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The first — and only — randomized controlled study of the use of face coverings to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is finished. The conclusion: masks are most effective if
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
AEROSOL TRANSMISSION—we need to keep hammering this. Key takeaways by @jljcolorado to avoid places:if it's crowdedif cannot keep distanceif it's a long timeif low ventilationif not wearing masksif people singing,
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Max Roser
MaxCRoser
A colleague asked whether there are 'low-hanging fruits' to improve the response to the pandemic.I know two for all those who publish original data:– Publish data in a csv file.
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Michael Hoffman
michaelhoffman
1/It's been an interesting few days! Guess I'm not really surprised that some don't want to share the code and models underlying their publications. Am surprised that some think that
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Nitin Arora #WearAMask
aroradrn
I have to disagree here...There’s levels of research involvement1. Being able to read papers, stay up to date, critique papers, and apply evidence to practice. If you can’t do this
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Nadia A. Sam-Agudu, MD, CTropMed
NASAdoc
As calls to #decolonizeGlobalHealth increase, LMIC-based researchers, healthcare workers, collaborators should also push for this from our end. My take:1. If you're not actively in research, continuously educate yourself, up
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Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫
BostonJoan
There is a factual error in this story that we need to discuss as researchers. White supremacists didn’t “learn from Russia.” In fact, US groups have long used the affordances
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Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫
BostonJoan
There are so many lessons to learn about what is and what is not a bot on the Internet. It’s important to know!This CM study made a bold claim about
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David K Smith
professor_dave
For the first time, Nature family journals set their open access price, and it is around £9000. No, that's not a typo. Science is increasingly just a capitalist endeavour, where
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Bea is Chronically Persisting
Be_Kinderr
Interesting article on the ways lack of oxygen to the brain (here caused by sleep apnea) damages the brain. #pplwME #MECFS shown to hypoxia via poor brain blood flow. I
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Michael Hobbes
RottenInDenmark
Every single survey on human trafficking is designed to produce false positives. One-third of the trafficking victims identified by the ILO estimate are women and men in arranged marriages. https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@ed_norm/@ipec/docu
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Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW
MyHarmReduction
Being the subject of someone else’s study isn’t fun or interesting. It’s also a hassle for orgs. If you don’t have a pre-existing collaborative relationship, leave them alone. We @DrugPolicyNerds
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Katie 👾 Moussouris (she/her)
k8em0
What’s great about these privacy warnings is that nobody is calling the researchers irresponsible for revealing them immediately to the public, & Twitter is thanking them instead of trying to
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Earyn McGee, Lizard lassoer, MSc🦎
Afro_Herper
Up here at the Southwestern Research Station there is an initiative to remove invasive bull frogs from ponds. During the removal process they found a tadpole of gigantic proportions. BEHOLD
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Cancer Research UK
CR_UK
It’s taken years of work, but earlier this month researchers funded by us, led by Professor Louis Chesler at @ICR_London, announced that a new drug for neuroblastoma – an aggressive
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Kate Allen
katecallen
Ontario is creating a new health data platform to help researchers, incl. modellers & province's world-leading AI scientists respond to pandemicThis sounds like what the researchers in the story I
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