#Science

Privacy researchers, govts, and tech companies work on contact tracing apps, hoping to curb down the pandemic. We often hear that 56, 60, or 70% of the population would need
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Ghana budgeted $1.2m for 1000 contact tracers. It ended up training 900. 600 dropped out due to grievances. Their $25/day allowance is becoming erratic. $530k was budgeted for Ministers &
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ForeverVerse Info I am NOT the owner/creator of ForeverVerse.The Verse belongs to the muns of @.YandereOfAUs and @.DreamfulLovesI also don't claim to be an expert on the Verse, this is
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.@cbcthehouse great show yesterday on green recovery. My thoughts in this THREAD on how the oil industry is holding out the promise of new technologies to reduce emissions from oil
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Recent Psych Science paper used national IQ to predict some stuff:I ran some simple probability calculations and the measure they used says that 43% of Africans are mentally retarded (IQ
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People with PCOS are consistently told to first + foremost focus on weight loss to manage the condition + its symptoms, to qualify for access to reproductive medicine, + shamed
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IDEAS FOR College Entrance Tests around Metro Manila universities (+ DOST scholarship) :))Para sa mga incoming Grades 11&12 :)) (1) University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT)When: OctoberDifficulty: 9.5/10Sub-tests:
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What’s this view have to do with you? Read on to find out, through a thread about ecosystem restoration, an amazing discovery, and a scientific revolution.The message to this story:
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The Society for Political Methodology announces a new undergraduate initiative designed to diversify the field of political methodology by increasing the number of underrepresented students who intend to pursue an
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Conclusion from the '2 + 2 =' wars: '2 + 2' can equal anything you want. If we agree to rules by which it must equal '4', we get everything
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(Thanks @clpearce )For those of you following the recent news about the SUGA administration rejecting a few recommended appointments to the Science Council of Japan, here is the relevant statute.
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Thing I saw just now and have witnessed plenty irl too, is the following move made in lefty circles:
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1/NDo you like Local Projections together with IV to study dynamic responses to structural shocks? Then you need to go through this paper. There is an interesting estimator that you
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Another poll for science! Since I got some requests to draw gokuchi. What’s ur fav dragon ball canon pairing? Judging from the replies : 1) vegetabul 2) Gohan Videl 3)
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Over the last two days I have had a somewhat scary view outside my echo chamber. I watched two presentations one on MRI for PTs and one on the SI
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Reading Mark Solovey's Social Science for What?, on the history of social science funding at NSF, and might take a few notes here. It's open access at @mitpress:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/social-science-what I know
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