#Accurate

John Bye

_johnbye

It's sad we still need to say this, but false positives are NOT driving rising cases.In the summer the False Positive Rate (FPR) at lots of labs was below 0.1%.For

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AnarchoKhomeini

People are asking me to issue some corrections to this thread, and, while I'm kind of in a rush, here are a few:https://twitter.com/muslimico/status/1287761398584549383 The claim that the Safavids "force-converted" the

martin harriman

martinharriman1

@Edmontonsun recently posted this news article regarding local Calgary church Southside Victory. @Edmontonsun article has multiple assertions that are false, yet they still ran the article. @Edmontonsun show journalistic integrity

Ask An Entomologist

BugQuestions

Although we disagree with this tweet...it gives us an opportunity to explore a really interesting topic.What we now call 'queen' bees-the main female reproductive honeybees-were erroneously called 'kings' for nearly

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Going to briefly discuss a new SARS-CoV-2 preprint by the FDA, whose senior author said "was intended to investigate something that could only have happened in a laboratory" according to

Col Sanjay Sinha, YSM,SM (Retd)

sanjaysinha18G

So, a thread on the adoption of 5.56x45 mm as the NATO caliber and why is the 7.62x51 making a comeback. At the outset, let me give credit to Anthony

molly conger

socialistdogmom

the pandemic can't stop jalane! i'm excited to be attending this virtual tour of downtown public space currently occupied by monuments to white supremacy.https://twitter.com/TheReligionLab/status/1291043818293338117 jalane is kickin

doc, starring billy ray cyrus

docsquiddy

I think cyberpunk is a pretty darn good video game because just running around in the city doing jobs that constantly pop up feels great, and the progression system (do

Michael Nielsen

michael_nielsen

Imagine you're a designer or mathematician living in ancient Rome. Being a curious & imaginative sort, used to exploring wild ideas, you ask yourself: is there some way you can

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

BAYES' THEOREM: The basic reason we get so many false positives to COVID19. The disease is so rare that the number of false positives greatly outnumbers the people who truly have the disease:

Micah Allen

micahgallen

Our new preprint is out! We present the Heart Rate Discrimination Task, a novel psychophysical Bayesian method for estimating the accuracy, bias, and precision of interoceptive beliefs! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.18.431

Reed T. Curtis, PhD

ReedCurtis

We have seen this #FHM #wold #tegnell #linde racist rhetoric before. Historically, racist language was used to scapegoat "others" for a variety of crises where government and policy have failed.

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. A thread for my fellow college and university instructors, though high school teachers and students may be interested as well. Amidst the pandemic we're all trying to adapt to

Simon Barnett

sbarnettARK

The top community questions for tomorrow’s #mARKetUpdate concern our investment thesis around Invitae ($NVTA). I’m going to begin attaching my references () below, as well as some of my previous

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

As @AudreyTruschke recently triggered a discussion on Mahabharata, a thread on the sameKey questions1. Is there a historical kernel to Mahabharata?2. If yes, which epoch's events does it describe?3. How

Simon Barnett

sbarnettARK

A Thread ()Let's discuss long-read #sequencing, optical mapping, and the implications of a recent study (linked below). Please view my disclosures at the end. I've intentionally made this thread more

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