#UChicago

Genevieve Bates

genbates

How is @UChicago going to ensure the security of the community that the university exists in? 1/4https://twitter.com/UChicago/status/1278077885732003842 This university exists on the south side of Chicago, surrounded by almost entirely

LLNL

Livermore_Lab

We continue our celebration of Black STEM history with the story of one of the most important contemporary mathematicians - J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (1/5) Wilkins Jr. was born in

Tricia Ebarvia

triciaebarvia

At the start of each year, one text I ask Ss to read is “Willing to be Disturbed” by M. Wheatley.What I appreciate about this essay is that it asks

G.C. Pieters, PhD

ProfPieters

This could be a useful teaching tool for an undergrad metrics course. Remember the Freyer paper? Heckman & Durlauf have written a comment (easy to read & non-technical all things

Secular Pro-Life

secularprolife

The central disagreement in the abortion debate is whether fetuses are humans worthy of human rights. (1/5) Pro-choicers agree that all humans equally deserve rights, & a majority agree that

Anthony Breznican

Breznican

This isn't about law enforcement. This is about crushing dissent and criticism.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1286028452676743170 It sounds like alarmism, but these are warnings from history, and they are screaming

Kelly 🌋

kellyvhalen

My excellent community college experience is one of the things that changed the course of my life.https://twitter.com/keseysnotion/status/1339954528683085825 My state uni undergrad experience was also awesome. I guess grad school isn’t

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

How to accelerate vaccine availability during a pandemic?A new working paper by the experts on that question https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/BFI_WP_202108.pdfThe good news: “even at this late stage, investment to expan

Ashleigh Tuite

AshTuite

I think sexually transmitted infection epidemiologists/network modelers probably have a lot of insight here and about why social circles/bubbles are so complicated. /1https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1287516065312829441 A lot of the ch

Scott Lemieux

LemieuxLGM

The tl;dr of The American Warfare State is that Ike's analysis was basically right on the money. The unprecedented WW II military buildup created a lot of communities dependent on

Austan Goolsbee

Austan_Goolsbee

A thread on new work Syverson and I just released looking in depth at the impact shutdown orders (and repeals). Short version: they don't do much. Of the 60% drop

David Fedman

dfedman

1/ In wartime Japan, maps were instrumental to planning and prosecuting the war in Asia.They were also rich in symbolism, signaling an expansion in the geographical consciousness of the Japanese

Paul Ralph

ProfPaulRalph

This semester, I conducted one-on-one oral exams through video chat for my software project management / agile methods course. It was one of the most informative and depressing things I've

Benjamin Suchard

bnuyaminim

#HappyHanukkah ! Thought I'd do some tweets on #Semitic numerals, starting with one and seeing how many nights it lasts.As argued by Aren Wilson-Wright, Proto-Semitic for 'one' was *ʕast-. *waħad-

Dan Hirschman

asociologist

How it started vs. how it's going:(Stanford walks back its racist diversity training checklist https://provost.stanford.edu/2020/11/18/a-message-on-diversity-training/ ) Note that Stanford's clarification does not explicitly state t

Austin C. Doctor

austincdoctor

An excellent review of leader studies by @DanKrcmaric et al.! Raises a number of important questions about the roles and agency of *rebel* leadership. What independent effects do leaders, each

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