#Productive

1/5The fact that China's share of global steel production was an astonishing 57.5% by November of this year shows the extent to which China's growth (generally, but especially in 2020)
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For anyone starting a #PhD, some advice:- Set up dedicated space for #research and ensure everything is ergonomically correct (posture, etc.)- Invest in a #reference management software like @mendeley_com (free!)
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Per LRT: Always send your staff home at closing time - I get being in a flow state and wanting five more minutes. A once off extra hour is fine
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As one EU official puts it: “You can’t expect the UK to remain the food import hub for the EU. It’s not sustainable, and makes no sense in the mid-to-longer
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Yesterday’s news means a few things to us, so pay attention. We are now under the microscope big time. If you thought we were two days ago, you’re in for
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7 Hacks to Succeed With any Diet-THREAD- 1. Eat What You Want.Don´t get me wrong, you won´t get shredded eating crap.The trick here is to change what you want, you
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Hi, I'm sorry my excitement about the @nzlabour Govt (with Green support) making structural changes that have been long overdue pisses you all off so much #MaoriWardsI'll have a word
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I woke up to this in my inbox and all I can say is this is so fucked up it's one thing to study this, but the entire framing of
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"queer" and "poc" are starting to become less descriptors of people (who are always fluid and naturally incapable of rigid conduct) and more descriptions of certain spheres of human social
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I see where this person's coming from but there's a lot of things that factor into this beyond just "I'm not a top player so top players don't want to
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Tomorrow the #DasguptaReview is published. Its approach is morally wrong, intellectually vacuous and counter-productive. It represents a catastrophic misstep in our relationship with nature: the penetration of capitalism into every
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I had a December tradition at Facebook of delivering a one-hour "end of year talk" to my org. The topics changed each year but the common thread was a reflection
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I love this reasonable & timely @RadioFreeTom piece as much for what it doesn't say as for what it does:1https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/we-no-longer-need-to-engage-with-trumps-die-hard-supporters/617449/ https://t
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actually there are two questions here and I'll try to answer both of them. 1. why do I have to eat my shadow?2. why can't we just be civil roommates
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There is a very simple word/idea that is always missing among the people who bemoan "cancel culture" [a thread] 1/xhttps://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1285947021363478529 Humility. As an academic, I had to teach myself how
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I turned 30 a month ago and I’m still procrastinating-ish on the article I had intended to write for it but it’s a productive kind of procrastination. It’s hard
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