Jeremy Becker

Social Psychology PhD. Cooking. Biking. Meh at most things. He/His

[Jeremy Becker @JeremyrBecker]

@SLU_Official @CarnegieFdn Congrats! And hey, @SLU_Official, as a phd recipient, why would you stop allowing for internal and external funding for research? How are people supposed to do their work and, you know, contribute to that R1 status?

[Jeremy Becker @JeremyrBecker]

@DrinkAriZona Pls #AriZonaIcedTea

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

I’ve spent much of this year learning about car bloat, the process through which smaller vehicles are being replaced by increasingly massive SUVs and trucks.

What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden.

A summary 🧵

[Melissa Sanchez @msanchezMIA]

Police in Wisconsin routinely pull undocumented dairy workers over after running their plates and discovering they don't have a license -- which the state bars them from obtaining. As a result workers feel trapped on the farms where they work & often live.
https://t.co/vSngfuLGTk

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This painting has no brush strokes — it is made from over 2,000,000 individual dots of colour.

And though this may look like nothing more than a sunny afternoon in Paris, it has a much darker hidden meaning...

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

18 surprising facts I learned about climate change:

1. Temperatures are at an all-time high...
... since humans left Africa

Temperatures peaked higher ~120k years ago (humans already lived on Earth)

And the world was generally warmer ~3M ago and before

[Jeremy Becker @JeremyrBecker]

“BUT WHAT ABOUT OUR MONEYYYYYYY!!!” - J&J

[Johnson & Johnson @JNJNews]

It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that our patents are being used to prevent access to SIRTURO® (bedaquiline), our medicine for MDR-TB.

In fact, we have already entered into a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (“GDF”)—the largest procurer of TB medicines—which enables them to invite potential generic suppliers and purchase generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg. On April 5, during a World Health Organization meeting, the GDF shared its intent to launch a tender for generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg in the third quarter of 2023: https://t.co/6m49h5g7tn

In addition, we have shipped more than 660,000 courses of SIRTURO® to 159 countries since launch. Our patents made this possible, enabling us to assist countries to scale-up their use of our medicine responsibly and sustainably and invest in multiple, critical, anti-TB efforts. For instance, in the face of rising drug resistance, we support stewardship efforts that ensure MDR-TB patients can benefit from our medicine today and in the future.

Unfortunately, the most significant barrier to treatment access for patients today is the fact that millions of patients with TB go undiagnosed every year. This is a challenge that we have invested significant resources to overcome and must all get behind if we are to achieve the global goal of ending TB.

[Paul Farhi @farhip]

The iconic magazine won’t have *any* staff writers and won��t be sold on newsstands starting next year under a new series of cuts by ⁦@Disney⁩, its owner. Latest by me: https://t.co/dsOt74tXrt

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Toxic cultures exploit generosity. Takers impose extra work on givers, and no good deed goes unpunished.

Healthy cultures reward generosity. People protect givers from takers, and cream rises to the top.

Helpfulness is not a weakness to target. It's a strength to safeguard.

[Zahra Hirji @Zhirji28]

🚨Bombshell news regarding the decision to set vinyl chloride on fire in East Palestine: The temperature of the car considered to be at the highest risk had stabilized and was decreasing in the hours before its contents were burned, per NTSB data https://t.co/UVWQTjPjCf

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

Hello Australia - it is #ShowYourStripes day!

Your climate is warming rapidly, mainly due to burning fossil fuels.

This is not good news for your amazing coral reefs.

Perhaps you would like to start a climate conversation with a friend today about this?
https://t.co/LW5Kgrr8w3

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

Since yesterday, 200,000 hectares, or nearly half a million acres, have burned in Canada. That is, in one day, considerably more than burned in California all of last year.

[Finnstats @DataSciencetut]

Add Significance Level and Stars to Plot in R https://t.co/tSxdzviqwY #DataScience #RStudio #statistics #programming #rstats

[Finnstats @DataSciencetut]

Best Books to Learn R #Programming https://t.co/QlMvx8FIhg #statistics #RStudio #DataScience #rstats

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The USA and Canada have got to stop the environmental racism it inflicts on the First Nations and frontline communities of the extraction industry. Another deadly spill.

[IPCC @IPCC_CH]

#IPCC's Synthesis Report

🌽How will future #climatechange impact our food production?

🌡️ Future #climatechange is projected to increase the severity of impacts.

Urgent #climateaction can secure a liveable future for all.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/zAMzd12lR7

[Marsja.se @MarsjaSe]

🤝 Combine multiple columns in R like a pro with this easy-to-follow tutorial. 😎 #RStats #DataManipulation #CodeSnippets 👉 https://t.co/SUbpwe5awo

[ProPublica @propublica]

For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a major Republican donor, newly obtained documents and interviews show.

The extent and frequency of these apparent gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in modern SCOTUS history... 🧵👇

[Albert Rapp @rappa753]

Tables can be suuuper boring. But they don't have to be.

A well-crafted table can be an exciting tool for communicating data insights.

Using practical tips and examples, my free {gt} book shows you how. Learn to create beautiful tables with #rstats at https://t.co/mCFYxxLhEs