#Policymaking

Ali Vaez | على واعظ

AliVaez

We @FPI_SAIS are releasing a series of reports on Iran Under Sanctions. Iran’s economy has been sanctioned in one form or another since the 1979 revolution. Yet little systematic knowledge

Yannish Naik

healthyyan

An impromptu reminder about Climate Change. In case you missed it, it’s 38 degrees C in the arctic circle right now. Thread. (1/N)https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/06/21/arctic-temperature-record-siberia/ This is just the latest

guynewey

guynewey

Finally found the time to digest the Energy White Paper properly. Here is the slowest hot take ever (thread). TL;DR: The WP (rightly) mainly focuses on progressing some chunky tech

Together

together_sacr

It's begun! Follow this post for live updates!#UNCRCScotland https://twitter.com/together_sacr/status/1359554971537182720 Amendment 2 which specifies courts “must” rather than “may” consider these sources emanating from the UNCR

Karon Liu

karonliu

I'm sure there's a lot of 2020 we'd like to leave behind, but I hope these food-related issues continue to be on our minds in 2021. (A thread): A continued

Lucy Michael #BlackLivesMatter #EndDirectProvision

drlucymichael

The full text of the Dail statements on combatting racism from this morning has now been publishedhttps://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-17/2/ Some highlights for me... The thread that follows is not a comment on

Prof. Madhav Nalapat

MD_Nalapat

A cauldron is brewing in parts of Pakistan, Taliban-controlled segments of Afghanistan, radical enclaves in Libya and Syria. This is the intensified and covert training by “retired” or “on leave”

Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH

GYamey

I want to share my thoughts, as someone who has been so alarmed by the so-called "dissident" scientists like Gupta, Heneghan, Kuldorff, Bhattacharya, & Ioannidis who consider themselves brave Galileos

Stop Looking At Me Swan, Esq.

JSwanEsquire

“In August and September of this year, I became increasingly concerned that our relationship with Ukraine was being FUNDAMENTALLY undermined by the irregular, informal channel of US policymaking and by

Cyber Statecraft

CyberStatecraft

THREAD | A groundbreaking espionage operation targeting USG, the #Sunburst incident was also software supply chain compromise similar to 31 attacks observed since 2010. Using our Breaking Trust report @Cyberstatecraft

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

Here's a short story about numbers, #COVID19, the scientific process and the misuse of science. And how it affects all of our lives. But it begins with these blokes, sitting

Tennant Reed

TennantReed

Next up: @MLiebreich ! BNEF founder, energy luminary, live from Switzerland. Member of IEA global commission for urgent action on energy efficiency. ML: panel was right - you need short

Gernot Wagner

GernotWagner

SCC nerd alert: Stern & Stiglitz are out with a new take that's bound to make some waves.The upshot: It's a cogent critique of 'traditional' approaches.But: their 'recommendation' is an

Mark Scott

markscott82

"We need to police online content!"Well sure. But before we go about doing that, it's worth remembering: this stuff is incredibly difficult & very easy to get wrong. Case in

Claudia Sahm FULL CHECKS NOW

Claudia_Sahm

unemployment insurance is the core of the US social safety net (such as it is) and our primary automatic stabilizer ... created in the Great Depression, under leadership by Frances

Philip Ball

philipcball

Like many if not most science writers, much of what I wrote this year was on the single, inevitable topic of what we first called "the coronavirus", then Covid-19, now

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