#Thresholds

Andrew Chen

andrewtychen

The team behind the Card are making more things public so we are getting more information to respond to. But their messaging still carries factual inaccuracies and logical fallacies that

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

This thread is more personal than most of the things I share here, but I’m at my limit with Jason Hickel.I want to explain why I dislike him so much

Kip Hale

kiphale

1) Here we go again. The self-defeating "genocide" political name game that ultimately hurts victims. Where is my soapbox?!? Thread time. "Beijing’s own words and actions highlight the intent to

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

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

I'd say there are two different approaches to understanding and modelling the way population heterogeneity affects the attack rate and/or herd immunity threshold for an epidemic: top-down or bottom-up. •1/19

Elspeth Kirkman

Karminker

There’s loads of chatter about the mind bending ramifications of conditional probability for COVID testing... but where else does the Rev Thomas Bayes’ ghostly hand touch our lives? #BeGayDoMaths

AL 🙂

Metabo_PhD

On Friday (Sept 18), #Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer told us that Case counts in Canada indicate “accelerated epidemic growth”. Is this true or is it ye olde #Coronaphobia? Let’s

Mr. Improvable 📈

MrImprovable

From the scale of 1 to 10.How much do you think you're anxious? If you're under -5, keep scrollingIf you're above +5, keep reading//Thread Stress and anxiety are common experiences

Sarah Cohodes

SarahCohodes

The now prominent school reopening conversation was well overdueBut in the shift to talking about IF and HOW schools reopen, I feel like we’ve lost the plot (me included)THE THING

Tennant Reed

TennantReed

@Johnkehoe23 raises practical concerns with a carbon border adjustment mechanism that deserve some thought. Thoughts follow!Carbon border tax is good in theory, bad in realityhttp://www.afr.com/news/policy/climate/carbon-border-tax-is-good-

truthseeds

Buddizzle

(0) We Need A FULL Audit Of America's Coronavirus Testing! Any test with a CT value of 30+ isn't really a true positive. 50-80% of the 6.75 million "positives" reported

Mark Histed

HistedLab

Thread on recent papers about how mouse V1 populations code sensory information. The paper I had looked at most closely was Kafashan et al. from Harvey and @drugowitsch. The data

armando, himbo in training

UtterPWNedNoob

Today I was asked this by someone I love deeply. I get this a lot. "Why don't you just apply for citizenship?" Well... I'd like to. It's not that easy.

ECNL

enablingNGOlaw

#UK: The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill casts #protest as an inconvenience rather than a fundamental right to be protected. In our analysis w/ @LawOfProtest, we assess the bill’s

Josh - Data Analyst in Nashville

ifihadastick

THREAD: Why is PCR Cycle Threshold so important? RT PCR tests are capable of detecting trace amounts of RNA, which can be present for up to 12 weeks after infection

AFR

RealBankReform

Today, the Senate Banking Committee is holding a hearing with @USTreasury Sec. Mnuchin & @federalreserve Chair Powell for the Quarterly CARES Act Report to Congress You can watch live here,