#Experiments

I have a thought about the new econ/epi debate spurred by my colleague @AnupamBJena's recent NY times op-ed. Thought comes from my last few years as econ faculty in a
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It's rather strange, and difficult to accept and believe, but the reality we observe and experience is not the totality of physical reality. How did physicists first come to discover
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More quantum mechanics terms were introduced in #Alice ep 6, the Chronology Protection Conjecture, Dirac Sea, and one of the most famous thought experiments, the Schrodinger's Cat.All these were used
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Turns out this is the direction the world of media consumption is heading towards. The main problem is that having a lot of newsletters can lead to purchasing fatigue. Smart
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#Climate_Ed Anyone is WELCOME to COPY my climate science tweets to help SUPPORT the evidence of manmade climate change! I've listed 35+ in this /thread!I'm here to push back against
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Posting a new working paper, co-authored with the brilliant @lauraroyden. "Antisemitic Attitudes Across the Ideological Spectrum"We conducted survey experiments on 3,500 Americans, including a large (2,500) oversample of young adu
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Twice, I’ve had to call 911 for people having a health crisis, and once I was on the scene with an accident victim as other people around us called for
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Doing a #PhD or #Postdoc & want to write #RegisteredReports in a short timeframe? [THREAD based on my personal (positive) experience] tldr; start writing, learn as you go. 1/n But
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At yesterday’s paper study, we covered a very recent Nature paper on the discovering of a new class of antibiotics which work against some very scary resistant microbes. It’s an
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Reading more of @mathyawp's "Math for Human Flourishing" (https://amzn.to/2yynLtO ): today Ch 12, "Community". Math has the lowest coauthorship rate among the sciences, so it's reassuring to learn that there's sti
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Something I’ve been thinking and talking about a lot during this #COVID19 pandemic is how seemingly small differences are being magnified in likely long-lasting ways. A THREAD (mostly about academia,
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AS A STATISTICIAN, I respect science expertise because I need it to do my job right. In the early days of the pandemic, I saw debate develop between those advocating
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Science and academia as told by Schitt’s Creek gifs. A thread. (Feel free to add in) Going into lab expecting all of your experiments to fail. When your PI asks
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Since anti-China supporters keep bringing up Tiananmen Massacre as some sort of a reminder, I thought I do the same. US atrocities.Tuskegee #Syphilis experiment. #atrocities #USatrocities https://twitter.com/AlsoACarpenter/status/1195055141126201344
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Let's talk about contingency in the history of life on Earth. Stephen Jay Gould, in "Wonderful Life" asked the question: what if we could 'rewind' the tape of life to
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I never used to use twitter. I now am an avid user. I get accurate up to date scientific advice with sensible conclusions. I read tweets from likeminded people of
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