#Standards

Moore Lecture during #SICB2021 @SICB_: Stereotype threat & identity threat: The science of a diverse community (by Dr. Claude Steele).Thread of this talkOur society is aiming for "color blindness"
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The govt’s Agriculture Bill1. Ditches British Animal Welfare standards2. Will mean UK is flooded with cheap low quality food.3. Will put UK farms at huge disadvantage4. Uk will not be
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Romanticizing people right away leaves little to no room for them to actually show you who they are because you’ve already decided.Thread: Let people meet your standards too. If you
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Later today, in one of his first acts as President, Biden will sign an executive order: “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.”It
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D solution to incessant ASUU strike is total autonomy for universities. They shd fix fees, pay salaries, develop infrastructures etc. Govt can continue wth Tetfund intervention in some critical areas
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That Canada's Environment Minister would celebrate this initiative using Shell's "Carbon Neutral" framing is deeply troubling to me, for many reasons. /1https://twitter.com/JonathanWNV/status/1326933636189483011 $0.02/litr
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Contour maps of regions of the face that people look at to determine identity, gender, and expression, according to https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9280.00472 The tables of body measurements that the mysterious numbers in
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As a thank you to the working class essential workers who kept us fed and our economy running, Government has announced a 15¢ increase to the minimum wage. Aside from
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Out now: Our paper on "State Government Crisis Standards of Care Guidelines: Implications for Patients with Cancer" https://ja.ma/3oqa2tO  via @JAMAOnc of @JAMANetwork Kudos to our @DanaFarber @DanaFarberNews team for their
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What does a Biden presidency mean for the U.S. EV market? For starters, strong fuel economy standards. Not clear where these will land yet, but Obama era fuel economy standards
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Let Stats NZ know that you want data on sex retained. Fill in the submission, just a paragraph will do. https://www.stats.govt.nz/consultations/sex-and-gender-identity-statistical-standards-consultation (closes 5pm on 13 Aug) Here are our m
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Feels like the right thing to do is for baseball writers to elect nobody, then refuse to participate in future votes, dumping this mess in the Hall of Fame's lap.
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It is really frustrating how girls/women are not allowed to have an honest conversation about beauty without women (feminists or not) feel attacked/defensive. Beauty is a social/cultural construction (them "lets
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Intolerance is a trait of a leader who elevates everyone around him. If you want to lead, you must become intolerant.Thread Know that the degree of your tolerance is disproportional
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I’m so tired of this stupid“what ~true~ Cyberpunk is about discourse”, because Cyberpunk is about NOTHING. It’s a goddamn genre. No genre has an inherent message, unless you think all
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Spending my last working afternoon of 2020 watching the #ContinuityBill debate in @ScotParl - hoping to see all MSPs voting for nature today and strengthening this vital legislation Fantastic that
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