#POPULATION

Erik Schlitt

erikschlitt

I'm a terrible reader.In fact, I struggle so much that I required special education classes/assistance for reading and writing throughout most of my schooling. (Thread)https://twitter.com/maggiesmithpoet/status/1263497625766068225 In el

Jean Polfus

JeanPolfus

Caribou conservation in Canada is confusing! I'm going to try to shed some light on this complex situation in a series of tweets (wish me luck!) Please ask questions or

Christopher Snowdon

cjsnowdon

1/ New study looking at risk factors for hospitalisation and critical illness from COVID-19. Thread.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20057794v1 2/ Age is by far the biggest risk factor for hospitalisation. Morbid obesity increases t

Roger Pielke Jr.

RogerPielkeJr

RCP8.5 alertAre equity investors really mispricing risk by not basing decisions on RCP8.5?https://twitter.com/imfnews/status/1266361224146685954 “Both mortality rates (fatalities as a percent of exposed population) and damages as a propor

Mark Hoofnagle

MarkHoofnagle

So Remdesivir, some good news, some bad. Not a game changer, but it may help COVID patients requiring supplemental O2 *before* they become critically ill. Some regional confounding in the

Jennifer Brea🦒

jenbrea

To share when someone you love (or a stranger on the internet) says they want to “end capitalism.”https://youtu.be/jbkSRLYSojo For 50,000 years, humanity hung out in the bottom left corner. Then,

Rico Woj

shortthought

This thread identifies some important things to consider for those proposing #gentledensity, co-op living, #carfree, #lowcarbon or placemaking and so I've put together my own thread giving a few more

Chad Loder

chadloder

Stanford skeptic Ioannidis is back with a new preprint.“People who die in nursing homes die in an median of 5 months, so it is likely that COVID-19 nursing home deaths

paper_potato

da_667

I don't want to introduce terror into your life, but I want you to know that there are more Trump supporters out there than you all think.We went to go

Al Hilali

RaisAlHilali

[Thread] al-Muwaḥḥidūn Madjmû' rasâ'il muwahhidiyya min inshâ' kuttâb al-dawla al-mu' miniyya. Rabat, 1941, lettre n° 17, p. 81-93 Le 8 šawwāl 552 de l’hégire (13 novembre 1157), une lettrecirculaire est

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

There has been a lot of discussion of the Swedish approach to coping with the #COVID19 pandemic, and of whether their strategy of more voluntary restrictions and a more rapid

Savi Jain

savijain

1/n India needs to get back to work sooner rather than later. This thread discusses how 2/n Social distancing, Testing + Isolation is the only accepted strategy to contain Covid-19.

Elon Mask

ShadowMusk

[Theory of imaginary progress] I do not know if you ever thought about this, but we are in a phase were there are really few people that really accelerate progress.

Will Hayward

WillHayCardiff

There is a lot of anger that pubs and restaurants have opened outside in England but not in Wales.But to really understand the risks of reopening now we need to

Marlon Solomon

supergutman

One of the most important articles written about Antisemitism in Labour and how it's been misunderstood by@bengidley @b_mcgeever & David Feldman. A few the key points below but highly recommend

Dr Dominic Pimenta

DrDomPimenta

This is deeply pseudoscientific and dangerous rubbish. I wouldn't normally amplify, but in this case given the public health emergency I've made an exception. The full version is here: https://youtu.be/DUDg5ossirU Otherwise