#Thresholds

USGS ShakeAlert

USGS_ShakeAlert

Great article in @sciencemagazine about alerting thresholds for earthquake early warning (EEW): https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6468/957. The authors say we need more social science research on EEW systems. #ShakeAlert agrees! (1/10) @Cal_

Damian Roland

Damian_Roland

What can we do to improve care & experience for children and not break the workforce this winter? A thread (needed more than 3) Please note this doesn't cover at

Farida Mili

FaridaMili

A thread on on paradoxes in MacbethA paradox is a statement which appears self-contradictory, but when examined closer turns out to be true.Paradoxes expose how the lines between what is

Abnormal Accrual

bbm010

$TSLAQ I have a working theory that the controls in place for cash from the ABL lenders (Deutsche & Industrial and Commercial Bank) are preventing Tesla from manipulating the cash

Nick Stenning

nickstenning

Some days it really seems like every significant “intuition” that managers have about metrics or systematisation of their workplace is at best useless, and more often actively harmful to the

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

Many important things happened related to COVID in the US this past week. Here are some of the good and some of the not-good developments, and their implications. First, here

Nicole Kaeding

NKaeding

Getting a ton of questions right now on Recovery Rebates and personal situations. I'm going to recap what we know with these updates and try to answer some common questions.

Frank Kilkelly

kilkelly

"The Curious Case of the 1% Positive Rate Baseline in #Ireland"A #COVID19 thread.The HPSC and HSE provides us with this chart for "Positive Rate (%) Previous 7 Days" on their

Isabelle No climate justice without racial justice

IsabelleLetell1

Every day I am talking with my kids about the environmental crisis. It is about what we eat, why we take public transportation, do not fly, it is about the

Kevin Griffith

AssumeNormality

NEW ARTICLEHave you ever wanted to know how wait times for specialty care between @VeteransHealth and the private sector? I answer this in new research letter in @JAMANetworkOpen along with

Ashwin Mahesh

ashwinmahesh

WHO SHOULD TEACH? (From my column in Deccan Herald).----For decades, we've known that the education system in the country is badly broken. Fewer than half the children complete school, and

Jack Kosmicki

Jack_Kosmicki

Survived another ASHG plenary talk :)In case you missed it, I presented results on behalf of @Regeneron from a trans-ancestry #COVID19 meta-analysis of common and rare variants + gene burden

Akiko Shoji

AkikoShoji

1/11. #WSTC7 #ContSesh2 Seabirds accumulate & transport contaminants, acting as biovectors. Biovector transport is nicely illustrated on this fig from Blais et al. 2007. But how effects at distant locations

Jessica Hullman

JessicaHullman

It's election forecast time! But can we take @FiveThirtyEight or @Economist forecasts at face value? What are forecasters' goals & incentives, especially post 2016 disillusionment? Excited to share a new

Chris Masterjohn

ChrisMasterjohn

Here's my interview with Gabriela Gomes on herd immunity and COVID-19.https://youtu.be/egN8oXFBTWk Gabriela Gomes is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Strathclyde Glasgow and corresponding author of the rece

Mehrbod Estaki

MehrbodEstaki

This study recommends truncating reads with q=18 before DADA2. Please don't do this! You will lose lots of your useful reads. My first twitterant. 1/18https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-3187-5 I usually consider benchmarking tools