#Persist

Randy Nesse

RandyNesse

A recent news article in @ScienceMagazine, “Rethinking #anorexia: Biology may be more important than culture,” illustrates the human tendency to stay committed to a simple theory despite contrary evidence, even

Francesco Ciulla

FrancescoCiull4

The Twelve-Factor App a methodology for building SAAS that:Use declarative formats for automationHave a clean contract with the OSAre suitable for deployment on modern platformsMinimize divergence between dev and prodCan

Jill Filipovic

JillFilipovic

With two working parents suddenly having to juggle full-time care-taking, we see peoples' implicit assumptions of their own value coming to the fore. Men think their work matters more than

Tom

tom_username_

One of the important take-aways from Goethe's approach to colours is that you shouldn't see the world as pigmented.If you could zoom in on the pigments themselves, you would see

Zach Elliott

zaelefty

The Scientific American article 'The New Science of Sex and Gender' uses congenital conditions of the reproductive tract (DSDs) to make arguments about gender and identity. Let's break it down

Haramkan Nikah Bawah Umur ✊🏽 #REVOLUSIS

krYss_net

THREAD: Neither Revenge Nor Porn 1. The term "revenge porn" is often associated with the act of an ex partner distributing a sexually explicit photo/video non-consensually on digital platforms as

megan | מיה

kehillahjewess

Conspiracies about Jewish people have been flooding the internet lately, so I compiled a thread of antisemitic stereotypes and misconceptions that are weaponized against Jews to justify our marginalization This

Geoff Brumfiel

gbrumfiel

Let’s just take a moment today to talk about why a lot of experts (@devisridhar, @BhadeliaMD, @sarahcobey, @neil_ferguson, @joshua_schiffer and more) think the pursuit of natural herd immunity for COVID

Dr Aloy Chife

ChifeDr

NIGERIA: THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ITS AFTERMATH“To speak or not to speak”, might well be PMB’s prerogative nevertheless it is a red herring. The real and urgent debate Nigerians ought

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

New antibody study: “study eased a niggling worry that only some people might make antibodies. In fact, level of antibodies did not differ by age/sex, and even people who

Bradley Custer

BradleyDeanC

Last week, @usedgov posted states’ applications for the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund. I analyzed the text to learn about governors’ priorities for higher education spending. A thread on

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

A key insight for me has been to understand ideology—religion, philosophy, and politics—in terms of biological metaphors. When I say “memetics,” this is what I mean. Ideas are an emergent

adyingnobody

adyingnobody

dear crypto,Read: https://tl.gd/n_1ss24a6 I want to come clean, and I will likely tear a rift in the entire community while I'm at it and on my way out.Over the course

gladhys elliona

_gladhys

"underrated" non-English, non-Korean series on Netflixfor y'all who want to explore things to watch on Netflix- a thread 1. 3% (Brazilian Portuguese)Always my go to recommendation for you who likes

Jose Ordovas-Montanes

ordovas_phd

1) We are providing an update to our original work identifying that the SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 is an interferon-stimulated gene in human epithelial cells https://twitter.com/ordovas_phd/status/1240043368039829511 (n/17) 2) Our study is

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

I had a professor who always talked about "the necessity of existence." Basically, some things should be created just so that thing will exist in the world.So here's a thread