Tag: Natural resources

After 5 years researching the garment industry in Bangladesh, @NYUSternBHR examines the new frontier in low-wage manufacturing – #Ethiopia. There's still time to learn from mistakes in Bangladesh & generate value for all stakeholders. Read our report: https://t.co/fYOqSkKciC

— NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights (@NYUSternBHR) May 7, 2019

“@Facebook Says It Already Deleted More Than 2 Billion Fake Accounts This Year”, but @AuthorPMBarrett questions how efficient they can be if they remain opaque in their methods. Read more in this @Vice article. https://t.co/0C9ARcHGsA

— NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights (@NYUSternBHR) May 29, 2019

Prof Haran Segram explains the difference between a direct listing and an #IPO, via @businessinsider: https://t.co/642D4gBxud

— NYU Stern (@NYUStern) June 26, 2019

"The Case for Strengthening Automatic #Fiscal Stabilizers" – Check out the latest @MoneyBanking1 #blog post from Prof @kschoenh: https://t.co/5Fn4LNRpIv

— NYU Stern (@NYUStern) June 25, 2019

Philly car traffic slows buses to the point that it imposes "$21 million in additional SEPTA bus operating costs associated with maintaining the same level of service at slower speeds."

In other words, Philly needs more bus lanes! https://t.co/Lxmcn5vCGb

— TransitCenter (@TransitCenter) June 26, 2019

A year after its Cap Remap bus network redesign, which tripled the number of frequent routes, the growth of Austin transit ridership keeps picking up momentum — 11.5% increase in May: https://t.co/rNIgl35ldn

— TransitCenter (@TransitCenter) June 25, 2019

"Mitchell Moss predicted…the city might see only a modest decline in traffic, as ppl either absorb the cost and keep driving, or switch to services like @uber & @Lyft.
'We're not going to see people abandon their cars to get into the subway,' he said."https://t.co/0OuQOupvjI

— Rudin Transpo Ctr (@NYURudin) April 3, 2019

“Right now, OMNY is an efficiency and modernization improvement,” says Sarah Kaufman, associate director of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation. “But really, it’s feeding into this great potential for data and creative payment.” https://t.co/T24aDD03E6

— Rudin Transpo Ctr (@NYURudin) June 3, 2019

#NYUWagner Professor Patrick Sharkey recently talked to @CityLab about how the drop in crime has transformed American cities. https://t.co/sVAQf7AoLf pic.twitter.com/rrVaRd98Cc

— NYU Wagner (@NYUWagner) June 20, 2019

"Former Pres. Richard Nixon is making a comeback, this time as congressional Dems mull impeachment proceedings against Pres. Trump," says @PolitiFact in an article featuring Timothy Naftali, professor at #NYUWagner and former director of the @NixonLibrary. https://t.co/RNT60qu27u pic.twitter.com/iFIRQ2WJ3o

— NYU Wagner (@NYUWagner) June 21, 2019

Prof. Scott Hemphill talks to @jacobbunge about the Justice Department's investigation of the chicken industry: https://t.co/jUl4IVViZ7

— NYU Law (@nyulaw) June 26, 2019

In Iancu v. Brunetti, the Supreme Court struck down a federal law preventing businesses from registering scandalous or immoral trademarks—and cited an amicus brief by Profs. Barton Beebe and @JeanneFromer: https://t.co/ubMgHVs4Jk pic.twitter.com/qfomPOtnEF

— NYU Law (@nyulaw) June 26, 2019

With the Internet now a global battlefield, how serious a threat do cyberweapons pose to America’s economy and infrastructure? @Jason_Healey discusses "The Age of Cyberwarfare" in a Q&A with @columbiamag: https://t.co/Z6NM65dtOw

— Columbia | SIPA (@ColumbiaSIPA) June 10, 2019

With the #voting system under stress, Columbia professors discuss eight things they want every reader to know on the central mechanism of US #democracy. https://t.co/6EjLKYihZt

