#Estimates

Robert McNees

mcnees

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born #OTD in 1900. She decoded spectral lines of stars to deduce their elemental composition (concluding they are mostly H and He) and was the first

Pasha van Bijlert

PashavanBijlert

MY FIRST PAPER! We've developed a method to estimate the preferred walking speed of dinosaurs (spoiler: T. rex wasn't that fast)With Knoek van Soest & @AnneschulpCheck out those tail movements

Nick Stripe

NickStripe_ONS

THREAD – Mortality 2020Today we published England & Wales mortality statistics for the w/e 25 DecNearly a full year’s data for 2020In the last 52 weeks there were:c.604k deaths registered

Tay

TaylorQuant

NOVACYT IS F**KING PISSING ME OFF.Grab a cold one and read on, because you're not alone, but there's some very good reasons why you're not hearing what you want from

TruthHammer⭐️⭐️⭐️

TruthHammer888

If tunnels are a minor thing... why have 28 of 31 Army Brigades trained for subterranean combat?Commander: "I've been underground for up to [17] hours"Trainer: "Wait until you get into

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

THREAD: There’s uncertainty how many Americans were already exposed to #COVID19 and developed immunity. Until we do widespread serological testing to see who has antibodies, we won’t know for sure.

Michael Muthukrishna

mmuthukrishna

Now out! Beyond WEIRD Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distancehttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797620916782Summary thread: 1/ The world is not WEIRD vs non-WEIRD. How psychologically and cu

Dayman

Dayman58

Intel grows bullish on autonomous futurehttps://www.autonews.com/mobility-report/intel-grows-bullish-autonomous-future - Announced new partnership with Nio to deploy fully automated vehicles in a robotaxi fleet for China- Will have mapped all roads i

Brad Ward

heyitsbradw

There are arguments for and against, but America's economy really does need another stimulus package. Jay Powell says we will not "overdo" stimulus, and he's right! There is more need

Health Nerd

GidMK

This is one of the larger trials of hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, povidone-iodine and zinc for prevention of COVID-19At first, it appears positive, but there are some worrying issuesSome peer-review on twitter

Trung Phan

TrungTPhan

Read through Ark Invest's Big Ideas 2021 report.Here's a tweet and chart for each of the 15 ideas 1/ Deep learning to create $30T of market value by 2037•

Katie Akin

katie_akin

Another thread as the Merle Hay protest moves along Douglas. The armored vans are parked by Target, as well as a few squad car. I do not know where the

Jennifer Ross

JenRoss4Scot

22/06 Scottish Coronavirus briefing thread. The Scottish Press are SNP sycophants. We can't rely on them to hold the separatists to account.Today, let's see if they stick with the beer

Axel Heitmueller

axelheitmueller

Attempt to understand differences / #Covid19 experience. Data comparability is challenging, and inevitably some of this may need further scrutiny. However, I do think there are a number of issues

G. Elliott Morris

gelliottmorris

I will offer an olive branch. There is a lot of value in incorporating context and prior judgment or "subjectivity" in statistical models (that's why being Bayesian is so great!).

Zeke Hausfather

hausfath

How much warming is committed, "locked in", or "in the pipeline" has long been a source of confusion. In a new @CarbonBrief explainer we take a deep dive into what