#Measured

Tom Wenig

tdwenig

Prepared for Your DeathThinking about the fact that you will die is a wise move for anyoneA thread http://afterdeathsite.com/2020/10/20/prepared-for-your-death/ You are in good health. Maybe you are even young. Why

Literary Goon

LiteraryGoon

Loving @jk_rowling has always felt a little illicit.When her Harry Potter series was first released in the 1990s, it was relentlessly attacked by religious zealots convinced that her fiction would

Dan Larremore

DanLarremore

How well do COVID rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) perform in detecting infectious people? A new preprint from @JankovanBeek @IgloiZsofia & @MarionKoopmans finds that the answer depends on (1) which

Joanna Hardy

Joanna__Hardy

So, the government are considering removing “credit” for a guilty plea in cases where offenders are “bang to rights”. Buckle up. Credit for a guilty plea incentivises those who are

Akiko Shoji

AkikoShoji

1/11. #WSTC7 #ContSesh2 Seabirds accumulate & transport contaminants, acting as biovectors. Biovector transport is nicely illustrated on this fig from Blais et al. 2007. But how effects at distant locations

Tyler Black, MD

tylerblack32

CW: Suicidology education**MINITHREAD: Suicidality in kids"Many youth, parents, teachers, & physicians I work with don't understand the scope of *suicidal thinking* in youth. It's actually relatively common, and it does

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

THREAD. It is important to take note and be prepared for the unprecedented actions Trump says he intends to take after the election. But it is also important not to

Ken Wilson Stan Account

wickrotate

Crazy stuff happens when you try to measure the mass and charge and momentum of particles—stuff beyond the measurement problem in QM. Suppose you step on a scale and weigh

Ian Brown

1Br0wn

Nice review by @carlykind_. I wonder if the term is becoming too broad — for example, the Court of Appeal’s decision on police facial recognition systems was on straightforward human

Daniella Mestyanek Young🇺🇸 🇧🇷🇲🇽

daniellamyoung

Happy Sunday! This week, I shared a single tweet on my own experience with internalized misogyny, & then I got told to 'watch my tone or I might make all

josh wang

joshwangmd

was supposed to be in Tallinn, Estonia this week for @eapcctinstead spent the morning reading abstracts from the cancelled conference, eating pickles, and drinking beer (ran out of квас)some highlights

Pagan Trelawney GCVOIDGAF

PaganTrelawney

What is fascinating to me, is how measured the British tabloids have been in the coverage of this story. Had it been Meghan, not only would every damning line produce

AlexBartik

AlexBartik

How has the COVID-19 crisis been affecting hourly workers at small businesses? I've been working with @joinhomebase along with Marianne Bertrand, Feng Lin @rothstein_jesse @mattunrath @CAPolicyLab @UChiPovertyLab @RustandyCenter @ChicagoBooth to

FPL Confidant

FPL_Confidant

Is it time for Timo?An #FPL Managers Guide to Timo Werner#FPLCommunity #FPLstats #FPLWatch #FPLstrategy #FPLdecisions #FPltips #FPLadvice #PL #PLstats #EPL #eplstats #TimoWerner #Chelsea #CFC #timefortimoStats & supporting material from

Louis Foglia

LouFoglia

My father, Philip Foglia, passed away today due to complications from COVID-19.I'll write something longer and more personal in the days ahead, but I wanted to share a bit about

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

Astronomers looked incredibly closely at a supermassive black hole halfway across the Universe and saw something really weird: Matter may be corkscrewing as it screams out from the black hole