Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK
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RT @RetractionWatch: Thrilled to announce the creation of the @MicrobiomDigest Elisabeth Bik Science Integrity Fund to provide "funding for…
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@BenPhillips_ANU If you buy a home and live in it, where’s the tax advantage? Only when you sell it to downsize at the end of your life is there one, assuming your house is big enough to downsize. In the meantime, how much *non-deductable* interest has been paid on the loan?
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Looking forward to reading this, as it will provide insights into the rigour of economics methodology. Research methods detail may differ across disciplines, but the basics of causal inference, experimental or quasi-experimental control, & statistics are common to any discipline.
🚨 urban economics research siren 🚨 In an (open access) paper published yesterday, my co-author (@1finaleffort) and I document and assess critiques of the economic evidence on upzoning in Auckland. We find these critiques have little to no merit.
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RT @realBurhanAzeem: I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single…
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@1Seawind @Globalstats11 @EndWokeness What’s with that rubbish in the parentheses? Google can keep that nonsense in the USA - we do not recognise it in Australia.
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@BenPhillips_ANU Perhaps. But then argue on that basis. “It wouldn’t result in all that much revenue” is an argument that could be used against any number of other taxes & charges. It’s not a good argument.
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@ArashKheradvar @Diane_Tober @mbeisen For all intents and purposes, yes, even if legally it is to the institution.
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@JmarrMarr @fbongiornoanu @c_s_wallace $$$$$ Governments in Australia have turned universities into international commercial enterprises. Vice Chancellors have gleefully supported that change.
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RT @AvidCommentator: This chart from the RBA is really something. Australian East Coast domestic gas consumption is lower in nominal terms…
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RT @DamienCahill8: As a graduate and former staff member of Wollongong Uni, the reckless destruction of this great public institution by a…
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RT @TonySheldonNSW: Nothing says ‘good governance’ like your Vice-Chancellor juggling roles with the consultancy cutting your own staff whi…
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Should university staff, students, and the Australian public be able to expect high ethical standards from university leaders? What does it do to a university’s standing if its leadership is untrustworthy & ethically bereft?
Turns out the job-cutting Uni of Wollongong Vice-Chancellor Dewar has continued working for consultancy firm KordaMentha during his tenure, despite UOW saying he had been on unpaid leave from the company which is contracted to review the uni's operations. Disgraceful. @NTEUnion
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RT @DamienCahill8: What we know: 1. Dewar is a partner in consultacy firm KordaMentha which specialises, among other things, in 'restructu…
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RT @DamienCahill8: Turns out the job-cutting Uni of Wollongong Vice-Chancellor Dewar has continued working for consultancy firm KordaMentha…
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@rationalaussie Yeah, no, it won’t. It’ll be far superior to humans in some tasks - already is. But “smarter”? No.
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@VictorishB123 @cathleen28 @DefinitelyHexed @EricTopol @nick_rapp So people wealthy enough to pay for good health care* and thus survive until 80 in the USA live longer than other countries? That's survivorship bias. *yes, also wealthy enough to avoid violent and/or drug-related deaths
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@DrCameronMurray Then the public can spend a lifetime working towards a retirement funded by the aged pension, only to have the government of the day decide to reduce it. I’d love for Australia to have a good public pension system, but this nation does “lower taxes” not better social provision.
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