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Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/5This very interesting article by Ren Zeping and colleagues notes that during China’s planned economy period, while the northern provinces experienced an economic boom in heavy industry, “a blessing can

lāvaṇya (ˈlaːvʌɳja)

anthrocharya

Agonizing read on the state of our professional organization. The authors raise an important question of who AAA serves. I've had a lot of thoughts on the AAA and how

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

How to accelerate vaccine availability during a pandemic?A new working paper by the experts on that question https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/BFI_WP_202108.pdfThe good news: “even at this late stage, investment to expan

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

We previously analysed recurrent #SARSCoV2 mutations for an association with increased transmission using ~47k genomes. At the time, we found no evidence for any mutation making the virus intrinsically more

Alex Doan

alexdoan96

I've seen this floating around a lot on Twitter and it's frustrating to see science misappropriated like this. It's additionally damaging as many well-meaning folks might see it, think it's

⚡️ Olive Is Weary⚡️

OliveOilCorp

If anything this is an incredible admission of how publishing limits Black stories to traumatic lesson plans that help White people feel "educated" rather than, oh I don't know, something

Nikki Smith

Mrssmithmunday

A story writing thread: About four years ago, someone who I used to go to school with got in touch with me on Facebook out of the blue to ask

Matt Belford

MWBelford

Why do I reread books so often? Because I love them is the short answer, but the truth is that it’s because I *know* I love them. THREAD. Look, it’s

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

A very interesting study here from South Korea, doing widespread contact tracing to give us a huge data set on secondary attack rates (SAR) for #COVID19 from different age groupsBut

Justin Wolfers

JustinWolfers

Interesting research from a large team of intermediate econ instructors: On average, students learned less during the pandemic-afflicted semester than in prior semesters, with effects sizes of about 0.1-0.2 SD's

Serge Ahmed

SergeAhmed

I have spent a significant part of the day trying to understand this Nature Reviews Neuroscience article on the transition to compulsion in drug addiction.Here is a very short, politically

Mohammad Ansarin

mansarin

Finally a drug that seems to work well against COVID-19: Tabriz Uni of Med Sci team find Bromhexine prevents all treated patients in randomized trial from dying, almost all from

Laura Portwood-Stacer, PhD (she/her)

lportwoodstacer

Here’s what you’ll need to prepare if you want to pitch yr academic book project to a publisher this year:1. A working title for the book. Don’t worry, you can

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

New paper showing very high household transmission of COVID-19 in US. I haven't seen detailed summary, so here's one. There's a ton here to think about. Kids, culture, COVID.Thread.https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6944e1

Dr. Om Lakhani, MD, DNB (ENDO)

omlakhani

#Clinicalpearl #MedtwitterLong term endocrine issues with Bariatric surgery are an area of active research... In my practice in the last few years, I have come across 2-3 patients who had

Dr. Amanda Murdie

AmandaMurdie

We’ve now been editing @IntlStudiesRev for a bit over three years! I’m so grateful for our team, especially our fantastic managing editors (@ryanyulinliou & previously @nbsisu). Here are some things

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