#Specificity

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Short THREAD. On False POSITIVES of rapid antigen tests. This is on SPECIFICITY or the issues of False POSITIVES and rapid antigen tests. Many people are concerned that these

Stian Westlake

stianwestlake

Covid testing is big news right now: with a mass testing pilot starting in Liverpool, Boots announcing rapid test plans, and places like universities testing staff and students.Here’s a thread

Matteo Carandini

MatteoCarandini

The brain meets a myriad behavioral demands with a limited number of neurons. Does it use the same neurons across behaviors? We addressed this question in mouse parietal cortex, where

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

The government rolling out mass testing in Liverpool using a novel test for which the published sensitivity and specificity data is just 'pass' and 0 details of the plan or

Bryan Roberts

BryanRoberts72

Benefit of occasional gig on trolley duty is the window into the world of strangers and their shopping lists. I particularly like the people who write ‘shopping list’ at the

Dionne💛TheGildedOnes🌟She/Her@That'sMyBook 🇿🇼📚

ThatsMyBook

A wonderfull infographic from @asianlitforkids whose post and discussion on IG goes further to calling the day it's name in various languages, because specificity matters too. The same way we

Ritesh

riteshwriter

Thinking about superhero fiction and its reliance on certain recurring terms, such as 'love', 'hope', 'peace', 'kindness', 'optimism', which it constantly invokes, to establish what it is 'about&#

Saki

MrBenibo

Okay so WJH did pretty good job. His "Wakandan" accent was much easier to listen to than James Mathis III or Chadwick Boseman (RIP). However... why are American actors consistently

Laure Wynants

laure_wynants

TWEETORIAL on why the number of additional detected cases is a bad choice of primary outcome for trials of AI interventions testing physician with vs without AI support. This was

Dr. Simon ツ

goddeketal

1/ Happy to announce that we have submitted our #paper ‘Bayes Lines Tool (BLT) - A SQL-script for analyzing diagnostic test results with an application to SARS-CoV-2-testing’.In this thread, I

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

I don't think that this study by Basavaraju et al from @CDCgov can be taken as evidence that #COVID19 was circulating in the US in December 2019. 1/10https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1785/6012472 The auth

Tom Frome

TomFrome

how is the socialist system of hierarchical elections (e.g. cuba, china) different from what is being argued for here? https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed68.asp the difference is that in a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie,

Jon Deeks

deeksj

Only evidence for accuracy of UK-Rapid Test Consortium Covid-19 AbC test is flawedOver a week ago with @sarahboseley I asked for transparent reporting of RTC study that says test has

May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)

maidensblade

I find it really exhausting how many people seem to go out of their way to not call transmisogyny “transmisogyny” even when it’s happening right in front of them Someone

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is an interesting story.uruguay developed its own PCR test and used

Eb Defender of Upholstery

EbThen

Posting "trigger warning" without saying what you're warning for is a lot like saying "somewhere in this scene is a jump scare but I'm not gonna tell you where."It entirely

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