#Change

[VENT]I'm still not sure about how I want to identify, and if I want the word "lesbian" tied to my identityBecause I'm not woman-aligned. I do like some things that
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I actually don't think it's the cost that's an issue necessarily. I think we are collectively not paid enough. Wages have not kept up with inflation and we've managed to
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Our lab’s paper “Threat Prediction from Schemas as a Source of Bias in Pain Perception” has useful pointers on how to deal with catastrophization and inaccurate perceptions of threat severity.
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The scenes in Portland are incredibly dystopian. Faceless agents attacking protesters, grabbing people off the street & throwing them in vans. The agency carrying all this out? Border Patrol. And
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Has anyone heard of the first degree murder case against Adnan Syed? I think he’s innocent. Let’s discuss....... He was convicted of 1st degree murder in 1999 of his ex
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Thesis: 'methodological crisis' in science is NOT the sudden realisation of a problem. It is a well characterised problem which benefited hugely in recognition by a change in how scientists
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A statewide stay-at-home directive has sown confusion in Florida, with @GovRonDeSantis and his aides telling mayors that the order offers far more local flexibility than the plain language of the
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How can you stay optimistic about the environment in troubled times? A lot of people turn to art or books. In some cases - both. A few of the 1,000+
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Lots of pub based excitement today. Evidently what's been announced will make a big difference to immediate economic output. But we need to be really careful about how we think
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Attending a talk by the fabulous PM of New Zealand @jacindaardern right now, thanks to the @USChamber. She says her best jobs in the past are the ones that helped
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On twitter we spend time in silly debates: is degrowth impoverishment, negative GDP, lockdown misery bla bla. But in our normal lives we are producing some pretty k.a. research. Here
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This week our manuscript on the role of in-person school on community spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Indiana was published online in Clinical Infectious Diseases.This thread will outline our findings. manuscript:
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At Stripe if you said “hey guys” during a talk, 50% chance you’d get a DM saying “‘guys’ is sexist and you should use ‘folks’”. Activists would demand ‘crazy ideas’
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Guess what I heard?The Dems might know predators when they see them -but they don't think the American people care about it enough to force change.Because we aren't in the
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28 communication rules [[ emails ]]1/ write short emails (< 2 lines) 2/ never offer more than two options 3/ send calendly links 4/ answer emails quickly and people will
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1/ One of the things people often get hung up on is valuation. Not to say that it doesn't matter, but investor preferences change over time. Sometimes permanently. The following
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