#Science

Rebekah Diski

BekaDiski

Quick thread about why we @NEFjoined 80 other orgs urging gov to reconsider plans for UK's first new deep coal mine in 30 years. Key point is West Cumbria DOES

J.B. Handley

GenRescue

1/ Public health idiocy just ruined a year of our lives, but many still doubt the same idiots caused the autism epidemic. #believetheparents 2/ I made the (rather obvious) case

CADDE Project

CaddeProject

Here is a thread to accompany our work published today in @ScienceMagazine (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/12/07/science.abe9728), comparing SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody prevalence in Manaus and São Paulo. @FAPESP @The_MRC @I

Bernard Jansen

BernardJansen

I'll put this out and hit the "brace" position. I'm un-following most of the marketing gurus on here and LI - the usual suspects. Why? Cause their learned views have

Siddharth Krishnamoorthy

SpacedOutSid

It's day 1 in the "these unprecedented times" version of @theAGU Fall Meeting #AGU2020 and #Venus balloon tech is coming in hot! Here's highlighting a few related posters for your

Alexander Fanta

FantaAlexx

On this day 11 years ago, the European Commission promised a unified charger for all smartphones. This never happened. Here is the reason why. #commoncharger(THREAD) Back in 2009, Commissioner Verheugen

Laura Deming

LauraDeming

Mental models I used in 2020:https://barnacles.substack.com/p/my-mental-models-2020 1/ Most people don’t deeply understand they're talking about, me included. On the flip side, you can almost always learn from a statement something

Matthew Herder

cmrherder

This is an accessible primer on the steps involved in, + challenges that need to be overcome in manufacturing mRNA vaccines by @Dereklowe https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/myths-of-vaccine-manufacturing HT @SarahKarl

The FOSIL Group

TheFosilGroup

Russell | Our education system produces young people able to read, but for the most part unable to weigh evidence or form an independent opinion. They’re then assailed, throughout their

Ed Yong

edyong209

Here's a thing I want everyone to understand. There is a roughly 12-day lag between rising cases rising hospitalizations. So the 1.5 million (!!!) confirmed cases from the last 2

Andrew James Carter

Carter_AndrewJ

This is the latest "source" that transphobes are sharing as "evidence" that "biological sex is a simple binary".I've seen it crop up in multiple threads recently and - as usual

Littlefoot

LTF_01

Happy #DarwinDayOne of the more underrated and therefore understudied phenomenons in evolutionary theory are indirect effects. Adaptations are not simply the sum of problems and solutions to one-to-one interactions that

Josh Milthorpe

JoshMilthorpe

Either through stupidity or spite, the Liberal/National Government's inaction during #COVID-19 will devastate universities. Higher ed drives innovation & growth and will underpin our economic recovery in a changing post-COVID

Jeremy Littau

JeremyLittau

Not a hot take, but a mildish take with some social science and journalism nuance about everyone dumping on polls and models today. I’ll start with the proposition that polling

haonan

haonan

What happened to the replicability crisis? Should you believe famous social scientists? Are all the pages in these best selling books you're reading any use? Or have you just purchased

Sarah K Mock

sarah_k_mock

So communicating about science/the truth in Ag is my destiny. And it could be yours too. Not because it needs doing (which it does) or because we'll destroy the planet

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