#Paper

An AI diversity/ethics researcher/activist was fired after threatening to resign from Google during a spat over a paper she was writing. I won't discuss the drama and the paper hasn't
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Starting PhD student pro tips:- Keep a backlog of “small ideas” that you don’t find the time to work on. Soon enough you will be asked to supervise undergrad students
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The White Oak Pastures peer-reviewed regen ag/soil C paper is out. Some thoughts:1) The paper finds GHGs of meat production down -66% compared w "conventional" (poultry, pork, beef) per kg
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1/ Another thread on our Supreme Court reform piece. Thanks to @beccarosen for editing it!https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/reform-the-court-but-dont-pack-it/614986/ 2/ It reports the arguments and findings of our underlying
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The storage business isn’t always fun and definitely isn’t sexy. We bought this 155 unit portfolio at public auction in October of 2019. 150 units were abandoned and not paying.
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Life sciences & social sciences research on breast milk & breastfeeding are essential components to clinical, institutional & societal support for breastfeeding & public health. But there are major tensions
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In honor of #HappyFathersDay2020 #FathersDay , I want to dedicate #ScholarSunday to my dad's dissertation focused on cancer epidemiology titled "Coping mechanisms of Sub-Saharan African female immigrants with Breast Cancer".
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What does science find about use of #masks ?Here is a meta-analysis:"None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and prevention of influenza transmission."https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
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A little thread on #neuroscience #history. I was sorting my PDF collection and came across an old review paper from Perrot & Penfield summarizing an amazing number of cases (1132!)
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#DysonHeydon My letter to Saturday Paper 3 Sept 2015 Dyson Heydon says he does not have a computer and that his personal assistant prints out his emails for him to
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1/ The @voting_works team has been working around the clock for the last week to support the State of Georgia in running their first state-wide risk-limiting audit, which turned into
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As one of the authors of this paper let me take this occasion to add a few points on composite indicators of financial conditions (most of these points are valid
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New paper from #cpgSTHLM published! In this study, authors @TatianaFireborn and @IndianaDiez et al. present a fast and easy method to identify and exclude human contamination from ancient faunal datasets.
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Yes, good question @LitvakVladimir ! One of my motivations for writing the Markov Blanket paper was to warn students. The situation is quite simple: metaphysical conclusions require metaphysical premises. The
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1/ I reached a new academic milestone last week when I read a published journal article about firearm suicide and realized it was my and my colleague's writing! Except that
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Few days after I tweeted this MIT pulls down Tiny Images dataset following our paper @vinayprabhu"MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset that trained AI systems to potentially describe
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