#Mechanisms

Aram Zucker-Scharff

Chronotope

Here's the thing, as someone who sees themself both in ad tech & as a privacy advocate: Advertisers who seek personalized targeting will focus on platforms with the most personal

Kostas on F.I.R.E. 🔥

itsKostasOnFIRE

Confirmation Bias and Investing How this behavioral fallacy affects your investing decisions/THREAD/ 1/ Confirmation bias is a behavioral fallacy from the field of cognitive psychology.It is attributed to people

Rachel Hewitt

drrachelhewitt

But the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR that deters teenage girls from public places is... the presence of men. Teenage girls in western Australia say openly that ‘they’d use [public] spaces

Pace 🙂

theotherphilipp

Upon multiple request, here’s my thread regarding the boundaries of epidemiological modeling in English.https://twitter.com/theotherphilipp/status/1355164530960199684?s=20 1/22: #Models are simplified images of our world. They are useful

Ifeoma Ozoma

IfeomaOzoma

Today, @SenatorLeyva intro'd the Silenced No More Act! I’ve been excited about this bill since last year, when @PeterRukin and I discussed expanding protections for millions of workers after the

⚡️🇺🇸⚖️Todd Doyle⚖️🇺🇸⚡️

whizkids

The left literally believes in denouncing critical thinking by way of using their pseudo-intellectual terminology as a way to auto-negate everything worth researching that they believe goes against their power

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

OK, bc of Stanford Med #COVID19 vaccine algorithm fiasco & N@te Silver’s recent tweet re: vaccine priority guidelines, I have to talk about one of my favorite topics! I even

Steve Asbell is Drawing

steve_asbell

The Masked Autistic QuizIf you’ve spent your life ‘faking normal, you might not look autistic to the casual observer. So I’ve made a questionnaire that’s tailored to the masking autistic

Khurram Zafar

kayzafar

1/ Still lots of questions about #RaastBySBP and how it's different from current online transfer mechanisms. People keep insisting it's the same as current digital payment switches, but it's NOT

Naveed Aziz

DNAziz_

1/ #LongCovid: What do you need to know? While we are fighting harder than ever to reduce the number of new #COVID19 cases, health professionals are already concerned about long

Casey Fiesler, PhD, JD, geekD

cfiesler

OK I'm going to weigh in on the tagging/content moderation conversation happening right now regarding Archive of Our Own. To be clear, this is me as a content moderation researcher

Dr Michael Flood

MichaelGLFlood

Sexism in the Academy: An excellent, detailed account of how male dominance in the academy and scholarship is sustained (2019). https://nplusonemag.com/issue-34/essays/sexism-in-the-academy/ via @nplusonemag 1/15 Women now comprise a bit ov

Lina Leon

LinaMLion

If you need more anti-CRISPRs in your life, this is the paper for you! I worked on this study with a wonderful team: @AdairLBorges @jenzyy_97 @allysonparkk and @joeBondyDenomy. We discovered

Yasmine Pomeroy for LA City Council D3

yasmine4thecity

With 400,000 Covid deaths, a smaller but equally significant number is overlooked: 2.8. If you are Black or Hispanic, you are 2.8 times more likely to die of Covid. For

Hannah Daly

HannahEDaly

I’m watching @greenparty_ie debates raging on the #PfG with many arguing against because the deal lacks ambition and concrete decarbonisation measures. My thoughts: The plan sets an ambition to *half*

Richard Murphy

RichardJMurphy

I am bemused by those who demand that we repay the UK government’s debt. It makes me wonder, do they know what it is? And how do they think it

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