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Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

I don’t think we talk enough about how the largest and most significant civil rights movement of my lifetime is motivated by identity politics. What is (was?) the liberal critique

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Since ag twitter is a racist hot mess, this seems like a great time to remind everyone:1) The median farmer is nearly a millionaire! They clock in at $800K net

Rebecca Sear

RebeccaSear

So, for anyone who doesn't know what the demographic transition is, a The demographic transition is the shift from high mortality, high fertility to low mortality, low fertility which has

Kevin Rinz

kevinrinz

New Working PaperWho Values Human Capitalists' Human Capital? Healthcare Spending and Physician Earningsw @GottliebEcon @MariaAPolyakova Hugh Shiplett @UdalovaVictoriaPaper: https://kevinrinz.github.io/physicians.pdf Summary: https

Nathan Lazarus

NathanLazarus3

Google reached a deal with EU regulators where they show Android users a screen like this, allowing people to select their default search engine. It's been an unmitigated disaster: A

Michael Nielsen

michael_nielsen

What are the classics of the "Science of Science" or "Meta Science"? If you were teaching a class on the subject, what would go in the syllabus? Here's a (very

Ethan Grey

_EthanGrey

1. Donald Trump won the GOP primary and the presidency because campaigning on whiteness-first messaging still has potency in the 21st century. Plenty of people don’t want to directly engage

Graeme Blair

graemedblair

Lots of impt discussion on preanalysis plans after @The_JOP announced they will be req'd for experimental studiesShort on some of what we know about PAPs, their effects, what researchers

Samrad Ghane

sam_ghane

Fortunately, this year had also other things to offer than a raging global pandemic. Here is my pick of the most interesting works in #CulturalPsychiatry and #GlobalMentalHealth in 2020 (thread

Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH

usnehal

What allies need to learn, and I’m not saying this was easy for me and I’m sure I still mess up, is that the most historically harmed populations do not

Kent Hendricks

kenthendricks

23. People who get a trigger warning actually experience *more* anxiety for a given stimulus compared to people who do not get a trigger warning.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2167702620921341 24. Despite the numerous benefits

wsbgnl

wsbgnl

Some notes on President Biden's covid response coordinator, Jeffrey Zients. Summary: Zients is an extremely wealthy businessperson, Biden campaign bundler, and former govt official and liaison to the business community

Michelle Cardel,PhD, MS, RD

MichelleCardel

As a result of #COVID19, academics are working from home, often while simultaneously caring for their children. As clinicians & scientists, @nataliexdean @DrDianaMW & I worry this will lead to

Chuck Marr

ChuckCBPP

I sense a few double standards present in the debate over Bidens’ historic Child Tax Credit proposal that would cut the child poverty rate by more than 40%.My focus here

Scott Santens 🧢🏄‍♂️

scottsantens

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Basic Income since 2013. Here's a list of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments, unconditional cash transfer studies, and cash dividend research.The

Kent Hendricks

kenthendricks

52 of the most interesting things I learned in 2020:1. The bacteria RB41 is known to exist in only three places: showerheads, dog noses, and paleolithic cave paintings.*The Great Indoors*https://amzn.to/3aSWBiq

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