#Experimental

Lishu

lishu_he

1/ I've been having some bad mental health days and reflecting on this 2020 shitshow. I'm turned into an absolute potato, and as a grad student whose research was thrown

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Moderna just announced its experimental coronavirus vaccine is nearly 95% effective at preventing illness, including severe cases, in preliminary analysis. And of 11 observed severe cases, all were in the

Peter Tennant

PWGTennant

Every new strain that establishes itself in the population will initially appear to have a higher transmissability. If one of those gets lucky (by appearing in a capital city, under

Anıl

ncholiA

1/ All eyes are on England because of the #B117 variant (501Y.V1/VOC202012/01).But WHY could the variant #B1351 (501Y.V2) detected in South Africa pose a bigger danger?To better understand this, let's

Dr. Namrata Datta 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 (PhD)

candinam

just as a person with a genetic defect like Down syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, genetic cardiac arrest, hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, Rett syndrome, etc.), because the genetic defect is forever!

Prashanth

Prashanth_Krish

In 1961, Stanley Milgram conducted the famous experiment to measure the willingness of participants to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he

Jan-Claas Dajka

JCDajka

Third PhD-chapter on sea urchins and their macroalgal control abilities in Seychelles is out! Dream team with Victoria Beasley, Gilberte Gendron and @naj_graham. Thanks for the great editing @PoluninNick from

Bobby Ong

bobbyong

Algorithmic stablecoins have been one of the most exciting parts of crypto recently. The design space is wide and there have been many innovations taking place. I have been following

Miguel Silan

MetaMethodsPH

This is an interesting thread, if only because I strongly disagree with most of it. There is value in open quali research even (especially?) if it has different epistemological foundations

Jane Carnall

EyeEdinburgh

Abortion is a medical procedure that anyone who can get pregnant may need at some point. There are some basic things about abortion that make that procedure above all absolutely

Ecoreflections

ecoreflections

1/ Interesting response from @TheGrocer to the #NotInMySuoermarket initiative. So, yes, on the one hand we want a better debate, on the other the haste with which UK government aims

Jan Christoph Steckel

jan_c_steckel

Two recent meta-analysis of the ex-post literature on #CarbonPricing (by @greenprofgreen & @JLilliestam etal) suggest carbon pricing is not effectively reducing emissions. This might be both a premature and misleading

Robbie Maakestad

RobbieMaakestad

@The_Rumpus is open for essay submissions until February 28, so here’s a #RumpusEssays thread in which our amazing editors share what they would like to see in submissions. Give them

(((Jonathan Robinson)))

jon_m_rob

After thinking on it over the weekend, I have a couple of thoughts about this panel (both a bit negative + a tad contrarian it seems, though maybe just among

A.C. Wise

ac_wise

Happy Canada Day! This seems like the perfect excuse (I'll take any) to shout about some of my favorite Canadian spec fic. Some I've recommended before, and will rec again,

Roadtoserfdom

roadtoserfdom3

Lockstep:A good starting point for the topic. I was going to tailor it for a certain audience but, best thing to do is just start. Mostly sourced by @CJBowden1 who

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