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Andy Matuschak

andy_matuschak

I’m fascinated by experiments using quadratic funding to provision public goods (good overview from @mattsclancy: https://mattsclancy.substack.com/p/optimal-kickstarter). Could this mechanism fund research—and in particular, tools for t

Christian Christensen

ChrChristensen

1) This pic published in the Daily Mail showing debris left after terrorist attack on US Capitol seems relatively unremarkable. But a man in Sweden noticed something: the red scarf

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1) This is a pretty good article, but I disagree with this: “There is, however, a radical difference between this Cold War and the one that developed during the second

Victoria Aranda

mvicaracal

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a scientific editor on Twitter? (thread) Almost every day, you scroll down to find someone criticizing you, indirectly if you

soncharm

soncharm

I still haven’t read as much on it as I could’ve but there’s something really disturbing about the ‘CDC Recommends 2 Masks Now!’ media blitzJust for starters, it’s not at

Simon Shear

axaxaxasimon

Right, ok, so I watched a couple minutes from 40 min. Zille starts by giving the wrong dates for the Weimar Republic. She then thinks about it & corrects herself.

𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic

sib313

It is incredibly frustrating to read academic papers covering topics where you know what you are talking about. This recent paper on digital first GP consultation, for example: https://www.jmir.org/2020/6/e18203/pdfA thread...

Martin Calladine

uglygame

Thread about how public debate can be dramatically shaped based not on the quality of argument, but the credibility of the arguer...There’s an interesting piece in The Athletic today about

Sheshapatangi1 ಪ್ರಭಾ ಮಗ ಈ ಅಲೆಮಾರಿ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರಿ

sheshapatangi1

Whereas that Gandhi who was responsible for partition is world famous, there was another Gandhi who faded into oblivion after bringing Junagadh to Bharath.#SamaldasGandhi was the son of Laxmidas/Kalidas Karamchand

Ash Jogalekar

curiouswavefn

Thread: Hans Bethe was born on July 2, 1906. Bethe made so many contributions to so many fields of physics that the astronomer John Bahcall joked that there was a

Josh Wilker

Josh_Wilker

death is smoking my cigars (a thread)*The paper with the squares and near-squares on it, most darkened, some still empty, is a good story from 2020. It represents a year-long

Chris Blattman

cblatts

it’s great that economists do lots of field work and interviews now. But think of the absolute sloppiest, terrible causal inference paper you can remember, from someone who doesn’t even

Ted Nordhaus

TedNordhaus

1. @Leigh_Phillips asks what we meant in the ecomodernist manifesto by the "planning fallacy of the 1950's."https://twitter.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1295755105182969857 2. Because 19 coauthors, there was a lot of back and for

Katie Sheds

ShedsKatie

On statues, BLM, & Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Tissue’ (a thread). I was talking to a colleague recently about the kids in their bubble who were, for want of a better term,

Rumman Chowdhury

ruchowdh

Sitting in the 2020 Global Humanitarian Policy Forum and listening to a very frank discussion of the community's response to COVID and 2020 in general, a live tweethttps://www.unocha.org/2020-humanitarian-policy-forum It's always

Rachel Franklin🦚

rsfrankl

We wrote a thing on gender & geography journal editorial teams. You'll never guess what we found @CaitHRobin @VikkiHouldenPhD @darribas @DrDelmelle @udemsar @MobileHarv + D. O'Sullivan.Gender, Gatekeeping, and Quantitative Human

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