Andrew Smith

Associate Professor of Responsible Business; University of Birmingham. Tweets reflect my views only.

[Andrew Smith @andrewhistorian]

@robkhenderson I wonder if marital status influences the degree of bias of the male evaluators.

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@Kaleidicworld @GailK04 @AllisonPearson As I say in this piece about Burnham's devolution plan, powers need to be devolved to smaller units that Burnham has in mind-to boroughs not metro mayors. https://t.co/Ws91q3pGhh

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@DougSaunders Hi Doug-- during a recent heatwave there was a spirited debate on social science X about which is worse: excess heath deaths in Europe versus excess gun deaths across the Atlantic. Argument was partly about numbers, partly about moral weighting of deaths at different ages.

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@AndreBeltempo @mattyglesias @robinsonmeyer In my limited experiences, MTL houses have radiators as well as the baseboard heaters you mentioned. You can't effectively cool a house with radiators. Downside relative to forced-air systems. Good point about Northern CA

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@notoserfdom @LoftusSteve UK climate change spending has been massively biased towards mitigation (UK trying to prevent world from warming up) and not adaptation (preparing the UK for the nearly inevitable rise in global temperatures). Question is why the UK has that bias. post-imperial hubris?

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@mattyglesias For complex historical reasons related to colonialism, Europeans dramatically over-estimate the ability of their government to control climate change and the world more generally. Europe and European-desended people once ruled 90% of all land on earth.

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@lugaricano Yes, if they are working in a domain where people in industry don't do research or if they are doing some type of research that doesn't really require frontier models.

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@TheGhostSleepi1 That's true. I live in the UK and am in good health. At this stage in life it makes sense to avoid purchasing both an AC and a snowblower.

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@mark_slapinski @tomhfh I believe the figure is about 75% in California.

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@Daniel_Sugarman Will @Channel4News correct this claim in a subsequent broadcast? https://t.co/ji62WdzCZU

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@ChrisMartzWX That's not fair Chris. Many of the people who are, rightly, challenging this claim are academics like me. https://t.co/ji62WdzCZU

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@ChrisMartzWX No

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@s8mb Who is the professor?!

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@roboboy111 @MikePMoffatt How is that a problem?

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@MikePMoffatt What's an example of a basic fact/failure to correct an error?

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@PerBylund Luxury belief system

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@nationalpost Why aren't people talking more about the antisemitism of the shooter? As a non-Jewish person who has recently noticed, been dismayed by, the rise of antisemitism, I'm struck by the lack of attention to his comments about Jews.

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@jbsteinberg Based on my personal observations today, it may explain a lot.

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@ggreenwald But the manifesto does mention Jews quite a bit.