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Julia Azari

julia_azari

This idea - that elections should translate into policy - is not wrong at all. But political science can help explain why it's not working this way. There are three

Colin Wright

SwipeWright

1/ @UChicago Prof. Dorian Abbot is currently being targeted by student activists for questioning his department's DEI policies. They claim his opinions "threaten the safety and belonging of all underrepresented

⭐Nereide🪐

Nereide

1/4Nov. 1958: Eugene Parker predicts the #solarwindE. Parker, a young astrophysicist at @UChicago, was puzzled by the coronal heating problem. Why didn't the multi-million degree solar atmosphere fly right off

Laura Portwood-Stacer, PhD (she/her)

lportwoodstacer

If you haven’t figured out the core argument you want to make with your book, or what its most significant contribution is, DON’T FEEL BAD. This is the thing almost

Gareth Harney

OptimoPrincipi

1/4) In 75 BC, a band of pirates captured a young Roman nobleman who was on his way to study in Rhodes. From the start the 25-year-old Julius Caesar refused

Jeff Larrimore

jefflarrimore

Excited that this paper has been accepted to the 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆. A brief summary thread (1/10) Tax data tell us a lot about the top of the income

Richard McKay

RAMcKay

@guardian health editor @sarahboseley erred by uncritically reproducing the phrase ‘patient zero’ in reference to the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. 1/5https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/12/where-did-coronavirus-come-from-

Kevin J.S. Zollman

KevinZollman

While this statement will strike many as obviously true, it's worth interrogating.Here's the question: does science do best when it's practitioners take a neutral position regarding the truth of a

Tinker'tricity ⭐️⭐️⭐️

TinkerTricity

THREAD: At What Point?I'm pissed and have MANY questions we ALL need answered.When a nation's government commits crimes against its own people, is there a RED LINE between the words

Liam Bright

lastpositivist

I've seen or heard a few people saying that analytic philosophy is or has been taken over by the woke and now it's just another woke humanities field etc -

Jason Blakely

jasonwblakely

Vermeule in 2008 wrote that conspiracy theorists cultivate "paranoid cognition" among their followers to isolate them & make outsiders appear "sinister" (full text below)After @ChronicleReview *invited* me to pen a

Stacie Goddard

segoddard

I’ve gotten word that today is @stephenWalt’s birthday. In celebration of that, a thread about his mentorship: 1/Steve advised me when I was an undergraduate at @uchicago. I ended up

Maya Eden

MayaREden

My paper "Welfare Analysis with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences" is in this issue of @JPolEcon!https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/710561 Those of you who know me as a macroeconomist are probably looking at this and goin

Peter Ganong

p_ganong

About 9 million people are set to exhaust unemployment benefits at the end of this year. What happens to spending at exhaustion?tldr: 1) people don’t prepare for exhaustion 2) cut

🇧🇧 Ethereal Bisexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

For folks who want my take on the announcement today by #xenon1t that they may have detected solar axions, I gave comments to @RafiLetzter of @LiveScience yesterday:https://www.livescience.com/first-evidence-for-axions-xenon.html Watch the

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

OlufemiOTaiwo

short thread:"In a randomized controlled trial among 1634 disadvantaged high school youth in Chicago, assignment to a summer jobs program decreases violence by 43% over 16 months (3.95 fewer violent-crime

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