#Stratification

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

COVID19 and molecular - mainly Genomics + Genetics research. Some big picture thoughts First off, understanding the disease this virus causes is important. It is clear that it has very

Dr Julia Coronado

jc_econ

In response to @itsafronomics's call to action I am going to make some observations as a macroeconomist. Black Americans’ share of wealth has hovered around 4% of total wealth for

Duke-Margolis

DukeMargolis

@DukeMargolis director Dr. Mark McClellan along with @ScottGottliebMD @cmyeaton @LaurenRSilvis and @Farzad_MD lay out what is needed for a national #COVID19 surveillance system along the #RoadmaptoReopenhttps://healthpolicy.duke.edu/sites/default/fil

James Ward

JamesWard73

I found some time over the weekend for a quick model update, with all the latest data on vaccine supply, take-up and effectiveness. The net result: no change to my

William Clare Roberts

MarxinHell

As much as I enjoy dunking on Michael Walzer — and if I can’t dunk on Walzer, I don’t want to be part of your revolution — it might be

Tim Morris

bristimtom

In need of some lockdown reading? @nm_davies @explodecomputer @mendel_random and I have a new paper exploring how population level mechanisms may inflate genetic associations and bias conclusions: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/16/eaay0328

Samantha Marie Nock

sammymarie

we should all be very concerned over O'Toole's call to "Take Back Canada" and the dog whistling he is doing to ultra right wing nationalism. i can't explain the level

James Kanagasooriam

JamesKanag

Short thread on my thoughts of YouGov's MRP of the US Presidential Election. It forecasts a landslide win for Biden. There's some interesting detail which I've tried to backsolve...https://today.yougov.com/2020-presidential-elec

Mikko Packalen

MikkoPackalen

1/ No doubt OST did a 180. Note also this:"What was really very important in each jurisdiction ... was to communicate the seriousness of this, so that people did stay

Ron Noble

RonNoble7

1. A thread on the relationship between race and genetics. Is race a reliable proxy for genetic diversity? Do racial, ethnic, and/or population groups correspond to identifiable genetic clusters? What

Jonathan Mummolo

jonmummolo

Estimates of racial bias using police data are wrong if police discriminate in who they stop. New paper w/ @dean_c_knox, @conjugateprior: analysis in Fryer (forthcoming) likely masks hundreds of thousands

Mark Bustoros

MarkBustoros

Finally, our paper on Genomic Profiling of Smoldering Multiple Myeloma is out @JCO @ASCO_pubs! A work that took more than 3 years but with amazing collaborations led to this large

Its ya boy Patrick Miller aka Hat Trick Killer aka

pattheflip

FWIW I read the 4Gamer Ishiwatari interview (https://www.4gamer.net/games/472/G047266/20191128034/). If I had to paraphrase my takeaway, it's that Strive is going to be more of a two-player game, and that the

Matt Malkus

malkusm

1/ @BallouxFrancois - I am curious if you have examined other aspects of the 1889 Russian flu pandemic, which you mentioned here. There are several similarities to #SARSCoV2 which I

Rob Knox

pashukanist

It's Lenin's birthday, which means it's time to go re-read of my fave Lenin texts, particularly some of the lesser-known ones. 'A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism' full of

Peter B. Bach, MD

peterbachmd

Remdesivir priced at $3,120 for 5 day course (10 day also in EUA and twice as much). $GILD says will discount to $2,340 for ‘government programs (incl Medicare)’ in the