Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦

PhD PoliSci, fmr investment analyst/advisor. Democracy, institutional design/reform, & Oxford commas. 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 poli. @PercyFuzzyboots Maman. She/her

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

@kadamssl @WellBeforeHQ Please drop the details on the gorgeous turquoise mask!! 😻

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

@LifeWithoutLack It's a very arbitrary list, to be certain. Like they went around the office one day and asked people to name religions, then went with that.

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

If I were cynical about their motivations for doing this, I'd wonder if the inclusion of pacifist Christian denominations on a list that doesn't distinguish between sects of other major faiths is intended to send a message...

[Sean Parnell @SeanParnellASW]

The Office of the Secretary of War is announcing a significant change to the Department’s categorization of religious affiliation. In a long overdue move, we reduced the list from over 200 unmanageable categories to 31. With this move, we are returning to the original intent of collecting this data - to allow our chaplains and religious support personnel to provide the best spiritual care to our warfighters.

This decrease in religious affiliation codes is not designed to make any claims on the legitimacy of any faith or religious belief, nor is it intended to provide a list of “officially approved” religions. Rather, it is designed to allow chaplains to quickly look at the religious composition of their units and determine how they structure resources to best provide for warfighters of all faith groups.

The Department of War places a high value on the First Amendment and the free exercise of religion. Chaplains play an instrumental role in providing spiritual care and facilitating the Warfighters' ability to freely exercise their religion of choice, or no religion at all. With this new change, we believe we can provide the best data to support our chaplains in that effort.

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

@David_Moscrop Probably about equivalent to most financial advisors, but still worse than an index fund 🤷‍♀️

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

@GaryMarcus I can't wait to see South Kored face off against South Korad.

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

The desperation to foist this IPO onto retail investors as quickly as possible, with as few safeguards as possible, often without the ability to say no, should tell you what the institutional money thinks about this company. Retail investors are going to be the exit liquidity.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Fidelity has announced that it is making the SpaceX IPO available to any customer with a retail brokerage account with $2,000 or more in the account (down from up to $500k before).

"SpaceX has decided to reserve a much higher percentage of the offering (up to 30%), which means there should be more shares available to retail clients, which is why we have decided to reduce IPO eligibility for this offering."

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

I've read some critiques of Idiocracy as being classist in what it chooses to depict for the visuals associated with the decline of the American Empire, but...

[Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @Amy_Siskind]

OMG 💔

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

@Arthur_Foxache

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

This is the sort of admission you usually only hear during disciplinary hearings for academic dishonesty.

Yes, you always need to read the sources you cite to verify that they say what you claim they are saying. You never rely on a secondary citation to make that claim.

[Lenka Zdeborova @zdeborova]

@eiszett Have you read all the sources you ever cited? During my PhD we, along with dozens of other papers, cited a paper that I later found did not contain the result for which it was commonly cited. I should be banned I guess.

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

@schwejk_josef If you rely on a secondary source to interpret something, you cite that secondary source's interpretation of it, not the original work. If you want to cite the original work, you go to the original work to verify. This is basic academic procedure that you learn in high school.

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

@Arthur_Foxache I will quadruple check, then check again if I see something else that seems to have a different interpretation. That kind of error is the stuff of grad student nightmares.

Imagine defending your thesis, and you hear a polite cough, "sorry, that's not what that source says" 💀

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

Tfw you see someone who kept mispronouncing their topic throughout their thesis defense (think someone saying "compututor" over and over in Comp Sci) get pushed through the hiring process because of their supervisor's connections 😬

[Rihawf @JohnRihawf]

it shows that getting academic jobs tends to be about relationships, politics and standing with hiring committees rather than merit, accomplishments, skills and/or experience.

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

@sarobertson_ "Canada's number one author" is an odd way of saying "that weird troll on Twitter" 🤷‍♀️

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

@_Zeets "Red pen: where this makes Odysseus look bad" - things you say when you don't understand the Odyssey, or why Wilson made those translation choices.

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

@richmintz I saw a post the other day where the mother was asking how upset she should be that her daughter's roommate didn't text the daughter, who was not in the room, to ask if she had a room key on her, before locking the door and leaving. Not whether to be upset, but how much.

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

@clubbing_guy Yeah, just imagine if they had gone to all that trouble, then we'd be stuck with clean, breathable air all the time, whether we need it or not

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

Thinking back to that brief moment when I naïvely assumed covid school closures were being done in part so they could install the necessary infrastructure for proper air filtration and ventilation. And then they... didn't.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Prof. Joseph Allen confirms the new Hantavirus spreads through the air, making building ventilation critical.

He exposes that most American homes and schools completely lack the necessary filtration.

The Trump administration's failure puts quarantined families at severe risk.

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

iT's iNeViTaBlE!

The insularity and delusion of Silicon Valley Brain has not learned anything from Theranos. Name one other technology that became ubiquitous despite being fundamentally incapable of ever reliably performing the basic function it promises to do.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people
despise them and what they make

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

I find the use of mirrors in paintings fascinating. All those "vain woman admires herself in a mirror" paintings that were popular in the 18th/19th C are actually depicting a woman looking at a (male) artist who labels it vanity; the painting is chastising her for the male gaze.

[Derek Duplessie @dnduplessie]

A dissertation could be written on this George W. Bush self-portrait in which Bush's reflection makes eye contact not with Bush the subject, but instead with Bush the painter (and us). Psychologically deep, I think.

[Dr Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 @HNHughson]

@DJ_ILLIN_PAIN Why do they make their eyes smaller like that? Deliberate or unfortunate side effect?