Neil Lewis, Jr.
Behavioral, intervention, and meta-scientist.
Assistant professor @Cornell & @WeillCornell.
Columnist @ScienceCareers.
Contributor @FiveThirtyEight.
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Technology matters, but how real are our virtual lives at work and play?
NEW YORK - As our lives become more virtual with technology, how do gadgets define our identity at work, home and social circles at this unique moment in history?
Neil Lewis, Jr.
"Remote work is not new..What is new is the experience..salaried worker now working from home..figuring out how to juggle..everything..That’s the thing about this pandemic - it drove so many of us to the realities that gig economy workers live every day."
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I Will Vote
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Permafrost Melt Could Destroy a Third of All Arctic Infrastructure, Affecting as Many as 4 Million People
All the glue that has held the Arctic together for millennia is being dissolved by climate change, right down to the ground beneath millions of people’s feet.
The fight is for democracy
The stakes of this election are so high because the system itself is at stake.
Neil Lewis, Jr.
Well, given the news of the day, it seems like an appropriate time to share this article:
"This is an election — and more than an election, it is a politics — increasingly defined by a fight over what the rules of the game should be."
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The Way I See It Official Site | The Way I See It Tickets | The Way I See It Trailer
Inspired by the New York Times #1 bestseller comes Dawn Porter's The Way I See It, an unprecedented look behind the scenes of two of the most iconic Presidents in American History, Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan, as seen through the eyes of renowned...
Neil Lewis, Jr.
If you need something to lift your spirits, I highly recommend watching The Way I See It. It's an inspiring reminder of what this country was, and could be again. Thank you, @PeteSouza.
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Scholars talk about being Black on campus in 2020
Scholars discuss what it’s like to be a Black professor in 2020, who should be doing antiracist work on campus and why diversity interventions that attempt to “fix” Black academics for a rigged game miss the point entirely.
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
“You have an issue, you bring it to a nontenured faculty member who is a [POC], or a woman, and they have to do all the heavy lifting..Everyone’s calling them all the time, they can’t get enough work done and you’ve already set that person up for failure.”
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Interventions May Have Lasting Benefits
The benefits of interventions—actions or policies intended to elicit a change in a person’s life—may either be lasting or fade over time.
Not throwing away our shot
Over the past few weeks, prominent scientific publications have condemned President Donald Trump's record on science. This is unprecedented. Although my predecessors at Science have always held elected U.S. officials accountable (but could not make...
Neil Lewis, Jr.
"...why do we write like we're running out of time? Because recent events show that the voice of the scientific community can lead to positive change."
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What Scandinavians Can Teach Us About Embracing Winter
In the pandemic, rather than feeling depressed that the arrival of cold weather will mean you’ll be isolated indoors, try adopting a positive winter mind-set.
Ithaca announces sweeping faculty cuts
Saying the coronavirus accelerated an ongoing need to rightsize its faculty, college plans to eliminate 130 full-time teaching jobs.
Neil Lewis, Jr.
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"Ultimately say as to who gets cut, where, lies with [Provost] and other administrators. Affected faculty members on one-year contracts will be notified by March 1. Tenured faculty members, if any are eliminated, will be notified after that."
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Chris Christie says he spent 7 days in ICU before recovering from Covid
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday he spent seven days in an intensive care unit before recovering from Covid-19 in a new statement that details the severity of his case and urges people to take the pandemic seriously.
Autoethnographies of a Pandemic from Brooklyn's Epicenter | Inequality Initiative
The Autoethnographies of a Pandemic Project supports student researchers from Brooklyn College to craft autoethnographies of their own and their family and community experiences, both in the months and years leading up to the pandemic and over the...
Faculty expertise shapes new data repository for interdisciplinary student learning
To help foster collaboration among similar researchers, he became a member of the inaugural advisory committee of Data Archive for Interdisciplinary Research on Learning (DAIRL) — a new repository that provides an infrastructure for sharing and...
Why Nature supports Joe Biden for US president
We cannot stand by and let science be undermined. Joe Biden’s trust in truth, evidence, science and democracy make him the only choice in the US election.
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"Joe Biden must be given an opportunity to restore trust in truth, in evidence, in science and in other institutions of democracy, heal a divided nation, and begin the urgent task of rebuilding the United States’ reputation in the world."
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The US is beginning to see a resurgence of Covid-19 cases. Small household gatherings are helping drive the surge, CDC chief says
Small gatherings are becoming a growing source of Covid-19 spread, a leading health expert said, as at least 36 states are now reporting increased cases of the virus and hospitalizations are on the rise nationwide.
Neil Lewis, Jr.
"But what we're seeing as the increasing threat right now is actually acquisition of infection through small household gatherings..."
"...I'd rather do a Zoom Thanksgiving with people that I love than expose them to something that might kill them"
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Don’t Grieve Alone. Reach Out.
Finding emotional support during a crisis often means turning to long-established networks already built for distance.
Neil Lewis, Jr.
“With grief on this massive scale, we move through periods of time when we can function and periods when we can’t...Try to honestly recognize where you are...and then let people know where you’re at, and ask where they’re at.”
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