#PLOSBiology

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

1/5 thread, it's truly terrifying how the American "health freedom" #antivax anti-science movement has become a global phenonmenonhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/29/berlin-braces-for-anti-coronavirus-protest-against

KerryGeilerSamerotte

KSamerotte

If pleiotropy is simply when one mutation influences many traits, how come so many nuanced definitions of it exist? 1/17 One answer is that it is not easy to count

Open Ocean Exploration

RebeccaRHelm

This week I published a paper that changed my life. I never meant to study the sea surface, but now I believe this forgotten world is one of the MOST

Anderson Brito

AndersonBrito_

Quando a pandemia chegou na costa leste dos EUA, nosso grupo na @YaleSPH passou a sequenciar genomas do coronavírus, e a divulgar os resultados semanalmente no http://COVIDTrackerCT.com → https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/arti

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Recent estimates (including our analysis led by @timwrussell: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.12.2000256) have suggested 0.5–1% of COVID-19 infections may potentially be fatal overall. Some have interpreted this

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EaglesElatis

Vegans who actually care already have the facts but bigoted vegans hide from reality to sustain their racist beliefs because they care more about their delusional biases than they care

J. Pardo

incisorial

I promised a thread on creationism and scicomm, so let's do this. First of all, some background and caveats here before I get deep into this. I'm not a specialist

Hutchinson Lab CVR

CVRHutchinson

We’ve just had a paper published and I would like to tell you a story about people in science being nice to each other – a threadhttps://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30630-9 This is a

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown power of open data and analytics in research, but these activities often aren't recognised in traditional academic metrics. New perspective piece with @rozeggo & @sbfnk:

Tom Hardwicke

Tom_Hardwicke

New preprint: "Analytic reproducibility in articles receiving open data badges at Psychological Science: An observational study" with @elManuBohn @macdonaldst @emilyhembacher @MicheleNuijten @peloqube @BennyDemayo @brialong @Erica

Jedidiah Carlson

JedMSP

Out now in @plosbiology, @kelley__harris and I try to unravel what altmetrics and the fire hose of social media data really tell us about the potential impacts of research papers.

Andy Lewis

lecanardnoir

On the existence of females. A thread.Some time ago, I lived in a house that has a number of peafowl living in the garden. (Long story). They used to come

Kaeli Swift, Ph.D.

corvidresearch

Are you having a boring Sunday? Let’s fix that and talk about duck d*cks and vaginas. They are...something, and I guarantee you’ll never look at a duck the same way.

Max Stammnitz

DevilsAdvoMax

Hi Science Twitter!A big shout out to my two fantastic colleagues Young Mi and Kevin, who have just released what is likely the largest tumour phylogeny built to date: the

Erin Blakemore

heroinebook

At long last, my piece on sexism in research is live at @washingtonpost. (It will be in print on Tuesday.) A brief reporter's notebook follows. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/sexism-science-medbikini/2020/10/23/4ac00e0a-1229-11e

Dr. Tess Tanen 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧙‍♀️#BLM

TessTanenbaum

Trans journalists (and any trans person who has contributed to the public record in writing, film, music, art, etc.) deserve to be credited by their correct names. This is something