Writing For Research
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Creative research writing is hard. Patrick Dunleavy, political science LSE, & Editor in Chief @LSEPress suggests advice https://t.co/iYi0CJbbMP
The pipeline that drives discovery - new knowledge and treatments for diseases that affect us all - is collapsing in the United States. New NIH funding opportunities are down 91% this fiscal year.
Brilliant from Alexander Kustov on how Academics Need to Wake Up on AI Ten theses for folks who haven't noticed the ground shifting under their feet. alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/academics-ne…
Absolutely mind boggling.. "in their Excel spreadsheet, Reinhart and Rogoff had not selected the entire row when averaging growth figures: they omitted data from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada and Denmark. In other words, they had accidentally only included 15 of the 20 countries under analysis in their key calculation. When that error was corrected, the “0.1% decline” data became a 2.2% average increase in economic growth." And as the underlaying New York Review article notes, the erroneous "claim was widely cited by politicians and accepted as a factual justification for austerity, to the extent that Paul Krugman thought it “may have had more immediate influence on public debate than any previous paper in the history of economics.”"
The situation in Kyiv is dire. Thousands of families are without heat and electricity following russia’s repeated strikes on critical energy infrastructure. These attacks are deliberate attempts to freeze Ukrainians into submission. Help stop this: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-nigh…
