#Authors

Joris Meys

JorisMeys

Interesting preprint of a Yale study comparing saliva swabs with the golden standard. Looks promising to speed up sampling and make it less intrusive. (Via @awyllie13 )https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20067835v1#disqus_thread Key fi

John Cherian

jjcherian

I've seen a lot of news about the LA study, and the error bars of that study may be seriously flawed as well. It is plausible that the data in

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

Um.... holy crap? I have so many feelings about this? I need to get my feelings in order. So like.... THIS BOOK I have so many feelings right now, but

KinglakeForest 🐨

KinglakeForest

The Tree Geebung. What is it? Does it matter? Is this one of those intermittently amusing threads? All shall be revealed.Photo: Daniel White A Tree Geebung is one of about

Sek Kathiresan MD

skathire

Beautiful paper comparing SARS-CoV-2 antibody assays:custom ELISA assay vs 9 lateral flow assaysKey takeaways: 1. ELISA can be highly specific (100% negative call in 50 pre-pandemic samples)2. LF assays seem

Saganlives

Saganlives

OKAY! I did a roundup episode on #IndieAuthorWeekly a couple months ago about outlining books, and @mj_beckett included AWESOME details about tips for creating characters...So you know what that means:

Sean Gaffney

Toukochan

Hi! Been thinking about my response to this for a while. The Manga Bookshelf site as a whole just credits the authors and company. I add the magazine and original

⚔️The Dunedain Ranger⚔️

DunedainRanger9

Ranger School: The Parasite Stress Hypothesis~How Pathogens and Disease Influence Authoritarianism.~https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641067/ The concept of the Parasite-Stress Hypothesis was created to investigate to what exten

Charlie Jane "VICTORIES GREATER THAN DEATH" Anders

charliejane

A couple of hacks that I developed for Writers With Drinks, the long-running spoken word show that I've been hosting forever:1) Ask every participant the pronunciation of their name. Even

BAR Book Forum

BARBookForum

Sending a huge "thank you" from so many of us. Thank you for helping us imagine new words, new worlds, and new vocabularies. Ten authors we're grateful for (thread):

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

I want to talk about an important new study on racial disparities in infant survival, from @RRHDr & colleagues.The tl;dr: Black infants in the US are less likely to die

Michael Cohen

speechboy71

I’m obsessed with this NYT inflation story. In the opening the authors say it’s “not rocket science” that voters are worried about inflation … and then say the reason inflation

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. Even though I’m not on the ITW Board, I was aware of the situation that led @LAChandlar & @pjoneswriter to complain to @thrillerwriters leadership about the conduct of another

Julie Pfeiffer

jkpfeiff

Curious about what’s going on in submission/peer review/publication of SARS-CoV-2 studies? Me too! TL;DR, it’s NUTS. (1/7) In the past month or so, as an editor and reviewing editor at

Caroline Buckee

Caroline_OF_B

5 modelers quoted in @nytimes article about COVID-19 models, all men. Modelers are NOT all men, and neither are those involved here: the Northeastern, Imperial, and Los Alamos teams have

SuperSleuthGal

supersleuthgrl

@ProfessorShaw Freeh+Mueller were FBI Dir.’s during Sater’s known coop.w/more than FBI. (CIA,DIA,SS). At least by ‘97 thru 2009 he’s a prized asset eventually named Quarterback. In 2011 Mueller gave Iron