#Risk

Tim Harford

TimHarford

HAPPY WORLD STATISTICS DAY EVERYONE!World Statistics Day only comes every five years - like the Olympics - so it's time to express a little mindful gratitude for all the statisticians

Siddharth Shirole

SidShirole

While citizens of #Pune maybe happy about the drastic drop in daily #COVID19 infections reported, I am deeply concerned that the drop is more to do with the decrease in

Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.

wormmaps

Rushed science and bad politics turned COVID-weather correlations into policy disasters. My latest, in Nature Comms w @anacrgomez @bansallab & @SadieRyan: the basic science, how ecologists derailed Indonesia's lockdown, and

luna

_lunuhh

i met a guy on omegle while i was finding a guy like kalix; a thread i saw some trend on twitter na nakahanap daw siya nang pareha ni kalix,

Kevin R. McClure

kevinrmcclure

Insufficient government support for higher ed, exacerbating years of underinvestment, means we are forcing boards to choose between institutions dying or people dying. (1/2)https://www.chronicle.com/article/Are-Colleges-Ready-for-a/248710 That should

Drew McFadzean

Asset_Ownership

Good summary from @johnauthers on the measurable benefit of long-term thinking by US endowments https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-28/endowments-hedge-fund-bet-has-long-term-advantage One paragraph jumped out 1/x Asset Owner

Brad Johnson

tuns1999

Nuremberg Code:①The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.②The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or

SK⚡️

raptalkSK

The influence of Graduation by Kanye West is so overlooked. Here is a story about when this album dropped and it’s overall influence in hip-hop today.a thread: On September 11,

Jess Lifshitz

Jess5th

I am planning out some PD on creating inclusive classroom libraries. And this is what I know. I will no longer run PD by giving book talks on books that

EDRi

edri

Today @sarahchander and @ellajakubowska1 takeover the @edri twitter account to give you their first impressions of the #EUAI Regulation as soon as it is out! Stay tuned for the latest

Walter Olson

walterolson

A few thoughts on this report that as of Friday "1,839 NYPD employees — 1,619 uniformed members and 220 civilian members — tested positive for the coronavirus, up 53.3 percent

alex marshall

alexjkmarshall

(1) Not only is this courier underpaid and mistreated by @UberEats he now has @piersmorgan piling in on him in public. Inaccurate delivery time is not the couriers fault. Was

Hazel Hayes

TheHazelHayes

Here’s the thing. Years and years of fake news and sensationalist journalism and people panicking over dumb shit on Twitter made me think everyone was overreacting about Coronavirus and that

Chris Masterjohn

ChrisMasterjohn

Why is PPE considered first for medical personnel?It should be considered first for the massive labor force that should be reallocated to making more PPE. That way the medical personnel

A.J.

ajhisnandez

to anyone who still doesn’t understand why i, a gay POC, & others from minority groups, ESPECIALLY members of our black community, ugly cried for hours following the 2016 election

John Tulloch

JT_EpiVet

I often get asked about #LymeDisease and #Dogs. Here are some thoughts and useful things to read.Firstly the ACVIM consensus:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5980284/They conclude: 'It is not proven that European LB causes clinical