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3 months

3rd Covid infection in 9 months. All 3 most likely caught at work. I’m not sure that this frequency of Covid infection is sustainable. “No worse than the flu”? Never had the flu 3 times in less than a year…

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@AdamSinger They’re accountants. Who in one of the greatest marketing tricks in history have managed to convince the world that they’re experts *in everything*. Even the leaders of organisations that employ actual world-leading experts.

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@Kane_WMC_Lab I suggest replacing asterisks with surprise emojis. p<0.001: 😮 p<0.05: 🤨 p<0.1: 🤔 p>0.1: 😟 And one for the Bayesians: BF of anything: 😏

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Cash-strapped universities can save money by cancelling licences to expensive software and adopting #OpenSource alternatives. Here's a list in a thread. Please retweet & feel free to add more.

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@BallouxFrancois I think there’s a massive point of confusion in this debate: whether talking of a permanent or temporary ZeroCovid strategy. Australia & NZ have a temporary ZeroCovid approach. Some folks are suggesting a permanent ZeroCovid approach. That’s impossible in an interconnected world

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@jcove___ @murrayjohnsonjr Awesome response. Sounds like your prof has great students.

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@jpeelle Got a couple of big deadlines coming up. Things should settle down in a couple of weeks.

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1 year

@drcroft85 Remarks such as this should lead to immediate exclusion of all of that reviewer’s comments.

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@MichaelM_ACT Maybe landlords should have to have a Landlords Licence, which could be suspended or cancelled in the case of serious breaches. Getting the licence could involve an online exam on the basic responsibilities of landlords and tenants' rights.

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@timminglab I disagree. There are likely hundreds of examples of science being applied in the fight against COVID-19 that had their beginnings, or at least rely upon some aspect of such abstract "mental gymnastics". The foundations of science are broad and diverse, and that is a strength.

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3 years

@leighsales Leigh, any abuse is not to be tolerated. No question. But as a serious journalist you really should do a bit of background research or consult with some experts on automatic sentiment analysis before tweeting such a superficial analysis. Otherwise you only undermine your case.

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Absolutely astonishing that a person in such a position could deny that N95s offer better protection against an airborne virus than surgical masks. The science is 100% clear about this.

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Hi Anthony. I don’t think mask mandates work, nor does long term mask wearing for individuals. But I do think you get a short term decrease in risk and so some increased in protection by wearing a mask and using some eye protection. So if you are at increased risk, for short

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@LisaMillar @BreakfastNews I am a scientist. This is cultural vandalism by an anti-intellectual government. The sciences need the arts & humanities. Society needs them. Universities do far more for society than workforce training. This will hurt universities. It will hurt science. It will hurt Australia.

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3 years

@PRGuy17 cancelled

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1 year

@DALupton This sort of jokiness by Murphy is an affront to the thousands of Australians whose fully vaccinated & boosted relatives (or those who couldn’t be vaccinated) have died or ended up in hospital seriously ill from Covid. We deserve so much better.

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3 years

@DrKate_Miller I’m not a medical doctor, but sleep?

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2 years

@JBarraket He'd have to buy Microsoft. On the plus side, he could immediately fire all the paperclips.

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5 years

Tip for reviewers: if there’s a part of a paper that you’re not expert enough to comment on, either don’t comment on it, or if you really must, preface it with “I’m not an expert on this area, “ and pose it as a question. Humility over arrogance please.

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2 years

@RnaudBertrand @lt3066 Paul Keating, former Australian PM, in 1997:

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@jacasiegel @bmwiernik While I see the reasoning, the problem is that to stay up to date with the field, you need to be doing research. Within a fairly short time, full-time reviewers’ knowledge would be out of date. But half-time paid reviewers: now there’s an idea.

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7 years

EC for British Applicants to Horizon 2020. If mobility rules can't be met, then this will end your EU funding. #Brexit @Scientists4EU

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@nick_coatsworth You don’t understand hindsight bias do you? Here’s a question for you Nick: when a person correctly guesses the outcome of a coin toss, is that foresight? Thing is, they’ll guess wrong half the time. You were wrong with so many things you said - when will you acknowledged that?

