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Ph.D. cand IR/comparative politics @UHPoliticalSci . Threats to democracy, IPE. Fellowship alum @Mercatus . Adjunct 3 places. On the job market.

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2 months

I found out today that a student I helped get into a research program this summer will be doing an umdergraduate poster presentation at American Political Science Association ( @APSAtweets ) conference. I think I'm more excited about that than my own panel. Yeah, I am.

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11 months

@scientistswrite The lit review. Fine line between including everything relevant and including too much. Also too easy to just let it read like a laundry list without tying it in but then tying it in too well bleeds too much into the theory. (I really think in terms of good reading flow, the lit

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@GabrielleHecht Don't ask your grad students to have completed reading before classes begin in the fall then. First day of class is first day of class. If your email isn't capable of accepting requests, it's not capable of sending a syllabus and reading list.

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1 year

@ashleyruba_phd Good luck in industry where most people feel lots of feelings: pressure, stress, insecurity, lack of appreciation, missing family and friends, awful office politics.

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2 years

@mikel_maria @ashleyruba So much for it being a calling.

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3 years

@ERCOT_ISO You have one job. Is there any season in which you can actually do it? How many fatalities are you going to cause this summer?

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1 year

@zachlloydMT @ashleyruba_phd The grass is always greener.

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1 year

@cmotpow Or salaries higher up the food chain could be reduced. Who gets more benefit out of a marginal dollar, you or your (instant) ramen eating grad student?

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1 year

@HKBradshaw I say this as a person who does my own coding, and has wasted a lot of my Ph.D. time teaching myself to do it instead of focusing on my field which is not computer science or statistics: most academics need to understand the core statistics to interpret and analyze them. For

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1 year

Exciting news for the coming year. I was offered an Adam Smith Fellowship in political economy by the @mercatus Center at George Mason University.

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2 years

Received an exciting email this morning. I was accepted as an Oskar Morgenstern Fellow by @mercatus Mercatus Center for 2022-2023, on my final day as a research assistant before starting my first course as instructor of record in 10 days.

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Tom Hanna

9 years

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door." - Milton Berle (via what-strange-lives-we-live) http://t.co/mJwFeq8e4J

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2 years

@CharlotteJD @AcademicChatter I use @paperpile . It's great for digital nomads because it uses your Google Drive for storage, has an Android app, and lets you read and take notes from anywhere. Also fairly easy to import from Zotero and Mendeley. I love the interface for the web based and app versions.

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3 years

@Miss_H_Cat @tr6pilot @CDCgov @WIRED @CDC_AMD Doesn't really matter, informed consent is still required if there are human subjects involved in federally funded research.

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1 year

@HKBradshaw Also, I find that for myself running those simple things often comes down to data cleaning which unfortunately isn't taught in a lot of grad programs. Without clean data a coding novice sees 300 red error messages and goes to Fiverr.

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2 years

@ozerthinking Coming to it from years in the private sector, I have to ask "Compared to what?" Academia is rule bound and subject to multi-year budgets, while the private sector is currently quarter obsessed, but both pinch pennies.

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3 years

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1 year

@njoybetz @vkarasavva @feadeh My department offers $600 in funding. My highest conference registration was $280 and airfare to that conference was almost $350. When I used a discounted hotel/air/rental car package to save money, the expense account people pitched fits over the single receipt for everything.

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2 years

@lluaces @BrianCLovato I tell students on day 1 and in the syllabus that coming with questions because they didn't understand a reading is a good thing because it demonstrates that they read it. I also tell them that most academic reading is God awful boring and I'm sorry it's not better.

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4 years

@UHpres The regs say the students have to be in person. They don't say the instructor has to be on campus. Big screens in big lecture halls.

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3 years

@Dr_AlphaLyrae @SYCCheme @AcademicsSay @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter More importantly, regardless of whether the reader/audience agree with the data.

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Tom Hanna

2 years

Congratulations to Yuyang Pu, Ph.D. @puquer ; Maria Burns, Ph.D.; Andres Sarmiento, M.A., and all the @UHPoliticalSci baccalaureate graduates. @UHPSGSA1

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2 years

Here to cheer our ⁦ @puquer ⁩ !! Congratulations Dr. Pu 🎉🎉

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1 year

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3 years

@naruto9tail @Kristennetten @Tesla @elonmusk So those are Teslas. All electric vehicles. In Dubai. Which is a Middle Eastern country heavily invested in oil.

