#Higher

Corona Reduit

CoronaReduit

1/25 nursing homes make up ~50% of Covid19 deaths but just ~1% of the population all over the Western world. we are proposing an INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH to improve outcomes and

Brian Fox

Brian_Fox

If you’re freaking out because of the Bintray / jcenter announcement and need to get your Java components into Maven Central, don’t worry, we’ve got you. Here are a few

Zach Ward

EconZach

As an economic historian, I can’t help but think about the incredible persistence of racial disparities. But I am hopeful that recent events will lead to a turning point. To

Sam Peak💡

SpeakSamuel

The #DiversityVisaLottery is an awesome program, and it's such a shame that people see it as a convenient political punching bag. Here's a short thread on why the diversity visa

Ankur Warikoo

warikoo

Mistakes I made in my 30sA thread... I hired people with strong pedigree and great brands on their resume, ignoring how they operated as people.I assumed their degrees will drive

Sam Asher

thesamasher

Are night lights (NL) a reliable proxy for local GDP?An answer, in our paper “Development Research at High Geographic Resolution” aka the SHRUG paper (forthcoming at WBER). 1/14TL;DR: don’t trust

Mitchell Baldridge

baldridgecpa

Tax free income is hard to beat, right? Tax exclusions are one of the best outcomes you can create.The most common example is an exclusion on your residence - 500k

Paige Byerly

paigebyerly

: new work out in @AmOrnith! We used #cameratrapping to monitor Roseate Tern nests in 9 colonies in the Virgin Islands. We wanted to know how nest survival & predation

Erica Buddington ✨

ericabuddington

On this day, in Black history, Fisk Free Colored School (now Fisk Univ.) opened its doors in 1866–six months after the end of the Civil War. It’s the oldest higher

Grace Panetta

grace_panetta

NEW from me: Despite a record turnout, Native American voters faced challenges new and old to casting a ballot in the 2020 election, from having to travel miles to the

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) is a complex and poorly understood phenomenon, likely underpinned by different mechanisms, where binding of a virus to suboptimal antibodies enhances severity of the disease, rather than

Sergio Olmos

MrOlmos

Portland protest day 60 J blog playing at the mutual aid tents (riot ribs has disbanded, for now) Mike Hastie, a Vietnam vet who was pepper sprayed by federal agents

Alexander D'Amour

alexdamour

NEW from a big collaboration at Google: Underspecification Presents Challenges for Credibility in Modern Machine LearningExplores a common failure mode when applying ML to real-world problems. 1/14https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03395 We

derf_famous

derf_famous

ENDGAME: VOTER ID LAWS1/17One of the goals of the 2020 election is to show the public rampant proof of voter fraud so every state would be pressured to implement strict

Antonio Tahhan

antoniotahhan

I finally figured out how to make yogurt that’s as sour as the yogurt I had in Syria (at least this is closest I’ve ever gotten)! If you’re always disappointed

Ben W. Ansell

benwansell

I had a statistical conniption about the Aberdeen study published in BMJOpen earlier today. Let's see if I can explain my concerns in a less techie fashion. The gist of

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