#Academic

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. LTNs.It seems like everyone is talking about them. But do they actually *work?*Here's a THREAD: Ask a cyclist and you're likely to get one answer. Ask a
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welp, there you have it folks ... I’m not a “serious economist” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/opinion/coronavirus-economy.html guess I can go back to bed many academic macroeconomists have a deep distrust of fiscal policy
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THREAD. 24 years ago today Val and I got married. We were married at Swindon Registry Office in Greater Manchester. We’d been together five years and since we’d met in
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Had a good chat w/students focusing on building a product focusing on mental health + ML Without giving away specific details, I am sharing some high-level topics and resources which
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A Dear Colleague Letter to White Women Scientists/Academics, from a Black Woman Scientist/Academicaka. Come in and sit down, I have something I’ve been meaning to tell you So.....(long pause, deep
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You'll get nothing from me for the next 8 days except #UCUstrike. I'll explain why I and thousands of other university staff are striking here. Long thread, because there are
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This MIT Tech Review article from May is making the rounds again. It was based on a press release from CMU with no study to back it up. It is
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This article @insidehighered w it’s title claiming that COVID is “tanking” women’s productivity as indicated by decreased journal submissions has been popular on my feed. A few notes, from reading
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Hi all, @ssgtstanleychia here. Thanks @ratuteragung for the kind intro. As my colleague @PostMalayism has just covered race & nationalism in Malaysia, this thread will be about public history: what
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Friends have been asking me about job searches. To clarify this very opaque process, I'll Tweet everyday this week about my search.Disclaimer: any advice is based on my own experience
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Understand this.Most Black Women strongly connect with the Democratic Party.We helped reshape it to better represent us. We fought not just for seats at the table but as Chairs at
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I struggle with what to say directly about the latest instances of unvarnished white supremacist violence make the news. I can't say I'm "shocked" or "outraged" because that implies (to
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Lots of BS to unpack here, but I'll start with: IF you think that *the modern West* is the finest society ever created, AND you think *the modern West* is
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1/ Who is biggest influence on drug policy in the UK & Ireland?As far as I can see, it is the Open Society Foundation (OSF). Across UK & Ireland it
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During my first six months of living in upstate New York, I had a 90-minute commute to work. The school I taught at helped me arrange a car pool where
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Speaking of excellence in movies, I did my civic duty and tracked down three of the four O'Doyles for @VICE:https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78a89/odoyle-rules-where-are-the-billy-madison-bullies-now and before anyone asks, yes, St. Vin
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