#Economic

Akiva Cohen

AkivaMCohen

OK. Time for a thread on masks. Anti-maskers (who should be as reviled as anti-vaxxers) keep citing research studies showing masks aren't that effective at protecting wearers from becoming infected.

Michael McFaul

McFaul

A great conversation with @NPRKelly just now helped me crystallize some thoughts on Russia and the West. In the spirit of twitter, written without nuance. Comments welcome. THREAD 1/ Conventional

Megan Messerly

meganmesserly

“What Happened Here,” our six-part series looking at the last year of the pandemic in Nevada, is, as of yesterday, finally out there in the world. If you didn’t get

Rachel Laudan

rachellaudan

Very happy to have been invited to contribute to the second issue of @WorksInProgMag. Most of my adult life I've been interested in what counts as progress in different walks

Me Myself and CP

MemyselfandCP

Oh #WorldMentalHealthDay a day which I despise...(Long letter to follow...)Working for better mental health does not need more awareness. It needs more action, it needs more anger, it needs

Liz Essley Whyte

l_e_whyte

NEW FROM ME: Internal federal government documents reveal the assumptions & estimates agencies are using to sketch out the future of the #COVID19 pandemichttps://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/federal-documents-more-than-30

Eszter Zalan

eszterz

Two @EPP prime ministers, @JJansaSDS and Viktor Orban, and one associated president @avucic, plus French EPP MEP @fxbellamy discuss the future of Europe, which Jansa says is under attack from

Katharine Child

katjanechild

I am going to do a thread of reasons to end the lockdown or at least go to stage 3. NEASA employers assoc. surveyed its members & 86% of 10

Tony Blair Institute

InstituteGC

Tony Blair: I completely agree with the govt’s strategy. I’m not making a criticism, I’m making a suggestion. Listen livehttps://bbc.in/2SKZQwb When you look at the dilemma at the heart of

Conner Brrrrrown

_ConnerBrown_

A loss of sound money is unquestionably a driver of tensions and inequality, but I also don’t think Keynesianism is the ONLY reason why America has slowly declined.I worry that

Peter English #FBPE

petermbenglish

This is incredibly worrying. And I do not understand it. Nobody does. We can speculate, but proper research is essential.https://twitter.com/helenamckeown/status/1248836248774590466 So let's speculate.Being BAME is associated with deprivation. De

no cops, no prisons

valorthief

Today I feel like looking at probability distributions for ttRPGs. Going to thread some plots and observations. Of course the most popular is D&D in all its iterations. The basic

Andrew Leach

andrew_leach

Apparently the billions in foreign direct investment into the oil sands never (really) happened? Bold strategy, Cotton. There were a few years when oil sands looked like a no-brainer investment,

Ross Chiasson

TrulyRawesome

If you're wondering why so many video game narratives seem oddly poignant right now - #Fallout76's new storyline about inoculating people against a virus, #Destiny2's narrative about impending urban disaster,

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

Was the quarantine all for nothing? With Spain, France and Germany recording the highest number of Covid-19 cases since they emerged from lockdown, the danger that Europe blows its

Wales FSB Cymru

FSB_Wales

Wales’ 265,000 SMEs employ roughly two thirds of the private sector workforce. Accessing the right skills is a huge issue for SMEs.Today we’re looking at what the political parties have