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Above the age of majority (≥18 years in most countries), I hope you'll consider applying to study medicine with The Medical Democrats (not a political group, but an evidence-based teaching & learning group) using the link below. Only cost is your time.

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Application for The Medical Democrat

😃 You don't need to prefer American Democrats (members of the Democratic National Convention or DNC) to apply.† You don't even need to be an American! MEDICAL Democrats are not THAT kind of Democrats. This IS NOT a POLITICAL group (Republican Party versus Democratic Party); this IS a science-based LEARNING group. We don't discuss political ideologies here. We just learn science. We base our learning on The Scientific Method and evidence created from The Scientific Method, in keeping with the Royal Society's (RS) motto 'Nullius in verba' which is taken to mean 'take nobody's word for it'. It is an expression of the determination of RS Fellows (and Medical Democrats) to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment (evidence). To be accepted in this cohort, you need only meet the following requirements: 1) you need to be 18 years of age or older, AND 2) you need to be a legal adult (at or above the age of majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority ) in your country, AND 3) you need a free gmail account‡, AND 4) you need to be ready to devote at least 5 hours a week for 48 weeks a year to learning the life sciences, AND 5) you also need to be either (a) fluent in English or else (b) ready to spend 5 EXTRA hours a week learning English in addition to learning the life sciences (because for now, English is the only language available; although you're welcome to submit an application anyway, and if our applicant pool eventually holds multiple individuals who are fluent in the same language, we'll try to connect you with each other in the next cohort). † Different than most, we use the word "Democrat" here with its ORIGINAL meaning: "late 18th century (ORIGINALLY denoting an OPPONENT OF THE ARISTOCRATS [emphasis added using capitals] in the French Revolution of 01790): from French démocrate, on the pattern of aristocrate ‘aristocrat’.". See near bottom of this definition: https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Ademocrat ‡ No information you provide in this form will be shared with anyone other than the founder of The Medical Democrat (the author of this form). We use it only to communicate with you: for arranging a video interview and for granting you access to our learning resources.

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Above the age of majority (≥18 years in most countries), I hope you'll consider applying to study medicine with The Medical Democrats (not a political group, but an evidence-based teaching & learning group) using the link below. Only cost is your time.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Application for The Medical Democrat

😃 You don't need to prefer American Democrats (members of the Democratic National Convention or DNC) to apply.† You don't even need to be an American! MEDICAL Democrats are not THAT kind of Democrats. This IS NOT a POLITICAL group (Republican Party versus Democratic Party); this IS a science-based LEARNING group. We don't discuss political ideologies here. We just learn science. We base our learning on The Scientific Method and evidence created from The Scientific Method, in keeping with the Royal Society's (RS) motto 'Nullius in verba' which is taken to mean 'take nobody's word for it'. It is an expression of the determination of RS Fellows (and Medical Democrats) to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment (evidence). To be accepted in this cohort, you need only meet the following requirements: 1) you need to be 18 years of age or older, AND 2) you need to be a legal adult (at or above the age of majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority ) in your country, AND 3) you need a free gmail account‡, AND 4) you need to be ready to devote at least 5 hours a week for 48 weeks a year to learning the life sciences, AND 5) you also need to be either (a) fluent in English or else (b) ready to spend 5 EXTRA hours a week learning English in addition to learning the life sciences (because for now, English is the only language available; although you're welcome to submit an application anyway, and if our applicant pool eventually holds multiple individuals who are fluent in the same language, we'll try to connect you with each other in the next cohort). † Different than most, we use the word "Democrat" here with its ORIGINAL meaning: "late 18th century (ORIGINALLY denoting an OPPONENT OF THE ARISTOCRATS [emphasis added using capitals] in the French Revolution of 01790): from French démocrate, on the pattern of aristocrate ‘aristocrat’.". See near bottom of this definition: https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Ademocrat ‡ No information you provide in this form will be shared with anyone other than the founder of The Medical Democrat (the author of this form). We use it only to communicate with you: for arranging a video interview and for granting you access to our learning resources.

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“Well, we actually now have data. My colleague, Alison Galvani, is the mathematical epidemiologist at Yale, and her work suggests the COVID vaccine has prevented 3.1 million deaths. So instead of talking 1.1 million, we’re talking about 4.2 or 4.3 million deaths. Not to mention entire hospitals and clinics you’d have to create for all the additional long COVID sufferers. No question these vaccines saved our whole health system from collapsing. We don’t talk about that enough.”