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2 years

Academics are among those most likely to complain that private corporations pay employees so little they have to resort to government assistance, yet I am having to advise graduate students at UH to apply for food stamps (which they qualify for!) because of inflation @UHpres

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2 years

@pontus_rendahl @MSarzosaEcon Really? Doesn't it actually just mean that you are trying to conduct research? There really isn't much below PhD, but there are certainly classes above it. (R tier and ranking of school, tenure status, endowed chairs, National Academy of Sciences, Macarthur Fellowships)

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2 years

@BarackObama The events of January last year clearly demonstrate the folly of sacrificing institutions for expedience.

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2 years

@cleptok To be fair, the MIT news stuff has actual citations. You're making claims, based on your authority as a person with a Twitter account.

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1 year

@ginnyhogan_ Doesn't seem like a plus. Laughing at all my jokes? Sure. Laughing at everything I say? Humiliating.

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4 years

@EcoSexuality @elonmusk @TwitterSafety If he gets banished to Parler, too, Twitter might as well close up shop.

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2 years

I got exciting news from #APSA (other than a project acceptance*). One of my students who I encouraged to apply and recommended to the program was accepted to the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute at Duke University for 2023. * that also happened. I'm going to #Disneyland

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5 years

@UHpres They're cute little droids.

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5 years

@abc13houston You just figured this out? This is why good habits and good public health, not stay at home orders, are so important.

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4 years

@zly052012 @elonmusk If cryptic messages quoting dated songs are moving markets, Elon Musk is not the problem.

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4 years

@StarWarSportFan @UHpres The "stay home" orders have NEVER prohibited going outside for health and exercise. Get off your couch and get healthy!

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9 years

Can't invite friends to play. McAfee flags harmful content. Flash crashes. Slow loading. Awful user experience. @Pogo

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1 year

@907Bex @gunsnrosesgirl3 17k this year then whatever next year until it's split 50/50 after taxes.

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4 years

@regularAgent @eugenegu @elonmusk Yeah, kind of wonder how much attention he pays to his patients.

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4 years

@Braulittoo @UHpres They're medical students. They're going to be together, physically, around sick people.

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2 years

@HannahAllison97 @PhDVoice @WriteThatPhD Paperpile is cross platform compatible with a browser (Chrome) based desktop version. As a Windows/Linux/Android user who tried Mendeley and Zotero as a premium user, it beats both.

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2 years

@JohnVsetecka @sasha_zabelski They can make $20,000 a year more than that teaching high school in the Houston area. No advanced degree required and no extra pay for having one.

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2 years

@CandiceMMills I don't know about postdocs, but new TAs start the 2nd week in August and don't get paid until October 1st here. And international students have to pay a lump sum payment for first semester's health insurance in early August before starting.

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7 years

Volunteers need in closed Houston stores to feed rescue animals. I walked to store & it's closed for 2nd day. @Petco #houstonflood

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1 year

@punchingprof @MenryWY Demand not to see it.

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11 years

RT @BMW_FREE #FF @weltenschmid @CaseyFahey @kincaidmj @thebryanmurphy @left_the_stars @cmelakigor @Concretebeatz @radebigman @haroldlgardner

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2 years

@SandraC15782263 @DinaCha12945450 @AnnaKellyWI So, how does cutting from two spaces to one after a period save the planet or democracy? (That's what the reply you criticized was replying to.)

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2 years

@PhDVoice @PostdocVoice In a reference manager. Mendeley has technical issues with large libraries and eliminated their app. Zotero is not as user friendly. @paperpile costs a little, but is superior on UI, portability to other devices/OSes, and technical robustness.

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4 years

Mr. Jones sounded vicious when interrupting my MPSA presentation to bark out the window at nothing. He was asleep when I started. I guess it was my two minute warning.

