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Carl T. Bergstrom

Today a story has been going around about a cluster of B.1.617 cases in Israel. This is the India-associated strain.Unfortunately, this is in some places being spun as a possible

1. Today’s antivax propaganda comes from a….vaccine manufacturer? Unfortunately, yes. The manufacturer of the Sputnik V vaccine is tweeting absolutely nonsense statistics in an effort to question the safety record

Philip K. Dick would’ve appreciated this headline. "`Happy New Year!', shouted the girl in the 2021 tiara as Hoffmann pushed through the crowd. He had no time for it. His

1. A thread on jargon and whether it impacts the citation rates of papers that use it, based on a paper by @UllAmartinez and @stefanomammola1https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.2581 2. My first painful brush

1. People have a lot of questions about the concept of herd immunity and what it means for COVID-19. What is it, can we get there, what does it get

1. Thread: Proactive testing in a partially vaccinated population.I will start with a disclosure. The work described was done in collaboration with @Color Health and I was paid as a

1. A short thread on Goodhart's Law and Campbell's law.When natural scientists take measurements of a macroscopic physical system, the system does not respond by changing its behavior in ways

1. A thread for my fellow college and university instructors, though high school teachers and students may be interested as well. Amidst the pandemic we're all trying to adapt to

How are you planning to avoid COVID as we head into winter?Jade eggs that generate abnormal lithospheric long-wavelength magnetic anomalies?Coughing into your telephone for an AI?Eating cucumber and cabbage?Have faith

This is an attractive visualization about COVID transmission risks. But I'm puzzled about something. With risks this high, how could we have R0 around 2.5 or 3?https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-t

Philip K Dick's sequel to The Man in the High Castle was universally panned when published posthumously and against the late author's wishes. 1/ The 1999 novel laid out a

Closing schools for 6 weeks is one thing; closing them for a year is another entirely. We need to prioritize reopening schools, especially K-5, over just about everything else. Given