#2020

Emil Dimanchev

EmilDimanchev

.@TheEconomist just published a nice chart of our energy history based on Vaclav Smil’s work. https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2020/05/23/the-worlds-energy-system-must-be-transformed-completelyI've been researching energy trans

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

WOW. It isn't just in the U.S. where negative opinions of China have soared. It's all across the developed world.https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-views-of-china-reach-historic-highs-in-many-countries/ The %

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Can we get real here? There's no evidence that the GOP base cares about deficits or excess spending per se. The Tea Party wasn't a rebellion against deficits — it

Joris Meys

JorisMeys

Interesting preprint of a Yale study comparing saliva swabs with the golden standard. Looks promising to speed up sampling and make it less intrusive. (Via @awyllie13 )https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20067835v1#disqus_thread Key fi

Ong Kian Ming 🇲🇾

imokman

In a parliamentary reply on the 14th of August 2020 to a question by Kluang MP, @WongShuQi , one of the “achievements” of the MITI Minister, Azmin Ali, was his

Daniel Dale

ddale8

Redfield: When I commented that there was a possibility of a second wave being more difficult or complicated, when we'd have flu and coronavirus circulating at the same time, but

Rhidian Bramley

RhidianB

COVID-19 has had a profound effect on NHS diagnostics as evident in the most recent activity and waiting time data published.Many diagnostic services were impacted during the first wave of

Fraser MacDonald

JAFMacDonald

There are lots of people cheering this on but it’s an approach founded on landed power. It’s not interested in democratising nature, just in concentrating ecological agency among those who

Austen Allred

Austen

Yesterday a Twitter account shared screenshots from the archives of a blog I wrote almost 10 years ago. I sent a note to Lambda Staff yesterday, but I want to

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Thread: I turned 50 this month. Unfortunately in self-isolation & my party got cancelled. I thought what could I do to mark this milestone that could get everyone involved?So to

Craig Welch

CraigAWelch

How do we get out of this mess? Tracing #coronavirus cases is hard. It's been politicized. But it's essential.It may not work, "but given the lack of alternatives, we have

Yaron Fishman

YaronFishman

While Bernie was calling for the #WisconsinPrimary to be postponed, Trump and Biden were encouraging in-person voting. We need a President who fights for the health and safety of all

Sek Kathiresan MD

skathire

Beautiful paper comparing SARS-CoV-2 antibody assays:custom ELISA assay vs 9 lateral flow assaysKey takeaways: 1. ELISA can be highly specific (100% negative call in 50 pre-pandemic samples)2. LF assays seem

John Cawley

cawley_john

In thinking about this year's #EconJobMarket, one analogue is what happened during the 2008-09 financial crisis. A new memo by our AEA committee on the job market explores this: 1/7https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/communications/memo-aug-11-2

Nyaaya

NyaayaIN

Do you have to pay #EMI payments to the #Banks banks during the #Covid_19 pandemic?No, you do not have to make EMI payments till May 31st, 2020. You will have

Rhea Boyd MD, MPH

RheaBoydMD

While some of y'all still debating how progressive Kamala needs to be, this paper dropped: https://osf.io/9csa6/ "For white mortality in 2020 to reach levels that Blacks experience outside of pandemics,