#Research

Julian Wolfson

DrJWolfson

We (epi & biostat folks) have a major conflict of interest when it comes to evaluating COVID research that I’m not sure we’ve fully acknowledged. 1/ Mostly, when we assess

Sa-kiera T. J. Hudson, PhD 😁😁

Sakiera_Hudson

I’m STILL surprised when I hear that “woke” black faculty (that discuss/research/LIVE race) have white partners. I’m always confused. I thought my time with Jim would have inured me to

Tonda MacCharles

TondaMacC

Here is a link to the new #COVID-19 modelling from Health Canada so you can follow the briefing about to get underway.https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/services/diseases-maladies/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/epidemiologi

The Florey

TheFlorey

T-15mins to our last public lecture for 2019! Dr Matthew Pase will be discussing the question, Can healthy lifestyles help lower the risk of dementia? If you cant make it

Tobias Dienlin ▶️ #ica20

tdienlin

Okay, #ica20, let's do this. Here are my thoughts on #openscience and #opencomm for the more qualitative approaches in our field!(Beware, long thread.)(Also, please be kind.) >Background: I was VERY

Boris Heersink

Boris_Heersink

Regarding Klobuchar as a possible VP candidate; people generally dismiss VP candidates as not being relevant in elections. Mostly I think that's right: very few voters decide to vote for

JamesWatson

JamesWatson210

GRAPHICLet's talk about plagues and bioweapons in China. Not in #Wuhan but in Harbin.What happens when one wicked man seizes control of a good organization?Meet Shiro Ishii. Founder of Unit

Isaiah Dawe ID. Know Yourself

IndigenousX

Before I finish on @IndigenousX tonight - I wanted to share something to all the non-Indigenous researchers out there, the academics, the ones who have researched on #Aboriginal & #TorresStraitIslander

Workers Solidarity

WSMIreland

Listening to the ⁦@Mickcliff⁩ interview the 1st thing that jumps out is his US alt-right mispronunciation of AntiFa. They do that to avoid saying anti fascist because there is a

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

AnnMemmott

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m5lh?fbclid=IwAR3wjoCtvutlRvTcSfCsYj01En-TgO5iMGEU2igovg5xDYqcpYJyttXGFPo @HappeLab discussing autistic women, and progress that's being made in understanding us as difference rather than deficit. W

Caroline Ball 🌈🦄🧁🏳️‍🌈

heroicendeavour

The ‘lost sales’ argument has been thoroughly discredited, both academically and legally, for both music and film piracy. How are academic publishers still getting away with using it to justify

Tom Brown

nworbmot

Great thread by @EmilDimanchev here!Funny thing about path dependency: within certain physical and economic limits, we can *choose* the energy system we want, and then unit costs will come down

Hugging Face

huggingface

Let’s democratize NLP for all languages! Today, with v2.9.1, we are releasing 1,008 machine translation models, covering ` of 140 different languages trained by @jorgtiedemann with @marian, ported by @sam_shleifer.

Prof Bunny Hugger 🌍🌹🌱💙 #ClimateAction

JKSteinberger

So there is a kind of circular argument I want to expose. Neoclassical economists & neoliberal ideologues have successfully argued for a social consensus around economic growth on the basis

Chris von Csefalvay

chrisvcsefalvay

Oh dear Jesus. I just read the tests on the Ferguson #COVID19 model.If I wrote code like this, with such excuses for tests, I'd get my ass fired, and you

Jess Brammar

jessbrammar

glad they did this research now, when newsrooms have moved on from initial spasm of #BLM & many won’t be making proper changes. We need to be better all the