#Scientific

So why is this behavioral ecologist so excited about the coyote and badger video, other than it being pure and adorable? (a thread) Coyotes and badgers have been observed working
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As promised, the slides and video for my talk, given to the inaugural Merton Series in Physics (yup, the physicists wanted to hear about it):Implicit Bias: Racial Gaps and Scientific
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This isn't overall correct. Lots of what are casted as insurmountable problems are basic modeling questions. If they are actually completely ignored, then ya, that shop has a bad model,
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Dr. @sdbaral has an excellent guiding philosophy here.As someone who entered science to curiously question the answers, I've found epidemiology during COVID to be characterized by strong informal social control
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The wildlife watching off the Cork coast is second to none - here a fin whale takes a mouthful of sprat in fact the entire marine food web hinges
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I keep seeing/hearing mention of rubber bullets, but I can't find any recent use of rubber bullets. Only pepper balls, sponge rounds, & bean bags. 1/8 Here, 'rubber bullets' are
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Western medicine is not “evidence-based medicine.” It is authority-based medicine. It must be certified by the Church of medicine, a controlled ecosystem, to be valid.Anything not certified is “heresy” aka
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That got me wondering WHY would someone want to remove their relationship with the company... only answer is to cover something up. So I started to research each one.Here is
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Thankful to my friend KC Huang and his student @craftmism for their excellent commentary on our recent @PNAS paper demonstrating #cdiGMP regulates curvature in V. cholerae. Wanted to share a
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1. Anyone who’s been following me for a while will know that I’ve been concerned about reinfection and persistence since #COVID19 first emerged. We now know both of these things
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Some important points in a probably-futile plea for sanity in #covid19 #vaccine discussions:1. American drug pricing provides a powerful incentive to *most* medical R&D (I’ve been in this industry a
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Too often we fail to adequately communicate about #vaccines BEFORE misinformation begins to circulate. By then, it's too late!So, let's discuss answers to some questions that will be on everyone's
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I get to preview this today followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers - I'm really excited about it! #Radioactive https://twitter.com/PrimeVideo/status/1281619193444483077 3 minutes in and I already have goosies!! #RADIOACTIVE
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Some extra points I learnt while reporting this story. Bharat Biotech has claimed that because it is a whole virus vaccine and attracts a wider range of antibody responses (to
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China obviously takes ideology very seriously.What if there are real, high intellectual grade alternatives to liberalism? America doesnt take the possibility seriously, and thus underestimates China's threat, and overestimates our
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I do love me some scientific serendipity. While everyone is talking about whether it may be safe+effective to give people only half the dose of the new #COVID19 vaccines, @TheLancet
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