#SCIENCE

CatGoggles

catgoggles

A thread on efficacy concerns for masks to control the spread of viruses. Is the "science settled" or is there reason for skepticism? I'm no expert, so I'll let them

Damian Fogarty

DamianFog

The Christmas card you’ve been waiting on! The peer-reviewed data on the @pfizer @BioNTech_Group COVID-19 trial has been published yesterday in the @NEJM. Beautiful science and excellent results. I’ll thread

Doctora Malka Older

m_older

Module 6 -the final set of readings!- is about long-term predictions and planning. (For anyone new here, I'm live-tweeting the lecture prep for my course, Predictive Fictions, which I'm teaching

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loveshandle

THREAD: A (white) teenager and his father in Georgia were being interviewed about the need for masks as school starts. Both spoke about how they felt wearing masks is unnecessary

Lindsay Owens

owenslindsay1

Cutting UI is political suicide, yet Republicans are trying to do just that.As a sociologist who studied attitudes toward the safety net (and former Hill staffer who fought to expand

Jon Deeks

deeksj

What was the sensitivity and how many false positives were there from Mass Testing of University students?Results from University of Birmingham and Universities in Scotland don’t make good reading.SENSITIVITY 3%

Dr EM

PankhurstEM

Recommended viewing. However, the documentary makes a distinction between males who claim to feel like women based on sexist stereotypes & males who claim to feel like women based on

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Retlouping

A brief thread on learning.Last night, before bed, I listened to this brief presentation by Lorimer Moseley and @JoshuaWPate It highlighted the need for clinicians to understand more about how

Brad Beauregard Jr 🇺🇸

BradBeauregardJ

Joe Biden and his team have been coming out with great ads every day and groups like @MeidasTouch & @ProjectLincoln have been doing amazing work!I’m starting this thread so they’re

Alan Fernihough

DiffusePrioR

“Understanding Persistence” by Morgan Kelly re-examines the historical persistence literature in economics from a spatial statistics perspective. I think the results are MASSIVELY important for social science more broadly so

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

Today, August 9, marks 75 years since the last time nuclear weapons were used in war.Why have they not been used since? [THREAD] The literature on the international politics of

Jeroen Koning

jk_evine

1/ Thread: If you were told a year ago that in 2020 it is AGAINST the law (or enforced guidelines):To open your Restaurant, Bar or other business deamed unessentialTo do

Joseph A. Camp

JoeyCamp2020

Hello and good morning @NedStaebler. Hope you are well. Do you know why I am here? Mostly for the contributing information to the marketplace of ideas. That great concept about

Dr Matt Prescott

mattprescott

WHAT'S MOST SUSPICIOUS ABOUT BREXIT? A tough competition... but here's my initial list... the two LEAVE CAMPAIGNS (see £££s from RUSSIAN DONORS + ISLE OF MAN), everything to do with

Paul Maidowski

_ppmv

Strong portrait of Peter Calmus. Knowing about the catastrophe ahead isn’t easy. Solidarity https://www.propublica.org/article/the-climate-crisis-is-worse-than-you-can-imagine-heres-what-happens-if-you-try Imagine being a child today, and

Sterghios A. Moschos

DocMoschos

On AZ/Oxford vaccine: Ok the media love a scandal, you know that. @WIRED have one thing right: you cannot meta-analyse studies that do not have common design aspects. On the

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