#PLOSONE

Matthew Lesh

matthewlesh

The Government is doubling the plastic bag tax from 5p to 10p and expanding it to include corner stores, markets and takeaways.This is a hit to small business as the

Gonzalo Veiga

gonzaloveiga

Todos sabemos que esto es así, y en Argentina y en cualquier otra rama de la ciencia no es muy distintohttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0238372 Y todos somos conscientes de lo que representa el

John Drury

ProfJohnDrury

1/8 What is the psychology of physical distancing?Why might the people we care about be at greatest risk?#COVID19 2/8 Physical distancing is antithetical to a basic self-process - the tendency

Dr. Khalid PhD 🇧🇳☪️

TenMillionIQ

They turned this meme into an actual study, which is now curated on the US National Library of Medicine. Cannot make this up https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6183933/ Another study on this on what

Vijay Ramesh

vjjan91

It took seven years, yes 7, for this manuscript to finally see the light of day. Stoked to see my undergraduate thesis in print! So what did we do? 1/nhttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237431

Aparna Agarwal

StorytellingApe

Woohoo. My first paper is out. It's work done at @BLiSC_India at @DeepaAgashe 's lab, with funding from @India_Alliance. A 1 s summary:1234; we like microbes in our home. 5678;

Ryan Alcantara

Ryan_Alcantara_

The paper that convinced me GRFs *could* be used to predict tibia bone load (TBL):“Ground reaction force metrics are not strongly correlated with tibial bone load when running across speeds

Michael Press

MichaelDPress

Haaretz reports on a new study on division of labor at Early Bronze Age Tell es-Safi/Gath: fingerprints indicate pottery-making was mostly a male occupation.https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-making-bowls-in-biblical-gath-was-man-s-work-fin

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread: Very interesting. Paper which proposes that 5,000 years ago, in Central Europe, rings, bangles and axe blades, standardized by shape and weight, were used as an early form of

Brynn Tannehill

BrynnTannehill

I cannot decide if @AbigailShrier is a liar who thinks her readers are stupid or simply really bad at research, to the point where she should't have a job in

Maitreya Dunham

DunhamLab

I thought I'd post the inspiration for my exam questions in my intro genetics class since there are a few fun ones! Thanks to @hljordt for indulging my love of

Matthew Dalby

MatthewJDalby

This mouse study is used as evidence that seed oils (linoleic acid) causes obesity. It uses very well controlled diets. Mice eating 1% linoleic acid gained less fat than those

Carl G Streed Jr MD MPH FACP (he/him)

cjstreed

Someone with no experience in #LGBTQ health recently tried to correct me on the "sensitive" nature of collecting sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data. Let's discuss what data shows

Health Nerd

GidMK

This study in PLOS One is being reported (and used by a lot of people on twitter) as proving definitively that Vitamin D supplementation can treat COVID-19So, thought I'd do

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

Age-targeted strategies are often interpreted in extreme ways: "cut off", "perfectly segregate", etc, some part of society, while everyone else "gets on with normal life".Obviously in this formulation, skeptici

Christopher Krupenye

ChrisKrupenye

phylogenetic & neural origins of human social cognitionv exciting to see an independent team successfully adapt our ape eye-tracking paradigms to provide the first evidence that monkeys can anticipate the