#Scientists

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

This is an infuriating new frontier in #COVID19 #disinformation. Here we a professional-looking website claiming to present results from a randomized controlled trial of hydrochloroquine.No authors or affiliations are listed,

A1Mhigh

A1Mhigh

2020 in review: Total return across all accounts for 2020 was +19.8%. It is much better than I dare have hoped for in March although my route to my YTD

Karandeep Singh

kdpsinghlab

Statistician: The p-value is 0.16780.Clinician: All I want to do is this. I just want you to remove 0.11780, because I know the p-value is less than 0.05. If power

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

What is going on with the vaccination campaigns?Pfizer/Biontech said that they’d provide 50 million doses worldwide within 2020.There are other vaccines too.Now, one day before the end of 2020, we

Alexander McCoy

AlexanderMcCoy4

I worked in a Congressional office during the original debate about the Iran nuclear deal, and it’s incredible how poor of a job the national news media did of covering

Fr. Patrick Behm

FrPBehm

It is absolutely stunning to me how politicized our COVID response has been. The hydroxy story today illustrates this perfectly for me. IDK if it works or not, and it

Anand Ranganathan

ARanganathan72

Demographic breakdown by Age for India and Italy, and Death Rate by Age for #COVID19. #CoVID19Global Case Fatality Rate (CFR): 3.5%[(3800 deaths / 110,000 confirmed cases) X 100]1. CFR will

Roxanne Khamsi

rkhamsi

#THREAD: COVID-19 could be a double whammy for older people -- they're more likely to die from it and they might be less likely to respond to a vaccine. This

David Laing

davidklaing

There are lots of great resources that help data scientists land their first job, or learn about specific subjects. But I haven't seen any that focus on long-term professional development.

James Millward 米華健

JimMillward

Some too-loose writing by @nyt @KatherineKornei about early horse riding in Xinjiang. Mistake is saying that Xinjiang in 350 BCE was "China": it wasn't politically, and it wasn't culturally. (Thread)https://www.nytimes.com

Maria Sundaram, PhD

mariasundaram

*Deep breath* Tweeting about vaccine safety can be scary because sometimes the conversations aren't cordial, and people can be meaner on the internet than IRL. But I'm going to try

'stina is a shiny special one. I am not a cat.

stinapag

"If frogs couldn't hop, I'd be gone with the Schwinn." True story, my sister was nearly run down by a steamroller in an eerily similar situation. Charles Durning was so

Ibn Dawood

11edge11

Humans have a problem (subconscious arrogance) we get spoiled easily. That’s why when you first see the pyramids your jaws hit the floor unlike the people who see it every

newspapers dot com influencer

CharlotteERosen

Thinking lot abt how historians/social scientists sometimes describe certain political outcomes as "unintended consequences," using archival evidence found in personal/government-preserved papers as proof of an actor's alleged

AstralNaught

FlightAstral

The Cosmic Serpent posits that nature somehow communicates with itself, and that humans may also communicate with nature, via intuitive (as opposed to rational) methods. Pheromone studies seem to support

David Reese

Castabulan

I have now been teaching American Government for over twenty years. I have been paying attention to politics for longer than that. I have lived through some interesting moments in

By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our Cookie Policy to improve your experience.