#POLITICAL

Celeste Headlee

CelesteHeadlee

THREAD: The picture below is called My Wife and My Mother-in-Law. It’s a popular optical illusion, first published in 1915 by the cartoonist W.E. Hill. If you see the young

Bob Moran

bobscartoons

If a government chooses not to act in response to a naturally occurring virus which spreads around the country and kills people, it should not be held accountable for those

Dr. Jonathan Malloy

JonathanMalloy

Thread on #researchfailure A recent post by @EmmMacfarlane about whether to abandon a research project reminded me of the decade-plus I sunk into a project for modest results, and how

Matt Gurney

mattgurney

Quick thread about vaccine politics in Canada — very big picture, looking at both feds and provinces.I've been writing/speaking a lot about vaccines lately (duh). And every time I do,

Megan Ellyia Green 🌹

MeganEllyia

THREAD : Becoming #DrGreenToday I successfully defended my dissertation making becoming Dr. Green a formality at this point in time! It was an emotional ride to get to this point.

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

I want to be careful in how I say this because obviously you can't just break into the Capitol and desecrate offices and hit police officers with pipes. People should

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Ned Staebler, of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, is mad as hell and isn't going to take it anymore.Is the GOP with or against America? by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/is-the-gop-with-or-against-america?r=5msd&utm

Hari Kunzru

harikunzru

Whether Conservatives win, lose or trash the Capitol, the conclusion is always the same: we should listen to them more and center their feelingshttps://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1348277056509980676 It’s a wonderful political trick, bu

The Dread Pirate Jussim

PsychRabble

I'm back. In honor of KO'ing two hard, back-to-back deadlines, a Thread! A mini-thread! Of loosely connected papers and ideas:On Scientific Uncertainty, Especially in Social Sciences & Psych In honor

Ramit Sethi

ramit

Today, let's look "underneath" the headlines & avoid misleading statisticsA realtor posted this comment challenging me about homeownership. He shared that homeowners' net worth is ~44x higher than renters. (The

Houston's XFactor

messi0103

My motto in life is to leave this world a little better than i found it: my daughter was commenting how she has 3 friends who through educating themselves about

Carwil Bjork-James

CarwilBJ

The "problem of altruism" in biology and the "collective action problem" in political science both begin from an individualist theory of maximization, then see abundant unselfish behavior as a surprise.https://twitter.co

philwoodford

philwoodford

Ok, I know I'm going to stir up some controversy here and probably should live the quite life, but here goes. I think that when we come to write the

Kelsey Jordan Ward

KelseyJoWard

I’m just gonna put all the tweets saved in my drafts that I was hesitant to tweet here cause frankly I don’t care anymore. “Let’s all just agree to disagree.”No

Jason Segedy 🇺🇲🇭🇺🇮🇹

JasonSzegedi

1) Two interesting maps of Ohio from the NY Times' fascinating Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html 2) Here are the final 2020 results in Ohio. The overall pa

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vexwerewolf

The thing about #Cyberpunk2077 is I know a lot of people who are now shitting on the game were calling us SJWs for calling out its transphobia and other

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