#PNAS

Bryan D Martin

BryanDMartin_

Happy #NationalComingOutDay !This year, I'd like to do something for the very first time: publicly come out as bisexual. I've told very few people in my life. Many people who

Calli Schroeder

Iwillleavenow

Alright, because the documentary REALLY did not get into what the Facebook emotional contagion experiment was, I'm going to do a quick rundown of it and some broader issues with

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I'm enthusiastic about the prospect of cheap, fast, at-home paper strip COVID tests for daily proactive screening. To get the most out of them, we need to start thinking

Zeke Hausfather

hausfath

Hi Mike, sorry for not responding to this earlier. I've been dealing with a rambunctious post-childcare toddler all evening. Lets take a look at my claims, your responses, and see

claireopatra🟥🏁

claireopatraaa

RE: brain structural differences in FtMs and MtFs.many of you have seen the argument that transwomen have female brains and that transmen have male brains. however, the studies referenced usually

The Surrealist Side of the Street

coolgrey

The Bay Area during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic...Open-air police court being held in Portsmouth Square, San Francisco. To prevent crowding indoors, judges held outdoor court sessions The SF Board

Tory Fibs

ToryFibs

•Children can transmit CV19•1,000 CV19 droplets can survive in air of a classroom for 8 minutes just from 1 person talking•5,000 UK kids CV19+, 500 hospitalised, 14 dead•75 teaching staff

Matthew Salganik

msalganik

If hundreds of scientists created predictive algorithms with high-quality data, how well would the best predict life outcomes? Not very well. Fragile Families Challenge: paper in PNAS w 112 authors

Richard Marr

richmarr

Skeptical that diverse teams perform better? Need to convince someone you know?Here's a handy threadful of evidence (that you didn't ask for but hopefully find somewhat useful)1/ In 2001, Nisbett

Tom McLean

TomMcLean05

Its out! Our @ActinoBase review of actinomycete research in 2019! Written by an all-ECR team of @Sam_Prudence @emyaddington @Laia_Castano @DavidRcoMark @LinaPintorE @alisia_russell and myself. Read it here for free on

Andrew A Walker

insect_venomics

Our new paper exploring the molecular nature of venom of limacodid caterpillar venoms featured on the cover of @PNASNews. This is one of the main things I've been working on

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

A common criticism of population-based epidemic models is that they don't account for individual-level variation in transmission (i.e. superspreading events). But how much of a problem is this? 1/ For

Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH

RRHDr

Today, a study conducted by myself, @Fixed_Effects, @aaronsojourner & @LauraHuangLA published in @PNASNews: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/12/1913405117/tab-figures-data Cc:@KatherineJWu @ByNinaMartin @PublicHealthUMN @UMNew

Peter Kvam

PeterKvam

Cool, that makes things a little easier. Here's a quick, incomplete list, including some that are actually incorrect predictions.Example 1: A choice can only be triggered after sampling a piece

Jim Hawkins

jimallthetime

If you’re choosing to avoid the news, or if the #news is having a negative affect on your #wellbeing, you’re not alone. (Thread!)The tone and the content of (most) news

Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

KHayhoe

As the economic slow-down due to the coronavirus pandemic shutters industry, air pollution and carbon emissions are dropping. A lot of people have asked what this means for carbon emissions