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Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative

Equinoxrji

For #EarthDay #LeadersClimateSummit climate justice must be rooted in racial justice.With a disturbing trend of eco-fascism entering mainstream discourse on #ClimateAction , we're here to dispel some arguments.Here are

Sir Laughing Devil assassin by statistics

LaughingDevil1

TL:DRAfter 3 months of saying that per capita figures were mislead and made "small countries look worse" the FT has now decided that per capita figures are, after all, OKhttps://twitter.com/ChrisGiles_/status/1265885480144470023

Frightbox (litebox)

litebox_info

We've been looking over the submissions that come in & trying to find patterns. One thing that jumped out was the immense disparity in rates for the same kind of

Per Bylund

PerBylund

Here's a clarifying video arguing the labor theory of value (#LTV) is correct. It is so, we're told, because it is useful for explaining exploitation (an assertion, btw). Then its

Thomas Frederikse

FrederikseT

New paper ‘The causes of sea-level rise since 1900’ (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2591-3#article-info) just came out! We have shown that we can close the ‘sea-level budget’ since 1900. That means, that we can

Kim Weeden

WeedenKim

Should universities resume face-to-face instruction in fall? Ben Cornwell and I posted a working paper with relevant evidence from @Cornell on the structure of enrollment networks that connect students and

Jack Kosmicki

Jack_Kosmicki

Survived another ASHG plenary talk :)In case you missed it, I presented results on behalf of @Regeneron from a trans-ancestry #COVID19 meta-analysis of common and rare variants + gene burden

Leana Wen, M.D.

DrLeanaWen

In the midst of the #covid19 pandemic, the U.S. is facing a crisis of confidence in our federal government’s top scientific institutions.We can still turn this around, though the window

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

One thing we’ve learnt about #COVID stories: Often something that looks too scary to be true isn’t quite true when you look at the small print.Often something that looks too

Santiago

svpino

One of the best steps I’ve taken as a Software Engineer has been to get into Machine Learning.If you are looking for what's next in your career, here are some

Maggie Stiefvater

mstiefvater

One of the things I find most depressing about 2020 is watching people at every level negotiating with the truth to land a point. It's a rhetorical device that requires

Bad COVID-19 Takes

BadCOVID19Takes

Context: This NXT wrestler promoted a hot antivax meme. Basically, they're misunderstanding part of Pfizer's testing protocol, that was established before the Phase 3 trial began.https://twitter.com/BadVaccineTakes/status/1387832064

Matthew Hirschey

matthewhirschey

I'm working on a #DataScience project that leverages data from @CancerDepMap.The goal is to: - discover new functions for known genes- find functions for unknown genes- identify new therapeutic targets

Andy Artz

artzandy

1/ For the last 4 weeks, millions of users from around the world have been conducting a social experiment on http://bitclout.com . We've been playing with a decentralized social media platform

Adam Frank

AdamFrank4

1) One can use exoplanet data to modify Drake equation and ask: How bad must the odds of civilization-making be for Humans to be the only one in all cosmic

Christopher Allen

ChristopherA

We are pleased to announce #LetheKit, the newest project from @BlockchainComns. It is a #DIY platform & SDK for developing sensitive crypto apps on an offline/airgapped device without WiFi, Bluetooth,