#Humans

Emily Galvin-Almanza

GalvinAlmanza

So, my friend @spiceybinks asked me about prison gerrymandering. Which may seem like a kind of far-off issue...counting people *in prison* as "residents" of a district for the purpose of

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

New preprint out. We investigated whether we could detect evidence for genetic recombination in #SARSCoV2, and found none to date. We used (slightly tweaked) standard statistical genetics methods, extensive simulations

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

When the discussion turns to which countries have responded best to Covid-19, those most often mentioned are:TaiwanNew ZealandVietnam@tylercowen would like to make a more surprising nomination: the U.K.https://trib.al/ACGcNds At first

Sarah Dayan

frontstuff_io

I’ve been working as a software engineer for 10 years Man, does time fly!Here’s a list of ten honest takes on the job and the industry. 1. Years of

Connected Single-Wides

2xwide_dreaming

... I think we are at the point where it’s more reasonable to believe that time travel is possible, than it is to believe it’s impossible.The only people I know

Dr. Neil Cohn

visual_linguist

I’ve been reading several research papers lately with drawing as a task, and it’s gotten me riled up enough that it’s time for a rant thread. The short of it:

The Superior Exalted Speed

Exalted_Speed

Hello I am Exalted Speed I make thread on twitter about things, mostly related to geeky stuff but I'm a comic book buff. I see you made the mistake of

Vidya Ganesh

VidyaG88

1/16What would YOU do if you KNOW your time on earth is limited ? Would you Wallow in Self Pity & Wither away ? ORDecide to make the Best Use

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

'For a vaccine to work, our immune system needs to be stimulated to produce a neutralizing antibody, as opposed to a non-neutralizing antibody.'https://wp.me/pccWMe-25 'In some viruses, if a person harbors

Inquisitive Bird

Scientific_Bird

Are people with bigger brains smarter (on average)?Here I will summarize some of the biggest studies which test whether there is a correlation between intelligence and brain size (within modern

New Year, New Jasmine 🤩🎉2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣

astro_jaz

Welcome to Space Facts Saturday! Today’s topic: The Most Terrifying Planets in the Universe (Side note: the thread about Boötes Void is still happening, it’s just delayed for now) Let’s

Jarryd Bartle

JarrydBartle

'Cause no media outlet likes my pitch: here’s a thread on the early 20th century German gay liberation group “The Gemeinschaft der Eigene” (or “Society of the Self-Determined”). What "being

M. Belanger

sethanikeem

I’m going to share a really hard thing that happened to me in 1996 or so. Not because I want sympathy or anything. But because it is viscerally illustrative of

Dan Held

danheld

1/ The Bitcoin (double) Standard A deep dive into the cognitive dissonance of nocoiners, and the ridiculous double standard they have for Bitcoin. Thread 2/ Manipulation Over the last decade,

Martin Juhl

MartinJuhl2

Covid-19: The Danish exponential growth curve since JulyDK is testing more than anybody elseBut it almost feels as if, we are only using the test capacity to monitor the rise

Tony Tost

tonytost

THE BAD NEWS BEARS (1976). So many reasons why this is my favorite movie. One reason: we never see Buttermaker at home or see him looking at old pictures from

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