Nice Guys, Happy Family pix, & DV🧵
The first time my ex husband hit me, was after I had taken $200 out of our account to put a deposit on a washing machine. He apparently used to check the bank balance on his way home from work each night (no atms/online banking back then).
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1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is still too silent about the war in Gaza. Following my viral tweet last month, this is the updated & expanded version of how I see things based on >1000 articles and 1000s of videos/images of the war. 🧵of summary conclusions:
Most Italians had never heard of pizza before the 1950s. Carbonara was invented in the United States. Much of what we call classic Italian food — cacio e pepe, tiramisu — was probably invented in the 1960s. And other sacrileges! https://t.co/nacsI9wxCe
@masonfidino I like to use 'language of evidence' when reporting results (see https://t.co/c8OFHKhSrS). A p-value >0.05 but <0.1?: "We found weak evidence that X and Y were different". A p-value >0.1?: "We found little evidence that X and Y were different".
Leaf #insects are fascinating, but pretty uniform. Their eggs are remarkable in regard to their morphological diversity. Happy to spread the news our manuscript investigating the #evolution and functional #morphology of these eggs has been published today. https://t.co/5CwcXXjCmc
If you had to explain human psychology to aliens, a crucial claim to convey: "humans spend their first decade doing social learning with a very high learning rate, and then often apply the heuristics and strategies learned during that period for the rest of their lives".