"Every government lies now and then, but authoritarian regimes go further. They don’t just stretch or hide the truth. They look you in the eye and tell you that what you just saw didn’t happen." Propaganda is now part of our politics.

WOW. 60 Minutes directly criticized its parent company after the resignation of executive producer Bill Owens:

“Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways.”

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This panoramic image, combining X-rays from Chandra (orange, green, purple) & radio data (gray) from the MeerKAT telescope, provides an unprecedented view above and below the center of the Milky Way, revealing threads of superheated gas

➡️ chandra.si.edu/photo/2021/g...

🔭 🧪 #cosmology #galactic

dominance analysis (for better or for worse) is used to determine predictor importance in linear regression

here is a colorized/annotated example found in Azen & Budescu (2003) psycnet.apa.org/record/2003-...

Well played.

The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/