#Quantitative

JK Flake 📈📏

JkayFlake

What? The GRE is not a face valid measure of quantitative + verbal reasoning? These discussions are off the rails. Validity evidence for the GRE is not lacking. You can

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

ZeroCOVID discussions have made contact-tracing-as-an-intervention a hot topic again. In particular, a contention frequently heard is that if we "get cases low" and then "build up the tracing system" test+trace

Stephan Guyenet, PhD

whsource

Obesity researchers: I'm going to share some ideas for experiments that I think could be important.I've been mulling this over since I was a postdoc but I'm not in a

Chris Edmond

chrisedmond

A few people have suggested I should respond directly to Professor Foster's arguments on #qanda last night rather than just saying I was appalled.I thought the other panelists did an

Mira Christanto

asiahodl

1/ Real talk: How does BRRRRRR translate to higher crypto prices?All the answers to your questions in plain English --> https://messari.io/article/modern-monetary-theory-and-its-impact-on-crypto 2/ There are 2 types of investors: those w

Optimist 🇳🇫💰🔋🚅🌹🦉✊🏾

Optimistbot

“store of value” is something that people frequently invoke in that cadence. (Ie Not “value store”)That’s just such a strange concept. It’s like a battery, like you released chemical energy

Jonathan Kay

jonkay

I'm not sure the Trump phenom is a mystery. Mostly 2 things:(1) middle class econ despair due to automation, outsourcing, etc. (Which @BernieSanders also decried)(2) revulsion at snobbish, hashtag leftism

Deficit Owls 🦉

DeficitOwls

One way to make sense of why inflation remains fairly muted is through the "conflict theory of inflation."Conflict theory argues that inflation is the result of unresolved distributional struggle. /1https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/

Gillian Smith

gillianmsmith

Wrong things that I learned as an undergraduate in computer science, either explicitly in courses or implicitly through its culture (or both!), that I have had to unlearn over the

Weigel Lab 🌱 aka WeigelWorld 🌱

PlantEvolution

[1/7] Absolutely chuffed about @joybergelson’s, Fabrice Roux’ and my lab’s #PATHOCOM project selected for funding by #ERCSyG @ERC_Research program. Our full project proposal at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13174337, and briefly

Alessandro De Simone

aledesi

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03085-8Control of osteoblast regeneration by a train of Erk activity waves. How is tissue growth organized in vertebrate regeneration? To address this question, we turned to the bony regenerating s

Dave McClure

davemcclure

i've invested for ~20 yrs, met 1000's of founders, seen 1000's of decks, done 100's of deals -- yet it's still humbling how often i'm wrong or uncertain about what's

Jakub Janda

_JakubJanda

THREAD:German counter-intelligence agency (BfV) says in its 2019 annual report:- right-wing extremist offences in Germany increased by 9.7%, left-wing extremist offenses increased by 39.5%. - about 20 % of members

Brad Johnson

bradleyjohnson2

Inflation is here - it's just not evenly distributed. This is my favorite framework for thinking about inflation risk. It simplifies an impossible debate. Discussion below: The Fed says there

Jannik Giesekam

jannikgiesekam

Science Based Targets: on target? New paper online today from @garveygreen, J Norman, @Sam_BettsDavies & me looking at progress amongst early adopters of the Science Based Targets Initiative. Thread of

Nikki Usher

nikkiusher

Time to launch @jnelz's fabulous new book, Imagined Audiences: How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public - out from the @OUPAcademic series @kreissdaniel run. Here's some amazing insights from this

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