#Studies

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ScienceNotDogma

1/10 A thread about Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD): nuclear lobbyist and climate science denier, for those of you who aren't aware of him OR the #disinformation he spreads on the #ClimateCrisis.First,

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ Thread on the relative importance of transmission modesA very difficult question, everyone reluctant to guess. As evidence accumulates, I decided to venture a guess, hoping to start some discussion.

e Ártemis López (elle/they) 🧋

queerterpreter

I should start a thread (like, here!) of good and bad ways to ask for gender data in surveysMy qualifications for this thread: I'm a linguist who studies grammatical gender,

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

1. Updated thread on children & #COVID19, summarising recent research.Summary: further evidence children and adults are equally susceptible, and similarly likely to transmit. Schools have been a driver of the

Daniel Njaga

dnjaga1

What is this madness that we cannot be led by a Luo, when the community has excelled in all spheres of life, nationally and internationally? Second thread on what we

vakibs

vakibs

In this thread, I will discuss the division of earth into continents, and how the term “Jambūdwīpa” जम्बूद्वीप, perhaps attested the most number of times in world literature as a

Dear Pandemic

DearPandemic

1/ New series: Meet Those Nerdy Girls! First up, co-founder Dr. Alison Buttenheim. @abuttenheim is an Associate Professor at Penn School of Nursing, where she teaches & studies human behavior

Jenn Dowd

drjenndowd

1/ Did the Sturgis bike rally cause 266,796 new cases of COVID-19? Probably not. Lesson- Beware viral studies that confirm your pre-existing beliefs so satisfyingly. (Long) thread: https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/sturgis-rally-covid19-

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

Yikes. Yeah, religious institutions/culture is a real blind spot for liberal centrist types. Not all, obviously (Friedersdorf is good), but most. Hence this, or Cathy Young’s assertion last month that

Elizabeth Saunders

ProfSaunders

THREAD: The news of the pending appointment of retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as SecDef has provoked a complex reaction. Here is a thread of @monkeycageblog posts summarizing relevant security studies

David Gura

davidgura

Today, 77 days after President Trump created the 1776 Commission, the group released a report — 41 pages, with pictures: https://bit.ly/38U12Is .The White House says the group is "comprised of some

Ananya Chakravarti

achakrava

US history #twitterstorians - as a non-US historian from India, I know how painful the #1776Report must be professionally and as citizens. As you respond, the experience of historians is

LGAculture&sport

LGAculturesport

Our new report finds councils are one of the biggest investors in culture, sport & leisure, spending over £2bn a year. We are calling on the Govt to use the

Romit Mehta

romitme

2020 has been a hard year and most would be happy to see the back of it. It was also a year that allowed humans to make a generational leap

Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

Nick_Carmody

After recently observing that Trump has had a “Cluster B” , Typhoid Mary-like effect on society, I had an interesting observation regarding Trump’s cult following….1/https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1188071727412269057 ….an

Brumby

the_brumby

COVID LESSONS FROM THE FREE MARKET: Among other places, much of my career has been in the capital markets. Such markets are not perfect, but they are an astonishing force

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