#RESEARCH

Laura Portwood-Stacer, Jeopardy Champ (she/her)

lportwoodstacer

A really common piece of advice given to scholars when talking about their research (whether in a book proposal or other context) is to answer the "so what?" question. I

Paolo Trulli

P_Trulli

As our lives become more busy, I found reading about habits is starting to resonate with me. As such, here is a thread on a few scientifically backed habit forming

Elias Bareinboim

eliasbareinboim

1/2 I think the statement is a stretch, at best, and exactly the broader phenomenon Judea was trying to point out. Using the words "causal" or being connected with causality

Scott Lincicome

scottlincicome

This new @nberpubs paper is seriously great (and shld be a victory lap for @dikenson, who's been complaining for YEARS abt US trade remedies - especially antidumping duties - on

lost

neurodivergical

I will reconsider my stance on self-diagnosis iff 4 of the 6 following criteria are met:1.) My three mental health doctors agree about what my diagnoses are2.) All new research

Rounding the Earth

EduEngineer

1. This thread is about a statistical phenomenon called a Simpson's paradox and how it relates to the #Hydroxychloroquine research that gets so hotly debated.A more complete version of this

Allison Hempenstall MD

Dr_Hempenstall

1/ Now that I’ve transitioned back to being a full time student (), I’ve taken on a personal challenge to read one academic journal article each day. So #MedTwitter #AcademicTwitter,

Prof Jackie Cassell

jackiecassell

When I started working on #scabies outbreaks in #carehomes some of my colleagues thought it was a weird, marginal interest. Now with #COVID19 it's changing. Everyone's realising that infection is

Amy Young

amy_prof

Today in rhetoric: Logos! Logos is an appeal to reason. Aristotle spends a lot of time talking through what are called syllogisms and enthymemes. A syllogism is a kind of

Cooper Bennett

cooperwx00

*THREAD*Did some research for past Easter Sunday tornado outbreaks. First up: April 23, 2000 Tornaodes: 28Injuries: 24Deaths:0#txwx #lawx #arwx One of the worst I could find: March 23 1913 Outbreak

Chandrahaas Uniyal

taru_uniyal

1/19[THREAD] Five degrees of anti-Muslim prejudice in India----For the last few days, I was trying to parse the discussion on my TL about "BJP voters and Islamophobia" and one of

Smitty

steelcitystocks

(A THREAD)One thing I do differently than most investors is I only hold a select group of stocks.I’m currently holding less than 20 companies in my portfolio.Let me tell you

Talk-Talk Dietitian

agi_oka

A threadIt’s another Saturday again.Today we are going to be talking about how data analytics can be used to spur policy action.First let me differentiate between data analysis and data

alejandra (ง'̀-'́)ง

rosejunliet

This is an example of what mariachi dance looks like. The men usually have their hands clasped to their back at all times and it’s very much leg/step oriented, whereas

Stefano Brigidi

StefanoBrigidi

I’ve come off the faculty job search and am massively excited that I get to join the incredible group @UUNeurobiology @UUtah and launch my lab in January 2021!!! Short thread

Andy Matuschak

andy_matuschak

This is a thoughtful new review of the “interactive explanation” milieu: https://distill.pub/2020/communicating-with-interactive-articles/. I’m a friend of the format—I’ve written articles like this myself—but I worry it’s tra