some states didn't export them despite the overwhelming economic incentives (by extension political

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

The report by the ‘Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team’ has been released on March 16th (https://tinyurl.com/tcdy42y ). Now that things have calmed down a bit, I felt I should produce a

Stephanie Hamilton, PhD | #BlackLivesMatter

SpaceSciSteph

#OTD of Pluto's demotion from planethood, let's talk about why everyone's favorite non-planet was slighted so badly.I know, I know. Bear with me for a minute.#scicomm #PlutoDemotedDay #astronomy1/x To understand

🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸

mrddmia

Executive editor of @nytimes turns into contortionist in explaining why *immediately* reporting sexual-assault allegations against Kavanaugh—yet waiting 19 (long) days (and only after intense pressure) to report Tara Reade’s allegations

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

Melania Trump in Tampa: "In a time when hate, negativity, & fear are the messages the media streams into our homes & the large tech companies are protecting political censorship,

Francis Hoar

Francis_Hoar

I made my submission to the @HLConstitution Committee yesterday. Here are some submissions about the WHO's pandemic advice from as recently as October 2019. In short, it does not remotely

Michael Schwandt

MichaelSchwandt

New CDC recommendation: no auto testing for contacts without symptoms. "Experts question the revision" in the US. Yet *no testing in the absence of symptoms* has always been our approach

Holly Fernandez Lynch

HollyLynchez

Finally had a chance to review FDA's COVID vaccine development guidance: https://www.fda.gov/media/139638/download. Hard to improve on @AlecGaffney's excellent thread, but here are a few more thoughts.https://twitter.com/HollyLynche

Mostly Borrowed Ideas

borrowed_ideas

1/ Thread: The Wisdom of Crowd In 2007, @mjmauboussin wrote a paper on the wisdom of crowd, and showed with simple maths and experiments why the crowd can trump individuals.Some

Mark Hertling

MarkHertling

After one of my @CNN appearances, one of the anchors asked me off-air why I had confidence in Ukraine's army to push back agains the illegal Russian military onslaught.I used

Martin Landray

MartinLandray

More results from the RECOVERY trial - Hydroxychloroquine:Among patients hospitalised with COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) did not improve 28-day mortality, duration of hospital stay, or risk of progressing to invasive mechanical

Hugh

hughxtran

Antiscias can be a really obscure topic. However, through the lens of the astrologer Firmicus Maternus (4th century CE), I’ll be doing an analysis of some things about this aspect

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

I have been sent information indicating that the National Association of Realtors, the largest professional guild and licensing entity for realtors in the US, serving over 1.4 million realtors, is