#Journals

Oliver Johnson

BristOliver

This Sunday Times graph of *modelled* infections surprises me https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/three-weeks-of-dither-and-delay-on-coronavirus-that-cost-thousands-of-british-lives-05sjvwv7g I'd have assumed that such a narrow spike in

Ellen Key

ellenmkey

2020 is a lot of things, including the centennial of the #19thAmendment ! @HeatherOndercin and I put together an all-star team in @ps_polisci to mark the occasion. It's super relevant

Jennifer Piscopo

jennpiscopo

The gender & covid series from @PoliticsGenderJ is . A Saturdayon the pieces related to #COVID19, electoral politics & women in office. Are women leaders better at fighting covid? How

Dr Unburnt🔥Poorman

DrPoorman

It's time for my seasonal teaching on flu, antivirals, and what they teach us about the principles of conservative prescribing! 1/ Which of these is more accurate when diagnosing flu

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

There seems to be a common fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of herd immunity, which leads to unhelpful cross talk. Herd immunity is not more (or less) a harmful concept

Jukka Rintamäki

Jugistoteles

I was comparing what's been published in the Annual Review of Sociology and the Academy of Management Annals over the last four years or so. They're supposed to serve a

Gerg

Gergyl

"What's you exit strategy?" ... chatter about the MSMs overnight.If you're Italy or the US, bumping along the top, you do not have one. If you do any less intervention

David K Smith

professor_dave

For the first time, Nature family journals set their open access price, and it is around £9000. No, that's not a typo. Science is increasingly just a capitalist endeavour, where

Christian Althaus

C_Althaus

Im gestrigen #10vor10 behauptet @srfnews, dass die von der Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force kommunizierte Infektionssterblichkeit die Dunkelziffer nicht berücksichtigt. Das ist leider falsch. (1/9)https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD

chr1styharrison

High BMI is NOT a risk factor for hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, or mortality in COVID-19, according to this large new study of 10,000+ people with the virus (CW: weight-stigmatizing language,

Andrius Pašukonis

frog_tracker

Poison frogs get a lot of press for their parenting skills, but parenting is much more widespread in tropical frogs. Here is a Leptodactylus petersi mom with her tadpoles doing

Anna Meier

AnnaMeierPS

I have a number of thoughts on this study, which has important & sobering findings but does not ask one central question:Do faculty view PhD programs as job training programs,

Mike Thompson

MikeTPhD

Interesting study findings in @JAMA_current article published yesterday: 1) The 5-year survival benefit assoc with heart tx varied across centers, and 2) High survival benefit centers performed heart tx for

Jens Friis Lund

jefri_lund

This thread presents a special issue introduction and five contributions on the paradoxical persistence of REDD+ @PolEcoNet @UndiEnvi @forestideas @UNDP_REDDPlus @FAOForestry @RECOFTC @NCS_catalyst @Nature4Climate @IUCNclimatePASG @ClimateFdn @KU_IFR

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

What happens when a population reaches herd immunity? Does it mean epidemics suddenly stop forever? Unfortunately not... 1/ The herd immunity threshold is when susceptibility is reduced to point where

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