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Dr. Anne Sullivan 🦄

annetropy

Tonight is the start of QuiltCon, the Modern Quilt Guild's yearly quilt show + workshops/lectures/panels (~20K people go). This year it's happening virtually.I'm going to be watching the awards ceremony

Oilfield Rando

Oilfield_Rando

CARES Act funds given to Columbia University: $12,830,199Columbia university President’s salary: $3,900,000Columbia University endowment: $10,900,000,000Columbia university tuition:$71,460, up 15,6% from 2019-2020 CARES Act funds to Univ

TJ Nahigian

tjnahigian

2020 is a year to remember: global pandemic, but also year of the unicorn tech investor. Who were the biggest winners (~$1B+ personal liquidity)? Some guesses below and I'm sure

Morgan Polikoff

mpolikoff

Today is a bonanza of new @UAS_CESR research on the impacts of COVID-19 on families' educational experiences. First, we have new research out at @BrookingsEd that looks at parent concerns

Benjy Sarlin

BenjySarlin

NEW w/ @SRuhle: Without a national plan, states are being forced to choose between preventing outbreaks and forcing bars and restaurants into bankruptcy. Let's take a second to look at

Stears Business

StearsBusiness

Explained: @cenbank devalues the Naira (a thread)Last week, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) devalued the naira for the second time this year. The official exchange rate is now ₦381/$1.

paco⁷ 🪂

NorthsideLowry

The NBA regular season starts this month, and with it the first season of NBA basketball not featuring Vince Carter in 22 years. I thought it would be a good

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

THREAD. Great, question, @JoyAnnReid! I had the same question. And for an answer, I *highly* recommend "Let Them Eat Tweets," by @Jacob_S_Hacker and Paul Pierson, which gives a clear, if

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Why Aren't We Talking About Negligent Homicide? by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/why-arent-we-talking-about-negligent?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. I’m not sure why negligent ho

Mona Eltahawy

monaeltahawy

"I’m a mom with eight kids. That’s it. I work. And I garden. And raise chickens. And sell cheese at a farmers’ market.” said one of the many white women

Business Insider UK

BIUK

Scotland is heading towards independence from the UK. That's the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from the latest opinion polls which show a surge in support for Scottish nationalism. Here’s

Ben Downing

BenDowningMA

Our vaccine rollout isn’t working in Metro Westhttps://twitter.com/mariarobinsonma/status/1354476241252966401 It’s not working in the Pioneer Valleyhttps://twitter.com/jo_comerford/status/1354547901289164810 It’s not set up to work fo

Rachel Thomas

math_rachel

Here's my advice for creating an ergonomic computer setup ON A BUDGET. It doesn't have to be as expensive as you think. Don't destroy your back, neck, & wrists while

Mary Margaret Olohan

MaryMargOlohan

Made a new thread of COVID hypocrites composed entirely of @DailyCaller reporting because we know a hypocrite when we see one. Here we go: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser traveled to

Adi Millman

AdiMillman

Happy to share our new preprint about how we solved the mystery of some of the coolest bacterial elements:Retrons function as anti-phage defense systems!https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.06.21.156273v1See thread below by the 3 of

Carly Pettinger

carlypettinger

Tune in live here: https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regional-government/live-webcast.aspx https://twitter.com/m2bowman/status/1329199025678069760 2/ Who was on the Regional Steering Committee that decided the 5 Regionally operated centres

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