#Rigorous

Andrew Flood 👨🏻‍💻📝🕺

andrewflood

Thread on how lethal Covid is using available evidence rather than modelling guesses. One place to start is population fatality rates in hard hit city districts eg in New York

omid safi

ostadjaan

A thread on why 99.9% of Hafez quotes on the internet are… fake. Including the ones you probably like. A thread on #Hafiz #Hafez, or I should say #FakeHafez.

Chad Topaz

chadtopaz

This morning's thread: Chad contends with public damage done by a colleague. A.K.A. I swear, we DO know how to do (and teach) mathematics and statistics at @WilliamsCollege. A.K.A. I

Kurt Opsahl

kurtopsahl

The WeChat Users Alliance v Trump hearing on the users' Motion on Preliminary Injunction is about to begin, before Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in the N.D. Cal. federal court. Link

PolAgnostic

PolAgnostic

Ever listen to a 3 Card Monty dealer's 'patter'?No facts, all lies & constant cheatingThe same as the 'patter' from "the models were wrong!" crowd.Most of these folks are #DemocratVoter

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

Erotic compulsion is the most terrifying emotion. There are no words to capture the exact sensation of perverse desire, though we have all felt it at some point in a

MetaChristianity

M_Christianity

1/13CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELFBEING ITSELFREASON ITSELF Quote:“I suggested above that, in many classical metaphysical traditions, the concept of being is one of power: the power of actuality, the capacity to affect or

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/"You go to war with the Army you have."This is the army I have, that I stand with, that I will walk through the fire with. Geniuses, mistfits, troublemakers, thinkers,

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

New #COVID19 serosurvey in Italy. Report in Italian so I couldn't read it carefully. Nice thread from @stats_q with some details. Some @nataliedean @AdamJKucharski @isabelrodbar are questioning results b/c they

Dan Larremore

DanLarremore

My colleagues and I are formally seeking a retraction of the recently published “Identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19.” The full text of our

Ian Griffiths

icgee

I keep hearing the question posed - "Will people come back to public transit?" - as though we have no control over whether or not this happens.This is not an

Joe Matthews

JoeJohnMatthews

It is officially impact factor season, which means...Journal Impact Factor (JIF): What it is and what it isn’t. An updated version of my 2019 thread. (1/14) Updated JIFs were

Fulbright Crisis

FulbrightCrisis

Most #Fulbright scholars received their orders to return to the US on March 13th, the day these restrictions were scheduled to take effect, and were caught up in the crush

Trisha Greenhalgh 😷 #CovidIsAirborne

trishgreenhalgh

Pondering whether COVID-19 will be evidence-based medicine’s nemesis. Having saved lives for 25 years, EBM (narrowly interpreted) will now tend to increase deaths. Not yet convinced, but worried. 1/ As

Nafees Ur Rehman Durrani

NafeesRehmanDr

#OTD in 1930, scores of non-violent political activists were massacred in Qissa Khwani Peshawar by the British-Raj. An account of this massacre based on Allah Baksh Yousafi's weekly newspaper is

MargaretSimons

MargaretSimons

Yesterday (see thread) I Tweeted a story about residents of the Flemington and North Melbourne public housing towers not being moved to alternative accommodation, which community leaders feared put others