#Inequality

1/ My personal thoughts on plans to get rid of @PHE_uk and ‘replace’ it with a ‘pandemic response agency’…as if that’s all that we need from a national public health
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The analogy of a country’s budget being like a household's budget is often used as an argument for austerity measures (suspiciously, only used against social programs, not programs that benefit
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In support of #ScholarStrike, want to amplify a few Black women education scholars writing about inequality in #STEM and what to do about it: (1/9) -Deborah Carter: “Critical Examination of
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Hi everyone. Often, when bad things happen, we want to believe that this is an isolated error that can be easily rectified. More often, though, this error is systemic: the
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FITTS: STOPPING THE TECHNOCRAT TAKEOVER!It's an occult trick to make it so in-your-face, to pretend to an official reality that has no basis in fact. Like pretending the Magic Virus™
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Next up: @ashdgandhi on selective admissions in the nursing home industry. A perennial problem in healthcare is selection. Nursing homes want to try to admit patients who generate a lot
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.@TheGreenParty call for education system overhaul after results fiasco: THREADStudents don't need a curriculum for the office workers of the past, but to be the problem solvers of the futureEnd
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"Fifty-nine percent of those polled said they believed China will become more powerful than the U.S. within 10 years" - https://www.politico.eu/article/1-in-3-europeans-say-us-cant-be-trusted-poll-donald-trump-joe-biden/ ... I hat
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Good morning to everyone but University of Texas Computer Science department @UTCompSci, which has been using a biased machine learning system, flagged by their diversity office, to evaluate...*checks notes*.. PhD
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Some say capitalism has failed America But really, America has failed capitalism. Capitalism needs capital. Real money, but instead, The feds gave it fake money. And fed into one of
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It's now looking quite likely that Brexit will coincide with both a third lockdown and - if the longterm forecasts are correct - severe flooding. Any one of these events
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Taking a short break from modelling ‘vax & relax’ strategies, I have updated my model of infections at local level (MSOA) in England, looking for any evidence of impact on
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Back in the 19th cent, British separated Eastern India from the westn India by an impenetrable belt of trees mostly made up of thorny plants. British formed a man-made barrier,
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I read Michael Gove’s big FDR speech so you don’t have to. TL;DR - I think FDR would sue. (Thread) The speech has Gove’s customary grandiloquence and rhetorical excess. The
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I've heard and thought about this notion a lot.If we want to have any human-created thing in the world and not just work entirely on our own, specifically choosing what
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30 days of things I'm proud of from this stressful, exhausting year that is 2020. I'll add something every day (two today because I missed yesterday) 1. In the 1st
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