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Saloni
Science writer and chart maker.
Researcher at Our World in Data.
Co-founder of Works in Progress.
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Researcher at Our World in Data.
Co-founder of Works in Progress.
Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev
https://twitter.com/salonium
🏳️🌈
We’re hiring a Research and Data Project Lead in Economicsourworldindata.org We are looking for a new economics specialist to join our Data & Research team.
We’re hiring a Research and Data Project Lead in Economicsourworldindata.org We are looking for a new economics specialist to join our Data & Research team.
Where's the Synthetic Blood?www.asimov.press Synthetic blood cells could solve blood shortages, but only if technical challenges are surmounted and costs are slashed.
Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers - Naturewww.nature.com Population-scale ancient genomics are used to infer ancestry, social structure and pathogen infection in 108 Scandinavian Neolithic individuals from eight megalithic graves and a stone cist, showing t...
BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.www.bbc.co.uk We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It | Quanta Magazinewww.quantamagazine.org Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in science to date, accelerating molecular research and kindling deep questions about why we do science.
Sometimes a causal effect is just a causal effect (regardless of how it’s mediated or moderated)www.the100.ci TL;DR: Tell your students about the potential outcomes framework. It will have (heterogeneous) causal effects on their understanding of causality (mediated through unknown pathways), I promise.
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The Mouse as a Microscopepress.asimov.com How the mouse found its way from Victorian novelty to a biomedical mainstay.
How to start an advance market commitment - Works in Progressworksinprogress.co Advance market commitments allow us to buy products that don’t yet exist, giving innovators an incentive to invent and scale new products. This is a practical guide on how to start an AMC.