#Journals

Rita Strack

rita_strack

Here is a #ritaunsolicited very long thread on writing good figure legends. These tips might not match everyone’s style, and opinions will certainly vary among editors and journals. This feedback

★ Alice D. ★

AmyZenunim

i've been thinking more about why Touhou grabbed me as hard as it did ten years ago (apparently), and i think part of it is that i've always been enamoured

Matt Weinkam

MattWeinkam

Thoughts on running an online writing conference (one week in). THREAD. 1. Far more people are willing to take workshops online than I expected. In the middle of the workday,

Elisabeth Bik 💉 💉

MicrobiomDigest

Five years ago I found three possibly Photoshopped images in a @ScienceMagazine paper by the lab of @RPlasterk Yesterday, the paper got retracted.Here is what happened, and what went wrong

El Duvelle

ElDuvelle

Maybe you think that hippocampal #PlaceCells encode the value of spatial goals? You might also think that their place fields always accumulate at goals ?*** think again - they

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

The SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site is yet again in the news - this time because of a quote by Nobel laureate David Baltimore.The site is not a "smoking gun", nor

Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

uk_domain_names

The Mail on Sunday has *2 double page splashes* deflecting blame for the coronavirus onto foreigners and stirring up xenophobia.Target 1: the EU.Target 2: China.The reality is, Boris Johnson bungled

Ana Maria Porras, PhD

AnaMaPorras

My first (review) paper from my postdoc with @ilanabrito123 is out! We discuss the need to truly internationalize human #microbiome research, which has been mostly centered around American/European populations (1/6th

dr stephanie moore

steph_moore

Interestingly, just before reading this I was reading a great piece from the Fordham Institute about evidence-based practices.Let’s talk about educational technology research and “media comparison studies.” (thread)https://twitter.com

Pallavi

pallavict

Now #Lancet, a “respected medical” journal has written a scathing piece on @narendramodi Sarkar’s handling of Covid crisisTheir credibility has been seriously dented by retracting the HCQ study & now

Dominik Liebl

domliebl

Yes, peer-review has its problems. However, without peers, there's no peer-review at all. Therefore, publishing original #statistics research in non-#stats journals is - well, not the best idea. Yet, #sportsscience

Julien Hernandez 🖖

Barbusceptique

Si vous vous intéressez un peu à ce que vous mangez, ce thread ne vous surprendra pas. Par contre, si vous ne vous êtes jamais posé trop de questions, préparez-vous

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docrussjackson

THREADFor all those denying any #BBCBias on @BBCNews & @BBCPolitics shows, here's some of the formal 'corrections & clarifications' to "mistakes" made by the @BBC in 2019, which all *completely

Dr Natacha Kennedy. #BlackLivesMatter

natachakennedy

THREAD:Some of you might remember how the media worked hard to push the idea of "rapid-onset gender dysphoria", a theory now widely discredited on methodological grounds and published in one

Asit K Mishra 😷🪟

akm5376

What do we mean by #UseAirbornePrecautions? There are clear guidelines in health care settings, but what do we mean by it for the public? A of (met-thread) on this.

El Chapín 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚊 📰🇨🇴

ElChapinPrensa

#Ciencia | Pseudociencias de la salud no son inocuas: matan.1° manifiesto internacional contra las falsas terapias como la homeopatía, reiki, la Nueva Medicina Germánica, el biomagnetismo, la iridología, la