#Critical

World Bank Gov

wbg_gov

Download @WorldBank’s report, Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Transparency: The Fight Against Corruption, today! http://wrld.bg/emJI50BrOwn The lessons learned can help guide policy makers and anti-corruption champions.#Unite

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

Plan Continuation bias (PCB) - playing a role in COVID19? Lessons from aviation industry. A fancy name for “get-there-itis”. PCB which is an unconscious cognitive bias to continue the original

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Heart problems - Of 1,216 #COVID19 patients, 667 (55%) had abnormalities in their scan, & 1 in 7 participants had what researchers described as "severe abnormalities”. Similar even excluding if

Dr Amanda Moehring

FlyBehaviour

In Academia, people aren’t always supported when they need it. I want to share what @WesternU did when my husband died right after the pandemic shutdown. It should be shared

Maajid أبو عمّار

MaajidNawaz

Government figures confirm that cramped housing is a bigger problem for ethnic minorities. 30% of UK Bangladeshi population are considered to live in overcrowded housing compared with 2% among white

☠️ Duygu Uygun-Tunc ☠️

uygun_tunc

A short thread on Popper's most mature ideas on objectivity, w/ particular focus on the social sciences (mostly for future reference). First a recap on the fallibility of knowledge and

David Pepper

DavidPepper

THREAD - Urgent need to get outstanding ballots in.With 5 days to go & polls in Ohio tight, there are almost 500,000 absentee ballots that have still not been returned,

Romesh Vaitilingam

econromesh

A time for action on climate change & a time for economics to change, Nick Stern @GRI_LSE delivering his past president's address @RoyalEconSoc #RES2021 https://www.res.org.uk/resources-page/past-president-s-address-12-april-2021-ni

Naomi Wu 机械妖姬

RealSexyCyborg

Intuitively- authoritarian country, how can you do a survey on government support? This is not some novel objection that the academics conducting surveys totally didn't think of. Methodology always matters

kyle a.b.

kyalbr

The name of a victim becomes known. Then, this name is shared to humanize the victim. But, quickly, the name itself is just used to signify. Tweets like VICTIM NAMEVICTIM

Stretching Spreads

FadingRallies

#ES_F futures depth. Charts like this have been circling around for a while, but I think this is one of the most critical pieces of data that can't be ignored.

The Tax Platform

thetaxplatform

SUSPECTED FOOT AND MOUTH – TAX CONSIDERATIONSA thread http://thetaxplatform.tax/2020/10/14/suspected-foot-and-mouth-tax-considerations/ In the past 2 weeks there has been reports that there is suspected foot and mouth outbreak in the Nga

Kiki La Social Distancing

kdc

*sigh*https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1274500359566897152 anyway lemme bump this again before the narrative takes hold. please read carefully.https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/05/1002781/kpop-fans-and-black-lives-matter/?utm_medium=tr

Jenny Wright

JenEWright

Thread: The Nova Scotia tragedy has reminded us an obsession w/ police power & weapons is a clear predictor of mass shootings, & too often women's advocates highlighting this are

steven monacelli evaded capture at the Qonvention

stevanzetti

A week after it happened, @MrAndyNgo and @JackPosobiec spread false reports about the Marvin Scott III protest in Plano, claiming a gun was brandished by a protester. @PlanoPoliceDept released a

Lei Hua 🦉

aewaiwhy

Coming up next in #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race, this conversation between Jennifer Park & Gitanjali Shahani on the #FolgerCRC series. May not be able to livetweet here, but I know I have