#Studies

Bono has reminded me of another reason that I get frustrated when people from the south of Ireland say 'the UK.' In Irish diaspora studies you find lots of Irish
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A picture worth a 1000 words.A #mask may be most effective by stopping the food we put down our throat. Our obesity and diabetes pandemic fuels all others, including the
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1/ Aerosol scientists don't agree. What kind of consensus is that? Does the discipline who studies transport of particles through the air, NOT count for a "consensus" of which particles
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Modest sun exposure isn't a risk factor for melanoma. If anything, it is protective. A thread.There's a lot I'm leaving out, as I'm trying to briefly summarize the information presented
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Calling all mid/senior career IR academics, please read this thread. URGENT APPEAL for support on behalf of @MyBISA, from @chasing_dragons and @ruthblakeleyhttps://www.bisa.ac.uk/become-a-member  1/15 Many of you have expressed concern
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Many accounts are tweeting about #PaatalLok showing the rape of a Sikh woman, from an oppressed caste community, by a Sikh man who strongly identifies with being Jatt. You
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message me your hottest take and ill post it anonymously animals have no inherent moral worth, and their welfare matters only to the extent that human cultural norms & behaviors
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Powerful piece @guardian on the EU's abandonment of sea migrants in danger by reliance on drone surveillance, with great quotes by @wammezz. @MariaGJumbert and I explore this very issue in
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Regarding the CRT ban: one of the things (among many) that scares the shit out of me about it is the ways that it also imperils a lot of STS
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1. One of the best parts of my corner of twitter is watching incredibly smart people like @mlipsitch @nataliexdean @trvrb carry our peer review in real time. And as Marc
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A REVIEW OF BAD ARGUMENTS AGAINST FACE MASKS1/ They don't fully protect you from virus in the air.Yes, but their point is to prevent as much virus as possible from
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In the past 2 weeks, teletherapy has likely surpassed in-person therapy. Also, video-based sessions likely outnumber telephone sessions. Studies seem to show these modes are generally equivalent, but I keep
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Thread: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was a great American painter. He was a dashing portraitist as well as one of the first major artists to explore his sexuality in his
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I’ve peer reviewed A LOT of meta-analyses over the past few years. While I’ve noticed that the overall quality of meta-analyses are improving, many that I review suffer from the
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Good and bad news from the latest data – and the first evidence that the current measures appear to be working and that we can control the virus without a
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#PeerReview #ConfirmationBias @JeffreyUnerman article on Risks from self-referential peer review echo chambers developing in research fields: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2020.100910I find this important for #DiversityandInclusion #TrustInPeerReview
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