#Specificity

Tamara Kneese

tamigraph

Holed up w/ the whole fam in the bedroom w/ fans going, finally had a chance to read @afrontiercity on the failures of digital labor as a category of analysis

Pranav Kumar

6pranavk

1/n Bayes + Covid This is a good thread on the topic ... and I would like to build upon this.There are MANY MANY micro-policy implications. TL;DR ICMR has done

Lauren Lapointe-Shaw

LapointeShaw

Sharing important results from Easter weekend poll of random sample of Ontario households (n=5,045) by @MainStResearch @Forumpolling@BogochIsaac @DFisman @DrToddLee @jkwan_md 1/8 Bottom line: up to 19% of Ontario households have

Health Nerd

GidMK

It's been coming up a lot lately, so I thought I'd do a bit of a thread on CONVENIENCE SAMPLES and why they aren't great for assessing POPULATION PREVALENCE of

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)

Water4All

ADBWater

#ADBWaterWatch LIVE: @rdreibelbis_UK kicks off our webinar, discussing hygiene behaviors during outbreaks. This is a suite of behaviors that serve to avoid the transmission of infectious disease, and includes #handwashing

Zeeshan Aleem

ZeeshanAleem

Thread: a few thoughts on the infamous Harper's letter that broke Twitter.TLDR: The letter was poorly written & vague enough to undermine its own cause. At the same time, if

Rob Levin

roblevin

THREAD: So… you want to #makecomics? Pitching is an important part of that process, but not all pitches are created equal. There are plenty of people who will tell you

Sam

SamPandemic

How to write a winning sales pitch in 6 easy ways.A thread... 1. Problem: Start off your pitch with a question about the problem you solve.A successful sales pitch begins

Javier Buceta

JavierBuceta

Because COVID19 we hear about the PCR technique all day. I want to share with you some things about its discovery... Kary Mullis came with the idea about how to

Daniel J. Nicholson

NicholsonHPBio

I wrote a follow-up to 'Is the Cell Really Machine?'. I revisit a classic essay by JBS Haldane in order to show how attending to physical scale allows us to

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

An estimated 6% of Miami-Dade county residents are seropositive. Investigators leading this ongoing study recruited participants by calling a random, representative sample to consent to drive-thru testing. Infection roughly 15x

Greta LaFleur

GretaLaFleur

Ok, so I obviously fully agree that the “canon” of eighteenth-century Anglophone texts and their authors is a trash fire. But as someone who works on the C18– a field

Michael Herrera

papertiki

Some thoughts from our taldev reunion discussion last week with @riseupanimation that I’d like to leave in a thread for anyone looking to pursue a career in the animation industry.

Bryan Roberts

BryanRoberts72

Benefit of occasional gig on trolley duty is the window into the world of strangers and their shopping lists. I particularly like the people who write ‘shopping list’ at the

Bi Dyke Praise Kink

Azure_Husky

It makes me intensely sad how hard it is to find good examples of healed, happy gender affirming surgery results (vaginoplasties, phalloplasties, etc) Searching for neovaginas when I was considering