— ColumbiaSocialSci (@ColumbiaSocSci) May 8, 2019

What do Darwin, Einstein, and Beethoven have in common? They all generated great ideas during walks, says Professor Willie Pietersen. https://t.co/8F6Iqn5icF

— Columbia B-School (@Columbia_Biz) June 7, 2019

Coffee Prices Plunge Even Though We Can’t Stop Drinking the Stuff

Read more:https://t.co/sKgcwHj6KK

— Columbia Economics (@columbia_econ) April 23, 2019

Two new bills in Congress propose a helping hand for a hurting industry https://t.co/NnFvsEwpYb via @cjr

— Columbia Journalism (@columbiajourn) June 13, 2019

“The wealthy often claim special skills, hard work, and . . . personal sacrifice . . . as justifications for the wealth they hold today,” says Professor @KatharinaPistor. “Yet without legal coding, many of these fortunes would have been short-lived.” https://t.co/3YCAXekib6 pic.twitter.com/wrsl8w4uL8

— Columbia Law School (@ColumbiaLaw) June 22, 2019

Professor @rebeccamslayton of @STSCornell analyzes the potential for #hackers to target U.S. utilities: https://t.co/FKrukjrhls pic.twitter.com/b08P3teE5W

— CornellArts&Sciences (@CornellCAS) June 17, 2019

Professor @ithacamcg examines the impacts of #Trump's attempts to limit #asylum seekers: https://t.co/SHSBkGpeId pic.twitter.com/WvTFbxF4bC

— CornellArts&Sciences (@CornellCAS) June 14, 2019

Professor @barrystrauss explores the "profound consequences" of Americans being indifferent toward the study of #history: https://t.co/gMrHrvYROz pic.twitter.com/bB8NIlgLfG

— CornellArts&Sciences (@CornellCAS) May 29, 2019

Assistant Professor Baron highlights the key but neglected role of banks, credit booms, and over-lending ahead of recessions. @ineteconomicshttps://t.co/L7HFgXNWRN

— Johnson at Cornell (@CornellMBA) June 23, 2019

Neel Inamdar, #CornellSHA ’90, shares the lessons he’s learned about the #business of attracting #sustainable investment.@CornellSGE https://t.co/m9DEHEeLQt

— Johnson at Cornell (@CornellMBA) June 16, 2019

As the #Trump admin and #Congress debate policies to encourage investment in #infrastructure, can both parties unite?

The Public Benefit Infrastructure #Investment proposal which takes advantage of #tax credits may offer a solution: https://t.co/w4r0NLxXTD

— Cornell Policy Review (@CornellPolicy) May 3, 2019

How does decentralization affect #development?

CPR Associate Editor Arianna Rebancos interviews Dr. @JPFaguet, a professor at the London School of Economics, and explores this question, closely examining #decentralization efforts in #Bolivia. https://t.co/2rszoiFHme

— Cornell Policy Review (@CornellPolicy) February 12, 2019

.@rch371 on the Illegality of Trump's Plan to 'Demote' Fed Chairman, via @Reuters. https://t.co/8JchFPDNRE

— Cornell Law School (@CornellLaw) June 18, 2019

.@zclopton op-ed: How states can step in when Trump doesn't enforce laws, via @politico. https://t.co/VPuyHvQW2p

— Cornell Law School (@CornellLaw) June 18, 2019

.@dorfonlaw on executive privilege, via @TIME. https://t.co/W1XwkoXG8x

— Cornell Law School (@CornellLaw) June 14, 2019

Watch Fmr IMF Acting Managing Director and @KissingerCenter Distinguished Scholar John Lipsky on WealthTrack @ConsueloMack @PBS discussing govt debt & global financial stability @IMFNewshttps://t.co/TALuaBThVz

— Johns Hopkins | SAIS (@SAISHopkins) May 15, 2019

Pressure may get #Iran to consider talking, but there has to be give and take for negotiations to begin, writes Dean @vali_nasr in an op-ed for @nytimes. https://t.co/PzVZMAJzWo

