#SCIENCE

Travis LaCroix

TravisLacroix

Some thoughts on the recent @NewYorker article, 'Who should stop unethical AI?' [a thread!]https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/who-should-stop-unethical-ai First, @luke_stark has an excellent thread that highlights s

Tristan D Rutland

TristanRutland7

Pathological medical history quiz#pathtwitter #medtwitter #medicalquiz1/4 Isaac Newton is credited with his theory of gravity and laws of motion. He also had other interest which led to some self-experimentation.Which of

Albert Pinto

70sBachchan

The definition of ideology is that it is immune to empirical refutation. Facts literally bounce off it.https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1327082667591028737 2/ Scientists who have to pay attention to how reality works & not

Rachael Meager

economeager

Hello! Tamara Broderick, Ryan Giordano and I have a new working paper out!! It's called "An Automatic Finite-Sample Robustness Metric: Can Dropping a Little Data Change Conclusions?" https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14999 Here

Rational π ☪️

m_afnaaan

Thread on Muslim Pioneers and Ancient Islamic Contributions to the Scientific World. First of all no thread is going to do any justice to the vast Muslim intellectual contributions

Chelsea McGill

chelsea_mcgill4

Ok, tweeps. It's #Victorian story time. Today I want to introduce you to a man whose last name was definitely Berigny, but whose first name may have been Thiennette or

Minorities in STEM

MinoritySTEM

Today's my last day with you folk so I want to share my journey on educating myself on race in science & medicine. I'm not an expert so just going

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Concerning—new data shows the more contagious #B117 variant is growing so quickly in Florida—now almost 10% of all #COVID19 case. California only ~2 weeks behind. Surge of #B117 may yield

Rosewind

Rosewind2007

I’m thinking about how we think about what is true.Now, I love words. Though apparently the way I think about them is odd, since I lack an internal monologue.I honestly

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Vg and hopeful news about a vaccine.> The public is pretty pro-vaccine (4/5 people would want to take it) but this has fallen a few points in most countries. >

Ian McKelvey

ian_mckelvey

https://youtu.be/sw1IeI7Lrz4 https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study “Believe in science.” From the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Clearly, these physicians are puppets of the Trump regime.https

Echoes of the Past!

EchoesofthePas1

Nietzsche rejected Judeo-Christianity as something more suitable for the weak-minded and thought it to be absolutely foreign to the original European spirit.Works such as "The Anti-Christ" leave no stone unturned

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Jesuits, 'soldiers of Christ', aren't your average priests. An order founded in 1540, it had great emphasis on scholarship, learning native languages and unorthodox approaches to missionary work. Pope Francis

Alicia Carlson 💙 🇺🇸

AmicaAli

“If America was your friend, and you knew it had married a psychopath, wouldn’t you urge it to get the divorce?” #Vote It’s not always about politics or policy;

Ben See

ClimateBen

You're in a room full of climate scientists. You ask how many think we'll exceed 2C of global warming within decades. You ask if it's possible the carbon 'budget' for

Barnaby Smith

BarnabySmithUK

A (better organised) thread. My evidence based thoughts on wildlife NGOs using biological recording data to campaign - a response to the recent (brilliant - read them!) threads from @kitenet

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