#Preprint

Jedidiah Carlson

JedMSP

Out now in @plosbiology, @kelley__harris and I try to unravel what altmetrics and the fire hose of social media data really tell us about the potential impacts of research papers.

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

HUGE— A Flu Shot Might Reduce Coronavirus Infections, Early Research SuggestsHospital workers who got flu shot vaccinated were significantly less likely to develop #COVID19 than those who did not, early

Thibault Fiolet 🇪🇺

T_Fiolet

Dans la dernière vidéo de l'IHU de Marseille (à gauche) : exemple de cherry picking Méfiance !1- Inclusion de préprints pour la plupart p=0.0062- En ne gardant que les publications

Deirdre Tobias, ScD

deirdre_tobias

Country-level correlation studies like the "lettuce will kill you" preprint provide epidemiologists with a good laugh-cry, & I want to be sure everyone understands why.So why are diet/disease correlations (AKA

Stephanie M. Lee

stephaniemlee

SCOOP: Here's something new about that Stanford COVID-19 antibody study.In an email I obtained, the wife of the professor leading it recruited people by saying an “FDA approved” test (it's

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Promised to tweet out a few more thoughts from my reporting on #covid19 clustering and dispersion factor k. So here goes:https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1262876041237991424 Quick recap first: Reproduction number R is an average.

Richard Neher

richardneher

The preprint on #SARSCoV2 seroprevalence in Santa Clara County continues to make headlines. They estimate 2-4% of the population had #COVID19 by April 4 implying an infection fatality rate (IFR)

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Initially #SARSCoV2 was considered a respiratory virus. New @GladstoneInst findings in both iPSC-> heart cells & autopsy indicate it's a heart virus, w/ a distinct pattern:—myofibrillar fragmentation—loss of nuclear DNA—&qu

Mark Thornton

Mark_A_Thornton

New preprint from me, @milenamr7, & @DianaTamir! "People learn mental state concepts from mental state dynamics" We present evidence that the conceptual structure people apply to understand mental states is

Vijay Ramani

vram142

Hungry for new high-throughput methods? Take a bite out of SAMOSA! The first preprint from the Ramani Lab, brilliantly led by grad student @NourAbdulhay and PD @cpmcnally in my lab,

Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud

Damkyan_Omega

Evidence for increased breakthrough rates of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in BNT162b2 mRNA vaccinated individualsPapier (preprint) sur la vaccination en Israël et les variants. Apparition plus marquée d'infection postvac avec

Tuffs BLM___INTERFERON_ALPHA_2B

TuffsNotEnuff

Stop the carnage.Adopt China's Changheber Project system.Stop waiting on a vaccine. That didn't work for AIDS in the 80s/90s. And for SARS-1 2003 there's no vaccine.Interferon-based HIV treatment worked fine.Same

Steven Strogatz

stevenstrogatz

Imagine a knotted wire with electric charge distributed uniformly along it. What do the equipotential surfaces around it look like? The animation below, by my student Max Lipton, shows one

Lu Chen

houndcl

Having seen so many double standards on #remdesivir and #hydroxychloroquine result, I decide to start a thread to share how I read a scientific paper.While I only expect 1% people

Josh Kalla

j_kalla

NEW PREPRINT w/ @dbroockman. We conducted a real-world experiment to study the effects of partisan media. In Sept 2020, we paid people who normally watch Fox News to instead watch

Michael J Barany

MBarany

Haven't done a proper historical thread in a while, so....Ever wondered how mathematics got to be a "young man's game"?Let's have a look... 1/ This thread is based on a