— Johns Hopkins | SAIS (@SAISHopkins) June 17, 2019

Bloomberg Professor @jessfanzo tackled challenges to food and water security at a seminar co-hosted by @JohnsHopkinsAHW and @SAISHopkins: https://t.co/B2SqBicSxk

— Bloomberg Professors (@JHU_BDPs) May 23, 2019

Interested in possible future #scenarios of #Russia & #West relations? Strong panel discussion tonight w/ @DanSHamilton @Meisterdgap @Julie_C_Smith @usv1980 @Kpelczynska @GermanyDiplo at @BoschAcademy! Made by Robert Bosch Center @dgapev & @SAISHopkins: https://t.co/0xKmzqsVbP pic.twitter.com/ScGzEH6AOD

— DGAP (@dgapev) May 28, 2019

Choices Scholar @nargesbajoghli discusses common misunderstandings about #Iran in one of our 1,700 free videos with top experts. @SAISHopkins @WatsonInstitute @BrownUniversity #sschat #history #worldgeochat #WHAP https://t.co/UFGHc3wJqc

— The Choices Program at Brown University (@ChoicesProgram) May 20, 2019

Are foreign fighters as helpful as we think for jihadi groups? @dbyman doesn't think so, on @slate: https://t.co/AXCAqnqbtV

— GU Security Studies (@GeorgetownCSS) May 30, 2019

ICYMI: Elliott School professor Sharon Squassoni was quoted in @NPR's article, "As Saudi Arabia Builds A Nuclear Reactor, Some Worry About Its Motives" https://t.co/j4g0Ybbyts

— The Elliott School (@ElliottSchoolGW) May 7, 2019

#weaponizedinterdependence: "Globalization has created global economic networks… countries are now examining these networks to find their weak points and exploit them for geostrategic gain." @henryfarrell @ANewman_forward @gwucolumbian @ForeignPolicy https://t.co/8EJYIsz02J

— GWU Sigur Center (@gwusigurcenter) June 3, 2019

The continued failure of President Trump to deliver on his infrastructure promises, despite the fact that it seems to be an area ripe for bipartisan cooperation, demonstrates just how complicated it's become to upgrade America's roads, bridges, and trains. https://t.co/5IDoNhPqqT

— Origins (@OriginsOSU) May 28, 2019

An estimated 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco #OnThisDay in 1906, killing more than 3,000 people and destroying large parts of the city. A century later, how much better are we at preparing for natural disasters? https://t.co/EwlSw2buhK

— Origins (@OriginsOSU) April 18, 2019

CGEG faculty associate Charles Calomiris comment on if easier to read Fed statements will cause stock market volatility to stop. Read more below. https://t.co/PaGmtajKXg

— Columbia | CGEG (@ColumbiaCGEG) April 4, 2019

"It's time to ask more from theologians." Read the interview with @mattcroasmun of @YaleCFC and YDS in @FaithLeadership. https://t.co/FC7gM0qykc pic.twitter.com/XaQ4CQ48Hg

— Yale Divinity School (@YaleDivSchool) May 31, 2019

National Geographic: The Arctic Ocean—facts and information https://t.co/PNLjtH668t

— Arctic Law Watch (@UWLaw_Arctic) March 30, 2019

CLEE's Climate Director @EthanElkind discusses @MayorOfLA plan to reduce LA's carbon emissions and waste by 2050. #climatechange #GreenNewDealLA #zerowaste @KPCC https://t.co/g1L3CQR3mM

— Berkeley Law CLEE (@BerkeleyLawCLEE) April 29, 2019

Should the next President declare climate change a national emergency? Assuming the courts uphold Trump, there's a real case for using the same powers to fight climate change. https://t.co/LvAUyn1FjI

— Dan Farber (@dfarber) March 15, 2019

As the venture capital scene in Madison climbs, many VC firms are increasingly selling their ability to help companies grow.