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3 years

@nick_coatsworth Name calling now? How low are you willing to sink, Nick?

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@nick_coatsworth You don’t often read comments? So this isn’t a forum for discussion or debate for you? Just an exercise in pumping out your opinions? That one comment is very telling, Nick.

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@nick_coatsworth You clearly don't understand the basics of academic freedom and the absolutely essential ability of scientists to comment freely and, yes, critically about areas within their domain of expertise. That you threaten to "tell the boss" on them is really pathetic.

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@nick_coatsworth As a scientist I'm really quite shocked by this tweet. Context-free, ambiguous but designed to imply something without committing an explicit opinion. The *opposite* of the type of evidence-based clarity & transparency that is required from public health officials.

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@timminglab And neither you, nor anyone else, can tell in advance which 20% they are. And then for the next world crisis, of a completely different type, it will be a different 20%.

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6 years

@ResFortnight Seriously???!!! This is just an astonishing example of blaming others for your own f-ups. The gumption to say such a thing.

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3 years

@tanya_plibersek 50th on the list of women in lower/main Houses of Parliament too. 50th! Imagine the outcry and national soul-searching if we can 50th in the Olympics! We care more about sports than basic issues of equality.

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@Sophiemcneill I don’t know how it works in Australia as I’m a citizen here, but when I entered the USA with a - granted - visa, I still had to produce documentary supporting evidence *at the border* with the clear knowledge that I could be refused entry if the documents were not satisfactory.

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@ARC_Tracker @arc_gov_au @AlboMP please get politics *out* of the decision making for Australian research if you get into power next year. This doesn't happen in other democracies and it should not be happening here.

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@YouAreLobbyLud I know a thing or two about "fear" - been studying it for 30 years. It's not the same as caution. When a person uses a seatbelt or bicycle helmet, washes their hands, drives slowly near schools, holds their ageing parent's arm when they're unsteady, it's not fear. It's caution.

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All universities should be doing this. PhDs are not only being disrupted l “physically”. A medical & economic catastrophe like this has profound impact on mental health & the ability to focus. This about far more than just deadlines - it’s about PhD student health & safety.

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ANU have extended PhD research programs and scholarships by 6 months due to COVID-19. @unimelb will you do the same? #AcademicTwitter #phdpandemic #phdchat

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2 years

@bikenut63 @US_Stormwatch Less so with the resulting jellyfish plagues

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4 years

Why did a single quarantine failure in Victoria, Australia lead to thousands of Covid-19 cases but failures in other states did not? Read this brilliant peace to find out. It’s far more complex than pointing the finger at one cause, or one person. And plain bad luck plays a role.

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❗️Did you know that *study after study* finds most people don't seem to transmit COVID at all? That a small percent is responsible for almost all infections? That R is not that informative? My new piece on why this may be key to controlling the pandemic.

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@DrKGregorevic I really think you should think about this tweet, understand how wrong it is for a health professional to say such a thing, and apologise. We all sometimes say things we regret. Best to own it, apologise, and aim to do better.

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@BallouxFrancois A temporary ZeroCovid approach is clearly working well in some democratic countries. But those countries had limited outbreaks. Whether it is realistically achievable, and the costs involved, in countries with massive ongoing infections is a quite separate question.

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@manjusrii The story here isn’t her. The story here is the TV Channel that invited and arranged for her to be here, the officials who signed off on it, and the politicians who created the rules that allow it to happen. That’s the story - they should be the headline.

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@4mambo It's interesting that those practicing medicine, psychology & other fields that can impact public welfare, are trained in ethics, have to abide by strict ethics standards. But journalism & media operators? Yet they arguably now have a bigger impact on public welfare than anyone.

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@NeilMcMahon Rude, deflecting, avoiding, mansplaining, arrogant. Disgraceful. And worst of all, *exactly* the type of behaviour that undermines public trust in authority. And public trust is *the most important thing* for getting public compliance.

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@TimSmithMP Another scientifically illiterate tweet that undermines the evidence-based actions of our health experts and jeopardises public health. Shameful.

