#Studies

Gil Carvalho MD PhD

NutritionMadeS3

Weight Loss: Myths & Tips(short thread summarizing studies by Kevin Hall and others and inspired by his recent hour-long talk)video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhJTICM26d0 portion control and other attempts to 'eat less'

balajis.com

balajis

For all the folks arguing COVID-19 isn’t that bad...what they are missing is that most consumer experiences aren’t that good.You're 55. Are you going to risk serious illness for a

Tim Morris

tmorris_mrc

This is a great point. People sometimes introduce trials as 'easy' because in the simplest cases they permit causal inference with very simple analyses. This is never true in observational

Ned Richardson-Little

HistoryNed

The Helsinki Accords were signed 45 years ago #otd - but they weren't the revolution in human rights politics that many claim they were.https://historyned.blog/2015/08/01/40-years-later-rethinking-the-helsinki-accords-and-human-rights/

Emma Hilton

FondOfBeetles

“At the present time, however, based on the best published scientific evidence, that position [inclusion of transgender women in women's rugby] is unsupported”.Transwomen face potential women’s rugby ban over safety

Avie 🦄

UdeMischa

Part 1: Plant InteractionsThis is a brief intro to Plant-Insect Interactions. All damage type images shown today will be from Glossopteris (obvious reasons ) taken by me, Cariglino and Gutiérrez

David Reaboi

davereaboi

A little bit about this phenomenon and why it happens (thread)https://www.foxnews.com/us/white-gwu-history-professor-lied-being-black Used to be that if you really admired or were interested in another culture, you were encouraged to explor

Charles Holmes

CharlesBHolmes

Earlier today President Trump received a polyclonal antibody cocktail made by the company Regeneron. Here’s what we know about this drug, and the additional drugs a patient in his situation

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

Because @ExPatExLawyer and many other people who bought MAGA hats but burned their Nikes seem to struggle with math, allow me to explain how numbers work. Let's say you're in

Robert McNees

mcnees

Physicist and astronomer Georges Lemaître was born #OTD in 1894. In 1927 he proposed a model of an expanding Universe. Then, in 1931, he ran the clock backwards and hypothesized

Benedict Evans

benedictevans

“we are left with a choice of either removing news entirely or accepting a system that lets publishers charge us for as much content as they want at a price

Eric Fauman

Eric_Fauman

Something very comforting about the v high reliability and reproducibility of modern GWAS. I believe the first report of an association between SLC2A9 and uric acid and gout is this

Steve Stewart-Williams

SteveStuWill

Interesting: Genes predict people's educational outcomes better if they were raised by biological parents than adopted. That's because biological parents share many of the same genes, and genes help shape

Chris Fuentes

ChrisFuentes42

@BessemerVP recently released some of their investment memos (https://www.bvp.com/memos ) providing an interesting set of case studies, and some insight into the venture thought process. Perhaps some of the key takeaways

Renee Hoenderkamp

DrHoenderkamp

Last week I was bullied & threatened for posting an article detailing 9 children had died through presenting late to hospital for parental fear of covid. As a doctor I

Matthias Barth

TdLearning

Today marks the last day of our project “Educating Future Change Agents”. A 3.5 year journey with great colleagues and PhDs comes to an end. What did we find out