“Venture capitalists are competing with each other to be more entrepreneur-friendly,” says WSB's @jon_eckhardt in @CapTimes.https://t.co/jcfl1n3C7x

— WI School of Business Research (@WSBresearch) April 5, 2019

Does the U.S. have the wrong Middle East strategy? Belfer Center scholars including @GrahamTAllison, @Joe_Nye, @saharnow, @DEsfandiary, David Petraeus, and @ArianeTabatabai share their insights in this @ForeignPolicy survey.https://t.co/zz330PC4GT

— Belfer Center (@BelferCenter) January 10, 2019

And now with an audio version https://t.co/9iXNOY7s3j that makes me sound 10 IQ points smarter and immeasurably more certain about my argument.

— Dani Rodrik (@rodrikdani) April 26, 2018

“…finding qualified people for transformative public services isn’t a competition on salary or title, but on impact and mission,” writes @mspec on how to build better digital service teams for the @hks_digital 2018 State of Digital Transformation report https://t.co/KoLt8HYQ0u

— digital HKS (@hks_digital) January 4, 2019

LISTEN: Professor @samuelmoyn was interviewed on the @lawfareblog podcast this week. He and Jack Goldsmith ’89 discussed the successes and failures of liberal internationalism as well as the future of the liberal international order. https://t.co/NPo9Pmv02I

— Yale Law School (@YaleLawSch) February 7, 2019

Some striking comments from @rodrikdani, distinguishing between labor mobility, immigration policy & human rights policy. "The left has to get over its hang up that any temporary work visa programme would be a fundamental violation of human rights". https://t.co/nxgBZHQSPe

— Brian Levy (@Brianlevy387) April 26, 2018

Be Smart,Cool,Strong,Flexible. Be Together. @MarkGaleotti recommends how to deal with Russia's Heavy Metal Diplomacy https://t.co/UmVV9w8rOK pic.twitter.com/nNfxiiX6Ls

— ECFR Wider Europe (@ECFRWiderEurope) January 16, 2017

HarvardCorpGovPosted: How to Be a Good Board Chair, https://t.co/dgAEc97SJr by INSEAD #corpgov #boardsofdirectors #CEOs https://t.co/1rMnEGbRjM

— CorpGovern (@CGGovernance) April 24, 2018

Knowledge workers spend 80-85% of their time attending meetings – virtual & face to face – & responding to requests https://t.co/RfVN5i0FLe

— Stanford Business (@StanfordGSB) October 13, 2016

Stanford Law Professor @persily comments on @StanfordCISAC's @alexstamos, Facebook's former chief security officer, and on how the internet may threaten democracy: https://t.co/Gjgm8jx5bq

— StanfordLaw (@StanfordLaw) February 8, 2019

New: Do politics have a place in Fed appointments? https://t.co/QaeMqFXrk4 pic.twitter.com/xVD8tXteW6

— Chicago Booth Review (@chicagoboothrev) May 31, 2019

Record-breaking temperatures & below average snowpack lead #WAgov @JayInslee to declare #drought state of emergency. For British Columbians, this feels all too close to home https://t.co/mImQHMpiil #climatechange #bcpoli

— West Coast Env. Law (@WCELaw) May 22, 2019

In @cjr, @EthanZ and collaborators at @sciencespo and @i_montaigneEN consider how French media realities differ from those in the US. "The media in the US is breaking apart from left to right…but media in France is breaking from top to bottom." https://t.co/ly56YZCBPx

— MIT Media Lab (@medialab) May 14, 2019

The folks at @agilityrobotics, including @CMU_Robotics alums Jonathan Hurst and Damion Shelton, are in the news re plans to pair their legged robots with Ford's self-driving vans https://t.co/zFxnwVGQM6 The @OregonState spinoff has a Pittsburgh office pic.twitter.com/F878XQuBqm

— CMU School of Computer Science (@SCSatCMU) May 23, 2019

https://twitter.com/LinderPG/status/1136634669175324672

Mitigating biases in #AI often rely on access to sensitive demographic attributes, this post describes a novel approach that doesn't, co-authored by @mariadearteaga & Alexey Romanov @MSFTResearch, awarded Best Thematic Paper at #NAACL2019https://t.co/grBHzBVQGe

