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Gabi *Snow* Fleury (Yibambe!) 🏳️‍🌈 🇧🇷 🇦🇴 🐆

fleurygs

THREAD: What School Didn't Teach UsHad a convo with other early-career conservationists, and we came up with a list of lessons and skillsets we learnt through experience, outside of academia,

Andrew

guavapancake

This subthread is about treatment options and prophylaxis for #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 that do NOT require a prescription from a doctor. Early treatment at EXPOSURE instead of DIAGNOSIS or when you

Michael McFaul

McFaul

When I was in government, I remember Ambassador Bill Burns saying many a time in meetings that we were doing a great job "admiring the problem." But we were

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

Great Q&A with Peter Ben Embarek on the COVID-19 emergence @WHO mission.He explains why they conclude it was "extremely unlikely" SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab - the same conclusion we

Michelle Ogunwole

DrChelleMD

1/ In our recent @JAMANetworkOpen article, we compare diversity of Internal Medicine workforce to that of a rapidly diversifying US population & med student body. CC: senior author @GoldenSherita.In this

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

PhDniX

In the new volume by Segovia, there's an article that makes me feel like we have stepped into a time machine, all progress of the past decades is ignored. Emilio

Roll With It

RollWithItBlog

This is probably going to end up being a long thread.There's a passage in Terry Pratchett's Night Watch that I've been thinking about a lot the last few days. Night

Paul Novosad

paulnovosad

A thread about trying (and failing) to notify JAMA about an incorrect COVID-19 study that they published. 1/N The initial article (a research letter) claimed that stay-at-home orders slowed

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Because SARS-CoV-2 testing often happens after symptoms appear, it's been difficult to estimate detection probability early in infection. So great to collaborate with team at @TheCrick & @ucl to tackle

Ben CatchYourCough Goldacre

bengoldacre

BING BONG NEW PAPERNHS hospital medicines data is being collected, but then needlessly withheld from analysts. This means patients are exposed to sub-optimal treatment. And NHS money is being wasted.The

Bill Kerr

william_r_kerr

LOVE this paper (https://www.nber.org/papers/w28061 ) by @jamesfeigenbaum & Dan Gross. How does automation impact jobs? F&G study when telephone operators were replaced by mechanical switches. This was BIG: # of phone

jen hay

jbhay

Our paper on non-Māori speakers’ remarkable implicit knowledge of te reo Māori sound patterns and word-forms has just been published. (http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-78810-4) This was so much fun to work on.

Don Moynihan

donmoyn

Quick thoughts on automation as a means to reduce #administrativeburden in public services. Automation using administrative data can make life easier for most, but those with eligibility characteristics not captured

Kevin Hall

KevinH_PhD

A thread based on my recent experience with post-publication peer-review and its publicization. It raises questions about incentivizing Open Science which I whole-heartedly support. A recently updated @RetractionWatch story is

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/Woke people believe men can give birth.This total nonsense, which they want taught in schools, is a result of what the woke call "deconstructing gender."A thread about what that is,

Keir Shiels

keirshiels

We need to fight against debating society journalism. Facts and opinions should not land based on who has the most articulate phrase or pithy quotation. A thread. 1/?https://twitter.com/keirshiels/status/1346744919797493760 Sticking two

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