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2 years

This might be interesting to some of the grad students involved with CRASA @RyanKennedy7 @MyriamShiran @UHPoliticalSci

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2 years

TLDR: I'm hiring TWO Research Policy Positions to join my growing team here at Meta on Privacy & Data Policy. These roles sit at the intersection of evidence-based policymaking, emerging tech (e.g., Metaverse!), and information policy. (1/??)

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4 years

I don't feel like 90 seconds of power at 4 AM and 90 seconds of power at 8 PM really qualifies as a controlled outage. @ERCOT_ISO @GregAbbott_TX @CNPalerts

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1 year

@raulpacheco Well, you have to cite the work you tear apart piece by piece, right?

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2 years

Finally had time to mess around with ChatGPT. It beats the hell out of library catalog and Google Scholar literature searches, at least for finding the first few relevant articles to start backward citation searching.

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2 years

@PhDVoice @PostdocVoice Before Ph.D. 1. Now 11. Academic writing is godawful boring to read and absolute torture to write. The people reading it have lost all senses of humor and wonder at the universe, so any attempt at a clever turn of phrase or anything not utterly dry is heavily criticized.

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2 years

@JoCoMicallef @AlecStapp Not perpetually job hunting is actively harmful to your earnings. *there fixed it*

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10 years

Photo: Kim Garst shares a great bunch of ideas with 30 Tips to Improve Your Social Media Marketing http://t.co/diZBqXRswg

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2 years

@ThePhDPlace Saw a meme that said, "My goal is to have a career I don't need to take a vacation from." My goal is to have a career that I want as *part* of my life, not opposite it.

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2 years

@mattyglesias Did I wake up and the last 7 years not happen? Please.

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1 year

@KingAriPress @Culture_Crit Guernica is instantly gut wrenching. It conveys the essence of war in an instant before the conscious mind can even start to give names to the shapes in the image. Picasso's style lends itself well to the disturbing. I'm not sure it can be beautiful.

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3 years

@PriceMargaret @mlstantial Per OP 40 people saw it happen at a public event.

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1 year

I was in grad student mode and went to the SC to get supper. Returning to the office I got a "Hey professor" from a student from last fall, then one from a current student. Then I did the math. Over 1% of the students in the university are currently taking a class from me.

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1 year

@sweatybikeman @ThePhDPlace @HKBradshaw Yeah, but coding and data cleaning are the biggest obstacles to people who understand their field and are trying to apply stats to their data. There are others who don't know what variance is. That's a different story, but they shouldn't be at the thesis stage.

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2 years

steps in teaching how to do it. For example, I don't get people teaching introductory programming courses who do things like this 15 minutes into the course: Python - import pandas as pd R - install.packages(lubridate) 15 minutes into an introductory course, you should...

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2 years

@RobertLepenies @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter "Do what you love, the money will follow." 🤣

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1 year

@jayvanbavel The rise of helicopter parenting?

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10 years

12 Cost Cutting Ideas for Your Small Business to Save Money & Reduce Expenses - As a small business owner,... http://t.co/VcYaA2iQFK

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1 year

@ijscreme @ashleyruba_phd No, but apparently a lot of academics have no idea what it's like outside the ivory tower.

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2 years

@PhDVoice @PostdocVoice Amazing how much of this is about pay when most senior faculty are progressives who politically oppose underpayment the unskilled while being perfectly willing to pay near poverty wages to college graduates that work for them.

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1 year

@cmotpow Sometimes signals have value beyond their immediate impact.

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11 years

My daily stats: 3 new followers, 1 new unfollowers via http://www.justunfollow.com/?r=td

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1 year

@raulpacheco Yes.

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5 years

@to70no @vividneon @UHouston UH doesn't have married or grad student housing. It has limited undergrad housing compared to the size of the university. Adults live off campus, away from mommy, daddy, or Resident Assistants. It is an 80% commuter campus.

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4 years

@patriot4fr33 @UHpres A. She's clearly not in Houston if you check out the picture. B. For the 1 millionth time, it's okay to go outside. The air is not poison.

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1 year

@Simon_the_Pratt @punchingprof @MenryWY Well, this is one more argument against reference letters. Are there any valid arguments for finding three people who like you as a job qualification?

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2 years

@stelifanie PowerPoint requires too much hand eye coordination. Typing is easier.

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2 years

@ozerthinking Someone in academia is concerned about that? Are they hiring?

