#Variation

Autistic Max

MaxieMoosie

I remember mentioning on reddit that asexuality doesn’t necessarily mean hates sex. I’m asexual and I have enjoyed sex. Someone was like, “Uh, asexual means no sex. Learn what words

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

New preprint. We estimate the transmissibility of #SARSCoV2 lineages based on their genomic makeup. Overall, transmissibility of #SARSCoV2 went up over time, but fitness of individual clades tends to decay

ryden⁷

jinsmerized

adding my 2 cents as a linguist in training:korean is actually spoken in a higher pitch than american english, but he finds it more comfortable to speak in what i

Jules Gill-Peterson

gp_jls

we are led in the vernacular to think of sex as fixed phenotype. however, the concept of sex refers to two things: phenotype *and* the processes that regulate that phenotype.

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

If you go on YouTube and go back to the official trailer drops for Star Wars: Rogue One, you'll see a bunch of comments from people confused about where it

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jaythenerdkid

what's a really simple word you first read in a book and mispronounced in your head for years? nothing sesquipedalian, something short and sweet.I thought "eh" was pronounced like the

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

Two preprints recently make an important point: for any infection, including COVID-19, it is possible that herd immunity can be accomplished with more than 1/R0 of the population still susceptible.

Andrew Miller

millerak42

1/ Let me share a bit of a personal journey and it’s implications for investing/personal finance:In the last 5 months I have lost 25 pounds: 2/ This has always been

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Promised to tweet out a few more thoughts from my reporting on #covid19 clustering and dispersion factor k. So here goes:https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1262876041237991424 Quick recap first: Reproduction number R is an average.

Jean Polfus

JeanPolfus

Caribou conservation in Canada is confusing! I'm going to try to shed some light on this complex situation in a series of tweets (wish me luck!) Please ask questions or

Chaz Firestone

chazfirestone

I'm getting e-mails about this lovely new illusion that appears to show cognitive penetration of perception! Could it really be that these little arrows completely change our perception of motion

alayna

a_moonrat

Here is a thread of my catalog items and crafting recipes as of April 5th. A breakdown of the 23 posts is as follows:-12 posts of furniture items-3 posts of

I have the fury of my own momentum ✴️

rollerska8er

feels awkward to keep pointing out that "biological sex" isn't real. folks keep making the argument that "biological sex" is different to "assigned gender" which is great, but seriously -

Kevin Mitchell

WiringTheBrain

Really nice work. Short thread follows https://twitter.com/snaqvi1990/status/1253088329014206464 This paper shows that even for the most proximal molecular traits - expression levels of a number of proteins - where a few

Dr. Gema Zamarro

gema_zamarro

Check out my new @AnnenbergInst working paper with @lina_anaya, Nagore Iriberri, and @Pedroreybiel just out!https://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai21-392 Standardized assessments are widely used to determine access to educational resources

Alon Lischinsky

alischinsky

This comment about #BlackInTheIvory was a chilling realisation, and it's even worse in LinguisticsAs a tiny beginning to the long task of offsetting that, here are 20 #BlackLinguists and language