#Communication

It doesn’t matter about moral high ground it matters about power. If you have the power to keep your opponents from speaking, you probably would.The better question to ask is:
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RESISTANCE IS CRITICAL . . . Masks.I thought the req's would end.There is no end. With hyper-sensitive testing. With false-positives. With testing for traces of past, "common cold" corona.
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I've found myself bringing up Dan Sperber's "Guru Effect" paper a lot in conversation, so I figured I'd do a thread about it here. It gives a pretty compelling explanation
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1. Who will be the first critic to say “I was wrong about #Bitcoin ”?How many decades must the Bitcoin network persist before the staunchest of Bitcoin haters like Krugman
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Current feeling on meta-science: I’m not sure anyone — authors, readers, etc — actually likes papers. What if we just got rid of them?What could we replace them with? conjecture:
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Conversations about beating children always make me so upset. I understand we have our personal stories about how we were beat and we “turned out fine” but we have to
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1) I guess I'm doing a thread about #sciencefiction and #space advocacy and communication. Bleh. Let's start by agreeing #scifi is wonderful. I love it, founded a sf book club
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Yes, Europe needs a digital independence movement, but how about instead of pinning those hopes on a bunch of rebels with a shoestring budget, Europeans ask their elected officials to
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So WHO just called for an independent inquiry in the global covid response. I've written about its IHR review committee here: https://duckofminerva.com/2020/05/the-world-health-organization-already-has-a-review-mechanism-heres-how-it-wo
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A heavy question to ask is “Do you trust me?”Trusting someone essentially meanswe no longer try to protect ourselves in their presence I don’t want to just say “I love
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Why didn't UK take part in EU procurement?No 10: 'We didn't get the email in time'.Michael Gove: "Communication confusion".NEW: Official minutes show UK took part in four EU meetings where
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Accessibility can also be linked to poor health literacy -- here are some tips for healthcare peeps to improve health literacy among their patients Ask patients open-ended questions to assess
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#THREAD: Let's explore the #Karnataka High Court’s direction of 'wide publicity' of the draft EIA 2020 & MoEFCC's misleading claims in its 'statement of objections' 1/9#India #EIA2020 July 16th:The union envir
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As part of #GLOBEGoodNews—our monthly round-up of positivity & purpose—we feature current #JobOpenings for purpose-driven roles & organizations. Check out this thread of exciting #hiring opportunities that will be closing
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The essence of good #writing is *rewriting*A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. If you don’t rewrite
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In the last 2-3 months I’ve noticed a big spike in people I’ve never spoken to before asking for science/conservation/science communication career advice. Here’s why I don’t give anything other
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