#Researchers

Johannes Rieke

jrieke

Really impressed with CLIP, @OpenAI's recent model for image classification. I think it could change a LOT about how we train models.Little summary CLIP is a new* image model

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

mRNA VXINES: Polyethylene glycol (PEG), the polymer of choice for gene-editing, is a polyether compound derived from petroleum. PEG is very sensitive to sonolytic (ultrasound) degradation & PEG degradation products can be TOXIC TO

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

WORRISOME—#COVID19 mutation becomes more concerning. The coronavirus can mutate swiftly in one person’s body. New case study: #SARSCoV2 “resurged again & again in the body of an infected man, eventually

Pastoralism & Uncertainty

PASTRES_erc

THREAD: Let's talk about meat, animal farming, climate change & biodiversity.In 2021, a series of global conferences will discuss how to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Big stories about

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

The US reported over 3000 deaths from #COVID19 today and the 7-day average of deaths has hit a record with today's average of 2276. Here, I dig into these grim

Rasmus Corlin Christensen

phdskat

A thread on the international tax staff President Biden is building at the US Treasury.As someone who studies how states and individuals influence global tax negotiations, I find it very

Xavier Dropships🧖🏻‍♀️

ecomxavier

How to use the Customer’s Psychology to your Brand’s Advantage in your Copywriting / Marketing: (THREAD)(courtesy of @NickKolenda) Enlarge words that convey an emotionPretty self explanatory, but the larger the

Corona Reduit

CoronaReduit

1/25 nursing homes make up ~50% of Covid19 deaths but just ~1% of the population all over the Western world. we are proposing an INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH to improve outcomes and

Sam Asher

thesamasher

Are night lights (NL) a reliable proxy for local GDP?An answer, in our paper “Development Research at High Geographic Resolution” aka the SHRUG paper (forthcoming at WBER). 1/14TL;DR: don’t trust

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

One of the machine learning researchers I follow closely is @petewarden, who writes extensively about the hardware side of ML, something we hear very little about beyond vague accounts of

Mary Tuma

TumaTime

1/Hi, I’m going to do a thread on my latest story. I want to make sure the fact that in one week from today #Texas is denying thousands of women

Ben W. Ansell

benwansell

I had a statistical conniption about the Aberdeen study published in BMJOpen earlier today. Let's see if I can explain my concerns in a less techie fashion. The gist of

DJ Cthulhu, LLC 🐙🎧

RealDJCthulhu

This is rather different than my usual content, but I was inspired to do this by a conversation I had on here. Today I’m going to talk about a weirdly

Simon Balto is telling you to defund the police

SimonBalto

THREAD.A new research study in SCIENCE, out today, studies how Chicago police officers' racial & gender identities might influence how they engage with Black & Latinx citizens. It's going to

M.P.

OmanReagan

Since people are discussing the use of Dr. as a title for a woman with a PhD, I want to share a quick story from 2016 about how well-meaning compliance

Jim Woodgett

jwoodgett

The Fall economic statement by the government wasn’t meant to be a mini-budget but it was particularly worrying in terms of lack of investment in science.There has been funding

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