— Machine Learning Department at CMU (@mldcmu) June 3, 2019

Technology adopters come in groups, says @CMU_ECE’s Raj Rajkumar. Check out his look at the “long process” of building public trust in AV’s.https://t.co/2YVr1ALFP9

— CMU Engineering (@CMUEngineering) April 26, 2019

CyLab’s Secure and Private IoT Initiative (IoT@CyLab) has broken ground as the first round of funded proposals have been announced. Check them out! https://t.co/WIdL2H2CRH

— CyLab (@CyLab) April 30, 2019

Semiliquid lithium-based metal anode could create safer, higher capacity lithium batteries. New material developed by @CMU_Chem @MatyPolymerLab and @CMUEngineering @CMUEnergy, in @Joule_CP. https://t.co/ReRNfiQPmK

— CMU Mellon College of Science (@CmuScience) June 13, 2019

First-ever successful mind-controlled #roboticarm without #brainimplants @carnegiemellon @SciRobotics https://t.co/qJYM6KRXvq

— TechXplore (@TechXplore_com) June 19, 2019

Jay Turner, professor and vice dean of education, was featured in a piece by @cenmag promoting research that revealed certain trees are better than others at removing pollutants from the air. https://t.co/ebPYzOqOFO

— McKelvey Engineering @ WashU (@WashUengineers) June 10, 2019

“Black holes are among the most perplexing objects in the universe,” says @thejunaverse calling them “math incarnate in a physical form.” Her @sdssurveys-V will map more than half a million of them. WATCH: https://t.co/Wi8ALcE13R #TEDTalks #TED2019 pic.twitter.com/WudyG19wXR

— Carnegie Science (@carnegiescience) June 7, 2019

The similarities between food and drug addictions are striking. https://t.co/cHxcWFYkne

— Keck Medicine of USC (@KeckMedUSC) June 11, 2019

How can we use machine learning to improve climate models? Paul O'Gorman, a professor with @eapsMIT expands on how he is reducing uncertainty. https://t.co/pvO9p3Ptcl

— MIT ClimateCoLab (@ClimateCoLab) February 19, 2019

Hats off to #CoMotionSupported @UW spinouts and #CoMotionLabs #startups on @BuiltInSeattle's 50 Startups to Watch! @AAlphaBio, @jeevawireless, @WiBotic, @xnor_ai, @JargonJourney, @polly_ai, & @OndaOrigins via @quintendo64 #SeattleStartups #UWInnovates https://t.co/RxD26yyxFN

— UW CoMotion (@UWCoMotion) March 15, 2019

“Most #plastics were never made to be recycled,” says Peter Christensen, a chemist at @BerkeleyLab and author of a new study in the journal @NatureChemistry. “But we have discovered a new way to assemble plastics." https://t.co/QKZQHaXn9y

— Sustainability Times (@ST_Sustainable) May 11, 2019

Take a peek at Marie Skłodowska Curie's notebook from 1899-1902, containing notes from experiments on radioactive substances. The notebook is still radioactive and will be for 1,500 years.

Photo: Wellcome Images. #NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/7JdcxF0Exk

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) May 13, 2019

“In the lab, we’re discovering that nature can do chemistry we never dreamed was possible. We’re adding whole swathes of the periodic table to the chemistry of the biological world.” — Frances Arnold, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry https://t.co/WO1oyqK1Nt

— NYT Science (@NYTScience) May 28, 2019

Entangled aluminium ion is world’s best timekeeper https://t.co/gN0VSzGLJ3

— Physics World (@PhysicsWorld) June 6, 2019

.@patagonia has changed the wetsuit manufacturing game by pioneering suits made entirely from a natural rubber material called Yulex. It’s better for the planet and comes from sources that are @FSC_IC certified by the @RnfrstAlliance. https://t.co/SNkI8lJiHA via @the_inertia

