#Variants

GeePaw Hill

GeePawHill

Microtest Test-Driven Development is a strategy for *change*. To understand the case, we need to answer two questions: 1) Why have a strategy for change? 2) How does TDD provide

Sarah Newey

sneweyy

Tony Blair urged the UK to use the G7 presidency to establish a uniform global vaccine passport. Conceded there will be inequalities, but it is “inevitable” countries will demand to

Juan Cambeiro💡

juan_cambeiro

Reposting to make some minor corrections. Building on @kristjanmoore and using info available up to today, I assign a 90% probability to at least one of the new variants being

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

Proud to have two stories on the homepage today — both, sadly, about the failures of leadership in coping with this pandemic. The first, with my colleagues @mattapuzzo and @selamgkidan

Albert Pinto

70sBachchan

The definition of ideology is that it is immune to empirical refutation. Facts literally bounce off it.https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1327082667591028737 2/ Scientists who have to pay attention to how reality works & not

Nick Bourgeois

haxorize

Most of this sounds reasonable given the emergence of new variants. The notable exception is the arbitrary 6-feet rule that has zero science behind it. A majority of schools will

Shai Carmi

ShaiCarmi

A short thread on this interesting new paper.Transferring polygenic risk scores (PRSs) across populations is one of the most urgent problems in the field. The idea presented here is perhaps

Nick Davies

_nickdavies

Late last week, it was announced that a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 (VOC 202012/01) was detected and appeared to be spreading rapidly in the south east of England. We analysed

Komma😷

KommaChameleon

So I guess I’m trying to put together a desperately eco-utopian garden clubhouse aesthetic. A pitch: it’s 2035. You live in a lofty building with about 11 other people. The

Dr. Jeff Taylor-Haas, DPT

jefftaylorhaas

Great clinical commentary on patellofemoral pain in runners by ⁦@JFEsculier⁩ ⁦and team. Key points:1) patient education on the concepts of load and capacity should be the hallmark clinical approach 1/nhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3

Jens von Bergmann

vb_jens

New case data is in for yesterday, and the model now picks up an upward trend. This is still preliminary and may change depending on data over the next couple

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. I believe the government is about to make another huge mistake. Where is @UKLabour in all this? I have some questions @Keir_Starmer should be asking urgently. Please RT to

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

I'm dismayed we're still seeing this kind of evidence-free shaming a year into the pandemic.Individuals and small household groups walking around in parks, fully distanced is ... not how it

David “HINDSIGHT IS 2021” Walsh

DavidAstinWalsh

One of the reasons I think some parts of the left have managed to botch their political response to 1/6 is because a key part of left-wing radicalization is cynicism

Daniela Robles

daniela_oaks

.@Twitter does not specifically verify accounts belonging to scientists (although some have been as a result of #COVID19). However, here is a list of some deserving to be @verified due

Barton

Barton_options

1/13 My most optimistic take so far:COVID is just common cold, but sadly we are ALL pre-Columbian native Americans. disclaimer: everything below is entirely theoretical (i.e. speculative). no medical advice.

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