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Shannon “Badass Cross Stitch” Downey

ShannonDowney

A story... (in proper thread form) I go estate sale shopping regularly and whenever I find an unfinished embroidery project I buy it and finish it bc there’s no way

Zora Hauser

ZoraHauser

#Ndrangheta in Switzerland: public prosecution investigates 6 individuals for money laundering, importing counterfeit money, drug trafficking, and weapon trafficking. Is it an underestimated phenomenon? A short thread 1/ The #ndrangheta

Forensic Architecture

ForensicArchi

Since the killing of George Floyd, protests against racialized violence by police have been met with further egregious police brutality. With @bellingcat, we verified & analysed over 1000 incidents of

Matt Frey

EveryFreyday

Excited to share a long term research project of mine with you all - "Are Economics and Financial Literacy EducationSubstitutes?" Our goal is to identify which class improves financial literacy

Sheheryar Banuri

Sheheryarbanuri

The ethics concerning the World Bank Nairobi water utilities study is murky. (a thread on Primum non nocere)In experimental economics, we have a clear rule against experiments involving deception. Any

Robert Osazuwa Ness

osazuwa

An image of @BarackObama getting upsampled into a white guy is floating around because it illustrates racial bias in #MachineLearning. Just in case you think it isn't real, it is,

PeterGelderloos

PeterGelderloos

Bullsh*t that happens when you criticize scientists.A thread.There is no system of oppression in the world today that functions w/out the complicity of scientists. Scientific institutions are a crucial part

Steffen Christensen

Wikisteff

I'm going to be thinking about this paper for a good long while... how to make a transformer #AI that has good #privacy properties.Naively, I think it's de facto impossible

Keith R. Holden, MD

KeithHoldenMD

Several studies suggest that a placebo administered without deception, non-deceptive placebo (NDP), can help people manage emotional distress and clinical disorders. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3008733/https://www.ncbi.nlm.

USGS

USGS

The storm that hit California’s coast between Jan. 26 and 28, 2021, blew out a portion of Hwy 1 near Big Sur. On Saturday, a USGS reconnaissance flight snapped this

Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project 💋

MaggiesToronto

THREAD: In honour of the #ScholarStrike + #ScholarStrikeCanada we must talk about how sex work is studied and how sex workers in academia - specifically *Black sex workers* in academia

wolfewylie

wolfewylie

After the death of George Floyd, and the massive international movement to defund and demilitarize police, we got to work trying to see the Canadian context. Today, that project goes

Fresco

enigma3916

In my opinion, psychedelics will be widely used in the future to treat mental health disorders, from PTSD to depression - a thread on one of my favorite companies in

Lenny Rachitsky

lennysan

If you're an engineer thinking about becoming a product manager, this week's post is for you.Also, a bit of advice in the thread below https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/become-a-product-manager Pursue product manager if:1. You’re

Linda Bauld

LindaBauld

Please to see today the release of more data from Scotland’s #TestandTrace (Test and Protect) via @P_H_S_official. More to follow. But this is progress. Important for transparency & comparisons within

Syed Ali

West_Syed

Thanks to @POTUS, the Muslim travel ban is no more. Why is this such a huge deal for Muslims (besides the obvious reasons)?Well, gather ‘round children...it’s story time. #MuslimBan You

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