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2 years

$20-30k. 🤣

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2 years

Dear PhD programs that pay $20-30k/yr & force students to sign docs that they "won't work a 2nd job": Everyone works a 2nd job anyways. If you don't want us working 2nd jobs just...oh IDK...pay us enough? Grad schools are so out of touch with reality JS @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter

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1 year

@HKBradshaw Yeah, that's a completely different story from someone who, for example, understands instrumental variable analysis or mediation analysis but can't make heads or tails of how to do them in R even with the package documentation.

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5 years

Want to earn my long term business? Compete on safety. Require customers wear masks now and every flu season. Consider other measures for employee and customer safety, too. #COVID19 #SafeShopping @WholeFoods @WholeFoodsPR @HEB @kroger @Randalls_Stores

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4 years

@ArtAcevedo But still release without bail, right?

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3 years

Haven't heard a peep from @UHouston about this. Is BCBSTX going to discount the student health plan since it just lost most of its already ridiculously low value?

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3 years

For the past six months, Memorial Hermann Health System has been negotiating with BlueCross BlueShield of Texas (BCBSTX) for new contracts that more appropriately cover the care our hospitals and facilities provide across Greater Houston, in addition to (1/5)

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1 year

@academic_exit Almost

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10 years

Photoset: betype: Startup Vitamins by Giuliano Rusciano http://t.co/jhF3K63gcy

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6 years

@UHpres A shame not every student graduating with a 4.0 was invited.

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1 year

@stelifanie I use a five year old Dell G5 15 with memory upgraded to 32gb. My next computer will be a new version of the same. Less expensive than a Mac with the same power.

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1 year

@_AlvinChristian My dream dissertation committee...nah, I'm good.

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6 years

Asked for the @blueapron box to be delivered to the apartment, not the office. It was delivered to the office with no notice it had been delivered. Had to carry the box 1200 feet. No instructions to @FedEx were printed on the box. For this reason @blueapron has been chopped.

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3 years

Enjoying the S'mores and about to watch horror flicks in a cabin in the woods just northwest of Houston. #getawayoften @getaway_house Navasota, TX.

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12 years

RT @BMW_FREE #Gratitude @valuedmerchants @dsniper1337 @ImmersionFD @sarinsuares @newsj44 @CaseyFahey @Talljames_atx @TixSix @studentinlife

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9 years

📷 newstartupideas: Birdleap helps established content marketers to promote their content to their ideal...

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2 years

My pet peeve with teaching of programming languages, especially those used heavily for stats work (a 🧵): Programming is a step-by-step process. If you want to work on data, you load it first. If you skip steps, the computer can't perform the next step. But teachers, skip...

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3 years

Or even Canada right now...

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3 years

Can someone explain what the argument is for not exporting our spoiling supply of AZ vaxes to India, or lifting the embargo on the component materials? Is it just pure nationalism? Is there any good faith argument there? India clearly needs help that we could provide.

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4 years

@chantsninety @UHpres Because the Third Ward is known for money. 😝

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1 year

@kerntallett @ThePhDPlace Textbooks -> academic articles

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4 years

Texas Women's University got a Covid19 vaccine allocation for students, faculty, and staff. Why hasn't University of Houston? @UHpres @UHStudentHealth

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5 years

@hjhickey_1 @abc13houston Calm down. Stop panicmongering.

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6 years

Horrible customer service experience with Magazine Express, Inc. @TheEconomist and @Amazon this company is badly your hurting your reputation. @AmazonHelp your phone service didn't improve the situation.

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4 years

@jackandmarina @UHpres Except going outside for exercise has been specifically exempted in all the stay home orders. Learn to read past the headline.

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2 years

@ben_golub Idk about economics, but in poli sci the increasing 6 year norm is more about academic hiring requiring publication and teaching experience even at small schools than about people not being able to produce a job market paper.

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6 years

Still looking for great customer experience stories in Houston. My goal is to share more examples of doing customer experience right than doing it wrong!

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4 years

How does Harris County have leftover vaccine supplies to donate when people in Phase 1b on their waitlist are still...waiting? @HarrisCoJudge @GregAbbott_TX @TexasDSHS

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