#Quantitative

Dr. Daniela Witten

daniela_witten

The new cover article in @NautilusMag is about the sordid history of eugenics in the field of statistics. I had a conversation with @aubreyclayton a few months ago, when he

Milli Lake

MilliLake

I'm so glad this is now out in the world. It is the product of a lot of painstaking labor from @alan_jacobs1 + Tim Buthe,+ the hope is that it

Robert McNees

mcnees

Physicist Freeman Dyson was born #OTD in 1923. He was known for his work in quantum electrodynamics and –– among many other things –– his eschatological musings about physics and

"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

Aelkus

i don't talk as much about foreign policy as i used to, in part because i've come to think that foreign policy in and of itself is not the most

(((E. Glen Weyl)))

glenweyl

One other thing I should really clarify and that the @nytimes piece got *severely* wrong: while I believe there are very strong sociological and even causal links between rationalism and

Anna Meier

AnnaMeierPS

Doing fieldwork* in my home country vs. in a foreign country has created fascinating patterns of access & lots of questions for research design & data interpretation. A thread on

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

A NEW HOPE: 27x more effective than Remdesivir against #COVID19 in lab study –Aplidin is a drug derived from a marine sea squirt found only in waters off island

Dr. Emily Hodge

theemilyhodge

New @epaa_aape special issue alert! "Researching 21st Century #EducationPolicy Through #SocialNetworkAnalysis." With @jaycee43public and @UWBothell's #WayneAu, we feature those combining #SNA with political science theory or o

Crystal moth

Prolapsarian

THREAD ON LOCKDOWN SKEPTICS: There are lots of threads circulating listing all the ways that the “lockdown skeptics” have been wrong. But this misses the point. They never aimed to

Tiffany Green

Tiffany_L_Green

I don't know how I missed this excellent commentary from @RRHDr and @BeahboutIT on examining racism in health services research (HSR), but now I've seen it and every HSR needs

Nicolas Schmid

nicolas_schmid_

Interested in how the #transition to #renewable and #energy-efficient technologies shapes energy and climate #politics? In my doctoral thesis - now publicly accessible: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000447993 - I synthesized my work on

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

Thread: how do visitors really experience their trips to heritage sites? Laurajane Smith, head @ANU_CHMS, spent a decade interviewing 4,502 visitors to 45 museums and heritage sites in America, Australia

Adrian Sanborn

AdrianSanborn

Highlights from our #preprint on #transcription activation domains (ADs)!-found all ADs in yeast TFs-predicted yeast & human ADs-tested binding of all ADs to #Mediator & #TFIID-explained mechanism with structural modeling

Lloyds Bank Foundation

LBFEW

1/ Today we launch the #SmallCharitiesData hub, a new resource pulling together quantitative data on #SmallButVital charities. Spanning 5 years, this data highlights the financial pressures faced by #charities before

Marco Chitti

ChittiMarco

1/ Sometimes we frame technology choices in transit as value-driven choices (x is better/worse than y). This is somehow inevitable, as planning is a value-based, often prescriptive practice.But we must

Gustavo Noguera

nogboersner

2020 was the year I explored International Macro (in a very broad sense) the most; and for someone trying to start a serious path on Macroeconomics I found it to

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