What do you think of LeverNews.com?

I encountered it for the first time today and I'm still trying to figure out things like bias & accuracy & how thoroughly they base their articles on evidence.

I see that David Sirota is Founder/Editor In Chief. 02019 March, he began working as the senior advisor and speechwriter on the Bernie Sanders 02020 presidential campaign.

I haven't found any insights about them on newsguardtech.com/ so I welcome thoughts from here.

Hello! I just migrated my account to the neuromatch server, time to reintroduce! #introduction

I'm Crystal, I'm a neuroscientist interested in visual development. I work for the NIH BRAIN Initiative. I enjoy exploring science and art through quilting, crafting, 3D printing. Once I 3D printed my own brain and it's white matter.

I can also be found in the woods with my two dogs, foraging for mushrooms.

I think it's worth studying . Jack Dorsey tweeted about it recently. I'm brand new to nostr and I used the astral.ninja web client to get started because it was fast and easy.

Verifying my account on nostr (banning offense in Twitter):

My Public Key: ca027f473e2e1179020f61dafbf20505285e93964da0c30705d717840aafcc71

Find others at nostr.directory @ nostrdirectory on Twitter.

My relationship with social media started changing a lot since the edgelord took over Twitter and I joined first Mastodon, and then Post.

This essay by @sethabramson@mstdn.social articulates and crystallises a shift in my thinking around how to use social media for advocacy. It's been coming on for some time, long before the Chief Twit arrived at Twitter HQ...

post.news/article/2Iug5Maf8FAB

The Boston University School of Public Health is withdrawing from Twitter.

The dean’s thoughtful, nuanced explanation raises the question: Why are other institutions still there?

bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/

Please note:

Wear a mask not to get sick, not to protect hospital beds.

Yes, it is better to have a hospital bed if you need one, but it is much much better not to go there.

#covid #CovidIsNotOver #maskup #pandemic #prevention

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Mastodon needs an option for client-side CSS

I've noticed that for most (all?) toots in my Tusky timeline, I see them as having 0 favorites and 0 boosts (reblogs). But when I tap a toot itself, I'll find that it often has many boosts and favorites.

In the Android Mastodon app, a toot in the timeline appears with the same number of boosts and favorites as when I tap on the toot.

Does anyone know why I'm not seeing those boosts and favorites for a toot from my Tusky timeline, BEFORE tapping the toot?

Is this a bug in Tusky?

What is Counter.Social?

At first I thought it was a Mastodon instance but it's not present in instances.social.

I know there's a website at that domain and an app in the Google Play Store, but does anyone know the back story?

I checked Wikipedia and Google and there's very little written about it that I could find.

I do worry about what we are losing, especially in the cyber security space. I really hope the security community mostly make it over here.

Happy Thanksgiving! And if your meal today includes teenagers, show them this, the Iranian protest anthem, dedicated to the extremely brave women who have been arrested and killed just for wanting...a normal life. Tell them to watch it more than once.

youtu.be/0th9_v-BbUI

Here is some more context

twitter.com/ksadjadpour/status

We take so much for granted

@LisCarey @actuallyautistic I'm a library technician at a University. Cataloging is one of my special interests (books are my special interest and I love organizing them, my whole 1300+ library at home is all catalogued). I have 3 lists on worldcat.org for #actuallyautistic people, fiction, non-fiction and research papers

Above the age of majority (≥18 years in most countries), I hope you'll consider applying to study medicine with The Medical Democrats (not a political group, but an evidence-based teaching & learning group) using the link below. Only cost is your time.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Application for The Medical Democrat

