Kevin Chandra

Research Assistant in Division of Public Policy, HKUST. Current research is in innovation, entrepreneurship, and innovation ecosystems. Indonesian.

[Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy @sppgatech]

“In a world where we’re concerned with the validity of findings, it might be a good thing to have more replication and reproduction,” Georgia Tech science and technology policy expert John Walsh on the decline of ‘disruptive’ science @Nature
https://t.co/4ZfN4J5fDp

[Matt Clancy @mattsclancy]

No single social science paper is decisive, but I really like this one. Seen in conjunction with other papers using a variety of methods, I think the case is strong that something troubling is afoot in science. Thread (references at the end). https://t.co/kxhRDOVnMa

[Davis Kedrosky @dkedrosky]

New paper in Nature Human Behavior: parents of PhDs are 25 times(!) more likely than the general population to also have a PhD.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Why has traditional architecture all around the world disappeared?

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Nobody is grasping the end of the 0 rates regime. Cash is king.
VC Funding is actually down >50%, meaning that all these companies who think cash flow = hitting investors with more $$ will not be able to pay their bills.
As with a Ponzi, you need funding to keep increasing.

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A Brief History of Kids Today Are Spoiled

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[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife

[Yuen Yuen Ang @yuenyuenang]

While Western media is awash with commentary about China's "failures," remember this? A massive pool party in Wuhan 8 months into pandemic, envied by other countries facing exploding infections.

The lessons are -

https://t.co/W6QBXhgIZc

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Good evening. Day 5 after the latest Russian attack on Kyiv. Day 277 of the war. I am president of the Kyiv School of Economics, a former minister of economy of Ukraine, and a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. I left the US for Kyiv 4 days before the war 1/

[William Hurst @wjhurst]

I've been studying various aspects of #protest & contentious #politics in #China for 25 years.

What's happening now is novel, interesting, & potentially quite important. But we need to be careful about drawing conclusions or making predictions. A🧵:
1/22
@CamGeopolitics @NCUSCR

[Alice Su 蘇奕安 @aliceysu]

Our first episode dissects China's narrative that "universal values" are a Western fabrication meant to keep China down. We discuss why China wants a world order based on state sovereignty, without regard for individual rights, and what that would mean
https://t.co/aryPr22Sjr

[Rowland Manthorpe @rowlsmanthorpe]

Long covid has wrecked my life

It’s bad, very bad. But you knew that already

I want to tell you a hopeful story. A story about the things that can be done here and now to mitigate this terrible illness

[Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) @VaishAnanth]

I’m finally ready to talk about the experience of appalling mistreatment we had with peer review of one of our papers.

This was by no means the only time I’ve had to contend with bias in academic publishing, but it definitely is the worst thus far.

A 🧵 (1/n)

[The Jakarta Post @jakpost]

In commemoration of the day, The Jakarta Post would also like to acknowledge some Indonesian heroes who have been overlooked for the government’s official designation.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

what a sentence

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

I see why many would want to pressure Ukraine to "negotiations" (=concessions). At the same time, I think proponents of appeasement do not understand Russian motives at all. The Russian invasion is motivated by *domestic* policy concerns. Which are still valid -> war can't stop

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

[thread] Here is a classic exercise in Disinformation, conducted by the US government through the Washington Post. An article appears that has the following headline: U.S. privately asks Ukraine to show it’s open to negotiate with Russia. It misleads the reader.

[Paul Poast @ProfPaulPoast]

What if genocide, not war, was considered the central problem of International Relations? How would the study of international relations be different?

I ask that question of my Intro to IR students. Here's what we discussed.

[THREAD]

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I'd argue that Google Scholar plays a critical role in modern research. It is free, and it absolutely crushes every other scholarly search engine, including specialized ones 👇

Though it is a bit scary that it seems to be a tiny team & it exists only by the charity of Google...