#Science

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

You can @ me all you want, but #Gorsuch's "science" in ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK v. ANDREW M. CUOMO, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK is wrong and he

Richard Poynder

RickyPo

On 3rd December, the founder of Open-Access publisher MDPI, Shu-Kun Lin, posted a controversial message to a public mailing list. This led to some pushback. See the thread on the

Abbie Richards

abbieasr

Breaking down The Conspiracy Chart part 1: And: Breaking down The Conspiracy Chart part 2: Breaking down The Conspiracy Chart part 3: The Conspiracy Chart part 4: Science Denial Conspiracies

The Lesbianic Éilis Harney

lisaquestions

Web 2.0 was a mistake. Re-Balkanize the internet. Centralizing everything is bad, actually. It exposes people to their harassers, abusers, and worse. It promotes harassment, doxing, and worse. Social media

Kit Brown-Hoekstra

kitcomgenesis

A thread 1/ I’ve been savoring Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer for over a yr.—typically, I devour books, often in one sitting. This one demands meditation, thought, visceral connection.

Anti Viral A 😉

TheycallmejustA

I do believe in peaceful protest. People felt (feel) like their vote was stolen. It makes us angry, because we're helpless. I think there was some deliberate stoking of anger

Matthias Schmelzer

MGSchmelzer

In times of #ClimateEmergency we use the amount of energy of entire countries to power a digital currency with close to zero use value. #Bitcoins carbon footprint is already comparable

George Takei

GeorgeTakei

A thread. When this current nightmare is past us, we must not forget that it happened. I have known an America that descended into fascism before, when my entire community

Nipun Chopra, PhD

NipunChopra7

Understanding why the mRNA in the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines cannot change your DNA, explained to diff audiences:(1) Young kids: DNA and mRNA are kept in separate parts of the cell.(2) High

Arachnofiles

arachnofiles

This is a really good question! Here is a quick skim over some research into spider silk and the evolution of web-building. (Silk) thread…https://twitter.com/barrygoldman1/status/1343659082675351552 Originally, spiders used silk as many

Peter Murray-Rust

petermurrayrust

1/ we are adding Python3 to our tools in the OpenVirus project https://github.com/petermr/openvirus . NOT abandoning Java (and the help that @RemkoPopma 's picocli has given us ). But I

Roger Pielke Jr.

RogerPielkeJr

My 2020 year-in-review thread1. A “Sedative” for Science Policy @ISSUESinST A critical look at Vannevar Bush's Science: The Endless Frontier at 75https://issues.org/endless-frontier-sedative-for-science-policy-pielke/ 2. Memo for Pr

Lockdown Myths

LockdownMyths

1) A thread containing links to articles & people that throw doubts on whether lockdowns were necessary & whether the world overreacted to #COVID19. RT if you found this useful.

Nick Cammarata

nickcammarata

Current feeling on meta-science: I’m not sure anyone — authors, readers, etc — actually likes papers. What if we just got rid of them?What could we replace them with? conjecture:

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Look, once commercial and political interests are sufficiently involved, even things that are really obvious to the eye test - like the fact SMOKING CAUSES LUNG CANCER - can

Women in Air Quality in South Asia

waqsouthasia

#WomenInAQ from around the world you can follow @DrMariaNeira - Tireless advocate for #CleanAir @vfmcneill - Come for atmospheric science, stay for the GIFs @linseymarr @kprather88 - If you

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