#Biased

Janet D. Stemwedel, Philosopher Queen 🏳️‍🌈☠️

docfreeride

Can we talk about this article (published today, simultaneously in a number of journals)?Because I don't think it's doing the work its (many, many) authors hope it will.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-020-0529-x Overall, this

Ali North

alinorth_893

The Vulnerable Hedgehog (inspired by the @Mammal_Society's recent application of IUCN criteria to UK data that shows that 1/4 mammal species are threatened with national extinction) #hedgehog #scicomm #sciart

lexi 💜🌼

G_Alex_MCR

okayyy hello i want to do a thing where I just tweet at one of my mutuals everyday because they are all lovely and I want to remind them so

Julian Shapiro

Julian

Have you seen this bio on Twitter?"Forbes 30 Under 30. 1M IG followers. MBA."Here's why your eyes roll at this: This thread introduces a mental model for spotting superficial credentials

Beau Sievers

beausievers

Re: scientific racism, this conversation between @rasmansa and one of the authors of the religion, violence, and IQ study is instructivehttps://twitter.com/EPoe187/status/1271271074320322561 Bo is careful to dodge the following implication:

stuart mcdonald

ActuaryByDay

Latest @ICNARC report on intensive care admissions and outcomes was released last night. Here’s a quick summary on behalf of @ICS_updates and @COVID19actuary.Report includes 327 new patients (9,026 total); 587

el gato malo

boriquagato

when a patient is sufficiently sick, they become immuno-compromised.at that point, opportunistic infections move in.the same is true of societies, and we're seeing it right now.one such infection that has

Lionel Page

page_eco

Current polls highly favour Biden to win the US election.But do these polls *influence* the result of the election itself by influencing the voting decision of people?The evidence says *yes*

Mary Lou Shell

MaryLouShell2

It Would be best for Trump’s Mental Health if he ResignedA thread https://christianlife2016.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/it-would-be-best-for-trumps-mental-health-if-he-resigned/ I have been a registered republican all my life. That is not

Charlotte Clymer 🏳️‍🌈

cmclymer

OK, so, I'm biased, but I can't remember the last time I had so much fun watching a show than I did binging @Netflix's "The Queens' Gambit". It is criminally

Sam Levine

srl

I am so deeply moved by John Lewis' death. Too often now, the fight over voting rights gets framed as a political issue ("how will this law impact the election?").

Javeria Ali Hashmi

netphys1

Our lab’s paper “Threat Prediction from Schemas as a Source of Bias in Pain Perception” has useful pointers on how to deal with catastrophization and inaccurate perceptions of threat severity.

Elliot Tapper

ebtapper

1/HOW does gabapentin work?DOES gabapentin work? WHY is gabapentin so shady?Join me for a #tweetorial?Keywords: Glutatmate, Asterixis, Alcohol-use disorder#livertwitter #MedTwitter #meded 2/Admitting a non-#cirrhosis patient with gabapentin

Purvesh Khatri

purveshkhatri

[Thread] 1/22 Check out our pan-virus analysis! Tremendous teamwork by @bitsoftime @adityarao95 Denis Dermadi, @jiaying_toh, @ladoctorajones @mdonato1138 and @yemlooo with our collaborators @LabHeath @isbsci and @yehudithasin and Yudong He

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

Idk if anyone else has ever had this experience but in my various travels one thing I noticed is that basically everyone in Europe, the Middle East & North Africa

Wolfie Christl

WolfieChristl

Location data secretly gathered from smartphone apps is potentially flawed, biased, untrustworthy or even fraudulent.Overview of data harvesting companies who claim to help fighting the virus by providing data on