#Ethnicity

Tomorrow, the UMD physics department is hosting a very interesting colloquium talk on the use of machine-learning for graduate admissions. I'd like to take a second and explain why this
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I'm gonna get all University-course philosophy on this because it's ridiculous. To the people saying "queer people should be allowed to decide who tells our stories"?Actually no, we kind of
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Latest PHE flu and surveillance report now out.Looks at 23/11 to 28/11Case rates falling, flu remains low, and as ever, big regional/age/ethnicity/deprivation variation.https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surv
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I'm coming out my newborn induced Twitter break to comment on this great new piece by my colleagues Matt Saenz & Arloc Sherman on how the number of people in
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Some identities are better than others or how historians contribute to their making or their demise (a thread that I did not have the time to write the other day
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Morning. It’s prolly unwise, but I am gonna attempt a brief clarification of my voting thread from the other day. Here we go: My argument about why I think (as
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7. To those with a hegemonic Ndebele agenda, being a Ndebele means a conglomeration of all those people whose ancestors were assimilated into the Ndebele state, be they of Nguni,
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Yesterday, in his #NewsomatNoon presser, the governor almost drove by a pretty big piece of news - the state's changing #COVID19 vaccine prioritization - as he was underexplaining another piece
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When the university starts sending out teaching evaluation reminders, I tell all my classes about bias in teaching evals, with links to the evidence. Here's a version of the email
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A thread of some of the key findings of this report (updating as I read)...https://twitter.com/HumanRightsCtte/status/1326325941203775489 25% of Black voters in Great Britain are not registered to vote compared to a
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PHE's latest COVID surveillance report now published. Covers 4th-10th Jan.Cases rates remain astonishingly high and whilst they may be turning a corner, rates are still rising among 80yrs+.Hospital admissions and
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Common FAQs about COVAXIN approval.Q. Emergency Authorisation Based on Phase 2 Data of a traditional Platform in a Pandemic is OK and global Standard -Krishna Ella ,Bharat Biotech A. Yes,
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My older kids like math, so over breakfast this morning I asked them, “How many people did it take to make you?”My daughter says, “Um, you and mommy?”“So that’s two.
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Exciting news for advocates to #XtheX Waiver today to loosen restrictions for buprenorphine access. However, still a lot of unanswered questions and still doesn't go far enough. A thread ()
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New Year has always been a big party in one way or another but this year is different; we look back on the humanitarian catastrophe that was 2020 with great
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Thread on the history of the term "amhara": I'm going to be citing a blog post written by my grandfather Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam. I really didn't want to identify my
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