#NATURE

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985Well . . . anyone remember this? "we BUILT a CHIMERIC virus encoding a novel, zoonotic CoV spike protein—from the RsSHC014-CoV sequence that was isolated from Chinese horseshoe bats1—in

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

On this day in 1882, Charles Darwin was buried in Westminster Abbey, having died at Down House on 19th April. His pall bearers included Joseph Hooker and Alfred Russell Wallace.

Paul Rosenzweig

RosenzweigP

Your periodic reminder that there are so very many reasons to vote against Trump. Today's version -- for purely personal reasons I was doing some looking around on the National

Jeremy Kamil 🇺🇦

macroliter

Let’s debunk some fear-mongering.. “Vaccines themselves promote mutations” says @DrDomPimenta ON THE CONTRARY.. good vaccines massively slow viral evolution, as explained here by @sarahcobey @mlipsitch @DanLarremore https://www.nature

Dr. CBS

blackleftaf

I don't know who needs to hear this but... racial capitalism does not mean, insinuate, or imply that there is a non-racial capitalism (shout out to Ruth Wilson Gilmore). Racial

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Thanos test: how you would choose 50% of the world to kill?Capitalism: bottom 50%Communism: top 50%Libertarianism: all-against-all. 50% left standing wins.Anarchism: random 50%Liberalism: debate till nature does the dirty workConservatism:

Mike Peacock

MikePeacock86

Our new paper in @nature "Overriding water table control on managed peatland greenhouse gas emissions"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03523-1(1/6)#PeatTwitter #PeatPaper https://twitter.com/UK_CEH/status/138488869678531

Daniel MacArthur

dgmacarthur

It's live! After years of work and more than 16 months in peer review, the gnomAD package is now up at Nature. We have seven papers in total, exploring different

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/4) Study of #COVID19 in Hong Kong from January to April, showing that the epidemic was characterised by superspreading events. Just 19% of infections were responsible for 80% of secondary

HKU Medicine

hkumed

While bats were thought to be the likely carriers of the novel 2019 #coronavirus, a team at @hkumed found that pangolins, scaly-skinned animals native to Asia, also called ‘scaly anteaters’,

Faine Greenwood

faineg

I’m so grateful that there’s an entire genre of brassica memes See also And the BEST one: oops! All brassica! Historical brassicas! Kidnappa cabbage today was brassicas day this is

Sena

kurdomaga

Alhamdulillah ya Rab for blessing us with one more Ramadan in our lifetime, Ramadan Mubarak. Would like to share my story of last Ramadan. ''Perhaps you hate a thing that

Ben See

ClimateBen

Global methane concentrations have blasted over 1,900 parts per billion with dangerous speed. Scientists say it looks like warming is now feeding warming.Governments could do plenty to reduce emissions from

wisal

wisal33

I have soemthing to say. People that say things like: humans ruined earth, humans are the virus. Because earth is doing better during this time. Okay it definitely hurts that

Zhou Lab

ZhouLabUCR

Researchers have identified microscopic features including a unique furin cleavage site that could make the pathogen more infectious than the SARS virus @DrEricDing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00660-x More information on the furin muta

tashalouiza@gmail.com

TashaMellCoh

If life was a soap opera, the script writers would be fired for writing such implausible stories. Someone close to me had a heart attack on Tuesday. The cardiologists reported