#Researchers

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

rasmus_kleis

We will never know how social media impacted 2016 US elections (or 2018 in or 2019 in or...). But thx to new initiative led by @TaliaStroud and @j_a_tucker

Rex Douglass

RexDouglass

Today I'll be live tweeting"THE STATE OF THE NATION: A 50-STATE COVID-19 SURVEY REPORT #10: THE PANDEMIC AND THE PROTESTS"(Lazer et al. August 2020)The 5th paper I've reviewed purporting to

BBC World Service

bbcworldservice

The official number of deaths from Covid-19 has passed one million people worldwide https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-54336494Despite that huge number, we still don’t know enough about the virus. Here’s are some of

Richard Woods

Richard_Autism

After much musing, this afternoon. I think a thread on partly why any credible or reputable autism expert should say PDA is NOT autism is probably warranted. It centers on

Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing UCL

ASSAUCL

The ASSA Project is a collaboration between 11 researchers. Each week, we will be posting more about each researcher’s work to give a better overview of each fieldsite in the

MBARI

MBARI_News

As firefighters slowly and methodically contain the wildfires here in California, many people have asked—how does all of the ash and smoke settling down from the fires impact the ocean?

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

1/. The #HerdImmunity strategy depends on people developing immunity to #COVID19.But immunity to other human coronaviruses (e.g SARS & MERS) usually only lasts between 12 to 37 months.Studies suggests that

AntiFash Gordon

AntiFashGordon

1/ A Proud Boy in Portland assaulted a Black live-streamer by kicking him in the face yesterday.The Proud Boy had a distinctive shamrock tattoo on his left hand, matching that

Craig Silverman

CraigSilverman

It’s damn hard to make money producing original journalism. But know what works kinda well? Throw together a WordPress site, copy and paste *other* people’s journalism, and run ads via

Daniel Howdon

danielhowdon

God knows I'm sick of churning out COVID-19 data myself, so going to post a bit of a thread that hopefully might help other people to at least interpret it

Michiel Tack

MTackCVS

1) On March 17 there was ME/CFS advocacy call at the NIH. The audio recording and transcript have been made available here: https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initiatives/mecfs/nih-me/cfs-advocacy-call-march-17-2020I thought it wa

Graham Martin

Graham_P_Martin

Scientific debate around Covid-19 on Twitter and beyond has become increasingly polarised & unpleasant in recent weeks. It’s not a great look. Ironically, I think it’s less down to scientific

CodesUcq

CodesUcq

1. - Filthy10/23/2020 US President Donald Trump at debate: "Look at China, how filthy it is. Look at Russia. Look at India. It's filthy. The air is filthy."https://news.yahoo.com/us-president-donald-trump-debate-081001898.html

Sabina Vohra-Miller

SabiVM

As a non-epidemiologist, this was perhaps the most enlightening article I’ve read on SARS-CoV-2 by @zeynep (h/t: @malia_ailam)I will summarize the article and highlight key points down :https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k

Pajamas It Is

HeckofaLiberal

THREAD: For those still claiming the “longterm effects” are unique to #covid19 haven’t been paying attention to other viral illnesses. Let’s take a look: 1/https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/5/1463 Many viral illnesses including

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The iron law of computing is GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out. Machine learning does not repealit. do statistical analysis of skewed data, get skewed conclusions. This is totally obvious to