Best of Twitter - Week of February 8, 2021

Michael @mmay3r

Credit card profitability.

Siberian Fox @SilverVVulpes

It's another "actually, insane people perceive reality more accurately" episode

Neuroskeptic @Neuro_Skeptic

Delusions of control in schizophrenia: resistant to the mind's best trick? https://t.co/mbPgIKUHiI Are "delusions of control" just the absence of the "illusion of free will"? https://t.co/SgXYqhZ1um

^ thread

Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

"[in] group who read the information on a logarithmic scale...only 40.66%...could respond correctly to a basic question about the graph (whether there were more deaths in one week or another), contrasted to 83.79% of respondents on the linear scale."

blogs.lse.ac.ukThe public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19Mass media routinely portray information about COVID-19 deaths on logarithmic graphs. But do their readers understand them? Alessandro Romano, Chiara Sotis, Goran Dominioni, and Sebastián Guidi car…

Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele

Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere. We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop. But why? So we can—talk. Thus chimpanzees can do this—we can’t:

^ hmmmmm thread

Milos Popovic/Милош Поповић @milos_agathon

On International Day of Women/Girls in Science, my map shows STARK differences in % of female researchers across Europe HIGHEST %: 🇲🇰MKD 52.3% 🇱🇻LVA 52.2 🇱🇹LTU 51.6 🇷🇸SRB 50 LOWEST %: 🇳🇱NLD 25.8 🇨🇿CZE 26.8 🇫🇷FRA 27 🇩🇪DEU 28 #womeninscience #dataviz #DataScience #maps #rstats

Katarina Watney @katarinawatney

you, dumb: RCTs show these wellness benefits do absolutely nothing. me, an intellectual, waving around observational study: please continue to pay for the half-marathons I would already be running. nytimes.com/2018/08/06/ups…

^ I feel like I’m including this tweet for the 3rd time in the last year but I just keep returning to it over and over - such a perfect example!

Sterling Crispin 🕊️ @sterlingcrispin

A new invasive brain computer interface was able to decode imagined handwriting in real time and allow for fairly fast text entry, pretty awesome for paralyzed people hopefully this becomes hardened into a product

Sergey Stavisky @sergeydoestweet

"It doubles our prior record for communication rate by achieving 90 characters per minute at high accuracies (> 99% with a general purpose autocorrect)!" 2/2 https://t.co/JYytzBKk5d https://t.co/ClIkVpZJhx

^ video from Two Minute Papers

delian @zebulgar

Mindfulness doesn't make you a billionaire, revenge does.

ElowitzLab @ElowitzLab

What does it take to generate multiple cell states? To find out, we designed and built "MultiFate", a synthetic circuit that generates multistability in mammalian cells. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… . Work from brilliant student @RonZhu2015 w/ @jesusdelrio_7 and @jgojalvo.

biorxiv.orgSynthetic multistability in mammalian cellsIn multicellular organisms, gene regulatory circuits generate thousands of molecularly distinct, mitotically heritable states, through the property of multistability. Designing synthetic multistable circuits would provide insight into natural cell fate control circuit architectures and allow enginee…

Ilya Sukhar @ilyasu

Never trust any .xlsx file created by a lawyer. The first draft of your {pro forma cap table, acquisition waterfall, etc} almost certainly has major flaws.

Twemex Sidebar @TwemexApp

Twemex is now available in public beta! ✨ Try the browser extension that makes Twitter a better memex--a place for exploring interesting ideas and people:

twemex.appTwemex - Sidebar for TwitterTwemex is a browser extension for Twitter that guides you effortlessly to the best content.

^ this extension is really good. My favorite functions are: (1) showing user’s most popular tweets when visiting their profile; showing most popular quote-tweets of a tweet currently open

Pablo Cordero 🍜 @tsuname

It's late stage something when a brand's tweet comments are all other brands plus the state of Israel and the NHS trying to be funny.

Quarantined section

Paul O'Shea @Paul_M_OShea

Swedish gov has consistently warned ppl over dangers of masks. Few ppl wear masks, and municipalities have banned them from workplaces. What?! Yes, it's all true, and the direct result of government anti-mask messaging. We explain how we got there.

theconversation.comCOVID: why are Swedish towns banning masks?Masks between 7am and 9am for those born before 2005 – Sweden’s coronavirus policies are unnecessarily confusing.

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