😃 You don't need to prefer American Democrats (members of the Democratic National Convention or DNC) to apply.† You don't even need to be an American! MEDICAL Democrats are not THAT kind of Democrats. This IS NOT a POLITICAL group (Republican Party versus Democratic Party); this IS a science-based LEARNING group. We don't discuss political ideologies here. We just learn science. We base our learning on The Scientific Method and evidence created from The Scientific Method, in keeping with the Royal Society's (RS) motto 'Nullius in verba' which is taken to mean 'take nobody's word for it'. It is an expression of the determination of RS Fellows (and Medical Democrats) to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment (evidence). To be accepted in this cohort, you need only meet the following requirements: 1) you need to be 18 years of age or older, AND 2) you need to be a legal adult (at or above the age of majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority ) in your country, AND 3) you need a free gmail account‡, AND 4) you need to be ready to devote at least 5 hours a week for 48 weeks a year to learning the life sciences, AND 5) you also need to be either (a) fluent in English or else (b) ready to spend 5 EXTRA hours a week learning English in addition to learning the life sciences (because for now, English is the only language available; although you're welcome to submit an application anyway, and if our applicant pool eventually holds multiple individuals who are fluent in the same language, we'll try to connect you with each other in the next cohort). † Different than most, we use the word "Democrat" here with its ORIGINAL meaning: "late 18th century (ORIGINALLY denoting an OPPONENT OF THE ARISTOCRATS [emphasis added using capitals] in the French Revolution of 01790): from French démocrate, on the pattern of aristocrate ‘aristocrat’.". See near bottom of this definition: https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Ademocrat ‡ No information you provide in this form will be shared with anyone other than the founder of The Medical Democrat (the author of this form). We use it only to communicate with you: for arranging a video interview and for granting you access to our learning resources.

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Hey Linux geek, you can use PGP, parsed by @keyoxide, to be verified on Mastodon. It only takes 12 minutes:

youtu.be/nLhiNOa4DBs

Too much? here's an easy HTML way, too:

youtu.be/KbH6Yjwg1Wo

@Kjun @bookstodon

5 books I'd recommend:
1. A Kind of Spark, #ElleMcNicoll - A book about difference & neurodivergence, brilliant!

2. Ten Steps to Nanette, #HannahGadsby - A searing autobiography of an #ActuallyAutistic woman.

3. But You Don't Look Autistic At All, #BiancaToeps The DSM criteria for #Autism from an #Autistic POV

4. A Man Called Ove, #FredrikBackman Emotional; #trauma & #neurodivergence.

5. Klara & The Sun, #KazuoIshiguro What does it mean to be human?

@actuallyautistic

Please boost:

Who else on here works on #phylogenetics?

Maybe do a quick post with what you work on (e.g. clades, methods, questions...), and include the hashtag #phylogenetics so we can find and follow each other. Feel free to link to a paper or two!

For my part - I work on model selection, phylogenetic algorithms, mixture models, and at the moment am mostly working on the problem of how you find >1 tree in a single alignment, e.g. our latest attempt biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

MAST: Phylogenetic Inference with Mixtures Across Sites and Trees

Hundreds or thousands of loci are now routinely used in modern phylogenomic studies. Concatenation approaches to tree inference assume that there is a single topology for the entire dataset, but different loci may have different evolutionary histories due to incomplete lineage sorting, introgression, and/or horizontal gene transfer; even single loci may not be treelike due to recombination. To overcome this shortcoming, we introduce the mixture across sites and trees (MAST) model, which uses a mixture of bifurcating trees to represent multiple histories in a single concatenated alignment. The MAST model allows each tree to have its own topology, branch lengths, substitution model, nucleotide or amino acid frequencies, and model of rate heterogeneity across sites. We implemented the MAST model in a maximum-likelihood framework in the popular phylogenetic software, IQ-TREE. Simulations show that we can accurately recover the true model parameters, including branch lengths and tree weights (i.e. frequencies) for a given set of tree topologies. We also show that we can use standard statistical inference approaches to reject a single-tree model when data are simulated under multiple trees (and vice versa). We applied the MAST model to multiple primate datasets and found that it can recover the signal of incomplete lineage sorting in the Great Apes, as well as the asymmetry in minor trees caused by introgression among several macaque species. When applied to a dataset of four Platyrrhine species for which standard concatenated maximum likelihood and gene tree approaches disagree, we find that MAST gives the highest weight to the tree favored by gene tree approaches. These results suggest that the MAST model is able to analyse a concatenated alignment using maximum likelihood, while avoiding some of the biases that come with assuming there is only a single tree. The MAST model can therefore offer unique biological insights when applied to datasets with multiple evolutionary histories. We discuss how it can be extended in the future. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

www.biorxiv.org

I think I read that I can use keyword filters to prevent myself from seeing any posts which contain a certain keyword.

But is it possible to block all accounts marked as bots? If so, how?

[THREAD] This thread will contain #autism knowledge quizzes.

It won't be textbook stuff.

Some questions will have a right answer, but others are arguable, and you may even want to argue about the options. Some will be opinion polls.

Most of the questions serve as prompts for further enquiry, and are designed to support advocacy in the areas of #AutisticHealth, #communication rights and #DisabilityRights in general.

@actuallyautistic

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