#Academic

Shikha (#AmericaMaskUp) Jain MD, FACP

ShikhaJainMD

Our paper out in @JAMAInternalMed on attacks on physicians on social media. So proud of first author med student from @traependergrast! This paper was the beginning of so many opportunities,

Jeffrey Barrett

jcbarret

Out today: two academic publications (not yet peer reviewed) that formally test whether the new B.1.1.7 variant is more transmissible. Both conclude yes, about 50% more. First, a pre-print

Greg Lukianoff

glukianoff

Option 1: Click the link below & read about an administrator who gravely misunderstands the “heckler’s veto”Option 2: Continue reading for a story about an autistic student banned from class

Elliott H. Powell

ehphd

Over the past week, a number of Prince scholars have done incredible threads about P’s 3121 album, as part of @deejayumb and @EdgarKruize’s #PrinceTwitterThread series. Well, today's my turn, and

Luis Carlos Reyes

luiscrh

In 2017, @Forbes reported that there were 3 billionaires in Colombia, with a net worth of USD 11 billion, 3,4 billion, and 2,6 billion, respectively. However, either Forbes vastly overestimated

Daniel Mügge

dmugge

Some scholarship about political process behind building statistics, economic and otherwise, that I have found useful. (Responding to @DanMertens query. Couldn't react with more than one tweet; hence this [lengthy]

rip van winkle

long_napper

I haven't really discussed my own personal politics on here too much because I don't feel at home with any political ideology and I don't see myself probably ever feeling

Sportula Europe

SportulaEurope

Today we'd like to talk about some of our side projects over the last six months. Although our primary focus is and always will be using donations to provide microgrants

Stewart Butterfield

stewart

Some notes about https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/technology/slack-microsoft-antitrust.html, since it got a lot of .Over 3+ years since Teams was announced, we’ve grown >500% (our enterprise business grew >1,100%). We continue to

Lynn Huber 🏳️‍🌈

lhuber01

Feminist Thread of the "Killjoy" Variety: Gendering objects.In the past couple years, I’ve noticed a growing number of people using feminine pronouns to refer to objects, although this used to

beka valentine

beka_valentine

Dialectics: you've probably heard of it, but WTF is it?mostly a horribly chosen word to describe a pretty simple concept so here's my personal TLDR on Dialectics so, you know

Ritika Chopra

KhurafatiChopra

Of the total 86 toppers, only one belonged to the OBC category. None was Dalit or tribal, just 5 were first-generation college-goers -- all pointing to a connection between academic

The Scope

MedicineScope

(1/17) Why does every BMP report show a GFR - African American and GFR - non-African American for the same Cr value?Let's focus on #racecorrection in the estimation of GFR

Robert C. Engen

RobertEngen

As a riposte to @warmatters' S.L.A. Marshall shenanigans, I'll highlight work from our new @McGillQueensUP volume "Why We Fight: New Approaches to the Human Dimension of Warfare" by discussing Chapter

American Horror Callie

DeathCab4Callie

My day in the lab as a disabled person, a thread (feel free to RT). I have cerebral palsy, autism (which I normally don't publicly admit), ADD and a learning

Kevin Larkin

kevin_larkin

I agree with almost all of this from @nadinebh_ - I hope she won't mind if I add a few based on my personal experiences when I was getting started

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