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@MarkChangizi Interesting. Not what this shows

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3 years

@kookcove @VermontMelbGuy @andrewlilley_au Indeed. And the "stay in your lane" rhetoric has no place in science. Disagree with the methods or inferences, by all means, but do so on the basis of scientific argument, not appeals to authority or siloed notions of science.

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2 years

@1CeliaGreen You know what's unknown? The lifelong impact of catching Covid-19 as an unvaccinated child.

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3 years

@Shooter6947 @MarioBarbatti “Novelty” is totally overrated. Rarely are studies really novel. On the other hand, incremental science is very underrated.

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@DrKGregorevic Think I’ll take my advice from experts rather than a TV Celeb Doctor who’s been repeatedly wrong during the pandemic *and never once admitted it*.

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3 years

@SandroDemaio And if you see a medical worker, or indeed anyone who looks scared or vulnerable, and you can safely do so, maybe show them your support, perhaps walk with them to a safer spot.

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5 years

The #ParallelPort . Still default for sending time-critical event codes & triggers in psych research, despite being hopelessly out of date & barely supported. What are the modern alternatives, folks? Millisecond timing essential & compatibility with variety of hardware & software

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6 years

@azmyth2 @patrickc @calebwatney This. Because science should be about clarity and avoid specialist jargon unless absolutely necessary. Type I and II convey no meaning if you're not part of the club. But I do like the OP's creativity :)

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4 years

@ASlavitt To be fair, the original sin is for one of the world's richest nations not to have a taxpayer funded universal health system providing health care to all. Generations of politicians and voters guilty of that sin.

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@mjrowland68 @Mark_Butler_MP @BreakfastNews Even without mandates, where's the public messaging? Virtual invisible/absent. We need nationwide campaign through multiple media channels on protective measures people *should* be taking. Emphasis on *should* - not "if you feel anxious". And P2/N95 masks!

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10 months

@PhillipAdams_1 As a fellow overseas scientist also working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the early 2000's, working class father from Yorkshire, I felt an affinity with Nick. And admiration. Sad. Thoughts to his family and friends.

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@Yogablackbelt @LucyGoBag The politeness and not wanting to make a scene and compliance of middle-class England makes it an ideal target for creeping authoritarianism and fascism.

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@wesstkilda @GiselleWak @DarylTractor Ventilation ventilation ventilation. It’s the message that is going unheard in Australia and I just don’t understand why. *All* such venues need high quality ventilation that removes virus laden air.

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So here I am, like many researchers around Australia, wasting my time late at night entering redundant information into the @arc_gov_au grant portal. Like the @nhmrc system, it's a mess. Research funding in Oz is bad enough, but we're made to go through this too. @ARC_Tracker

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@DrKGregorevic 1. People getting sick of Covid are not just older adults. 2. People getting sick of Covid are workers in our hospitals that take care of people of *all* ages. 3. Linking severe learning disruptions with mask wearing is nonsense. 4. Older adults tend to have younger families.

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@JaneCaro It’s striking to see so many people responding by #AngloSplaining what’s best for Australia’s indigenous people. The referendum failed because No voters think they know best.

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@isobelroe It's astonishing the number of people who seem to think that striving for a higher vaccination rate is somehow an alternative to pushing for interim zero Covid. *Both* are the best strategy. Pursuing *both* will bring people more freedom to have a more normal life sooner.

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@manda_m0 @paulmjenkinson For every single male MP in parliament considering voting for the policing bill, look at your female colleagues, friends & family. Ask yourself, should they not be permitted to vote, to run for government? A vote for this bill is a vote against what gave them those rights.

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4 years

After 3 months lockdown, I could visit my city. I cycled north from Elwood, through Port Melbourne, Southbank, Collingwood, Clifton Hill, Fitzroy, Brunswick. Melburnians enjoying picnics, seeing friends for the first time in months. 25 years studying emotion but close to tears.

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@LaTrioli @abcmelbourne @abcnews This headline doesn’t even make sense. If an over 50 doesn’t want to get vaccinated, how are they in the way? It’s the ones who *do* want to get vaccinated who are “in the way”, waiting in line, as they are, because of the federal government’s botched vaccination rollout.

