#Science

Is the sun, real? Or is it fake?Are the people who you are thinking that they are people real, or are they AI?What is with the moon?Trust yourself.Let there be
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Today's news that the MHRA has formally authorised the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for use in fighting Covid-19 is hugely welcomed. It is an enormous credit to our universities and life science
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Couldn't sleep last night, so went down a rabbit hole of face mask history. So researchers have known since at least 1919 that masks, when constructed properly and used appropriately,
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1/ Why pro-MAGA folks lost a few thousand Twitter followers (this is normal and has happened before). It's most likely:a) a troll factory ceased its operations (bc Trump is over).
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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA INSPIRES JAMSETJI TATA The year was 1893. On May 31, aboard a steamer that sailed from Yokohama to Vancouver, two great Indians met for the first time. One
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Nah, no thanks @SlackHQ. I really don't want to attend an event that is headlined by a very senior person from the Daily Mail.Did you know the Daily Mail are
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The vast, vast majority of multicellular life on earth, is aquatic.Statistically, the average multicellular life on earth looks more like a bobbit worm than a human. And yet scifi is
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Students are about to start 1st yr of their PhD programs in a few wks (in a pandemic no less), this has me thinking about starting grad school in August,
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I have noticed that we (myself included!) use the word "believe" when we really should say "understand." Examples: I'm not vegan because I believe that animals are our friends. I'm
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I saw ARMY's on my tl saying if it's bad that they don't have a big dream like that ARMY in the Tinytan animation. Let me tell you something. There
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This thread from December pointed out that convenience samples are not suitable for any but the coarsest estimates of prevalence, and that the popularity of a prevalence study like this
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The opening titles for Alien are very good (that’s right, I’ve started) No good can come of investigating this distress signal mark my words Why does everything in this film
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I learned about fetal Microchimerism yesterday from on of you & it’s blowing my mind. It’s the scientific discovery that women who get pregnant retain some dna from each child
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Genomist @AdamRutherford is a gifted science communicator; the podcast he co-hosts, "The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry" is one of the best popular science programs I've ever heard: charming
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THREAD: Let's talk about agendas.Throughout this pandemic, we have been guided, quite rightly, by our public health officials. Most people understand the science and logic behind their advice, and they
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Implicit Bias. Good article on the nonsense of pretending it has a place in training and policy. Employing the wrong method for righteous, heartfelt reasons isn't helpful. It's the homeopathy
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