#Scientific

Nick Harkaway

Harkaway

This has been a hallmark of political discussion since 2015: the creative industries are not proper jobs. They are not to be counted in discussions of policy. Agriculture and fishing

Luis Perez-Breva

lpbreva

If you ned a new year resolution, I suggest you consider setting out to outsmart a robot. It's easy, embrace a preposterous hunch and make it real. Robots can't do

⚒ Sam Hoadley-Brill ⚒

deonteleologist

Here goes another one of my signature threads on the incredibly bulletproof #AntiWoke online echo chambers can be, focusing again on @wokal_distance. And before you remind me I have better

ScotGov Education

ScotGovEdu

Our aim is for children to return to school full time in August. In @ScotParl, @JohnSwinney says that this is dependent on scientific advice that it is safe, and on

Sarah Olson Michel

ReadMoreScience

My environmental writing class had an absolutely wonderful morning chatting on Zoom with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, about ecology and the writing process. Everyone's questions were

Samo Burja

SamoBurja

Why are case studies the right methodology for sociology?Theory must be made to fit and explain reality, not the other way around. Social science in the 20th century rushed into

Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

Nick_Carmody

Two nights ago, @TuckerCarlson acknowledged the severity of the coronavirus....even stating "some people you voted for have lied" about the severity (he's too much of a coward to actually name

Matt Usselmann

rad_econ

Let's compare the UK (the worst country in the world) with the Czechia (one of the best countries in the world).Until the 28th March, both countries had same amount of

thoughtfully catholic🇻🇦

stevhep

The common practice today is to measure the Bible against the so-called modern worldview, whose fundamental dogma is that God cannot act in history – that everything to do with

Justin Russell ✍️ #VoteBlue ✍️ #ActOut ✍️ #Resist

JustResisting

So apparently this is happening right now. Thread:https://twitter.com/RodneyCaston/status/1246946734762274821?s=20 Novartis is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland. By both market capitalization and sales it is one of the large

David Dowdy

davidwdowdy

It's application season again. Those who are applying for Masters/PhD/postdoc, etc - I figured I would mention 5 things I look for when I review applications. Happy to answer any

Noubar

NoubarAfeyan

(1/7) Some experts are questioning whether vaccines will work to prevent #COVID19 - whether they should be tested in humans without more proof in animals first, whether they will increase

iris soleil delgado

irisdelistmo

I just finished reading Racism: Science & Tools, and thought I'd share a summary of Chapter 12: Why Epidemiologists Must Reckon with Racism. Our field cannot continue to disengage with

Rafael Khachaturian

rafkhach

Curious how practically all the literature dealing with the neo-Marxist revival of state theory in the 1960s/70s sidesteps Neumann and Kirchheimer. The narrative seems to go: Lenin > stamocap instrumentalism

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

On this day in 1882, Charles Darwin was buried in Westminster Abbey, having died at Down House on 19th April. His pall bearers included Joseph Hooker and Alfred Russell Wallace.

Dr Caro Rowland

CaroRowland

I'm seeing a lot of tweets from academics who don't want to return to the office. But these are often from senior, established academics with stable homes. At @MPI_NL most