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@NeilMcMahon Dr Chant suggested low level of compliance in this lockdown than previously is due to fatigue, events overseas etc. It's more likely due to NSW govt's undermining of lockdowns in other states & their non-transparent, deflecting, evasive communications that *destroy public trust*

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@nick_coatsworth You seem to have completely lost touch with how academic science works, Nick. Arguments are won on the basis of evidence, not appeals to authority. Not on the basis of complete misrepresentations of what have been said by others. And not by putting down those you disagree with.

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@mollytolsky @RominaSotoodeh Ummm. Also works when one is working at home alone. I have no idea why Biff won't unload and reload the dishwasher. He's such a lazy office mate...

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@DarylTractor @abcnews The Australian CMO himself has stated that children probably have the highest rate of prior Covid infection of any age group. If they’re not catching it at school, how can that be explained?

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@MarcTennant Big surge in ICU and ventilator patients yesterday, right? As unfortunately expected a week after big surge in cases, to get worse over coming weeks? Not sure Victorian public is prepared for this. Really tough for patients & healthcare staff. Thoughts, wishes & thanks to them.

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4 years

Endnote reference manager. Replace with @zotero for cross platform reference management, citations and more.

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2 years

@MikeCarlton01 They did this sort of thing in Norway, plus 78% windfall tax, and look how it destroyed Norway and their living standards. /sarcasm

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@halfon4harlowMP "as long as we never have to talk about it again" I, along with millions of pro-EU Brits and EU citizens living in the UK, will not stop. I won't stop until I get back my EU citizenship which was taken from me against my will.

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@RDNS_TAI CSL should basically tell them that they'll build a vaccine factory where it makes most sense for them to do so, and they won't be told by the Commonwealth where that shouldn't be.

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2 years

Perth, City Beach

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4 years

SPSS Stats. Replace with R @rstatstweet . Much better for career prospects. @jamovi and @rstudio for user-friendly GUIs.

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@NjbBari3 @YouAreLobbyLud Interesting that the large international brain imaging conference going on in Scotland right now has a (well-followed) masks indoors policy. Maybe brain scientists know something about risks of Covid. Or maybe they just care for their more vulnerable members. 🤷‍♂️

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3 years

I have a PhD in nonverbal communication and have done research on facial and vocal expressions for over 25 years. What Nick Coatsworth says here is completely without foundation.

60 Minutes Australia

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The topic of masks gets former deputy chief medical officer @nick_coatsworth fired up, but you might be surprised to find out which side of the fence he’s on. #60Mins

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@wannabedb @del_yeah1 @starfis13730178 @ParkPolice Aussie here. Definitely sounds very Australian to me when he says “give it to me”.

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@drjohndennis @Phil_Baty and my guess is that more than 75% of those PhD students and postdocs have no job security and majority will leave academia and research. And make that depressing percentage even higher for women.

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@Qldaah @_sammyjoyjoy_ Man who knows absolutely FA about education mansplains why teaching professionals are getting it all wrong.

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@Constababble It’s disgusting. Under Australian law, wouldn’t his actions constitute sexual assault? Some other type of assault or harassment? Could he be charged? Would TV viewers (particularly women & girls) have a case for a class action based on what was publicly broadcast? @marquelawyers ?

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@GeoffreySupran @BinitaKane @ScienceMagazine @billmckibben @dan_kammen @KHayhoe @NaomiAKlein @GretaThunberg @SenWhitehouse @350 @RollieWilliams @MichaelEMann @jamieclimate So large oil companies are exactly like big tobacco companies. Fully aware of the damage that they were promoting and causing, covering it up, and now trying to greenwash.

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@BevMcArthurMP Please identify - with specific evidence - exactly how this outbreak is the result of Vic Govt incompetence. Do you have any evidence? At all?

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Is #BetterPoster the equivalent of journals that put the methods section at the end, in smaller type? For me, a conference poster is not about the findings: most of the time the studies are not ready to trust the findings. They are about the question, methods and analysis.

