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Carl T. Bergstrom
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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