#Journals

Our study on preeclampsia + chronic kidney disease (CKD) now published in @PLOSMedicine https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003255We followed 1.9 million women + 3.7 million births over 41 years.
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The bull case on the consumerization of healthcare in the US seems to assume that healthcare $ shift from the insurers to the consumer, via an HDHP + HSA. But
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We read Albright & @ThomasM51526161, 2000, for a lab meeting recently. Highly recommended. Something that particularly struck me was the discussion of why Donald Campbell prioritized internal validityhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs
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NEW TOPIC: coffee in Minas Gerais, BrazilMinas Gerais is the biggest coffee-producing state in the world’s biggest coffee-producing country, accounting for around half of Brazil's coffee. How might climate change
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Thank you, Toby, for providing us a classic example of how to misinterpret seroprevalence data.The stated 68% positive antibody test appears to be from CityMD, an urgent care facility in
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Interesting new paper showing an association between current use of proton pump inhibitors (like omeprazole & pantoprazole) and bad #COVID19 (ICU, death).A really neat observational study- but, as always, with
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I gave a talk at Columbia Data Science recently (tx @CourtneyCogburn for the invite!). Building Just Technologies in an Unjust Worldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgujKJ0-ZXE I argued for a field of critical computing, which
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Feeling sad. Yesterday, I resigned as an associate editor from Royal Society Open Science bc they will be part of Read & Publish contracts from Jan 2021 (https://royalsociety.org/journals/librarians/subscribe/read-and-publish/) I will
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great to have the @_Nano_Bubbles project underway, though we’re still waiting until 2021 for our formal launch. this project is the culmination of work i’ve been doing on nano for
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Debunking the study that sank the #BigTEN@ProfDFrancis does so in this thread - please readI’m going to simplify his thread even further to explain how he debunks a recent study
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1/@roderickgraham claims @HPluckrose and @ConceptualJames" lied and took advantage of an honest process" when they got several papers, which argue for absurd positions, published in respected journals. This is a
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What a coincidence“The binding epitope on S harbors a sequence motif unique to SARS-CoV-2 (not present in other SARS-related coronaviruses), which is highly similar in both sequence and structure to
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Casual reminder that there's no actual scientific evidence..at all..at all..at all..that you need to drink 8 glasses of water today. It's another diet culture myth. Wanna know why? Keep reading
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@GTrejo29, @tiscornia21 and I are excited & thankful for @DLind @mattyglesias & @zackbeauchamp ’s thoughtful and thorough discussion of our @JPR_journal article last week on @voxdotcom ’s The Weeds: https://podcasts.apple.com/us
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1/ I hereby petition for a return to the sartorial standards of firefighters in Edo period Japan. A compilation of the coats worn by Edo firefighting brigades, each rich with
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MORE DEATHS WHEN ICU OVERLOADED. We always feared it but now we have proof that #COVID19 patients have 2.35x the risk of death when ICU is over 100% load, compared
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