The thing is, AI is really good at doing executives' jobs - synthesizing information, writing memos filled with meaningless jargon, suggesting directions for policy. So executives assume it's good at other people's jobs too!
The successful candidate will be a cross-disciplinary historian of infectious disease and historical epidemiologist whose research advances understanding of pandemics and epidemic disease across time, including how environmental and climatic forces shape patterns of transmission, vulnerability, societal response, and resilience. The appointment will foster a long-term program of scholarship and training at the interface of history, epidemiology, environmental science, and clinical infectious diseases.
JOB: Associate Professor/Professor, History of Medicine, McMaster University
Cross-appointed with Division of Infectious Diseases
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This is amazing.
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Useable AND attractive public toilets!!
And they stay open in parks outside working hours/summer.
Absolutely! It sounds like the rules have been eased for Ireland and Australia, but agree that it's problematic in terms of the GFA www.news.com.au/travel/trave...
I think this is a case of policy being made in the UK without anyone asking or seriously attempting to answer the question "o.k. how many dual nationals are there out there, where do they live and how will this impact them?"
Pretty hard to enforce a dual nationality policy if people don't know they're dual nationals!
That's much bigger than the number of people who report that they have dual Canada/UK citizenship in the census (back of the envelope calculations based on this article www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recen... - 26 million citizens by birth, 3.7% have multiple citizenships, 10% of those are from the UK)
This data is old but suggests there are at least a quarter million people born in Canada who are British by descent. www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recen...
Most recent data I could find is for 2006, when there were 386,155 people born in Canada to a father born in the UK. Even if current number is substantially lower due to changing immigration patterns, this is still a lot people who are technically dual nationals but may never have held a UK passport
Statistics Canada used to publish this info but this 2016 Census table is no longer available and I couldn't find anything comparable for the 2021 Census. Can't pull it off the 2021 PUMFs either.
Really interested to know how many Canadians have a British-born father or (post 1983) mother, and thus are technically dual nationals, even if they've never held a British passport. How will this be enforced for them?
And the people who you'd like to take advantage of the program, ie cash poor house rich older folks, are often reluctant to take on the debt so won't defer
Smart analysis of what the Epstein files tell us about how patriarchy works www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Did you catch a screenshot or can you get Google to do it again? This is super interesting from an AI search perspective
What most non-economists don't know is that she first became notorious for this article, which claimed that missing girls in China were due to Hepatitis not sex selection. Thoroughly debunked but not retracted. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Thanks for this, will put on my reading list!
Also: "As a rule of thumb, coefficients should only use the first two or three places to the left or right of the decimal point." Yes! Replacing 0.1234*** with 0.12a (use a or bold to indicate significance) saves so much space. And the 4th place to the left of the decimal point does not matter.
This is especially important if your reader is someone who would rather be doing something else e.g. referee 2, PhD committee member 3. That 5 minutes spent deciphering your cryptic abbreviations is 5 minutes of my life gone. You stole it from me.
Especially this one: "Use self-explanatory labels for your explanatory variables. Cryptic abbreviations or symbols from the model section force the reader to page back and forth to understand your results."
An oldie but goodie: Keith Head's 10 commandments for regression tables
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Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
So *bring your nice indoor shoes with you in a bag* and change when you arrive. This is what people in snowy places do all the time.
Or struggling with heart problems that suddenly got worse after a COVID infection...
Stunning just how recent the epidemic of mass shootings in the US is
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