#Data

Nina Teicholz

bigfatsurprise

New report: obesity-related costs in 2018 were 6.76% GDP ($1.389 trillion) vs. 5.57% ($0.976 trillion) in 2014. Obesity rates rising for men, esp. Of 7 factors ID'd as crucial, none

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Now this is a covid antibody test! Not only looks good on its face w/ 100% sensitivity (likelihood of seeing antibodies if they are there) & 99.8% specificity (not seeing

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Covid Epi Weekly January 29: To Arms, to Arms!Let’s focus:Get doses out of freezers and into arms ASAPDenominators: What % of nursing home residents and staff have been vaccinated?Improve equity.

Phil Ewels

tallphil

Ok, here goes - @OBF_BOSC #BOSC2020 #BCC2020 talk about #MultiQC updates in twitter / gif format..#MultiQC is a tool to make bioinformatics QC visual and easy, instead of collating numbers

Carbon Brief

CarbonBrief

Several #Arctic locations recorded land surface temperatures hitting 45C on 19 June, according to initial data from the @esa satellite Sentinel-3.Here is what you need to know... (THREAD 1/7)https://twitter.com/defis_eu/status/1275337831704

Astra Taylor

astradisastra

Today I've been thinking of 2020 less as the year of unexpected shocks & catastrophes more as the year predictions came true. For decades concerned people have studied the likelihood

Reward Kangai

RewardKangai

1. From the onset, I often asked the proponents of tower sharing by Mobile Telecom operators, as to why TM and Bon Marche’ Supermarkets never shared their buildings, though for

Alex Cobham

alexcobham

It's not every day that a niche question of statistical definition represents a significant step forward for global policy. But today... is that day! (Excessively long thread follows) A little

Dan Hon

hondanhon

I see we're talking about volunteer vaccination websites again, thanks to this (imho) irresponsible NYT article about "building a new [vaccination website] for $50".Some observations and references:https://www.nytimes.com/2021

Solomon Messing

SolomonMg

THREAD: A lot of people in political advertising & academia have been asking about the work we did @anotheracronym this cycle on engagement and persuasion. Here it is!https://www.anotheracronym.org/the-haha-ratio-learning-from-facebooks

Maggie Stiefvater

mstiefvater

One of the things I think is so difficult about being a successful creator is that it actually involves learning a lot of unrelated skillsets. Some will come naturally and

Jason Kint

jason_kint

WSJ has now reported Facebook and Google’s sketchy price fixing deal terms. Alleges the “duopoly” allocated their surveillance advertising biz and this sure seems to back it up. https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-google-facebook-

Mike Azar

AzarsTweets

1/ I appreciate the Minister being keen on the forensic audit, but I'm afraid she's making the same mistake that got us to this point: not anticipating the next step.

Luke Henriques-Gomes

lukehgomes

I reported two weeks ago that only 100 people had gotten the $1500 hardship payment Daniel Andrews is talking about now. The only way to get the payment was if

Scott Fawcett

scottfawcett

1/? A thread...Why am I right about certain aspects of strategy, even understanding it better than Nicklaus? Far too often players of past generations hold their playing background out as

Ruminator Dan

RuminatorDan

"London could be plunged into Tier 3""The R rate in London is currently 0.9 to 1.1, higher than the England-wide average of 0.8 to 1." - TelegraphAN ABYSMAL MISUNDERSTANDING OF

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