#Researchers

Erik Reinbergs, PhD

ereinbergs

While I'm at it, let's talk about suicide monitoring software that school districts use: This software sends an alert when students enter keywords on their school computers related to

Kodama Mama

CaseyExplosion

It's hard to feel sympathy for The Guardian as a trans person, when they commissioned a study on the efficacy of "sex change" surgeries that deliberately fudged it's interpretations of

America-China Watcher

PandemicTruther

Latest on Chinese vaccines notably SinovacSinovac vaccine has gone through the third phase of its clinical trial. The protective rate is 79.34%. Though It looks lower than the 90-95% protective

Lauri Myllyvirta

laurimyllyvirta

There was pretty celebratory coverage last week of a report co-authored by China's environmental ministry, giving recommendations on greening China's overseas coal investment, including putting coal power on a "red"

MIT Technology Review

techreview

THREAD: We all know someone who believes in conspiracy theories. Perhaps some of those people are your family, friends, or neighbors. We asked researchers and moderators of the subreddit, r/ChangeMyOpinion,

Anthony Simon

MagaKarma1

1/Ugh I warned about this R's not only knew about the investigation. BUT WERE PART OF THE EVIDENCE CREATION THE FBI WAS USING !I said sooner or later D's will

Zoe Chance

zoebchance

THREAD: So many of us are asking right now,“How can we educate the other side about the dangers of autocracy?”As an educator who studies interpersonal influence, I have thoughts. And

Andy Matuschak

andy_matuschak

I’m fascinated by experiments using quadratic funding to provision public goods (good overview from @mattsclancy: https://mattsclancy.substack.com/p/optimal-kickstarter). Could this mechanism fund research—and in particular, tools for t

Jeronimo⭐⭐⭐

JeronimoVines

"I pull the strings, and the elite dance"-Somerset Belenoff, Countess of Banbury and ArranSomerset Belenoff, Countess of Banbury and Arran, chairs the World Governing Council and is the Chief Executive

John Scott-Railton

jsrailton

BREAKING: Zoom settles with FTC, gets consent order prohibiting misrepresentations, agreeing to mandated information security program, 3rd party audits... Quick THREAD https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/1923167zoomacco2.pdf 2.

Victoria Aranda

mvicaracal

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a scientific editor on Twitter? (thread) Almost every day, you scroll down to find someone criticizing you, indirectly if you

bethan jhn

bethanjhn

icymi: This week in content moderation saw increased scrutiny of Clubhouse, the invite-only voice-chat social media network that now counts at least 2 million users — and growing around the

Leo Kelion

LeoKelion

Interesting that @LindsayHoyle_MP chose to rebuke @Jeremy_Hunt over his lack of a tie on a zoom call. This is advice the Dept of Health previously issued about item of apparel.

Joshua Achiam

jachiam0

Hot take: deep RL research has stagnated because conferences have created bad incentives, rewarding researchers for vacuous claims of novelty, tenuous-at-best theoretical connections, or SOTA, while punishing boring analysis of

el gato malo

boriquagato

the real world, randomized controlled DANMASK study is out.it shows no meaningful efficacy in masks and a p value of 0.38 which is means it's really just noise.it's pretty much

Kendall G Pace

KendallGPace

Freaking brilliant. THEY LOOKED AT DATA!“Crowded subways pose little risk, if windows are open & passengers wear...Sitting diagonally, rather than directly across from each other can reduce risk of infection

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