#Methods

Josh Ng-Kamstra MDCM, MPH

JoshNgKamstra

Let’s talk perioperative mortality rates and #COVID19. Huge thanks to the @COVIDSurg Collaborative, publishing the first series of 1128 patients with perioperative #COVID19 infection in @TheLancet. The take-home number: .

snopes.com

snopes

A new Snopes investigation by @alexkasprak sheds light on the Public Interest Legal Foundation — a conservative legal group with myriad ties to both the Trump Administration and right-wing media,

Ramez Naam

ramez

THREAD: Solar is plunging in cost faster than anyone, including me, predicted. Today I'm publishing an update of my solar cost forecasts from 2015, with more data & improved methods.

Dr. Sara L. Gonzalez

potatokitty

Two great sessions yesterday on #MeTooAnthro and #SAA2019 that addressed how to respond to widespread abuse in #anthro, especially in the field. Want to follow up with a thread on

The Scorpion Philosopher

thescorpionphil

Charlie Munger on Investing (quotes from Charlie Munger).A thread.1.The desire to get rich fast is pretty dangerous.2.Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant. 3.People are trying

jonathanstray

jonathanstray

Folks who want to use AI/ML for good generally think of things like predictive models, but actually... smart methods for extracting data from forms would do more for journalism, climate

Steve Thornton 💀 All Hallows Steve 💀

_SteveThornton

PSA: Being a good games designer requires strong soft skills. Providing feedback, mediating discussions, resolving conflicts, managing people; these require empathy, tact and diplomacy. We rarely talk about this, so

redphonecrypto

redphonecrypto

Ready thee for a tweetstorm that maketh even the author unsettled, nervous and tingly? I am packing my moonbags with some tokens I never thought I would... Thread below.

Johnny Runge

JohnnyRunge

Our @NIESRorg @ESCoEorg report, published today, also summarises the existing literature on “Public Understanding of Economics and Economic Statistics”. It’s a fairly small but fascinating literature. Here are some key

Zwickau

Zwickau8

Mental health, pathology, clinical psychology.How do you define “mental health”? Where does disease start and where does it end? We extrapolate the idea of health from medical science. There is

sameer dontulwar

sameerdontulwar

Statue of Unity was inaugurated on 31st October 2018 which is Birth Anniversary of Son of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel , Who united India , This Thread is about various

Koos Couvée

KoosCouvee

Europol's latest Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment, published yesterday, made for interesting reading – notably the admission that officials previously underestimated the scale and complexity of contemporary money-launderi

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Aelkus

this is an anecdote I give frequently, but its worth revisiting again. in August 2017, Robin Wright writes a story for the New Yorker that reports, ominously, that some experts

Andrea Danese

andrea_danese

New Danese & Widom @NatureHumBehav paper ’Objective and subjective experiences of child maltreatment and their relationships with psychopathology’ is out @KingsIoPPN @MaudsleyNHS @CUNY - see THREAD belowhttps://www.nature.com/articl

Soumitra Sharma

soumitra_sharma

The last 3 crises have reinforced just how useless much of what we all are taught in school really is, when it comes to dealing with real-life uncertainties. Here is

Anthony Diké

antdke

24 pro-tips for negotiating product decisionsTHREAD... 1/ Focus on problems, not peopleAvoid “us vs them” situations. 2/ It’s not zero-sumFocus on the best result for everyone.Especially with topics like compensation.