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Ten days ago, the @RockefellerFdn released a white paper on how we could reopen all US schools over the next new months with aggressive government investment in frequent proactive COVID
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Thread: If we approached family planning the way the current administration approaches pandemic control.**Any resemblance to actual GOP reproductive health and family planning policy is coincidental and, in any case,
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In a presentation yesterday I talked about the way that 1. Anxiety drives us to forage for more information2. Foraging for information generates clicks3. Clicks generate ad dollarsTherefore social media
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South Dakota is suffering dreadfully from Covid right now, and Gov. Noem's refusal to support control measures has contributed substantially. In today's @WSJ she has published an editorial claiming that
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1. This thread about an important paper from @jonassjuul, K. Græsbøll, L. Christiansen, and @suneman will be more technical than usual.The paper addresses how to depict ranges of outcomes in
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1. I'm enthusiastic about the prospect of cheap, fast, at-home paper strip COVID tests for daily proactive screening. To get the most out of them, we need to start thinking
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So when a few million people read a post, there’s always somebody.https://twitter.com/emncaity/status/1333667582042402816 It’s actually a very interesting question: What is the function of “so“ in social media discourse?I hadn’t c
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Unfortunately, this is not good reporting from NPR.It takes an extraordinary claim — that SARS-CoV-2 was circulating widely in the US in December 2019 and January 2020 — and presents
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So the strangest thing happened tonight as I was taking crow pictures at sunset. For about 30 seconds, the crows registered as bright blue on the camera. They did not
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1. A short thread on Goodhart's Law and Campbell's law.When natural scientists take measurements of a macroscopic physical system, the system does not respond by changing its behavior in ways
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What a way to start the week.Extremely good news about the Moderna vaccine this morning. Similar efficacy to the Pfizer vaccine, which increases my confidence in the Pfizer result. A
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Over the past nine months I've written occasionally about the prospects for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to evolve into a less (or more) virulent form. In general, we can't count on
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