#Population

Eztainutlacatl

cbkwgl

Why is the world interested in Armenia? Because of it’s newsworthiness. What interests me? Prince Vahan, who led the Byzantines at Yarmouk to their disastrous defeat, a footnote in Armenian

Women in Statistics and Data Science

WomenInStat

I work primarily with nested data. One example is in experiments, with students nested in schools. Another is meta-analysis, with effect sizes nested in studies. In this thread, I’ll focus

Luke Oakden-Rayner

DrLukeOR

This week, famous researchers called for more transparency in #medical #AI and...I hate it. Not only is the letter they make their case in wrong-headed and bizarrely off-target, but @michaelhoffman

Sarah E. Parkinson

se_parkinson

Some of the underlying dynamics that McGurk refs in this thread re: Trump have a name in comparative politics, specifically the study of authoritarian politics: acting “as if.” @UChicagoPoliSci's Lisa

Ahmet S Yayla

ahmetsyayla

My new piece:Corona Epidemic in Turkey under One-man Rule: How Efficient is Authoritarianism?On the 26th day after the first case reported, had approximately 1144 times more coronavirus cases than

Abhilegend

abhilegend000

So as per my history thread trend, this thread will be on my thoughts on Aryan Invaion/Aryan Migration theory and how true or false it is. Let's begin.@Sai_swaroopa @AgentSaffron @PranjalUvaach

Build the Alternative to 2-Party Death Spiral:🌻

stldesktop

Every now and then it hits you just how seriously unstable flat-earth people are. Overwhelming photographic evidence the moon is round, countless videos of other planets spinning, earth's shadow profile

Cory Morningstar

elleprovocateur

World's first #immunity #passports:April 20 2020: "Gov't officials said Monday they would move ahead w/ plans to issue the world's first "#immunity #passports," cards that would allow people who have

Chxta

Chxta

The history doesn't support this my brother. Both @HQNigerianArmy, and recently @PoliceNG have a habit of disobedience and mutiny.It's the reason why PIG's since Musiliu Smith have ordered patrols off

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ We're now five months into the rollout of the #Covid vaccines - enough time to make some judgments of how they're working in the real world.So let's talk honestly

Bennett's Demilich

jcbonthedl

The American Psychiatric Association has more raw, unchecked power than any organization on earth, second only to SCOTUSThey write the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual, literally the yardstick against which human

Andrew Hines

andrewhines

While our focus is on #COVID tracking privacy, a worrying advert in today’s @irishtimes advert today requesting consent from families of deceased brain tumour patients. Plan to share #DNA with

Mencius Moldbugman

moldbugman

Follow-up thread:Pandemics, networks and religious conversion. How might the current COVID-19 situation affect the woke topics discussed in the previous thread and what parallels can we see in the rise

Stephen Gutowski

StephenGutowski

Current estimates put the number of AR-15s owned by Americans at 19.8 million. In comparison, the entire US military has 4.5 million small arms. If ARs were only for "shooting

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Chekhov exhorted writers not to put a gun onstage unless a character is going to fire it. But this advice has a corollary for audiences: "If there's a pistol on

Aysa

Aysa_Klocke

As a city dweller in #Oregon, you probably haven’t thought twice about your ease of access to #energy. But with around 35% of Oregonians living in non-urban areas, many citizens