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@YouAreLobbyLud The problem isn't in making mistakes. The problem is making statements & predictions with misplaced certainty, not admitting & apologising when wrong, & not learning from those mistakes to be more humble.

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@CaseyBriggs Disgraceful. How to build trust in authorities during health emergency? Honesty, clarity, transparency. They're now *actively* damaging trust in authority. This will not only hurt compliance with distancing, testing & isolation directives. It will also hurt trust in vaccinations.

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We have a highly trained academic research workforce in Melbourne with experience in interviews, data management, investigation. If there’s urgent need for personnel, please call upon us: What can we do to help? via @theage @VictorianCHO @DanielAndrewsMP

'It’s dire': Contact tracing delays threaten coronavirus fight

Contact tracing should be initiated with 24 hours, but doctors are reporting extensive delays they say could threaten prospects of containing the virus.

www.theage.com.au

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I'm a little emotional. I'm a lot emotional. It's been hard to concentrate on work these last months. But right now, today, it's impossible, for all the right reasons. Thank you Victoria.

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6 years

Really easy to follow instructions for plotting 2-way interactions in R, with high quality APA format output, courtesy @JohnSakaluk :

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1 year

@PRGuy17 I'm sure Priceline's pharmacists do focus on health. Their corporate leadership maybe not so much. Putting blatantly political notices at the entrances to any health service goes against principles of making all feel welcome to access that service.

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@meadea Good journalism takes both ability AND integrity. If you only write stuff that aligns with the what the boss (Murdoch) wants the paper to say, you're not a good journalist because you don't have integrity. It's that simple. By that measure, most Murdoch journalists are rubbish.

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@YouAreLobbyLud @EDisinterest Would be interesting to do a study in public spaces where two people cough (thoroughly tested to make sure they're not actually infectious), one masked one not masked. I wouldn't be surprised if more nearby people were to move away from the masked one than the non-masked one.

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4 years

@ProfPCDoherty If all you have is a hammer, everything’s a nail. Neoliberal economics is their hammer. Never mind that neoliberalism caused the two major Covid-19 outbreaks in this country, low wage, casualised, privatised security & aged care. And they think more of the same is the solution...

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Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK

@itjohnstone

6 years

@dandouglas @kirstie_j U.K. Universities: we’d like to promote mental health in the workplace Staff: how about an end to casualisation, and end to real-terms pay cuts, and protecting our pensions? U.K. Universities: How about we dock your pay for striking in protest at our attack on your pensions?

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Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK

@itjohnstone

5 months

@MikeCarlton01 Pretty sure he was flying this jet too.

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Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK

@itjohnstone

11 months

@i_petersen @trishgreenhalgh Physicists and engineers know they work. Apparently you seem to think Omicron magically gets around physics. But you can’t explain how.

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Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK

@itjohnstone

1 year

@DrKGregorevic Covid isn’t a cold or flu. It’s different in numerous ways. You know that, yet make this misleading comparison. Why?

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Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK

@itjohnstone

6 years

@Mephit @ProfBrianCox @SellaTheChemist The people trying to slash pensions (the UUK) consistently lobbied for higher fees. The ones who are on strike to protect pensions (UCU members) consistently lobbied against higher fees.

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Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK

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1 year

@BrentHodgson For starters I’d say take away their government funding and their tax-free status.

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Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK

@itjohnstone

2 years

@1CeliaGreen By their own data, 1.25% of infected children under 16 years required hospital admission for medical care. Not a big percentage? There are about 4 million students at Australian schools. 1.25% of 4 million is 50,000. Even if only 1/5 children catch Covid, that's still 10,000!

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Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK

@itjohnstone

6 months

@DrKGregorevic You know there's an interaction between the amount of Covid transmission and an ageing population, right? One could argue that the greater the proportion of susceptible people, the greater the need to cut transmission.

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Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK

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5 years

This is terrible. US$3000 for the APC for all NeuroImage articles starting in October. Further promoting the privileged who have access to large research funds at the expense of many who do not. If this had been announced at OHBM meeting there would have been howls of protest.

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