#Genetic

Nina Teicholz

bigfatsurprise

Thread Re: #DietaryGuidelines (DGA), just out: USDA-HHS Secys said they're for “all Americans,” yet the DGA is scoped ONLY for disease prevention, not treatment. This ignores the 60% of US

Paddy Mallon

HIVTox

Thread: we've released results (pre-print) of an analysis examining #SARS_CoV_2 variants in #Ireland from hospital cases during 2020. This is the largest analysis of its kind to date in Ireland

Scott Adams

ScottAdamsSays

Today is the last day of my seven day challenge to provide a current example of systemic racism in America. No examples yet, just conceptual takes. One view is that

ロコちゃん - hereticalupdate.substack.com

RokoMijicUK

It's not lying, it's just "Influencing natural stereotyping processes". But stereotypes are almost always accurate (though never perfect). Decades of stereotype accuracy research has shown this. Stereotypes are filtered by

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Yesterday, I pretended to be a normal infectious disease reporter for a day and wrote about an interesting new preprint: the first report of leprosy in wild chimpanzees. Quick thread

Hanno Würbel

HannoWurbel

I am very happy that @MKrzywinski and Naomi Altman gave us the opportunity to contribute an article on the #standardizationfallacy to their legendary #pointsofsignificance column in @naturemethods https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-020-

GabeBryden

FeathersMcGee

Just in case people don’t realise - we have 3 dogs (Sheba the labradoodle is 14, Rosa the cocka and Razzle the border collie are 1) - we got Rosa

Indian Bronson 🍥

Indian_Bronson

> masculine and competentA decade+ of manosphere writing/incel discourse didn't come from nowhere.This asking men to be sexy & work hard; turn women on & study in school—be fuckable &

Nicky Whiffin

nickywhiffin

Super excited to share our new preprint!Using exome sequencing data from ~10k patients with severe developmental disorders (DD) from the DDD project we decipher 3 distinct mechanisms through which ‘non-coding’

Joe "Dr. Doomscroller" Bak-Coleman

jbakcoleman

Anti-vaccine arguments are ridiculous. Here they are, but with food. A . 2/x Eating food can lead to anaphylaxis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165304/#:~:text=In%20food%2Dallergic%20people%2C%20fatal,2.71%20per%20million%20

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

Breaking: Over 50% of Delhi is seropositive for COVID. @ndtv @divyanshu @rishika625 @GargiRawat @nramind @bimalarya This supports my earlier thread on protection through cross reactive immunity. Otherwise the loss of

Ella Al-Shamahi

LittleMsFossil

Remember those surprising & confusing headlines about a genetic link between 3 Amazonian populations and Australasians? Well for our @channel 4 Amazon series we went to visit one of those

TOPICALS

topicals

Hiiii! We took a break from skincare threads last week due to the holiday, but today we’re back and we’ll be chatting about PCOS and it’s impact on the

Kirsten

Kirsten3531

Reasons why people might get mad at you for decoupling:https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7cAsBPGh98pGyrhz9/decoupling-vs-contextualising-norms 1) What your saying may have an implied action attached, and the implied action may be the wrong ac

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

In 1910, a man named Charles Davenport created a registry called the Eugenics Office which would be used to register the genetic background of every single man, woman and child

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Everyone needs to read this 40-year saga of Dr Katalin Karikó, inventor of the mRNA therapy behind Pfizer/BioNTech & Moderna #COVID19 vaccines. Rejected many times, nevertheless she persisted. She will

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