— Rainforest Alliance (@RnfrstAlliance) October 3, 2018

At Hog Island Oyster Company, a Certified @BCorporation in Tomales Bay, CA, wet clothes mean a long, cold day. Our Hose-Down Slickers keep you dry so you can keep on keeping on: https://t.co/9oPPSFxuSs pic.twitter.com/s0CesXv3RN

— Patagonia (@patagonia) April 30, 2019

The winners are about to be announced! We’ll be live-streaming the award ceremony of the 2019 #PatagoniaCaseComp winners at 4:30pm on our Youtube page: https://t.co/i75giiMqmP

— Berkeley-Haas CRB (@respbus) April 19, 2019

Nice @nytimes call-out of @BerkeleyHaas for US’s first zero-waste academic building. https://t.co/oGRpNN2MJB @KevinChou

— Rich Lyons (@richlyons) April 25, 2019

An Economic Perspective on Environmental Justice https://t.co/nUWmw3wAA8 via @energyathaas Catherine Wolfram's insightful piece on the challenges of environmental justice.

— Severin Borenstein (@BorensteinS) May 6, 2019

A groundbreaking study conducted by UW examined vegetable and cheese production in WI, and the effects of nitrogen from wastewater entering the atmosphere and groundwater. https://t.co/CMd8g3z2DX pic.twitter.com/z5Hb3oKWkt

— Nelson Institute (@NelsonInstitute) November 9, 2018

I want some! https://t.co/p9HoOHzlWH

— National DNA Day (@DNAday) April 25, 2019

Hey! Its National @DNAday – we're feeling in a genetics kind of way. But you don't have to dismay, some ancient DNA didn't decay and is still around today. Listen to Svante Pääbo who has some Neanderthal info to convey. #dnaday19https://t.co/LcaYqhiTxU

— Human Origins at SI (@HumanOrigins) April 25, 2019

"Fostering Inclusion in Science Diplomacy" https://t.co/4dgUyA0NU8 by @MollyBrook Assistant Director, Science Diplomacy Center @FletcherSchool @Tufts and Patricia Gruver Barr, Science Attaché Québec Govmt Office in Boston. Great read for all @epfp_iel @HelenJancMalone

— GlobalSTEMClassroom® (@GlobalSTEMClass) December 31, 2018

Instead of detoxing, resolve to eat clean. https://t.co/I3L5B0r2ME

— Keck Medicine of USC (@KeckMedUSC) January 1, 2019

• How are dangerous nanoparticles formed?
• How do they impact our health?
• How can we reduce those impacts?

Dean Bobick sits down with Professor Rajan Chakrabarty, William G. Powderly, MD from @WUSTLmed and David Pui from @UMNews ENG to discuss.https://t.co/5T0dCKils1

— McKelvey Engineering @ WashU (@WashUengineers) November 30, 2018

I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/feUcFnbQ8c Georgia Tech hosts ethics in robotics roundtable

— Robotics@GT (@GTrobotics) October 4, 2018

She's a professor, a researcher, an entrepreneur, and a robotics star. @GeorgiaTech_ECE 's Ayanna Howard is incredible. https://t.co/b0maITLJst

— Georgia Tech College of Engineering (@gatechengineers) August 24, 2017

Like I said yesterday, innovation is in our DNA and a differentiator for @GTAthletics! Love this story about how @GTMBB utilizes the incredible minds and technology at our disposal here at #GaTech! Thanks for writing it, @ksugiuraajc! #TogetherWeSwarm https://t.co/jM4F9oP8Wl

— Todd Stansbury (@GTToddStansbury) February 3, 2018

.@Accenture announced as the first corporate donor for @gtomscyber and invests $500,000 to help close #cybersecurity knowledge gap. https://t.co/xq0fsVjTEM pic.twitter.com/v9PQzQ3Gry

— Georgia Tech ECE (@GeorgiaTech_ECE) December 18, 2018