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Carolyn Porco

carolynporco

Tonight makes 3 sunsets in a row that I've seen multiple green flashes. They were separated by ~8 sec (an estimate). I was late & missed the beginning so I

Rachel Clarke

doctor_oxford

Dear @borisjohnson,1. The UK has one of the worst #COVID19 death rates in the world2. 20k people have died already - probably double that 3. Lockdown was delayed4. PPE &

Steve Brown

stevebrown2856

(1/x) Thread: Rapid review of the REACT-1 round 6 interim report which is making headlines with scary numbers today. To follow this one, you'll need to download the full pre-print

Health Nerd

GidMK

Today, this new preprint from John Ioannidis (of "Most Published Research Findings Are False" fame) went onlineAlready up to Altmetric of 541Let's do a rapid peer-review on twitter 1/n 2/n

Paul Boothe

pmboothe

Increasingly, commentators are calling on the federal gov’t to publish an Economic and Fiscal Update (EFU) in the absence of a budget. @BillMorneau is resisting, saying that the future path

Andrew Althouse

ADAlthousePhD

After last week’s thread on efficacy stopping in RCT’s explaining that i) trials that stop early for efficacy tend to slightly overestimate treatment effect but ii) this does not mean

Eric O’Flaherty

EOF34

Andrelton Simmons Arm Strength ThreadCan’t explain how hard it is to throw 90mph like this. These are lasers. He’d be 96-97mph off the mound easy.*When you see outfielders throw 95+,

Nick

NickOnMixer

Seriously this. I talk about mixer a lot, and it’s not always positive. This company needs feedback, and a lot of it. Directly from their users.Mixers team is small, really

¹ᵇdubu | #1BILLIONVIEWS

chansuhoe

THREAD: THERE'S CLEARLY SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE VIEWS OF EXO-SC'S 1 BILLION VIEWS MV!!!!!!SEE COMPUTATION BELOW!!! @YOUTUBE @TeamYouTube @weareoneEXO Can't believe i'm actually gonna use my accounting skills in this

Philippe Lemoine

phl43

Here's a back-of-the-envelope calculation to show it's not a purely theoretical concern. Today there was ~25k new cases in the US. If you only detect 1/10, the real # is

James Jenkins

ExoplanetJJ

Are active volcanoes on Venus the source of the trace elements of phosphine found above the clouds in our sister planet? One new study by Truong & Lunine from Cornell

Beth Tipton

stats_tipton

Lately I have spoken with several people interested in building systems to help policymakers and practitioners leverage research to improve their decision-making in education. This has made me think a

Chris Hayes

chrislhayes

More or less everyone in the GOP understood that Trump was completely unfit for the presidency and would represent a possibly mortal peril to the nation if elected. They said

Nate Cohn

Nate_Cohn

There are some valid differences:--538 shifted from 'polls only' to 'polls plus' as default. polls plus in '16 was clinton 73.5% on 8/26--polling and priors now support a Trump E.C.

The® Cincy Buckeye M.D. - Expert.

CincyBuckeye

@jpelzer @RandyLudlow @jbalmert @JMBorchardt @ARobbinsTV @stoiawsyx6 @laurahancock @andy_chow@AndrewJTobias @JOtteWHIO @RickRouan @andy_chow @Ben_Schwartz24 Ohio avg flu deaths 2014-17: 2,330Current Covid-19 deaths: 253Projected Covid-19 deaths: 489

COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group

COVID19actuary

The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has published its analysis of today’s ONS release.Key points:- death rates 59% higher than the same week last year- excess deaths 76% higher than COVID-19