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mya

timostoes

Are a higher % of white people killed by cops than black people? Yes. Bc they account the majority of the population. BUT black people make up 24% of police

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

ewrigleyfield

I asked how many whites would have to die of COVID, through all direct and indirect pathways, for white mortality in 2020 to rise to the best level that Black

Victor Nizet

victornizet

Thread (1/6)Good as Gold or Too Good to Be True? Interesting preprint out today shows that the FDA-approved gold-based drug auranofin, strongly inhibits novel coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) replication while markedly attenuating

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Treatment for #COVID19 has improved and there may be some 'mortality displacement' effect with a proportion of the most at-risk population having deceased in the spring epidemic. Both factors could

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Very provocative new paper by @dylanhmorris @jlloydsmith on effects of temp & humidity on survival of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces. Need to be careful in interpreting most novel aspects of this

Arseny Khakhalin

ampanmdagaba

There was a vote in Russia last week, on making Putin president for life. Sadly, it passed.BUT the govt made a mistake & put all data online Naturally, ppl scraped

Shannon Bond

shannonpareil

Meet Keenan Ramsey. Her LinkedIn profile says she sells software for RingCentral & has a business degree from NYU. She likes CNN, Amazon, & Melinda French Gates. Her pitches come

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

As we approach the cold winter months in the Northern Hemisphere, I want to share these movies of mucociliary clearance (MCC) in the trachea of mice housed at 10% vs.

Steve Brusatte

SteveBrusatte

During the Jurassic, ca.180 million years ago, some crocs called thalattosuchians moved from land to water, becoming open-ocean swimmers. Just like whales did 100+ million years later.Our team has a

Jason Williams

thesidetrack

The messaging isn't getting out. The reasons are behavioral and very human. Nothing an LG or even Governor says can combat them. A short thread on a state-wide mask mandate

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

So various media are reporting a new pandemic flu virus discovered in China.What does this actually mean? Let's look at the original paper. Actually, that's not so easy to do

Walter M Chesnut

Parsifaler

1) CHROMOSONAL CATASTROPHES: BEYOND CELLULAR RESPIRATION ARRESTSARS-CoV-2 IS A GENETIC "MAGIC ERASER." THE VIRUS IS TAKING FUNCTIONING GENES AND "EDITING" THEM INTO NON-FUNCTIONING PSEUDOGENE JUNK. THIS IS WHY WE SEE

Phil Higuera

PhilipHiguera

1/7 @TJTimberlake asks: "Could you (or another #FireEcology) expert provide some context on the debate regarding beetle-kill affecting fire behavior/severity/extent? Gray stage versus red stage and all that..." Well studied

LadyWarAnon⭐⭐⭐

ChristinePolon1

Bill Gates is CIA. Seen here briefing the CIA about using a virus and the "religious gene."https://twitter.com/qs_anon/status/1264124473453744128 The right middle frontal gyrus. It's function. Bill Gates wants to basically giv

Moh El-Naggar

BioPhysicalMoh

An interesting paper, concluding that the nanotubes of Bacillus result from membrane-compromised cells after application of compressive pressure. I wouldn't extrapolate from there to other organisms or no mechanical stress

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

One of the things scientists do when facing an outbreak of a new disease is build 'phylogenies'. These estimate how pathogen isolates are related by comparing their genomes, and using