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On the face of it, there appear to be two highly misleading slides in tonight's COVID presentation from @10DowningStreet. Specifically, I'm referring to the two SPI-M forecasts for both hospital
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Happy Ace Week! Are you familiar with the Asexual Community Census? It's a yearly survey, and it just released a report on the results from 2017 and 2018. I figure
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Ireland examines its historic treatment of unwed mothers and their babies at homes funded by the government and often run by religious sisters.https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/catholic-bishops-in-ireland-apologize-for-abject-failure-
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We have been receiving a lot of questions about the military backgrounds of United States extremists. Here are some stats from our PIRUS and BIAS datasets to help put the
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Thrilled to share new findings from the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey, joint w/ Devesh Kapur and @MilanV!This time we look at how Indian Americans view India. Summarizing some key
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Lots of proponents for reopening schools are citing the Sick Kids report as if it were peer-reviewed science or gospel. It's neither of these. A few observations as a population
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Some comments on excess mortality in the second wave, which seems to be hotly contested at the moment.Headline: there is excess mortality.ONS data shows us that death numbers have been
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Labour has announced that it would promote a Recovery Bond right now if it was in office. It’s a policy I wholeheartedly support. In this thread I explain why it’s
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In the last few days a number of academics have talked about how the current higher ed system is will loose its egalitarian nature if the proposed changes to the
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Autism is an epidemic. The first autism prevalence study (Treffert, 1970) showed an autism rate of less than 1 in 10,000 kids. Today the autism rate in the U.S. in
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Stripe thread (I)1. I'm so impressed by the collison brothers that I think it makes sense to track the company ahead of ipo. Will share more as I learn in
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What You Need To Know To Become An Influencer #Thread Establish Your Audience: Utilize your platform analytics and insights to acquire the following:-audience location-age range-gender -which content types garner
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Thread Don't want to fall into a false equivalence trap, but it must be said that denial of reality, false charges of voter fraud, and cult of personality aren't confined
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(Thread) 20 things to remember when someone calls undocumented immigrants "Illegals."1. Trump is an illegal. $25 million for education fraud alone. $2 mil for charity fraud.And I don't really
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I am still having trouble processing all of the emotions right now. Didn’t sleep last night, too anxious about the needle...did I tell you I didn’t like needles? Never have...I’m
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A summary of the data I presented at this afternoon's @IndependentSage briefing taking in the latest on Cases, Hospitalisations and Death statistics.On cases and hospital admissions, it's largely been a
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