#POPULATION

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prof_shahar

1/Sweden mortality in the last two “flu years”:Oct 2018 – Sep 2019 Oct 2019 – Sep 2020Inference from trend over 2 decades. 2/Preliminaries:Annual statistics usually computed by Gregorian calendar.Why? Does

Ángel Díaz

AngelSDiaz_

THREAD: I analyzed Citizen's contact tracing app when they were pitching it to NYC. Unsurprisingly, its approach to privacy is terrible, continues to encourage paranoia-as-a-service, and has wide latitude for

Simmi Jaswal “cares too much”

ms_simsimma

Unsurprisingly, I’m seeing misinformation and erasure circulating around the Farmer Protest. Many are repeating the Indian state’s anti-Sikh rhetoric in an attempt to discredit the largest protest in human history.

Aaron Besecker

AaronBesecker

Erie County Executive @markpoloncarz and County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein have a weekly Covid-19 briefing scheduled to start at 2:30pm. Will thread it here. Poloncarz: 16,130 total positive cases

Lauren Groh-Wargo

gwlauren

Here's the thing- many experts don't think transformative change is possible until it happens. Countless folks in positions of power told us Georgia wasn't a real battleground- as recently as

Irene Tosetti

itosettiMD_MBA

COVID-19 in Africa: A pair of studies lays out sobering COVID-19 data for Africa, and for Zambia in particular. In The BMJ, researchers collected postmortem nasopharyngeal samples from nearly 400

Land of the Free

trustrestored

“Obey / Consume” they said in the 60’s subliminally. Now they wan t us to “Burn / Kill / Destroy”.https://twitter.com/nancique/status/1276946442746318848 Someone is using voice modulated microwave weapons (aka “voice of

Vishal Ganesan

vjgtweets

An excellent point by @esaagar. Opposing hindutva is one thing, but treating it as a lunatic fringe is simply inaccurate, and a rhetorical ploy often used to justify reductive, bigoted

Hannah Davis 🦈

ahandvanish

Day 2 of the NIH #LongCovid conference.First up w Dr. Carlos del Rio on social determinants of health, race, and ethnicity in #LongCovid-the pandemic has exacerbated health inequalities-this is not

Simon Wardley

swardley

Contextual blindness - the tendency for members of the privileged to think that something other than luck was responsible for their position and privilege ->https://twitter.com/indiyoung/status/1338623809939779584 X : Why random?Me :

mambí 🇨🇺

mambi26

Cuba Is currently going through a monetary change. The process is called "Tarea ordenamiento" this process is meant to phase out the CUC$ (Convertible cuban peso) and to also reorder

Tren Griffin

trengriffin

"Amazon added 427,300 employees between January and October, pushing its work force to more than 1.2 million people globally, up more than 50 percent from a year ago. Its number

Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻

Dr2NisreenAlwan

THREAD1/ This important study (preprint- not yet peer reviewed) by @patientled @AthenaAkrami @ahandvanish @GinaAssaf @LisaAMcCorkell et al offers the most detailed picture of #LongCovid symptoms to date in a relatively

Spotted Toad

toad_spotted

If you grew up in a lefty college town, things like the "Amen/Awoman" Congressional prayer or fruity Kwanzaa messages have a familiar ring, the difference is in who is saying

Dr Liz Morrish

lizmorrish

If you missed the announcement of a HE Restructuring Regime (HERR) when you were exhausted in July #AcademicTwitter - here's a quick catch up thread.Appointments: higher education restructuring regime (HERR)

Thomas Martin

ThomasforBC

Two weeks ago the federal gov't decided to close fish farms in BC's discovery islands. https://bit.ly/2WQUkfw #coastaljobsgone Regardless of my position on open-net salmon farming, I think this policy rollout

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