#SCIENCE

Malcolm Clark

TwisterFilm

A thread. Should we give puberty blockers to kids? A recently published study says YES or so it's reported. Apparently it will stop some kids committing suicide. But how reliable

Alexis C. Madrigal

alexismadrigal

As cases exploded in the U.S., I kept discounting them in my mind: "Well, treatments have improved. Maybe the death rate won't be nearly as high as the summer."Then I

Dr. Faust

azfaust

I want to talk a bit about the realities of working in research development. Nobody in RD is about to be surprised but I want to share this for faculty

Angelo Carusone

GoAngelo

1/ I want to share a bit about Fox News, advertisers, revenue and accountability.Let me first start by saying that, Fox News is actually suffering quite severely on the advertiser

Anup Malani

anup_malani

I find discussions of herd immunity thresholds frustrating. Herd immunity (which I'll define as a current reproductive rate < 1) depends on policy & behavior. It is NOT an absolute

mathfrak{Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt}

betanalpha

During Timnit's excellent talk (which you can watch below) the question of whether or not the process of statistical inference, and indeed a scientific method, can be objective and I

Bojan Tunguz

tunguz

Seems there is a lot of harping on the details of the @DeepMind protein folding solution. Some of the concerns are legitimate, but in my mind even those are overblown.

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ShreshthaDharma

Yoga: Gift of Hinduism to the WorldThe practice of Yoga is believed to have started with the very dawn of civilization. The science of yoga has its origin thousands of

el gato malo

boriquagato

the hope-simpson viral seasonality timetable has been running like a well-managed train systemonce you know what to look for, these disease spikes are no more surprising than the 3:10 to

Rachel Notley

RachelNotley

Jason Kenney placed a $7.5 billion dollar bet on Donald Trump at a time when it was clear to everyone that the risk was high. More than that, he did

Paul Nadeau

PaulJNadeau

I know a lot of political scientists and academics in other fields have been yelling "We tried to warn you!!" since the Capitol attack, and this *needs* to be a

Tyler Drenon

TylerDrenon

Medicaid expansion passedThat’s awesome!But @MissouriGOP is going to attempt to undermine the vote.The Republican-controlled state legislature can, and almost definitely will, attempt to ignore the vote & decide not to

Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud

Damkyan_Omega

Un #leschatsdupèreconnard pour ce soir qui va se baser sur quelque chose de très simple, mais très complexe. Comment les chats lapent-ils, et comment boivent-ils?"How Cats Lap: Water Uptake by

Rick Smith

RickSmithShow

Rick: Only 17% of black people say they will get the coronavirus vaccine; 49% of black people say they won't get it.Propane Jane: It's partly b/c of a lack of

Warren Pearce

WarrenPearce

Watching Lockdown 1.0 now on BBC2, looks to be shedding some new light on scientific advice and how it informed policy. Highlighting how NERVTAG identified the risk as 'low' in

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Situation with new #sarscov2 variants is becoming harder to follow (and not just because of the names), so let me try and give a brief overview: Where are we at?

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