#Variants

David Pyrooz

dpyrooz

New paper in Criminology with @ChrisMelde @DrMeldrum and Donna Coffmanhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1745-9125.12268……I know, I know, another test of self-control theory, now in it’s 4th(!) decade, but read this thre

Ninety-Nine 🎈 🎈 🎈

ssolyom

Parsing Ontario Government pronouncements is always difficult, because we aren't given more than about 50% of the facts. But yesterday -- Dr. Brown saying we are headed for disaster --

durrie bouscaren

durrieB

OK so I've been researching a round of pitches on vaccine distribution disparities, and I've been noticing some threads of conversation and some really good work. Here's a quick roundup:

Uri Shalit

ShalitUri

I’m seeing many discussions about the evidence for vaccine effectiveness in Israel. This is a thread with my thoughts on what we know and don’t know at this point. First

Great Barrington Declaration

gbdeclaration

1, Government messaging has become progressively hyperbolic and confusing. Balance and perspective is in short supply. As a result, the information we receive often feels alarming and frightening. 2, Trust

Selene, DO 🦈

selenejDO

THE PROMISED NEUROLOGY FELLOWSHIP THREAD: I’ve taken it upon myself to hype up neurology despite being under the tutelage of medicine for the next year. Neurology gets left behind when

RJ

FutbolRJ8

Marco RoseA top manager in the making?(A thread) Marco Rose is currently the manager of Borussia Mönchengladbach. He joined Gladbach for the 19/20 season after an impressive spell in RB

Jack Peach

ThinkInPeach

Thread: Demons and Mental Health1/ Throughout history demons have been described, thought about and considered real.Djinn, fairies, spirits, devils and shape-shifters are all variants on the theme, their exact form

Sarah Jaffe

sarahljaffe

It's actually astonishing to me how many articles can be written about schools reopening that don't describe any other policy choices that led to this place It's just "teachers unions

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

I’ve thought long and hard about this. There is a constellation of circumstantial evidence around the most recently identified variant P.1, and what has been happening in Manaus, Brazil which

Aakaash

AakaashMeduri

chesscom vs lichessA thread... Let's begin with a brief history lesson.The 'golden age' of online chess occurred in the 2000s. Back then, a paid membership server called Internet Chess Club,

Ecole et Familles Oubliées

Ecole_Oubliee

Un petit fil sur les déclarations en Janvier 2021 de la Société Française de Pédiatrie 1/21https://twitter.com/leQdM/status/1354126968355082240 déni du rôle de l'#ecole dans la pandémie:citation d'un article qui dit

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

New SARS_CoV_2 virus strain update. TL;DR - there is something to understand more, and it looks like the virus has tweaked its biology at least on transmissibility; Public health, scientists

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Some COVID thoughts on this bright, beautiful Christmas Eve morning in London. Context: I am an expert in genetics and computational biology; I know and chit-chat with experts in viral

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ Should we give as many people one dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines as possible? Or half as many people two doses of vaccine? It’s a data-free zone.https://twitter.com/CitizenCohn/status/1358075667573862401

Mike Caulfield

holden

So I wrote this end-of-year thing for @NiemanLab, and one thing I didn't put in it was an underlying revelation about terminology, particularly about narratives and claims and how we

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